24 articles tagged Web Services.
Like so much of our computer industry, the ecosystem around SOA has many acronyms, buzzwords, and phrases that are supposed to mean something. Likewise, this jargon may be poorly defined or ambiguous. The posts that I have made over the past few months are slowly building up a common vocabulary…
Read article: Wire ProtocolsFollowing up on the recommended reading lists I’ve posted recently, this post contains a list of the books and specifications that I direct people to about SOA.
Read article: Recommended Reading Material for SOAAt nearly every client site, I’m asked to put together a recommended reading list on a variety of subjects. Web Services security is generally among them. SO, I’m putting together a list of the links that usually make it on that list.
Read article: SOA Security Reading MaterialWhen I am describing complex SOA or Web Service architectures, environments, and scenarios to clients, I often use the term “SOA Actors” to generically refer to components of such environments in the abstract. I will often do the same on Thinkmiddleware.com posts. Here, I define what I mean by this…
Read article: SOA ActorsA Service Consumer is any tier of an organization’s systems that calls web services. These services could be implemented by SOAP, REST, XML over HTTP, EJBs, JMS or MQ applications, RMI, RPC, invocation of COBOL programs on a mainframe with 3270 screen-scraping, communication over a custom TCP…
Read article: What is a Service Consumer?A Service Provider is any tier or system in an organization’s environment that hosts web services (or services of any kind).
Read article: What is a Service Provider?In the past year, I have stood in a conference room at more than one client fielding a question along the lines of exactly what is an ESB? I’ve found that there is a wide variety of impressions about what exactly makes something an ESB. I’m hardly the first person to post something on the Internet…
Read article: What is an ESB?A SOAP Web Service is any web service that is compliant with the SOAP 1.1 or SOAP 1.2 specs. When referring to a SOAP Web Service we will use the capitalized Web Service. This convention is followed by most publications within the industry.
Read article: What Is A SOAP Web Service?This one has probably been addressed many times. But, I needed a place to link to whenever it comes up in other posts. For our purposes, a Web Service is SOAP Web Service and a web service is anything acting as a web service in the generic sense.
Read article: What is a Web Service? What is a web service?REST web services are not nearly as formalized as their SOAP equivalent. A REST web service adheres to the principals laid out in Roy Fielding’s PhD Thesis. REST stands for Representational State Transition.
Read article: What Is A REST Web Service?
