Article :: Implementing SOA Using Java EE: Evolution of Service Oriented Architecture

In this chapter, the authors first explore the concept of service orientation and then analyze how the emergence of different architectures' combined paradigm shifts in enterprise technologies led to the evolution of web services and SOA.

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Article :: Distributed Ruby: Mark Bates Sheds New Light

Sometimes Ruby code is too cool to run on just one computer at a time. In this interview with Hal Fulton, Mark Bates explains how he defines distributed programming, reasonable concerns about Ruby performance, and how to choose Ruby libraries.

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Article :: Computing in the Cloud

Mark Edward Soper provides an introduction to the world of web-based apps: how to select them, how to use them, and how to avoid problems.

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Article :: Beyond HTML: Returning JSON and XML Data From Your MVC Endpoints

You adopted MVC to get better control over your URL structure. Then you're asked to provide REST access over the same data. Instead of developing a new API and set of endpoints that mirrors what you already have, you can augment the existing application to respond to requests for JSON and XML as well as handle data updates and deletes. Scott Seely shows you how.

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Article :: Understanding Service Component Architecture: Assembling and Deploying a Composite

Learn the basics of building an SCA application, including how to create components that offer services, configure those components and wire them together as part of a composite, expose a service as a web service, and package and deploy the composite to a domain.

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Article :: SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema

Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#14): Logic Centralization

The Logic Centralization pattern is one of the basic inventory design patterns that structures the service inventory in a way so that it is free from redundant solution logic and endeavors to increase the reuse potential of agnostic services by enforcing use of agnostic services according to their functional boundaries.

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Article :: IronRuby Unleashed: An Interview with Shay Friedman

Hal Fulton interviews Shay Friedman about writing code at the age of 8, why IronRuby is much more than a bridge between .NET and Ruby, and why both Rubyists and .NET developers should use IronRuby.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#8): ESB

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck explains it here.

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Article :: Understanding HTML and XHTML Connections

Learn the various elements that must appear in an HTML file, including how to include all the HTML Tags that every web page must have, how to organize a page with paragraphs, line breaks and headings, how to validate your web content, and how to differentiate between HTML, XML, XHTML, and HTML 5.

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