SOAP vs REST

The best explanation or visualization of the main difference between SOAP/WS* and REST

via Geek&Poke

Didn't we have a SOA?

via Geek&Poke

Is an application server needed for transaction processing? (Eric Newcomer's Weblog)

Excellent thoughts by Eric Newcomer...
Is an application server needed for transaction processing? (Eric Newcomer's Weblog)

Any by the way - he's updating his book.

Enterprise SOA Book

James McGovern challenges the publisher of (co-authored) book Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture:

If I were to convince my publisher to make this available under Creative Commons would folks find this noble or throw daggers? Maybe I should put my money where my mouth is and make a strong commitment. If 50 bloggers trackback to this blog entry, I will ensure this happens by August 1st.

This is something to support - creative commons at work...
So here's the link... (count++)
Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: Links for 2007-06-14

SOA: CRUD is CRAP

Nice post on Service Architecture - SOA: CRUD is CRAP.

I especially like the sentence:

"The single most depressing thing for me in IT is how many applications are really just Mainframe data processing solutions with better screens."

Software AG Announces Acquisition webMethods

Somehow I seem to have missed this a 2 weeks ago...
SOA - Integration Industry Pulse - ebizQ: "Software AG Announces Acquisition webMethods"

read more about it - with an interesting analyis - at Beth Gold-Bernstein's blog.

Great SOA vendor review

Well, one might still argue about the term "SOA vendor" ... but here's an excellent rating
Service Architecture - SOA: SOA Vendor Ratings - Q1 2007

(and it is an excellent blog, btw)