2010
InfoQ: WS-I closes its doors. What does this mean for WS-*?
So the question remains: has interoperability pretty much been achieved for WS-* through WS-I and the improvements made with the way in which the specifications and standards are developed today, or has the real interoperability challenge moved elsewhere, still to be addressed?
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
"Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud"
2009
InfoQ: REST and transactions?
[...] there seems to be no clear answer to whether or not (extended) transactions really do fit in a REST world. However, it does seem conclusive that many people believe they need them for one reason or another.
JSON REST vs. XML SOAP
SOAP sur un terrain glissant...
SOA is Dead
SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its promised benefits. After investing millions, IT systems are no better than before.
Microsoft donates code to Apache Stonehenge project
"The whole point of standards is to provide for interoperability, but so many are implemented in slightly different ways that the desired interoperability is not achieved," said [...] Jason Bloomberg.
2008
Build Web services with PHP in Eclipse
Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in in Eclipse in three easy steps
The Cover Pages: ISO Publishes Three WS-I Profiles
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) today announced that three of its Profiles have been published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Describe REST Web services with WSDL 2.0
A key component of a Web service is a formal description with Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Until recently there was no formal language to describe REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Web services—now there's WSDL 2.0.
BPM Tutorial | BPM Research
The following slides have been presented at a workshop on Business Process Automation, held at the 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems in New York, NY, on August 5th, 2004.
InfoQ: Hypermedia in RESTful applications
Flickr's current approach of requiring that clients possess Flickr-specific knowledge in order to progress from one application state to another, is simply another way of saying that they have a proprietary application model. Not only is it proprietary th
REST vs. SOAP at Amazon
Amazon has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services, and 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corporate hype over the SOAP stack, this is pretty compelling evidence that developers like the simpler REST approach.
O'Reilly Network -- Stewart Butterfield on Flickr
by 1 otherI think we had one person inquire about using the SOAP version of the API. I don't know if any apps were actually built. There is at least one application built on XML-RPC. But all the others--I don't even know how many there are--are built on the REST AP
Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs
by 2 othersMicrosoft is making a large investment in unifying our developer platform protocols for services on the open, standards-based Atom format (RFC 4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023)
Orchestra: Open Source BPEL / BPM Solution - Orchestra : The Open Source BPEL solution
by 1 otherOrchestra is a complete solution to handle long-running business processes orchestration. It is based on the OASIS standard BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). It includes a powerful BPEL Engine and all the related graphical tools to design, admin
WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP | WSO2 Oxygen Tank
by 2 othersWSO2 WSF/PHP is a complete solution for building and deploying Web services, and is the only PHP extension with the widest range of WS-* specification implementations
2007
L'architecture orientée ressource pour faire des services web RESTful - Biologeek : Ubuntu, bio-informatique et geekeries libres d'un bio-informaticien au quotidien.
by 7 othersLe plus gros défaut de REST, c'est sûrement de se limiter à la comparaison des 4 verbes HTTP (GET, POST, PUT et DELETE) aux 4 actions possibles sur des données issues de bases de données (Retrieve, Create, Update et Delete soit CRUD)
Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: What is SOA?
Once again the participants in the SOA discussion group have got themselves all riled up about what exactly SOA is and why it may or may not be working.
A Close Look at BPEL 2.0 @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE
BPEL provides a broadly adopted process orchestration standard supported by many vendors today and used to define business processes that orchestrate services, systems, and people into end-to-end business processes and composite applications
REST vs. WS-*: War is Over (If You Want It) :: David Chappell :: Blog
by 1 otherREST is for data-oriented applications that focus on create/read/update/delete scenarios. Solution based on WS-* for service/method-oriented applications, especially those that need more advanced behaviors such as transactions and more-than-basic security
GoogleDeveloperDay
La chaîne YouTube des sessions de présentation des Google Developer Days, pour tout savoir sur les API et mashups possibles avec les outils Google
Tackle WS-Security specification interoperability challenges, Part 1: Problem overview and four available workarounds
Most interoperability issues arise not from the base Web services specification (which is quite mature and stable), but rather from the various WS-* Web services extensions, such as WS-Security
