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A SOAP Web Service is any web service that is compliant with the SOAP 1.1 or SOAP 1.2 specs. When referring to a SOAP Web Service we will use the capitalized Web Service. This convention is followed by most publications within the industry.
Read article: What Is A SOAP Web Service?This one has probably been addressed many times. But, I needed a place to link to whenever it comes up in other posts. For our purposes, a Web Service is SOAP Web Service and a web service is anything acting as a web service in the generic sense.
Read article: What is a Web Service? What is a web service?REST web services are not nearly as formalized as their SOAP equivalent. A REST web service adheres to the principals laid out in Roy Fielding’s PhD Thesis. REST stands for Representational State Transition.
Read article: What Is A REST Web Service?An XML Gateway is an externally-facing DMZ tier of a web services platform. Generally, this DMZ tier will be facing the Internet, but it may simply be between business units or facing a leased line connecting one entity to another. It can be implemented using a software solution (such as web…
Read article: What is an XML Gateway?I suppose I’m switching gears a bit here back towards something almost philosophical rather than my usual concrete technical info So be it. In the last six months, I’ve been at several clients sites that are using SOA appliances to build XML Gateway and ESB patterns. I answer quite a few client…
Read article: What is an Appliance? What is a SOA Appliance?So, obviously, I haven’t posted anything here in a while🙂. Life has been busy. Starting several months ago, I left my job of four years and began independent consulting. Among other things, this means that the variety of topics discussed on thinkmiddleware.com should be more varied. I’m also going…
Read article: JVM Heap & GC Tuning…This is the first post on thinkmiddleware.com where we discuss DataPower. Guess what I’ve been doing with my career lately🙂.
Read article: IBM Announced the New XG45 DataPower applianceOn JBoss 4.x, a MySQL datasource looks something like:
Read article: JBoss 4.x and DataSource ConfigurationOn April 13th, 2011, Ryan Triplett and I spoke at IBM Impact in Las Vegas. The topic was “Secure Identity Propagation using WS-Trust, WS-Security, and SAML2“. The PowerPoint presentation can be found here. The original abstract:
Read article: Secure Identity Propagation using WS-Trust, WS-Security, and SAML2 — IBM Impact, 2011 SessionI gave the following presentation at IBM Impact in April, 2011.
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