... [...] ... You would compose the complex concept "Someone who sells cheddar cheese" out of the atomic concepts (whose names we already agree on). ... But...
Not sure I agree with you Mark. You are correct of course in stating that the less assumption made the looser the coupling. But there is still a coupling at...
... Jini requires Java at places where you want direct access to Jini features. The Jini Extensible Remote Invocation (JERI) stack provides the ability to...
All, I'm coordinating a project called Seneca (http://seneca.dev.java.net/) which aims to create a research & analysis paper about the intersection of Service...
I'm looking for formal definitions and comparisons between (web) services and components (e.g. EJB, COM+) to clarify whether or not components are the best or...
Just to clarify I am not saying that granularity is an easy thing and perhaps the way to look at it from a high level is the operations you choose is something...
... This assumes a choreography perspective, doesn't it - that you can view doA and doB in the context of a process that calls them both. And this is the...
A web service is an application that exposes its functionality through a standards-based interface -- using WSDL and XML Schema (and eventually WS-Policy and...
Thanks for clarifying, Steve. I had trouble with your previous message, but this is clearer ... ... At least we agree about the problems with getting too...
Anne, here is an open source project designed to make EJBs easy. We would be interested in your opinion of the comparative implications: <<Among its...
... backward ... if you then ... the return ... invocation layer of ... whether this ... +1 An overly generic interface "solves" the issue by punting on it and...
... I want to buy cheddar cheese. When I go to the store, there are a bunch of gray boxes with no labels that I have open to find out whether I've got the box...
Hi, I'm thinking of some b2b scenarios. I'm a company that needs to buy sprockets because I'm building bikes. Say I manage to find in some cross-organization...
... organizations that ... I guess for this sentance to work, you need to define that scale. Number of applications using the service? Transactions per second?...
I know of no standardization effort that attempts to enable establishment of trust relationships. Systems such as WS-Trust assume that trust relationships are...
The most recent figures I have from the Credit Suisse case study are 1500 services enterprise wide with a reuse rate of about 70%. The reuse rate was lower...
Gervas, The article looks interesting, especially this comment, 'As part of that, it will support deployment without an appserver. "Sometimes you don't need...
Okay has anyone else had enough of this? Is this the Jini list or the SOA list? I've tried to ignore this Java centric stuff, as I know others have too. We do...
I would say that webservices are components but components may not be webservices. The key difference is the communication between software. There are three ...
... There's nothing in place to make this happen, yet from a trusted source perspective that I am aware of. But, as soon as there is a popular mechanism, for...
... Again, we've had TCP for eon's, and people don't regularly decide that is the best layer. There are many standard ontological layers that already exist. ...
... I was thinking about the first of these, which I would rephrase as the "number of services that are used in more than one process". As I wrote ... Some...
In the last few weeks I have had two complaints submitted to me by members against other members. The first contended that a certain respected (well, at least...
... +1 I have enjoyed all the debates you mention, learning a lot from each of them - you could attend a lot of conferences and read a lot of books without...
... Are you able to say anything about the /nature/ of these services, Eric? In particular: * Is each service simple to understand individually, or do you...
Although Gregg does occasionally get a bit passionate in his arguments, I, for one, appreciate his comments and the insight into an alternate approach. (I...
I would go to Google and do search for reviews of these providers. Or, perhaps, the cross-org registry provides some scoring features where (un)happy consumers...
The advice I give to my clients is to start their reuse efforts with infrastructure functionality -- things like authentication, authorization, auditing,...
