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A Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Un-Manifesto 15 Dec 2009 | 12:31 am
With the service-oriented architecture (SOA) community recently issuing its SOA Manifesto (based closely it seems on the largely excellent example of the Agile Manifesto), I have been thinking recentl...
Can We REST For A Minute? 6 Lessons From The CRUD vs. Hypermedia Debates 7 Aug 2009 | 12:31 am
Recently InfoQ did a good summary of the debates around the apparent (to some) limitations of REST when it comes to creating good Web services. At issue is that REST APIs seem to expose "CRUDy" servic...
Unboxing Web-Oriented Architecture: The 6 Aspects Of An Emergent Architectural Style 7 Jun 2009 | 03:16 am
So you've been reading the many recent articles on the Web about REST, how it's the future of Internet architecture, and you've decided to begin applying some of it in your work. But when you start di...
Modern Web Identity: Why Your Web Applications Should Be Offering OpenID, OAuth, And Probably Facebook Connect 15 Apr 2009 | 06:02 pm
Are you creating a new Web site and developing a user registration system that requires new visitors to sign-up and create a user ID and password? Stop now and read this. There are now more effective ...
10 Must-Know Topics For Software Architects In 2009 18 Mar 2009 | 03:15 am
In the last year or so, after quite a lull, the software architecture business has gotten rather exciting again. We're finally seeing major new topics emerging into the early mainstream that are poten...
A Discussion with David Linthicum About Web-Oriented Architecture and SOA 19 Nov 2008 | 06:22 am
I recently had the privilege of being on David Linthicum's excellent Real World SOA podcast show on Infoworld to talk about Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), a topic that readers here know I've been ex...
The SOA world begins considering Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) in earnest 9 Sep 2008 | 12:25 am
It's been an interesting few months in the enterprise architecture space as we look at where service-oriented architecture (SOA) is headed this year. I wrote a detailed exploration of this on ZDNet la...
12 Things You Should Know About REST and WOA 8 Apr 2008 | 09:41 pm
There have been a number of interesting tracts written lately about that increasingly popular topic in the world of SOA and Web services: REST. In particular, the one that is circulating around social...
What Is WOA? It's The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 28 Feb 2008 | 10:37 am
The need for businesses to open up their silos of information and internal capabilities to their internal customers has become an increasingly pressing issue as organizations strive to increase operat...
Creating Open Web APIs: Exploring REST and WOA in Rails 2.0 11 Jan 2008 | 06:27 am
In my recent 2008 predictions for the future of Web services and open APIs for enterprise applications, I said that we'd finally see a large scale movement to newer, lightweight Web-based models for o...
