True enough, Jarl. However, to clarify even further, John never said you *needed* XML Gateway. You can always roll your own solution, and then maintain and support it throughout its life-cycle.
It's just nice to have a product that can do so many things -- not the least of which is to take advantage of JMS, along with a decoupled, message-based data infrastructure -- right off the shelf. --Tim ________________________________ From: Jarl Grøneng <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 1:25:36 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Webservices A clarification; You does not need XML Gateway to de-couple systems, but still it is a better system handling XML that the builtin support in AR System. -- Jarl 2009/5/11 John Baker <[email protected]>: > LJ, > > Error handling for webservices is virtually non-existent in the AR System. > Our XML Gateway product handles this nicely for you with a message handling > framework. > > Tim is right - webservices were a nice idea, but in practice, so much extra > work needs to go around them to make them much use. De-coupling systems via > messaging is the best way forward, and one of our clients (with a little help > from Tim) has done this very successfully. The AR System is separated from > Siebeil (if I recall) via a BEA Weblogic server and Java Messaging Services. > The integration has failover, error handling, reporting, and all the things > you'd expect from something designed for the real world. > > I'm happy to discuss it in more detail if you're interested. > > > John > > -- > John Baker, Java System Solutions. > http://www.javasystemsolutions.com > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
