Welcome!

Eric Newcomer

Subscribe to Eric Newcomer: eMailAlertsEmail Alerts
Get Eric Newcomer via: homepageHomepage mobileMobile rssRSS facebookFacebook twitterTwitter linkedinLinkedIn


Top Stories by Eric Newcomer

The Web Services Composite Application Framework is a collection of three specifications - designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination ("composite applications") to support information sharing and transaction processing. Web Service Context (WS-CTX) Web Service Coordination Framework (WS-CF) Web Service Transaction Management (WS-TXM) As co-author of the specification, Eric will discuss in this session how WS-CAF addresses the underlying issues of Web service context propagation and transaction management to expand the scope, usability, and reliability of Web services for business process automation. The Web Services Composite Application Framework is a collection of three specifications - designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination ("composite applications") to support inform... (more)

A Great Definition of "Software Architecture"

Definition of Software Architecture During a conversation over dinner with SOA Web Services Edge 2006 speaker and SOA Web Services Journal author, Eric Newcomer, Microsoft MVP Beth Massi defined software architecture in a way that resonated strongly with Newcomer. Here he shares it with readers of his blog: Last week in San Francisco I had dinner with my good ol' Microsoft MVP solutions architecture buddy Beth Massi and her significant other, Alan Griver. We had a great time weaving our way through the crowds at the St. Patrick's Day block party on Front Street but we could not ge... (more)

SOA Web Services Journal: SCA Update

This week the new SCA website went live and in addition to an update on the work we've completed since we kicked it off in January, we announced new partners, including Cape Clear, Interface21, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software (formerly Sonic Software), Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, Software AG, Sun Microsystems and Tibco Software. Greg Pavlik posted a good summary of the announcment and its importance. Guys like Greg are one of the big reasons it's so interesting to participate in these kinds of activities - I always learn so much and meet great people. Something I found... (more)

SOA World - Abstraction and Control in REST vs RPC

Eric Newcomer's Blog One of the biggest debates in the software industry is about getting the level of abstraction right. By this I mean a level of interaction with computers higher than binary code or machine language - in other words, anything that presents humans with a more natural or intuitive abstraction of a CPU's instruction set and binary data storage format. Computers are after all fundamentally stupid electrical systems that have to be told exactly what to do. At the end of the day, everything is just 1s and 0s - the bit is either on or off. But it is really hard for u... (more)

Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: SYS-CON.TV SOA Panel Out

Eric Newcomer's Weblog Software Standardization, Web Services, Transactions, and Mobility An easy blog entry to write. The SOA "Power Panel" article and video are up on the Sys-Con site. If you get a chance to watch, let me know what you think, both of the content and the form. Development Model for Services Today we are very happy to participate in the announcement of the Service Component Architecture (SCA). I among many others have written on the subject of contract first development for services, and the importance of being able to design first and deploy later. SCA defines a ... (more)