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What is the advantages and disadvantages of using services over components?

Hi, From past few months I am working on projects in latest dot net frameworks. I feel that in latest dot net versions "services" are encouraged over components. Is that correct? I have seen in silver light (I am a beginner in silver light) all the DB layer operations are exposed as services. I don't know right now component program...

Which SOA architecture is most appropriate for a Java application?

I am currently working on a pretty large Java 6 application where we are looking to split some of our functionality out into a service oriented architecture. It seems that the primary SOA framework for the application space is OSGi and I have been looking into Felix and Knopplerfish but I wanted to make sure that this isn't my only opti...

Service Design (WCF, ASMX, SOA)

Soliciting feedback/thoughts on a pattern or best practice to address a situation that I have seen a few times over the years, yet I haven't found any one solution that addresses it the way I'd like. Here is the background. Company has 3 applications supporting 3 separate "lines of business" that are very much related to each other. Tw...

Seeking Input For My Next Opensource Project

Friends, I'm seeking your input to help me think about my next opensource project. I have two ideas, either one of which I'd like to do, probably using Java as the primary language, just as a matter of preference. I'd particularly like to know whether either is already being done, so that I don't duplicate work, and whether or not you...

WCF Data Contract and Reference Entity Data?

Hello, Soliciting feedback/options/comments regarding a "best" pattern to use for reference data in my services. What do I mean by reference data? Let's use Northwind as an example. An Order is related to a Customer in the database. When I implement my Orders Service, in some cases I'll want the reference a "full" Customer from an O...

Good book for SOA/SaaS

I am a java developer. I want to learn SOA/SaaS for our web application. What is best book/resource to start with ? ...

Automatically Wrap a Controller Around a Service in ASP.NET MVC

Hi. The question title might not be clear but what I want to do is something like this: This is how I layer out my app App.Domain App.Services App.Web What I want is, if I request something like /api/OrderProcessor/GetAllOrder it will call method GetAllOrder in App.Services.OrderProcessorService. The method will return an IL...

Contract-First SOA with WCF

Hello StackOverflow gurus! This question is more of a probe to discover what people are doing in the community, in practical situations, than a specifically targeted question. I have searched pretty broadly about this, and while I have found a lot of bloggers advocating contract-first service design and some comments backing them up, I h...

Expose my application data and processed data as Web Service.

Assume I have a application that stores data,gets data and processes data and stores them in a database (which can be any).Say I want to expose my data as Web Services so that other systems can get the data they need for processing. Q1.Is there any standards to follow? I can create Web Services in C#,so are the enough to say or claim th...

Mule Aggregator - Streaming Aggregation

The collection aggregator used in the Mule 2.0 framework works a bit like this: An inbound router takes a collection of messages and splits it up into a number of smaller messages - each smaller message get stamped with a correlation id corresponding to the parent message These messages flow through various services Finally these messa...

Does anybody have any feedback on SeeBeyond / Sun's JCAPS product

I have a client currently thinking about using SeeBeyond / Sun's JCAPS product, does anyone on SO have any positive or negative experiences using / developing for it ? ...

Wsdl4j vs. WSDLImporter

Do you know of any comparison made for comparing WSDL4J WSDLReader class against the .NET solution (e.g., WSDLImporter)? ...

What is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)?

Call me a troll if you want, but I'm serious -- how exactly is the new SOA trend any different than the client-service architecture that I was building 15 years ago? I keep hearing SOA but I don't see how it's different than what we've always done. Back 10 years ago, ,y company had multiple clients (in multiple languages) which talked to...

How Service-oriented architecture and Component-based development relate to each other?

Here is a pretty theoretical and abstract question: How Service-oriented architecture (SOA) differs from Component-based approach? Is the concept of SOA an extension to Component-based approach? What are your thoughts? Maybe you know any good papers that cover this subject? ...

Best Publish/Subscribe "Middleware"

I'm in the market for a good open source network based Pub/Sub (observer pattern) library. I haven't found any I like: JMS - tied to Java, treats message contents as dumb binary blobs NDDS - $$, use of IDL CORBA/ICE - Pub/Sub is built on-top of RPC, CORBA API is non-intuitive JBOSS/ESB - not too familiar with It would be nice if su...

Should a software Service be completely standalone or can/should it be part of a larger component?

Hi all, I am in the process of refactoring 4 disparate software components that pretty much do the same thing into a single service (not a web service - necessarily or even likely). 3 are written in C++ while the last and most important is written in Java. The rest of the system is written in Java and therefore I will not be refactoring...

How do you assess/evaluate a messaging architecture?

I'm working on a project that relies on integrating with SMS/MMS messaging aggregator companies for deploying applications to cellphones as well as performing mobile payments through SMS. Many concepts in such architectures are closely related to messaging pattersn in enterprise integration and SOA worlds. I'm currently in the process of...

SOA Testing

How is SOA testing different than traditional testing of application ...

Tests frameworks and tools for SOA Java developments

Currently, I'm looking for any experiences or advices about test tools on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Java developments. Which the bestpratices and best tools for this job ? Thanks for your time ...

Link testing

What is link testing in SOA testing. As some of the information i found spoke about link testing. ...