Archive for February, 2007

SOA Need Not Be Costly

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
I've come across a nice chart in the baseline magazine that shows that cost is the biggest obstacle to SOA adoption (unfortunately, this chart is not available in the online version of the magazine). I think that this is very telling, it really shows how often SOA is either misunderstood or applied incorrectly (or [...]

Yahoo Pipes - A Great Way to Create Composite Applications

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Yahoo Pipes web site was launched last week and almost immediately drew the attention of a large crowd - I think the site actually went down for a few hours after the launch. Yahoo Pipes makes it extremely easy to "mash" different Web sources together - without any programming, using drag-and-drop AJAX UI. The UI [...]

JSON Pros and Cons

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
JSON is a simple object serialization approach based on the JavaScript object initializers syntax. The code for initializer (object literal) is put into a string and then interpreted using JavaScript eval() function or JSON parser (which is very lightweight): serializedObj='{firstName:"john", lastName:"doe"}'; ... // This is just an example, JSON parser should be used instead // to avoid security vulnerabilities [...]