March 9th, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Not too long ago enterprise applications looked like this. All data stored in a single database. Data integrity was no issue, database links between all tables made sure of that. You could easily link between tables in different domains. For example, orders would link to products and customers. Unfortunately, most companies didn’t have a single [...]
October 24th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Stefan Tilkov blogged on the recently created SOA manifesto. He’s a big proponent of using REST(ful HTTP) for achieving SOA goals. One of the reactions he got on a previous post on this topic states that REST and SOA are incompatible, as REST is not about services but about resources or documents (with a standardized [...]
May 2nd, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Some good info on Wolfram Alpha: Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine” and See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots. The screenshots suggest that Wolfram Alpha has more in common with Business Intelligence tooling than with search engines. And the database they’re building to support this is a big datawarehouse containing data from selected sources: [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“. Like most of my presentations, there’s not much text on the slides, so i’ll summarize here: We start with one slide of JAX-RS code, just to mention that we’re not going to talk about code. Next, we mention Stefan [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Just read Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?. The article argues that LinkedData, aka the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0, might be a threat to Googles dominating position. I was actually thinking the opposite. To me, Web 2.0 and SOA seem a bigger issue for Google. Web 2.0 interfaces are [...]
