Archive for November, 2006

Schema Compliance is the Key to Interoperability

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Good Web services interoperability is an absolute must for a successful SOA implementation, but why interoperability has been so difficult to achieve? I think that inability to comply with a published Web services contract expressed via its WSDL/Schema could be one of the leading causes of interoperability problems (I use the term "interoperability" pretty broadly here). For [...]

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“Wrapper”/”Non-wrapper” Web Service Styles - Things You Need to Know

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
"Wrapper"/"non-wrapper" Web services styles are mandated by JAX-RPC and JAX-WS specifications and are explained in details in documentation or in other sources, for example in this article. However, from my experience, there is still a lot of confusion among developers about differences between these two styles and also how a particular style affects design and [...]

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