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| SOA governance using WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Service
Registry and Repository, Part 3: Enforcing Service Level Agreements in Web Services
Starting with the releases of IBM WebSphere DataPower firmware V5.0
and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V8.0, IT service developers and
policy administrators can now attach and affect Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
behavior related to Service Level Management routing. Part 3 of this
article series describes how to use the new WS-MediationPolicy capabilities in
WSRR to author specific Service Level Agreements, which you can enforce on the
DataPower appliance without manually creating the XSLT or processing rules
and actions.
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Articles | 23 Apr 2013 |
| SOA governance using WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Service
Registry and Repository, Part 2: Authoring and enforcing custom policy vocabularies
Part 1 of this article series introduced the new message mediation
capability that WebSphere DataPower implemented in the 5.0.0 version of the
appliance firmware. This article, Part 2, will explain how to extend these
capabilities even further by enabling the use of custom policy vocabularies to
deploy specific proxy processing patterns not covered by built-in policy
domains.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
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Articles | 19 Dec 2012 |
| Using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V8 and DataPower V5 for service level mediation policy enforcement
This article shows you how to create a web service proxy in WebSphere DataPower for a web service registered and governed in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.
It also shows you how to attach a service-level mediation policy to the service in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and then enforce it in DataPower.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
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Articles | 05 Dec 2012 |
| Allotropes of Common Information Model
Common information model (CIM) is gaining popularity and is being leveraged in the industry for known advantages. CIM manifests in different forms and it is important to understand the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of each form. This article explores such details and will enable the designer to choose the appropriate pattern depending upon the tool and expertise capability of the enterprise.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 31 Oct 2012 |
| Information service patterns, Part 1: Data federation pattern
The data federation pattern virtualizes data from multiple disparate information sources. The pattern creates an integrated view into distributed information without creating data redundancy while federating both structured and unstructured information. This article describes the federation of structured information (data) with a focus on the SOA context. This pattern specification helps data and application architects make informed decisions on data architecture and document decision guidelines.
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Articles | 24 Sep 2012 |
| SOA Policy
Organizations use policy to guide decisions that are important to both the business and IT. Many times, policy is
reactive, and created as a result of something negative happening. The SOA Policy Reference Architecture shows how
the practitioner can be proactive with policy creation and maintenance, including the ability to manage and automate
that policy. This paper and its more detailed attachment provides a framework for defining policy starting with
business goals and objectives and then decomposing those into the business, architectural, and operational policies
necessary to properly control the organization. An example of using the SOA Policy Reference Architecture to create
the policy decomposition will be given to aid the reader in understanding the details.
Also available in:
Japanese
Vietnamese
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Articles | 09 Aug 2012 |
| The Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
With the explosive growth of computing devices connected with the Internet in recent years, security of communications and computer systems became more important than ever. We will learn about history of secure communications, the SSL/TLS protocols, handshake, network layers and a tool that makes our lives easier for SSL/TLS connection verification.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 06 Jun 2012 |
| OData
OData is a Web API for Data Access and manipulation. It is similar to a
mini-ODBC or JDBC API but specifically intended for the Web. More precisely, OData allows clients to construct URIs that name an entity set, filter among the entities it contains, and traverse relationships to related entities and collections of entities. OData provides mechanisms for resources (also known as providers) to present descriptions of the data structures they expose and for clients (also known as consumers) to access and manipulate the exposed portions of the resources via the HTTP protocol. The OData Web API describes how requests from clients and results from the providers should be formatted. The OData specification documents have been submitted to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) in May 2012.
Also available in:
Russian
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Articles | 24 May 2012 |
| SOA governance using WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Service Registry and
Repository, Part 1: Leveraging WS-MediationPolicy capabilities
This article will cover how to create and use the new WS-MediationPolicy to
govern Web services in IBM WebSphere DataPower.
Also available in:
Vietnamese
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Articles | 25 Apr 2012 |
| Linked Data standards
Linked Data and the Semantic Web have always been of interest to IBM
Research but Linked Data has now become a central component of some of IBM's products strategy. The Rational group in IBM has for several years been employing a read/write usage of Linked Data as an architectural style for integrating a suite of applications, and we have shipped commercial products using this technology. The applications we have integrated in IBM are primarily in the domains of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Integration System Management (ISM), but we believe that using read/write Linked Data as an application integration technology could be broadly relevant and applicable within the IT industry.
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Articles | 10 Apr 2012 |
| Integrating WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server with Tivoli Directory Server for security role mapping
IBM Websphere Telecom Web Services Server (TWSS) uses security role mapping for tasks such as access to and administration of security services.
For better administration, these security roles can be mapped to security identities of users/groups, which can be stored in LDAP for authentication and authorization.
This article describes security role mapping with users/groups, how to integrate TWSS with IBM Tivoli Directory Server, and a tool to generate the TWSS users/groups LDIF file.
Also available in:
Chinese
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Articles | 04 Apr 2012 |
| Build a regulatory compliant web application
This article proposes creating three classifications for each type of data your organization owns, then using those classifications to determine how to apply security to each type of data as you design the application that will use the data. It's called Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3).
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Articles | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Build a cloud failover policy
Proactive reliability. Many organizations still employ a
"reactive" response when a failure occurs instead of taking more prudent proactive steps: The creation of a cloud failover policy with cloud-specific riders, each detailing components and tasks. The author provides a roadmap for such a policy and illustrates policy riders and scenarios of what proactive actions should be taken when failures happen.
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Articles | 02 Mar 2012 |
| The IBM advantage for SOA reference architecture standards
This article describes how the SOA reference architecture has been developed and used by IBM to help customers increase business flexibility as well as IT flexibility. The SOA RA reference architecture being used to help organizations achieve advanced levels of business agility and IT flexibility through service integration that are specifically in line with their unique SOA business objectives. IBM is also using an SOA reference architecture along with the Cloud reference architecture to help organizations define their cloud solutions.
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Articles | 17 Jan 2012 |
| USB-Like Universal Ports Type for Enterprise Service Bus, Part 3: Benefits of Universal Ports
In the first installment, part1 of this series, you learned about the basic functionalities of the currently available Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). In part 1, you also learned about some of the difficulties in the use of the currently available ESBs. In the second installment, Part 2 of this series, you learned about the new concept of the Universal Ports type for ESB and how to implement Universal Ports. Universal Ports provide solution to the many of the problems that the current users of the ESBs experience. A Universal Port works analogous to the USB port of a computer, which is to connect devices of varied kind to connect to the computer. In a similar manner a Universal Port can be used to connect any application to the ESB and, indirectly, to the other applications. These applications may employ disparate forms of services to expose some or all of their functionality and still use a single port type. In this installment, part 3 of this series you will learn about the many benefits of Universal Ports.
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Articles | 17 Jan 2012 |
| Service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a transformational
technology used by enterprises to drive business advantages including agility,
reduced cost, improved time to market and competitive advantage. This article
highlights how standards are important for SOA solutions enhancing
customer results and enabling interoperability.
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Articles | 17 Jan 2012 |
| Enforcing SOA message security policy with WebSphere Service Registry and
Repository and WebSphere DataPower
This tutorial presents the reader with a concrete method for using a
central repository in this example WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) to implement business policies governing SOA
message flows, enforced by the WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances. The
necessary configuraton steps for both the WSRR and the WebSphere DataPower appliance are detailed.
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Articles | 21 Dec 2011 |
| Creating virtual servers through VMControl REST APIs
Creating logical partitions on IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) can often be a time consuming task and of course requires a certain level of technical skills on PowerVM technology. By using remote command execution on HMC and VMControl Representation State Transfer (REST) web services calls, you will be able to programmatically create logical partitions assigning virtual resources and enabling a simplified virtualization management.
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Articles | 21 Dec 2011 |
| Configuring secured Web service calls from WebSphere Process Server V7 to
a non-WebSphere server via SSL
This tutorial provides steps to configure an SSL for a Web service call from
WebSphere Process Server to a non-WebSphere Web service. It covers generating client and
sample server keys, importing certificates, configuring the SOAP UI for SSL,
mocking up the Web service, and testing the SSL.
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Tutorial | 21 Dec 2011 |
| Building a sample application to showcase integration between WESB and WSRR V7
This article will be useful to developers who are starting out with WESB and WSRR, providing a reference point for building a simple solution using WID to showcase integration between the aforementioned products.
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Articles | 21 Nov 2011 |
| Building an Enterprise Expertise Location system: Part 2: The Expertise Locator Solution Architecture
This article is about the solution architecture of an Expertise Location system that was implemented internally within IBM, interestingly enough called Expertise Locator. In this part of the article, we cover the Use Cases Model, the Solution Architecture, the Data Model and the Architectural Decisions of the Expertise Locator system.
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Articles | 14 Nov 2011 |
| USB-Like Universal Ports Type for Enterprise Service Bus: Part 2: Concept, process, and implementation
In the first installment, part 1 of this series, you learned about the basic functionalities of the currently available Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). In part 1, you also learned about some of the difficulties in the use of the currently available ESBs. In this installment, Part 2 of this series, you will learn about the new concept of the Universal Ports type for ESB and how to implement Universal Ports. Universal Ports provide solution to the many of the problems that the current users of the ESBs experience. A Universal Port works analogous to the USB port of a computer, which is to connect devices of varied kind to connect to the computer. In a similar manner a Universal Port can be used to connect any application to the ESB and, indirectly, to the other applications. These applications may employ disparate forms of services to expose some or all of their functionality and still use a single port type. In the installment, part 3 of this series you will learn about the many benefits of Universal Ports.
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Articles | 08 Nov 2011 |
| Develop an Apache HttpClient client for Android to a JAX-RS web service
Access a JAX-RS web service with the Apache HttpClient library. Jersey, a reference implementation for JAX-RS, simplifies development of RESTful web services in the Java environment. Android is a popular smartphone and this article shows you how to create a JAX-RS client for Android. You'll create an Apache HttpClient library client to a JAX-RS web service.
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Articles | 11 Oct 2011 |
| Best practices and tuning for large objects in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Ensuring optimum performance is attained on systems processing large
objects is an issue commonly faced by users of middle-ware software. In
general, objects of 1M or more can be considered to be 'large' and require special attention. This article aims to provide you with the necessary information and advice required to successfully utilise the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) V7 product to process large objects efficiently in a 64 bit production environment.
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Articles | 03 Oct 2011 |
| Using Validator for WS-Policy in Eclipse with IBM WebSphere Application Server
Validator for WS-Policy in Eclipse is a plugin that helps troubleshoot WS-Policy issues. Learn how to use it to debug a problem with some WS-Policy used by IBM WebSphere Application Server. Also find out how to create your own schemas to use the validator with other WS-Policy assertions.
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Articles | 02 Sep 2011 |
| Web service message logging with Apache CXF
Logging can be used as a tool to monitor and debug the application. In this article, you will learn how to perform
Web service message logging with Apache CXF. The article will demonstrate various ways in which you can implement
message logging. It will illustrate the use of significant CXF features like Interceptors and Features to perform
message logging. The article will also demonstrate message logging using Spring based bean configuration.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 01 Sep 2011 |
| Developing database driven web service using hibernate and implementing Restful
web service in cloud to be invoked by Android and J2ME Client
This tutorial demonstrates how to develop database driven web service using
Hibernate and invoking it with J2ME and Android Client. Finally it shows how to
develop a restful web service and deploy it in the Google cloud and then consuming
the web service with an Android client.
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Tutorial | 31 Aug 2011 |
| Web services hints and tips: avoid anonymous types
Anonymous XML types can sometimes cause problems in Web services. This article explains these problems and describes how to avoid them.
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Articles | 30 Aug 2011 |
| Create web services for stateless session beans in Rational Software
Architect
Learn how to create web services for stateless EJB session beans in IBM Rational Software Architect,
and how to use web services test explorer to test a web service.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Tutorial | 29 Aug 2011 |
| USB-Like Universal Ports Type for Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Problems with current ESBs
In this installment, part 1 of this series, you will first learn about the basic functionalities of the currently available Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). In this part 1, you will also learn about some of the difficulties in the use of the currently available ESBs. In the later installments of this series you will learn about the new concept of the Universal Ports type for ESB. Universal Ports provide solution to the many of the problems that the current users of the ESBs experience. A Universal Port works analogous to the USB port of a computer, which is to connect devices of varied kind to connect to the computer. In a similar manner a Universal Port can be used to connect to any application to the ESB and, indirectly, to the other applications. These applications may employ disparate forms of services to expose some or all of their functionality and still use a single port type.
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Articles | 26 Aug 2011 |
| Web services with SOAP over JMS in IBM WebSphere Process Server or IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus v7.0.0.x using IBM WebSphere MQ JMS provider
Learn how to change the referenced Java Naming and Directory Interface
(JNDI) resources of SOAP over JMS exports and imports so that they can receive
and send SOAP messages using the IBM WebSphere MQ JMS provider rather than the
SIBus JMS provider with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus V7.0.
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Articles | 24 Aug 2011 |
| Accessing HTTP and RESTful services from DB2: Introducing the REST
user-defined functions for DB2
Increasingly, Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the preferred way of communicating in today's service-oriented
architecture environments. There are many services and information sources that can be
addressed via a URL and accessed using HTTP. On the
other hand, there is still a significant amount of information stored in relational
database management systems (RDBMS) -- like DB2. Modern RDMSes
provide powerful processing features for relational data (through SQL) and XML data (through SQL/XML or XQuery).
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Articles | 23 Aug 2011 |
| Integrating with Outbound Broker web services for Initiate Patient
V9.2
IBM Initiate Patient is an industry-leading Enterprise Master Patient Indexing product. This article
explores an integration feature of Initiate Patient, Outbound Broker, that allows it to send
notifications about events within the hub to external systems. It demonstrates how Outbound Broker
can be implemented in a web services framework.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 04 Aug 2011 |
| Top 10 SOA and web services tutorials and articles
Check out which SOA and web services tutorials and articles developerWorks
readers are finding the most interesting.
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Articles | 27 Jul 2011 |
| Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite: Learning Visually with Examples
Four of IBM’s SOA practitioners identify core IBM SOA Foundation components and usage scenarios, and walk you step-by-step through implementing them in real-world environments.
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Books | 19 Jul 2011 |
| Spring bean management using Java configuration
Spring beans are configured using the traditional XML approach. In this article, you will learn to write Spring beans and configure them using pure Java based configuration instead of using XML. The article will cover various annotations you can use to configure the bean. It will illustrate the Java based bean configuration by comparing it with the traditional XML based approach.
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Articles | 19 Jul 2011 |
| Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service–Oriented Architect
This book follows up where the authors’ best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture Compass left off, showing how to overcome key obstacles to successful SOA implementation and identifying best practices for all facets of execution—technical, organizational, and human.
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Books | 15 Jul 2011 |
| The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0
In The New Language of Business, senior IBM executive Sandy Carter demonstrates how to leverage SOA, Web 2.0, and related technologies to drive new levels of operational excellence and business innovation.
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Books | 15 Jul 2011 |
| SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility
The authors illuminate the unique issues associated with applying IT governance to a services model, including the challenges of compliance auditing when service behavior is inherently unpredictable. They also show why services governance requires a more organizational, business-centric focus than “conventional” IT governance.
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Books | 15 Jul 2011 |
| Importing BPEL code from ARIS SOA Architect into WebSphere Integration Developer
This tutorial describes business-driven development with the ARIS2WebSphere methodology
to automatically generate a BPEL process from
ARIS SOA Architect and import this process into WebSphere Integration Developer.
Sample scripts for ARIS SOA Architect and a plugin for WebSphere
Integration Developer are provided. The tutorial also describes best practices for using
the methodology.
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Tutorial | 06 Jul 2011 |
| Developing web services, Part 3: File uploading web service built with Apache CFX
This tutorial demonstrates how to develop a CXF web service which can upload a submitted file from the user and store it in a specific directory. The example is built with widely used Eclipse IDE.
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Tutorial | 17 Jun 2011 |
| Developing web services, Part 2: Developing file download web service with JAX-WS.
This tutorial demonstrate how to develop Hello User web service and followed by File Download web service development using JAX-WS. Finally developing a SAAJ client for processing Product Catalog web service.
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Tutorial | 15 Jun 2011 |
| Developing web services, Part 1: Developing the code and contract first approach web service with Axis2
This tutorial demonstrate how to develop Credit Card Validation web service
with Code first (Bottom up) approach and followed by Product Catalog web service
development with Contract First (Top Down) approach using Axis2. Code First Approach is the most popular approach of developing a web service, whereas Contract First approach is the correct way to build any new web service.
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Tutorial | 14 Jun 2011 |
| Handling Complex Web Services in InfoSphere Information Server through DataStage ASB Packs v2.0
With most organizations and enterprises moving towards Enterprise
service-oriented architecture, it is important to look beyond the jargon into what
it means for developers and implementers and what exactly are the facilities
provided by the various software products and solutions to enable Enterprise SOA
based integration. In the current economic and heterogeneous business scenarios involving complex web service applications, IBM InfoSphere Information Server cost effectively addresses the challenges of business integration across enterprises by invoking Complex Web Services with its ASB (Application Services Backbone) Packs.
Also available in:
Chinese
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Articles | 24 May 2011 |
| Web service development with Apache CXF and Aegis
Aegis is one of the databinding standard supported by Apache CXF web
service framework. Databinding is a feature that performs mapping between Java objects and XML documents. In this article, you will learn how to develop a CXF based web service and customize its data binding needs using Aegis. The article will also feature benefits of using Aegis. The article will specifically focus on the use of Aegis external mapping file to customize the binding.
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Articles | 23 May 2011 |
| Building converged Web services with WebSphere Application Server
Convergence of telecommunications with the World Wide Web is a major driving force behind the development of many new and interesting applications. The lines between these two traditionally isolated worlds is blurring due to IETF-developed protocols like SIP and new programming models like JSR 289, which enable applications to simultaneously control the signaling between these two worlds. Through a sample application, this article illustrates how to develop a converged Web service using IBM WebSphere Application Server.
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Articles | 18 May 2011 |
| Design and develop a more effective SOA, Part 5: Build service-oriented solutions faster and more accurately with Rational Software Architect 8.0.2
This is the fifth article in a five-part series on IBM's commercial solution for service-oriented systems design and development. This article illustrates how users can leverage service models to jump-start their development of service solutions. In this case, we demonstrate the generation of Service Component Architect (SCA) artifacts from a service model constructed using Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software, Version 8.0.2.
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Articles | 12 May 2011 |
| Design and develop a more effective SOA, Part 4: Build and manage your service-oriented solution designs using Rational Software Architect and SoaML
This is the fourth article in a five-part series on how to use Rational's latest best-practices development process guidance and modeling tools to design and construct robust, flexible IT solutions based on service-oriented architectures.
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Articles | 09 May 2011 |
| Design and develop a more effective SOA, Part 3: Describe business processes using Rational Software Architect and Business
Process Modeling notation
This is the third article in a five-part series on how to use Rational's latest best-practices development process guidance and modeling tools to design and construct robust, flexible IT solutions based on service-oriented architectures.
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Articles | 05 May 2011 |
| Design and develop a more effective SOA, Part 2: Confidently define and design your service-oriented solutions using Rational SOMA 2.9
This is the second article in a five-part series on IBM's commercial
solution for service-oriented systems design and development. This article describes IBM's commercially available best practices – Rational SOMA -- for identifying, specifying, and realizing services. It describes both the method – which is tool-agnostic – and specific guidance that is included with Rational SOMA for using Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software to perform the steps of the method.
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Articles | 03 May 2011 |
| Design and develop a more effective SOA, Part 1: Introducing IBM's integrated capabilities for designing and
building a better SOA
This is the first article in a five-part series on IBM's commercial solution for service-oriented systems design and development. This article begins by discussing some of the promises and issues associated with moving to a service-oriented approach for IT systems. It then provides high-level descriptions of best practices and tools for realizing the benefits and overcoming the issues.
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Articles | 02 May 2011 |
| Extend SugarCRM REST web services to use XML
With the introduction of SugarCRM 5.5, the entire web services framework was invigorated not only to add REST support to complement the existing SOAP support, but also to enable developers to customize the web services in an upgrade-safe way to help support their business applications with ease. Out of the box, the SugarCRM REST web service supports using JSON and serialized PHP data as data formats for interacting with these web services. In this article, you can see how easy it is to add XML as another option to send and receive data with your SugarCRM instance.
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Articles | 26 Apr 2011 |
| Usage of document/literal wrapped pattern in WSDL design
A WSDL (Web Services Description Language) binding style can be either RPC or document, but the wrapped-document/literal pattern is the one, which blends the best out of both these styles.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 21 Apr 2011 |
| Java web services: Modeling and verifying WS-SecurityPolicy
WS-SecurityPolicy lets you define security configurations as part of
your Web Service Description Language (WSDL) service description. It's a powerful tool, but working with WS-SecurityPolicy documents can be painful. Assertions must be correctly structured to be effective, and version namespaces need to be consistent. In this article, you'll learn about common errors made in creating WS-SecurityPolicy documents, and you'll see how WS-Policy and WS-SecurityPolicy can be modeled in Java for verification and transformation.
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Articles | 19 Apr 2011 |
| Cloud services: Mitigate risks, maintain availability
Businesses and government agencies demand cloud services to provide better security in order to ensure continuous operational availability. To make this a reality, they need to formulate a cloud service policy on risk mitigation.
Learn about cloud service security and how to mitigate risks to cloud services to ensure high uptime availability and security in a cloud environment.
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Articles | 15 Mar 2011 |
| Developing a web service and consuming it with J2ME Client
This tutorial demonstrates how to develop web service with Java 2 Platform
and deploying it in WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE) and Tomcat server using two simple examples (HelloWorld and Logging), then invoking them through a J2ME client. Eclipse IDE is also used to develop a web service and deploy it in the WASCE. There is also a Stock-Quote service example in a remote location (not in local host) developed in .NET platform and this tutorial will show how to invoke it using a J2ME client.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Tutorial | 09 Mar 2011 |
| Service Registry with Advanced Search Capability, Part 4: Handling multiple matches
In the first installment, part 1, of this series you learned the reasons for needing advanced search capability in a services registry. In the second installment, part 2 of this series, you learned how to implement the four core components of this advanced registry. In the third installment, part 3, of this series you learned about the various practical configurations that are possible for combining these four core components either in a single application or multiple applications. In this last installment, part 4, you will learn how to handle multiple service names matches, which may occur in some rare cases.
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Articles | 08 Mar 2011 |
| Accessing a JAX-WS web service from Android
Web services provide function specific services and are especially
suited for mobile devices. KSoap2-android project is a SOAP library for the
Android platform. In this article we will access a JAX-WS web service for which a
WSDL is provided from an Android client. The web service returns a Hello
message in response to a request containing a name. We shall create a web service client for Android using the Eclipse ADT plugin and the KSoap2-android library. We will test the web service client in an AVD (Android Virtual Device). The response from sending a request to a Hello web service with name as the request argument is output on an Android virtual device emulator.
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Articles | 15 Feb 2011 |
| Working with web services using the EXPath HTTP client
EXPath is a community-driven effort whose goal is to define common extensions for
XML technologies, making it easier for developers to create portable applications using
well-defined function libraries. The EXPath HTTP Client module defines a set of functions
that enable the sending of HTTP and HTTPS requests. Learn to use this library to interact
with HTTP from both XSLT and XQuery, and find out how to test HTTP requests using a
primitive HTTP tester utility built with XQuery and the EXPath HTTP Client module.
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Articles | 15 Feb 2011 |
| Cloud billing service
Cloud billing is the process of generating bills from the resource usage
data using a set of predefined billing policies. The author defines a cloud billing service module enabled for a service oriented architecture, covering both functional requirements -- a quote service, conversion functions and policies, payment schemes, and user identification -- and the non-functional, but essential, requirements such as security, scalability, standards, and fault tolerance.
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Articles | 09 Feb 2011 |
| Java web services: Understanding and modeling WSDL 1.1
Several years after the approval of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, WSDL 1.1 is still the most widely used form of web service description. Despite its popularity, WSDL 1.1 has some issues, including a variety of schemas in use and variations in how web services stacks process WSDL documents. In this article you'll learn how WSDL 1.1 service descriptions are structured. You'll also see the basic structure of a Java tool for verifying WSDL documents and transforming them into a "best practices" form.
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Articles | 08 Feb 2011 |
| Model-driven cloud security
This article details the challenges to effective application security policy automation, explains the benefits model-driven security adds to security policy automation, and then demonstrates how to achieve cloud application security policy automation.
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Articles | 08 Feb 2011 |
| Very simple login using Perl, jQuery, Ajax, JSON and MySQL
This article describes a very simple login technique implemented by using several contemporary technologies. It brings a scripting language (Perl), a free database (MySQL) together with a lightweight text-based open standard (JSON), a cross-browser JavaScript library (jQuery) and an asynchronous interactive web application technique (Ajax).
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Articles | 25 Jan 2011 |
| Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap
A resource for planning, implementing, and managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), with an emphasis on how SOA drives business value and enables IT processes to align with business needs and objectives.
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Books | 24 Jan 2011 |
| Balance workload in a cloud environment
Many businesses and government agencies demand cloud services to provide continuous operational availability and security. To make this a reality, they will require a threshold policy on resource management for application testing and production. In this article, the author explains what a threshold policy is and how it can help to balance workload demands dynamically in a cloud environment.
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Articles | 11 Jan 2011 |
| Modeling your business processes with IBM WebSphere Lombardi
Edition, Part 1: Overview and Architecture
In this series, you'll learn how to use WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1
to model end-to-end business processes using a sample purchase order scenario.
Part 1 provides an overview of the Lombardi features and architecture.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 10 Jan 2011 |
| Developing Service Component Architecture applications using Rational Application Developer
This article describes how to develop and access Service Component
Architecture (SCA) applications using
Rational Application Developer Version 8 with a sample application.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 27 Dec 2010 |
| Java web services: The state of web service security
WS-Security and related standards provide a wide range of options for web service security. Of this wide range, web services stacks test only a limited number of security configurations, and even fewer configurations for interoperability, on their own. Find out what the industry has done to promote interoperability among web services stacks, and read a summary comparison of how the three main open source Java stacks handle security.
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Articles | 07 Dec 2010 |
| An introduction to IBM Service Federation Management (SFM), Part 3: Sharing services between two service domains using the SFM console
The Service Federation Management (SFM) feature pack enables enterprises to expand their SOA capabilities by federating and sharing services across domains. This article describes how to use the SFM console to perform some of the core functions that are available, for example sharing a group of services between two service domains.
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Articles | 06 Dec 2010 |
| An introduction to IBM Service Federation Management (SFM), Part 1: An overview of the concepts involved in the IBM Service Federation Management feature pack
Service Federation Management (SFM) feature pack enables enterprises to expand their SOA capabilities by federating and sharing services across domains. This article examines the motivation and business case for SFM, and introduces some of the concepts and terminology that are involved.
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Articles | 03 Dec 2010 |
| Exploring the Vector behavior of relationships in common information model
(CIM) based service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments
In the process of creating SOA based services from common information
model, we know that there is a need to extend CIM due to its abstract nature.
An important aspect to understand is that the driving context of the
constellation of CIM objects pertaining to an SOA based service is its
"Business intention". This article will explore such a characteristic of the relationships of CIM objects in SOA based implementations.
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Articles | 02 Dec 2010 |
| WebSphere Process Server V7에서 웹 서비스 트랜잭션 구현
이 튜토리얼에서는 IBM WebSphere Process Server V7 비즈니스 프로세스와 WebSphere Application Server V7을 실행하는 외부 웹 서비스 사이에서
트랜잭션을 구현하는 방법을 설명합니다. 또한, 비즈니스 프로세스 모듈과 웹 서비스를 개발하는 동안 IBM WebSphere Integration Developer V7에서 수행할 단계를
설명한 다음, Web Services Atomic Transaction을 사용하기 위해 WebSphere Process Server와 WebSphere Application Server를 구성하는 방법을 설명합니다. 후자로
제시한 파트에서는 트랜잭션 커미트와 롤백 시나리오를 설명함으로써 본 튜토리얼을 마무리합니다.
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Tutorial | 24 Nov 2010 |
| Implementing web services transactions in WebSphere Process Server
V7
This tutorial provides instructions to implement a
transaction between an IBM WebSphere Process Server V7 business process and an
external web service running WebSphere Application Server V7. The
tutorial will provide steps to be carried out in IBM WebSphere Integration
Developer V7 while developing the business process module and the web service,
followed by instructions to configure WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere
Application Server to enable Web Services Atomic Transaction. The latter part
demonstrates the transaction commit and rollback scenarios to complete the
tutorial.
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Tutorial | 24 Nov 2010 |
| Implementing tracing, logging, and error handling in mediation modules
using WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere ESB V7, Part 1
This article describes different tracking, logging, and fault handling
features in mediation modules created with WebSphere Integration Developer V7.
The runtime capabilities apply equally to mediations running in WebSphere
Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server.
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Articles | 24 Nov 2010 |
| Integrate IBM FileNet P8 BPM with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules using Web
services
The competitive nature of today's business demands that an
organization's business processes be highly dynamic. A business must
accommodate and manage fast-changing business rules associated with business
processes. A business rules management system (BRMS) enables you to extract
business rules and decisions from business processes and manage them
independently, thereby allowing the processes to be streamlined. This article
describes how to integrate IBM(R) WebSphere(R) ILOG(R) JRules, an
industry-leading BRMS, with IBM FileNet(R) P8 BPM, a comprehensive business
process management system (BPMS). [The November 2010 update includes the following
changes: the term expert system was changed to decision service; business
rules conditional checking 1 equals 1 was removed; the PI prefix to
verbalization was removed; the rules are better organized in in the rule
packages; and the rule flow was updated based on the new package design. --Ed]
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Articles | 11 Nov 2010 |
| Web services using Apache Axis2
The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to create and invoke a
web service using Apache Axis2 by hosting a simple web service using Axis2 and
invoking the web service over HTTP using Axis2.
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Tutorial | 04 Nov 2010 |
| Using CICS with DB2 pureXML, Part 2: Perform advanced XML storage and retrieval through CICS Web services
This article is the second part of a series of articles. The first article focused
on augmenting CICS(R) Web services with two general purpose routines (pipeline handlers)
that support two scenarios to store and retrieve XML in DB2(R) pureXML. This second part
introduces two more scenarios: a service request scenario and a service response
scenario. The service request scenario shows how a custom pipeline handler can be
introduced to further enhance CICS Web services to store XML
data in relational form or in XML form after extracting the XML that represents the business data from the SOAP message.
The service response scenario shows how a custom pipeline handler can be introduced to publish relational data as XML, and how XML
data can be modified directly through SQL before returning the data in a service response.
This article also illustrates how stored XML data can be accessed as relational data through a view for easy placement in a CICS COMMAREA or
container. Some sample COBOL source code is included in the Downloads section.
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Articles | 04 Nov 2010 |
| Java web services: Understanding WS-Policy
WS-Policy provides a general structure for configuring features and options that apply to a web service. You've seen it used for WS-Security configurations in this series, and perhaps elsewhere for other extension technologies such as WS-ReliableMessaging. In this article, you'll learn about the structure of WS-Policy documents and the ways you can attach policies to services in Web Service Description Language (WSDL), with security-configuration examples tried on Apache Axis2, Metro, and Apache CXF.
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Articles | 02 Nov 2010 |
| Building an enterprise expertise location system, Part 1: Expertise location paradigms and deriving a reference architecture
Enterprises of all sizes have needs to tap into experts within the enterprise to solve
a business problem, or assist with a Sales opportunity or help answer a simple question.
In this article, learn how SOA patterns are applied to derive a reference architecture for enterprise
expertise location. In part 2 of the article, solution architecture, data model and key
architectural decisions will be discussed.
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Articles | 02 Nov 2010 |
| Service Registry with Advanced Search Capability, Part 3: Configurations and controller
In the first installment, part 1, of this series you learned the reasons for needing advanced search capability in a services registry. In the second installment, part 2 of this series, you learned how to implement the four core components of this advanced registry. In this installment, part 3 of this series you will learn the various practical configurations that are possible for combining these four core components either in a single application or multiple applications. You will also learn about a fifth auxiliary component, called controller, which is required for some configurations. In the next installment you will learn how to handle the case of multiple matches in advanced registry.
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Articles | 01 Nov 2010 |
| Implementing Advanced Workflow Patterns in WebSphere Integration
Developer and WebSphere Process Server, Part 4: State-based, termination and trigger patterns
The Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when enterprises want to model their workflow. Its latest 43 workflow patterns post a big challenge to all kinds of BPEL engines.
WebSphere Process Server (WPS) is a powerful business process automation engine with high
performance. Customers can implement their workflow patterns easily with WPS and WebSphere
Integrated Developer (WID). This article highlights
the latest WID v7.0 and WPS v7.0 can not only implement all 43 patterns, but also how to
implement them easily.
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Articles | 29 Oct 2010 |
| Caching web services to improve the performance of business solutions in WebSphere Process Server
Web services play a key role in SOA business solutions but web service
SOAP calls can be expensive to influence the performance. If the data of web
services does not change frequently, properly caching could boost the performance. This article shows you how to use dynamic cache in a declarative way to cache the results of web service calls in WebSphere Process Server.
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Articles | 29 Oct 2010 |
| Implementing Advanced Workflow Patterns in WebSphere Integration
Developer and WebSphere Process Server, Part 3: Advanced branching and synchronization patterns
The Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when enterprises want to model their workflow. Its latest 43 workflow patterns post a big challenge to all kinds of BPEL engines.
WebSphere Process Server (WPS) is a powerful business process automation engine with high
performance. Customers can implement their workflow patterns easily with WPS and WebSphere
Integrated Developer (WID). This article highlights
the latest WID v7.0 and WPS v7.0 can not only implement all 43 patterns, but also how to
implement them easily.
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Articles | 28 Oct 2010 |
| Implementing Advanced Workflow Patterns in WebSphere Integration
Developer and WebSphere Process Server, Part 2: Multiple instance patterns and iteration patterns
The Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when enterprises want to model their workflow. Its latest 43 workflow patterns post a big challenge to all kinds of BPEL engines.
WebSphere Process Server (WPS) is a powerful business process automation engine with high
performance. Customers can implement their workflow patterns easily with WPS and WebSphere
Integrated Developer (WID). This article highlights
the latest WID v7.0 and WPS v7.0 can not only implement all 43 patterns, but also how to
implement them easily.
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Articles | 19 Oct 2010 |
| Implementing advanced workflow patterns in WebSphere Integration
Developer and WebSphere Process Server, Part 1: Basic control flow patterns and cancellation and force completion patterns
The Workflow Patterns Initiative is widely used or referenced when
enterprises want to model their workflow. This four-part article series will
discuss how to implement advanced workflow patterns in WebSphere Integration
Developer and WebSphere Process Server.
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Articles | 18 Oct 2010 |
| Social Networks using Web 2.0, Part 2: Social networks as a service (SNaaS)
In this article we will propose a model where a social network will be specialized for a particular line of services, Social Networks as a Service (SNaaS). It will describe how we can leverage a particular service from multiple social networks. It will also touch upon the technologies which are helping Social Networks leverage the power of the internet, Web 2.0 being one of them. It will conclude with an outline on the future of service providing social networks and the advantages and challenges of such an operational model.
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Articles | 13 Oct 2010 |
| Converting COM request to web service request
Since its introduction, web service has become a standard mechanism for integration between applications.
However, there are many applications written in languages that do not provide a strong support for web
service - for example Visual C++ V6.0 or Visual Basic V6.0. One approach to enable these applications is
to have an adaptor that can convert a request into a web service call.
This tutorial describes how to develop this adaptor implemented as a DCOM server using C#. It basically
receives a COM request and forward the request to a web service endpoint. It also provides steps on how to
make a COM request in C++ and shows steps on how to implement a Java web service. In short, it demonstrates
how web service interoperability on the .NET and JEE platform can be achieved.
C# code is developed using Microsoft Visual Studio, while the web services is developed using Rational
Application Developer V7.5 and deployed on the WebSphere Application Server V7.0 test environment.
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Tutorial | 12 Oct 2010 |
| Selection criteria for packaged applications in service-oriented architecture environments
Selecting package applications is not just a matter of validating the functional match. There are important non-functional forces to conquer in order to meet the business ambition, e.g. business agility and time-to-market of the solution. However, the needs in the non-functional space are often hard to articulate. This article provides for a thinking framework to devise the criteria for package selection covering the non-functional business need as well.
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Articles | 11 Oct 2010 |
| SOA in Practice: Case Study in BPEL and SCA
Service-oriented architecture and the SOA programming model hold the promise of realizing
true agility and alignment of IT to the business. But what does it really
take to develop true service oriented software? this article will explore the experiences of a
small team of architects and developers building an SOA application from the ground up,
based on a business process modeled in WebSphere Business Modeler. In this
article we describe the design and development process, including considerations for service oriented
design and data modeling. We will take a deeper look at one business process implemented in
the project, and discuss the techniques for developing the process in BPEL and the service components
in SCA using the WebSphere Integration Developer.
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Articles | 28 Sep 2010 |
| Testing web services with test case support in WebSphere Integration Developer
This article will discuss how to test web service modules with
test case support in WebSphere Integration Developer. It also explains how to use Java expressions to reference a field in another test variable in their test cases.
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Articles | 27 Sep 2010 |
| BPM integration with Webform, Part 3: Human tasks in business space using Lotus Webform Server
This part of the series focuses on the model and integration development aspect of the project life cycle and how to set up an environment for Business Analysts and Information Technology developers to compose and verify Lotus forms. The step-by-step instructions on installation and configuration of the development and testing tools are provided for three use case scenarios that represent the most common patterns for what our customers do when they start with a new installation of our BPM products.
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Articles | 24 Sep 2010 |
| BPM integration with Webform, Part 1: Human tasks in business space using Lotus Webform Server
Companies today are faced with a number of challenges in operational efficiency. In particular there are many business processes within a given organization that are unnecessarily cumbersome due to the lack of a coordinated effort. These processes are often manual in nature and prone to error. Developing a series of well orchestrated business processes that include a combination of human tasks and automated services will differentiate a company from its competitors by streamlining operations and reducing waste.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2010 |
| BPM integration with Webform, Part 2: Human Tasks in Business Space using Lotus Webform Server
Lotus Webform Server has been chosen as one of the standard form user interface
technologies. This article will explain how to integrate the Webform Server
with the BPM stack.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2010 |
| Build RESTful web services with the Spring 3 MVC HttpMessageConverter feature
This article explains a way to produce multiple representations using HttpMessageConverter, and examples in the article show how to use RestTemplate with HttpMessageConverter to communicate with services.
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Articles | 07 Sep 2010 |
| Message-level security with JAX-WS on WebSphere Application
Server V7, Part 3: Programmatic client control using Web Services Security APIs
In Part 1, you learned how to provide message-level security using
JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server V7. In Part 2, you used the Username
Token for JEE programmatic authorization decisions. In Part 3, you'll learn
how to develop a JAX-WS client that can consume a secure service running on
WebSphere Application Server V7 using the Web Services Security (WSS)
APIs.
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Articles | 31 Aug 2010 |
| Comment lines: Core banking transformation worst practices and other scary stories
As many architects can attest, there are a lot of scary stories that exist in the pursuit of target solution architectures. Sometimes, these situations occur due to lack of experience, but they also occur as a result of not applying a sound architectural perspective to a given situation. This article looks at a number of actual scenarios and their associated resolutions in the hope of preventing similar misadventures.
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Articles | 25 Aug 2010 |
| Shades of common information model in SOA-based integration environments
SOA (service-oriented architecture) based architectural styles gets
complex when combined with Common information model (CIM). This is because in reality the designer needs to extend the CIM for various reasons spanning the spectrum of including additional data elements for integration reasons to including elements required for carrying out business logics by the Service component. When the impact of such extensions on the core CIM is understood, it becomes easy to manage. Aspects related to the core CIM, extended CIM are discussed in this paper. In this article we explore the characteristics of each layer and the significance of maintaining them separately.
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Articles | 24 Aug 2010 |
| MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) V3.1 Protocol Specification
The MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol is a lightweight publish/subscribe protocol flowing over TCP/IP for remote sensors and control devices through low bandwidth, unreliable or intermittent communications. This protocol specification has not been standardized. It is made available here under a royalty free license.
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Articles | 19 Aug 2010 |
| Java web services: WS-Security without client certificates
WS-Security symmetric encryption lets you secure message exchanges
between client and server without requiring client certificates, simplifying your web service configuration while also providing performance benefits. You can use it directly or in the bootstrap for WS-SecureConversation exchanges. In this article, you'll learn how to configure and use symmetric encryption with the three main open source Java web services stacks: Axis2, Metro, and CXF. You'll also see how plain WS-Security symmetric encryption performance compares to WS-SecureConversation performance.
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Articles | 03 Aug 2010 |
| Information protection, Part 2: Audit and compliance
Information protection is one of the common entry points for
organizations getting started with information governance. Protecting
sensitive data serves a clear business need, and protecting data is the goal
of many current regulations. In 2008, the average cost of a data breach to an organization was $6.5M - and these only represent the ones that were found. Most of these breaches were internal.
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Articles | 02 Aug 2010 |
