SOA was a big buzz word and the Cloud is becoming the buzz word, this week WSO2 sponsored a meetup for the Cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture, by enabling the your SOA to be implemented on the cloud with various options. The key bits of this includes providing the WSO2 products as virtual machines, making it easy to expose the services to the public over the cloud using the Cloud Services Gateway (CSG) and providing different aspects of the SOA as service. WSO2 starts with providing Governance as a Service, naming it GaaS.

An interesting post about gzip compression on the web.

Before we talk about Cloud, I want to quickly review where SOA came from. Most of us who started our IT careers in the 80s and 90s will clearly remember the pre-web Enterprise environment. Of course, so will everyone else - because that legacy is still with us. The typical systems were monolithic, complex applications that were completely self-reliant. Any interfacing with other systems was done through batch dumps. Applications grew and grew and grew into monsters because the only option was to enlarge the application - inter-application connectivity was too complex and unreliable to envisage.

In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the RiftSaw-JBossESB integration; invoking a RiftSaw BPEL process from an ESB service.

A burst of innovation in the open source world over the last few years has led to an increase in Java™ developer productivity. Freely available tools, frameworks, and solutions address once-common time sinks. A promising new entry on the scene is Apache CouchDB, hailed by some as the database for Web 2.0. The big picture of CouchDB is easy to grasp, and using it is as simple as using a Web browser. This Java development 2.0 column introduces CouchDB and shows you how Groovy's RESTClient can help you tap into its strengths.

an introduction to Adaptive Payments one of the new APIs from Paypal concentrating on Split and Chained Payments as well as why they may well totally change the way we do business on the web!

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Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this week's PDC conference where Microsoft is promoting their Azure cloud services. Microsoft says that the Azure cloud will come with marketplaces for online apps and datasets for building apps. Azure's marketplace will be similar to Salesforce.com and Amazon.com.

A business partner of mine asked some basic questions about cloud computing. We had a small exchange that I felt worth sharing.