January 2009
SOA is Dead
by nhoizey
SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its promised benefits. After investing millions, IT systems are no better than before.
February 2008
Orchestra: Open Source BPEL / BPM Solution - Orchestra : The Open Source BPEL solution
by nhoizey & 1 other
Orchestra is a complete solution to handle long-running business processes orchestration. It is based on the OASIS standard BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). It includes a powerful BPEL Engine and all the related graphical tools to design, admin
October 2007
Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: What is SOA?
by nhoizey
Once again the participants in the SOA discussion group have got themselves all riled up about what exactly SOA is and why it may or may not be working.
A Close Look at BPEL 2.0 @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE
by nhoizey
BPEL provides a broadly adopted process orchestration standard supported by many vendors today and used to define business processes that orchestrate services, systems, and people into end-to-end business processes and composite applications
July 2007
REST vs. WS-*: War is Over (If You Want It) :: David Chappell :: Blog
by nhoizey & 1 other
REST is for data-oriented applications that focus on create/read/update/delete scenarios. Solution based on WS-* for service/method-oriented applications, especially those that need more advanced behaviors such as transactions and more-than-basic security
April 2007
» Another view: ‘Magic number’ for SOA services threshold is ‘nuts’ | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com
by nhoizey
an opinion that '50' seems to be the threshold at which Web services may require some better care and feeding, with governance, registry, management, and all that good stuff
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