WSOAC#26 – To ESB or not to ESB…

Some interesting  links on whether an ESB is a good choice for an SOA or is it just another integration ‘wolf’ in a SOA ‘sheep’s’ clothing.

Via Zapthink -Book Excerpt: Enabling Agile Business with SOA, Sun technologist: SOAP stack a ‘failure’

Dare Obasanjo -Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation, When REST Doesn’t Scale, XMPP to the Rescue?,  Knol : Google’s Assaulton Wikipedia

Stefan Tilkov – On Tim Brays comments on SOAP and the REST Hype

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - SOA Patterns: Chapter 2 for Free Download, REST presentation

Amazon Web Services – New features come to Amazon SimpleDB

Brenda Michelson - New SOA Consortium Podcast: David Butler on SOA Transformation

Dave Linthicum – Settling the ESB/Good SOA Argument, ESBs on trial?

Jon Bachman – Rage against the term ‘ESB’ not the need for Integration

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Kyle Gabhart – The “Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives” Book with excerpts, Service Design – Composite Schema

Michael Meehan - So how SOA are ESBs?

Miko Matsumura -ESB Hate Storm

Surekha Durvasula -Key Best Practices – REST Assured????

Yogish Pai -Mashup, WOA, SOA, SaaS, REST and the kitchen sink

Steve Vinoski – Spot On or “in a spot” depending on which side of the RPC/REST debate you are on

Udi Dahan -Time Dimension Necessary For Successful SOA Data Strategy, [Presentation] Intentions and Interfaces Online

Varsha Kharidaha – Build powerful Java Applications using SOA with New Book

Vasco Kollokian -Try to Stick to the Problem and Describe it Well

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 256