Contents tagged with BPEL
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Microsoft changes their orchestration tune
Did anybody else catch this? Over the past three weeks, there were two announcements that indicate a rather large shift in how Microsoft view's the role of service orchestration:
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Aspects in BPEL
To continue Jeff's and my musings on Aspects...
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Desiging SOAs With Orchestrations
Now, if you own the web service interface then the second advantage bullet is less important and aspects may not be important to you. In those cases it seems to make sense to skip the orchestration unless you assign a high value to having a consistent design pattern. You have to weigh if you need down-to-the-metal performace (then why are you doing web services?), or if scalability is really what you are after. That's where the role of the service architect comes in, to help you make those trade-off decisions.