Contents tagged with Service Oriented Architecture
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Thought Provoking SOA piece
Rocky is one of my favorite writers, so it's not much of a surprise that he's the man behind an interesting article on TheServerSide.NET entitled "The Fallacy of the Data Layer" that discusses SOA, service boundaries and much more.
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Why not standardize an Object Schema?
I was listening to the latest .NET Rocks! episode; the part where they were discussing Service-Oriented systems. I don't remember exactly who-said-what but I do remember what was said. There was mention of something like, “You only want to pass XML messages back and forth, not objects.” The reasoning behind this (IIRC) had to do with interoperability. Let's say you have a .NET caller and a J2EE caller. Since they both define objects differently (and perhaps create and expect different serialized representations of objects) it's not gonna work. This got me thinking, why not have someone (like say, the W3C w/ the help of people at Sun, IBM, MS, etc.) develop a standard “object” schema for Web Services (and SO systems) to pass back and forth?