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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----Steve,
Von: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2006 17:12
An: Steve Pruitt; axis-user
Betreff: Re: Cape Clear SOA Editor Tool
The CC SOA Editor tool is a simple, free WSDL editor with a reasonably decent built-in WSDL validation tool. (It doesn't catch all WSDL errors, but I personally find it useful.) I actually recommend using a more comprehensive XML editing tool, such as Altova xmlspy or Sonic Stylus, but if license fees are a problem for you, then the CC tool is a reasonable free alternative.
Cape Clear also provides an "ESB" -- in this case a SOAP-based light-weight integration broker with a BPEL engine. If you are interested in this type of tool, then by all means, evaluate it, but I suggest you do a thorough evaluation of *all* your options before selecting any SOA infrastructure products. From my perspective, BPEL is not yet ready for prime-time, and I don't recommend starting your study of SOA based on BPEL.
I don't typically talk about ESBs on this list, but if you have tuned into my blog and some of the other distribution lists I contribute to, you'll quickly learn that I am not a big fan of "ESBs". Most ESBs are based on proprietary MOM infrastructures, and I don't recommend building an open, flexible service-oriented system based on MOM. Cape Clear is different from most ESBs because it is based on SOAP rather than MOM. But I still object to the idea that you need a central broker (an ESB) to connect disparate systems. SOAP enables integration without using a centralized broker.
The bottom line is: you don't need an ESB to do SOA. I typically recommend using an XML gateway or a SOA management system to implement intermediaries. ESBs are useful if you need to connect to legacy applications that don't provide native support for SOAP. But they aren't the center of a SOA infrastructure.
Anne
On 3/7/06, Steve Pruitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Anne,I wasn't sure if I should respond back to the list or you personally. My company, Exstream Software, like many others is beginning to study SOA architectures and how they affect us. We are specifically interested in tools related to refactoring legacy modules to work within a ESB. If you feel CC's tool is appropriate to us, then by all means I will play with it.Thanks,Steve PruittExstream Software
From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:40 AM
To: axis-user
Subject: Cape Clear SOA Editor ToolI just received permission from Annrai O'Toole (Founder and Chairman of Cape Clear) to redistribute the SOA Editor tool. Let me know if you like a copy, and I'll send it to you.
Anne
