• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

SOA and Cloud Computing

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 390
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Cloud Computing seems to be the next big word now in IT. Is there any relationship between SOA and Cloud Computing?
Could Cloud Computing draw from knowledge of SOA?
 
Author
Posts: 20
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Great question! I think cloud computing is really an enabler for SOA. After all, SOA is about building reusable services that can be deployed within a distributed fashion, and a cloud represents a great choice for doing that. In my book, I describe how Apache Synapse can be used as a service mediator to really provide endpoint transparency as to where the service actually resides. In other words, using something like WS-Addressing, the client can send a service request, which Synapse fields and then forwards to the actual endpoint location where the service resides, which could be anywhere in the cloud.

I'm a huge fan (and user for many years) of the cloud work being done by Amazon, and have been playing recently with the interesting work being done on the Eucalyptus project (http://www.eucalyptus.com/), which provides the ability for private clouds following the same API-style interface that Amazon uses.

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 686
Netbeans IDE Chrome Ubuntu
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Now what is cloud computing?
 
Anselm Paulinus
Ranch Hand
Posts: 390
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Vyas Sanzgiri wrote:Now what is cloud computing?



Cloud computing is a case where the data and resources exists in a cloud of computers. In that case one can use web based application to access these resources.
 
Consider Paul's rocket mass heater.
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic