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I’ve wanted to define this term for a while, but, someone beat me to it several years ago. I generally agree with what these guys have to say. These terms are still in use today at client sites where DataPower and the IBM SOA stack is being deployed. Service Mediation logic is the application of…
Read article: Service Mediation vs. Service OrchestrationIn a previous post, I described the different types of Data Formats that are commonly used with ESBs, XML Gateways, and SOA. Converting from one format to another is a common task performed by an ESB or XML Gateway. One can make arguments either way about whether this functionality should exist in…
Read article: Data TransformationsTo follow up on the Wire Protocol post, the next logical step in our SOA exploration is Data Formats. A web service message’s Data Format describes how the data is organized in the message.
Read article: Data FormatsLike so much of our computer industry, the ecosystem around SOA has many acronyms, buzzwords, and phrases that are supposed to mean something. Likewise, this jargon may be poorly defined or ambiguous. The posts that I have made over the past few months are slowly building up a common vocabulary…
Read article: Wire ProtocolsFollowing up on the recommended reading lists I’ve posted recently, this post contains a list of the books and specifications that I direct people to about SOA.
Read article: Recommended Reading Material for SOAAt nearly every client site, I’m asked to put together a recommended reading list on a variety of subjects. Web Services security is generally among them. SO, I’m putting together a list of the links that usually make it on that list.
Read article: SOA Security Reading MaterialWhen I am describing complex SOA or Web Service architectures, environments, and scenarios to clients, I often use the term “SOA Actors” to generically refer to components of such environments in the abstract. I will often do the same on Thinkmiddleware.com posts. Here, I define what I mean by this…
Read article: SOA ActorsA Service Consumer is any tier of an organization’s systems that calls web services. These services could be implemented by SOAP, REST, XML over HTTP, EJBs, JMS or MQ applications, RMI, RPC, invocation of COBOL programs on a mainframe with 3270 screen-scraping, communication over a custom TCP…
Read article: What is a Service Consumer?A Service Provider is any tier or system in an organization’s environment that hosts web services (or services of any kind).
Read article: What is a Service Provider?In the past year, I have stood in a conference room at more than one client fielding a question along the lines of exactly what is an ESB? I’ve found that there is a wide variety of impressions about what exactly makes something an ESB. I’m hardly the first person to post something on the Internet…
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