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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
Cisco launches Application-Oriented Networking.Yesterday, Cisco finally announced AON
(Application-Oriented Networking), which is basically the ability to
process Web services in a Cisco router. I hope this will wake up the
SOA/WS-* world to the fact that for Web services to be anywhere near as
big a deal as we are all claiming, then it had better be understood as
a new application-level network based the SOAP envelope. Web services
is not an RPC, its not a bus (not even an ESB)--its a fully routable
SOAP network with SOAP intermediaries handling both business as well as
technical functions.
Let me also remind everyone that AON also stands for Aspect-Oriented
Networking. As I've mentioned before in my blog (see Endpoint services
vs. protocol services and Aspect-oriented Networking), the SOAP header
processing model enables SOAP features that are effectively aspects.
Let me point out some others who are making the connection: Carlos Perez (twice), Jason Brome, Michael Curry, and Loosely Coupled (sort of). And my favorite reference is this paper, Identical Principles, Higher Layers: Modeling Web Services as Protocol Stack, which I discussed in a previous entry.
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© Copyright 2006 Nicholas Gall.
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