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Archives / 2004 / May
  • Reliable Web Services in Indigo and J2EE

    My last article is about Reliable Messaging in Indigo and J2EE. The article is segmented in three main parts. The first part cover the main concepts of the WS-ReliableMessaging Standard. Next we cover the main aspects of how to develop reliable Web Services using Indigo, using the high-level layer (DialogPorts) and the low-level layer (DialogChannel). Finally we shows how to develop reliable Web Services in the J2EE environments using WASP and its Sequence API.

  • Routing in Indigo

    In a recent post I make reference to an interesting Skonnard's article about routing SOAP messages. Following this line I spent a few hours in this morning making test about the routing features in Indigo. Routing messages between services in Indigo is very simple. You only need to program a router (a simple application) and add the routing policy. A router acts on a Indigo port. A router can act over a message content and using a SOAP role in the message (Indigo also have a powerful mechanism to filter messages). Exist a RuleManager which is responsible manages all the rules.

  • Web Service Bus

    A recently published profile of  Cape Clear Software by Gartner Group has declared that Cape Clear can become a leader in the emerging market for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration. CapeClear provides a suite of integration products based of ESB concepts.

  • EJB 3

    EJB 3  has been presented as part of the TheServerSide symposium. I am not make a complete review yet to emit a professional opinion. However the new model tend to be more simple than it predecessor. The new model is annotation based and simplifies the development of Session and Message Driven Beans. CMP also present new features like:

  • Emerging Technologies Toolkit

    The version 2.0.1 of ETTK  is now available. One of the most remarkable features is the implementation of the WS-MetaDataExchange protocol. ETTK also includes other protocol implementations like Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM 0.5), WS-ResourceFramework 1.1 (WS-ResourceProperties, WS-ResourceLifetime, WS-Notification), Common Base Event (CBE) 1.0.1, Semantically-Adapted Service Data Objects, Policy-Based IT Management Demo, Semantic Web Services, Autonomic Computing Toolset, and WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM).