A commonly heard phrase in SOA development is "assemble, don't build." Yet how easy is it to assemble a composite Web service, drawing on multiple data sources? Nexaweb Technologies Inc. COO David McFarlane discusses best practices for building service-oriented composite applications.
SOA and Web 2.0 - why composite apps matter podcast.
Among the topics covered in this podcast are:
- How to align front end technologies like Ajax with back end data
- What level of complexity can be tackled with composite applications
- Why composite assembly aligns with service orientation
- The marriage of composite assembly with event-driven and real-time services
- The need for proper data management to enable enterprise-grade mashups
- When to using scripting languages and when a more object-oriented approach makes sense
- The role of standards in composite application development
