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 [...]
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 Tilkovs summary of [...]
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 mostly [...]