Archive for July, 2006

First Impressions from Service Component Architecture

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I'm currently playing with Service Component Architecture (SCA), currently supported in IBM products, such as WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer (WID). IBM implementation "wraps" all SCA standard classes and namespaces using IBM proprietary classes and namespaces. As a result, XML tags and class names don't match what's in the spec. I suspect [...]

Is ESB the Starting Point for SOA?

Sunday, July 9th, 2006
This blog entry discusses Forrester Wave report on ESB market. The report endorses ESB products and suggests that ESB is “the most straightforward way to get started with service-oriented integration today”. And I’ve always thought that the most straightforward way is to start implementing services instead of infrastructure products (however useful these products might be). As […]

The Most Important Characteristic of an ESB

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
ESB and other SOA middleware can provide many important capabilities but at the end of the day what really counts is whether these products make developers and other stakeholders more productive. There is nothing “magic” about ESB products. They are all based on well-known application servers and/or messaging products and so they really don’t change the […]