Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
This article on techtarget is a great illustration of my point from the previous post about the importance of the proper design patterns and techniques required to be able to benefit from XML appliance capabilities.
When implementing Web services Java developers tend to think in terms of Java classes that XML documents map to. Using [...]
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
XML appliances are capable of extremely fast XML parsing and transformation (sometimes the term "wire-speed" is used). The speed is achieved by using hardware acceleration, specially written XML parsers and XSLT engines (you won’t find Xerces on these devices) and optimized operating system (usually, a trimmed-down version of Linux or BSD).
How fast are XML appliances? [...]
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
A Web services registry is arguably one of the most important components of SOA. The registry provides a single source of information about all services in an enterprise.
There are a number of commercial registry/repository products but all of them are quite pricey. Also, smaller organizations or organizations just starting with SOA may not need [...]
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