Top "Soa" questions

SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture, a flexible set of design principles that allow multiple separate systems from several business domains to inter-operate.

Microservices: What are smart endpoints and dumb pipes?

I have read an article "Microservices" by Martin Fowler and find it difficult to understand smart endpoints and dumb pipes. …

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Can a SOA be designed with REST?

I've been reading a lot about SOA's lately, but most of the content is SOAP-related and has a lot of "…

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When to use Java and Message Broker?

I am a developer at my office where SOA development is at its peaks. We use IBM MQ, IBM Message …

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Are Doctrine2 repositories a good place to save my entities?

When I read docs about repositories, it is often to work with entities & collection but in a "read-only" manner. …

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When to use SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

I had a conversation with one of our architects recently and he summarized his use of SOA as "The only …

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OAuth 2: separating resource server and authorization server

The OAuth 2 spec leads me to believe that the "resource server" and "authorization server" do not necessarily have to be …

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How to design REST URI for multiple Key-Value params of HTTP GET

I am designing a RESTful API. One service should offer query functionality for multiple key-value pairs. For example, the client …

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What is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)?

Call me a troll if you want, but I'm serious: how exactly is the new SOA trend any different than …

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BPM vs ESB - Orchestration?

Can we safely say that if ESB provides Orchestration features, it is eligible to be an implementation of BPM? I …

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Mule ESB vs. Spring Integration

The Mule ESB project explains its difference to Spring Integration on its website. However, regarding dcterms.date 2012-07-19T18:43…

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