Archive for May, 2006
Monday, May 29th, 2006
Visual tools for designing message or process flows are part of many ESB
products. BPM products supporting BPEL or BPMN also heavily rely on visual tools.
Flowchart-like visual notation used by these tools represents a specialized
language that includes all elements of structural programming ("if-then-else", "while" and
so on).
Unfortunately, these languages have very limited support [...]
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
Good Web service design starts with a schema. Binding, port type and all these
other parameters of a WSDL file usually are not interesting at all - 99.9% of
all services have trivial SOAP bindings, no headers and no declared faults. Also,
majority of Web services today are document-style with one “part” per message.
So […]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
ESB products are touted by vendors as key infrastructure component of an SOA.
ESB product selection is a great challenge because ESB as a product category is
still very new. Unlike in JEE application server space, there are no standards
that define ESB capabilities. So vendors are free to use ESB moniker for,
essentially, any […]
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