Red Hat SSO v7.1 Spec Support
Red Hat SSO v7.1 provides support for OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML2. There are numerous other identity protocols, but these are quite common and can handle a wide variety of use cases.
SOA Specs Visualized
In a previous blog post, I listed a number of SOA Specs and Security Specs that I thought were important to be familiar with when working with DataPower and other SOA technologies. In this post, I made a quick (and dirty) Visio diagram that I tend to draw up on a whiteboard when I’m at a new client…
What 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 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…
What is a Web Service? What is a 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.
What Is A REST 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.
Summary of J2EE Specs
If you were ever looking for a summary of each version of the J2EE Spec, it can take a few minutes to find it. So, here is a summary. The J2EE Specification is actually collection of numerous different Java-based technology specifications.
JEE 6 Draft Proposal Is Available For Public Review
Check out JSR 316 and this article. There is also a Slashdot.org thread on the subject.