What is a Web Service? What is a Service?
I have watched this debate unfold at every client site I have visited in the past few years. There are[…]
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Generating and Uploading a Shared Key (Symmetric Key) to DataPower Appliances
DataPower does not seem to provide a tool to generate a Shared Key that can be used with 3DES or[…]
Read moreService Mediation vs. Service Orchestration
I’ve wanted to define this term for a while, but, someone beat me to it several years ago. I generally[…]
Read moreData Transformations
In a previous post, I described the different types of Data Formats that are commonly used with ESBs, XML Gateways,[…]
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To follow up on the Wire Protocol post, the next logical step in our SOA exploration is Data Formats. A[…]
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Like so much of our computer industry, the ecosystem around SOA has many acronyms, buzzwords, and phrases that are supposed[…]
Read moreRecommended Reading Material for SOA
Following up on the recommended reading lists I’ve posted recently, this post contains a list of the books and specifications[…]
Read moreSOA Security Reading Material
At nearly every client site, I’m asked to put together a recommended reading list on a variety of subjects. Web[…]
Read moreSOA Actors
When I am describing complex SOA or Web Service architectures, environments, and scenarios to clients, I often use the term[…]
Read moreWhat is a Service Consumer?
A Service Consumer is any tier of an organization’s systems that calls web services. These services could be implemented by[…]
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