From SOA buzzwords to WS-Confusion and back to Earth

Work on our project was completed before schedule in 7th of May as I remember (we still had 7 days left – good for us). One of the requirements was to package a web service like product, like we would be selling it on www.strikeiron.com. So you can check it out on our project homepage. Our project was presented by Justas J. even three times, so it would be really really boring to write and repeat the same stuff again . But I will repeat it again from requirements viewpoint.

• Business vision – The slogan of www.strikeiron.com is “data as a service”. To put in a nutsheel, there is a need to create an aggregator and user interface to provide most common Lithuanian investment funds values in one place.
• Conceptual and technical architecture – high level architecture diagram.
• Implementation – One of our goals was to implement different parsers and services with different tools.
• Overall marketable value – look and feel and description.

To sum up there was a great pleasure working with guys such as Darius, Justas and Vaidas (in alphabetic order ) and creating something valuable. Viva la Tigers. Viva la SOA!

Just to cheer you up on this Monday-like Wednesday morning, here is some fine example of how not to use web services from Worse Than Failure, formerly known as The Daily WTF.

Last saturday “The SOA tigers” team presented an architecture of their little project with investment funds. So we are planning to write some web services and parsers to aggregate that data. One of the web services, call it converter service, which I am responsible of, will be using web services published by Lietuvos Bankas. And I decided to share my poor knowledge how to easily write a really simple proxy (or broker) web service using LB services. (more…)

Kind regards to you all from sunny Riviera Thanks for coming last Saturday and also contributing to our site. I am looking very much forward to see you in 3-4 days again. I am really keen to feel a proper winter again

Before trying to write something more meaningful I will share a couple of links with you – Google API was already described in some books back in 2004, since then more books appeared describing how to do SOA using Google, Amazon, Fedex etc. This is quite convenient when you have standards in place for such things, I remember exploring Trilogy-UPS integration without standards in 2000, it was quite a pain. Now UPS uses standards as well and it shows – this mash-up is a nice one.

So, please check out more – Googe Code site feels like a sip straight from a fire hose Use your imagination ladies & gents!

Maybe this technology arsenal and some creative thinking will inspire to take a path less travelled I am thankful to Justinas for this link, he will cross-blog it. Guy Kawasaki is a charismatic speaker indeed.

Lecturer Adomas mentioned us a cool web services marketplace StrikeIron. Well, I googled for a minute and found another five marketplaces. They are not so good as StrikeIron, but worth a look. Some of them are more web services catalogs then marketplaces.

• xmethods
• XWeServices
• eSigma
• webserviceslist
• RemoteMethods