Archive for August, 2007

You Ain’t Gonna Need ESB

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Bobby Wolf posted a great article about a wide-spread problem plaguing many SOA implementations: over-engineering of SOA infrastructure, meaning that people rollout products that are not particularly required to implement their business services. He specifically talks about ESBs, but I would say that "you ain't gonna need it" principle should be applied to any component [...]

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Is The End of SOAP Dominance Nearing?

Saturday, August 11th, 2007
SOAP-based services currently dominate the enterprise landscape. Main reasons this are: SOAP tight coupling with WSDL. Until recently, SOAP was the only supported WSDL binding. WSDL, with all of its issues (such as the convoluted structure), remains the only widely accepted vendor-neutral way of defining services. In Java world, SOAP was promoted by adding its support [...]

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