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AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors spent the last year implementing an Atom Store for Homeaway, their employer, and are mnow making the Atom Store framework available as open source.

Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
on Jul 02, 2008
Improving Performance of Healthcare Systems with Service Oriented Architecture

This article, based on a chapter from the book "Service Oriented Architecture Demystified", discusses the benefits of applying SOA to heterogenous environments in the healthcare domain. Focusing on a domain instead of technology perspective first provides an interesting view on the business motivation for SOA.

Steve Birkel Joe Natoli Blake Dournaee Girish Juneja
on Mar 07, 2008
Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy

InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.

Stefan Tilkov
on Oct 04, 2007
Unit-Testing XML

There are many occasions where software creates XML output: XML documents are used for data interchange between different applications, web application create (X)HTML output or respond to AJAX requests with XML, and this has to be tested as much as anything else. In this article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to perform those tests with the XMLUnit framework he has co-authored.

Stefan Bodewig
on Jun 11, 2007
Using Java to Crack Office 2007

Office file manipulation used to be difficult, but since Office 2007, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files can be read and written without anything more complicated than the native JDK itself because Office 2007 documents are now nothing more than ZIP files of XML documents. Ted Neward demonstrates this in action.

Ted Neward
on Jun 04, 2007
Interview: Frank Cohen on FastSOA

InfoQ today publishes a one-chapter excerpt from Frank Cohen's book "FastSOA". On this occasion, InfoQ had a chance to talk to Frank Cohen, creator of the FastSOA methodology, about the issues when trying to process XML messages, scalability, using XQuery in the middle tier, and document-object-relational-mapping.

Stefan Tilkov
on Apr 05, 2007
Versatile RESTful APIs Beyond XML

The world of RESTful resources that Rails firmly entered with version 1.2 naturally uses XML as its lingua franca. But there's no reason that it can't be multi-lingual, and thanks to the versatility of rails it's easy to support other standards alongside XML in our RESTful applications, potentially opening them up to a wider audience and/or reducing their bandwidth requirements.

James Stewart
on Mar 13, 2007
10 Principles of SOA

In this article, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov, consultant at innoQ, proposes 10 principles to serve as a basis for SOA discussions. The list starts with Don Box's four tenets (service with explicit boundaries, shared contract and schema, policy-driven, and autonomous) and expands them to include wire formats, document orientation, loose coupling, standards compliance, vendor independence, and metadata.

Stefan Tilkov
on Feb 27, 2007
Arjen Poutsma on Spring Web Services

InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to Spring Web Services creator Arjen Poutsma about Spring's Java Web services stack and the different approach it has to building Java Web services. Topics covered include the reason for yet another WS framework, advantages of contract-first, document-driven Web services, JAX-WS, and REST.

Stefan Tilkov
on Jan 31, 2007
Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability

.NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.

ThoughtWorks Paul Hammant Inc Ian Cartwright
on May 12, 2006