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Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek

Posted by Mark Little on Oct 13, 2008 04:39 AM

Community
SOA
Topics
REST ,
Web Services
Tags
WS-Coordination ,
WS-BusinessActivity ,
QCon London 2008 ,
WS-AtomicTransactions ,
QCon ,
WS-Star ,
WS-Security
Summary
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and shows that both approaches have their roles to play in any good architects toolkit. He elaborates on where possible convergence could, or should, occur within the industry.

Bio
Dr Mark Little is Red Hat's Technical Development Manager of the SOA Platform, Director of Standards and representative on the Java Executive Committee. Prior to joining JBoss, he was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies and a Distinguished Engineer at HP, leading the development of the world's first Web Services transactions product.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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the Software Engineering of REST/SOA by JAVAID ASLAM Posted Dec 26, 2008 1:49 PM

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    the Software Engineering of REST/SOA

    Dec 26, 2008 1:49 PM by JAVAID ASLAM

    Perhaps the most enlightening talk so far from a matured sw engineering point of view.

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