SOA Patterns status update

SOA Patterns status update

I want to say I am delighted but I guess relieved is the right word here  - I’ve finally submitted all the book chapters to manning and I’m now doing an editing round on all the chapters (re-adding missing images, update pattern references, fixing typos etc.).         The current (and hopefully final) table of contents  is as follows: Part I – SOA...

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SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend (PDF)

SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend (PDF)

I got a few request for a PDF version of the pattern so here it is :  Composite Frontend Pattern

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SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend

SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend

I am not blogging much these days – most of it is due to trying to get my bloody book finished. A case study and a finished anti-pattern chapter where recently pushed to the MEAP, and here’s one additional pattern from chapter 6 (service consumer patterns): When we try to think about service consumers, the obvious candidates are, of course, other services. Nevertheless there are other...

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Azure Worker Role is not there yet

Azure Worker Role is not there yet

Microsoft’s furray into the Cloud service providers (a.k.a. Azure) tries to play both in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) playgrounds (Kate Craig provides good definitions of IaaS and PaaS if you need them). Microsoft’s IaaS offering (though it also has some  PaaS  attributes ) is pretty simple and straight forward with a (yet in beta)...

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SOA anti-pattern: Transactional Integration

SOA anti-pattern: Transactional Integration

Transactional Integration It all starts with a business requirement – as it always should. We have an ordering system (say the same one from the Knot anti-pattern) and the business says they only want to confirm an order to the user if the item is already secured for that order in the stock.  From the technical point of view we have 2 separate services – one handles orders the other...

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