What is a Service Provider?
A Service Provider is any tier or system in an organization’s environment that hosts web services (or services of any[…]
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What is an ESB?
In the past year, I have stood in a conference room at more than one client fielding a question along[…]
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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[…]
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This one has probably been addressed many times. But, I needed a place to link to whenever it comes up[…]
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REST web services are not nearly as formalized as their SOAP equivalent. A REST web service adheres to the principals[…]
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An XML Gateway is an externally-facing DMZ tier of a web services platform. Generally, this DMZ tier will be facing[…]
Read moreWhat is an Appliance? What is a SOA Appliance?
I suppose I’m switching gears a bit here back towards something almost philosophical rather than my usual concrete technical info […]
Read moreJVM Heap & GC Tuning…
So, obviously, I haven’t posted anything here in a while. Life has been busy. Starting several months ago, I left[…]
Read moreIBM Announced the New XG45 DataPower appliance
This is the first post on thinkmiddleware.com where we discuss DataPower. Guess what I’ve been doing with my career lately.[…]
Read moreJBoss 4.x and DataSource Configuration
On JBoss 4.x, a MySQL datasource looks something like: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <datasources> <local-tx-datasource> <!– The jndi name of the[…]
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