Open Source Web Services Monitoring and SOA Governance http://www.membrane-soa.org/ Open Source Web Services Monitoring and SOA Governance by predic8 en Copyright (C) 2008-2010 predic8 GmbH Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:15 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ info@predic8.com info@predic8.com 600 SOAP over SSL/HTTPS http://www.membrane-soa.org//ssl-termination-tunneling.htm Membrane now supports SSL to secure incoming and outgoing Web Services connections. There are many deployment options for Web Services security: To use SSL you need Membrane Version 1.5.0 or higher.
SOAP over SSL/HTTPS Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/soap-over-ssl-https.htm Web Services Failover http://www.membrane-soa.org//failover-for-webservices-and-http.htm Version 1.4.0 of the Membrane Monitor and Router now offers failover for Web Services. Using the loadbalancer of the router you can set up a high availability cluster of web services. If a target service or a network failure happens during the communication the router sends the request to the next server.
Web Services Failover Fri, 7 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/web-services-failover.htm Web Services Loadbalancing with URL Rewriting http://www.membrane-soa.org//soap-loadbalancing.htm Membrane SOA Monitor and Router now comes with a loadbalancer. The balancer can distribute HTTP requests between several Web Services or Web Servers. Addresses of Web Services endpoints and schema locations in WSDL documents are rewritten to the address of the Loadbalancer. The nodes of a cluster are hidden from the clients. What the client is seeing is a single Web Service or HTTP Server. The loadbalancing functionality is realized by an interceptor that is flexible and can be adapted to various loadbalancing needs.
Web Services Loadbalancing with URL Rewriting Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/web-services-loadbalancing.htm Version 1.0.0 of SOA Registry http://www.membrane-soa.org//soa-registry/index.htm

Version 1.0.0 of the Membrane SOA Registry is now available for download.

It provides the following new features.

  • Annoncement of service events like going down/up or WSDL changes over a Atom newsfeed.
  • For each XML Schema type the services are listed that use that type.
  • Extended performance statistics of service endpoints.
Besides this the new version contains critical bugfixes and provides an improved performance.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/registry-version-1.0.0.htm URL Rewriting in WSDL and XML Schema http://www.membrane-soa.org//url-rewriting-wsdl.htm
WSDL Schema URL Rewriting

Article that describes how to rewrite URLs in WSDL and XML Schema documents. The URL rewriting is needed if access to a Web Service is provided by a forwarding proxy. Tue, 8 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/wsdl-schema-url-rewriting.htm Realtime Web Service Monitoring http://www.membrane-soa.org//realtime-webservices-monitoring.htm
Realtime Service Monitoring

Article that describes different Membrane Monitor deployments to gather data about Web Services invocations in realtime.
Centralized and decentralized approaches are discussed and compared. A sample services landscape illustrates each deployment. Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/realtime-service-monitoring.htm SOAP Monitor migrated to Eclipse RCP http://www.membrane-soa.org//soap-monitor/index.htm The new version of our open source Web Services monitoring tool is now running on the Rich Client Platform. The Monitor now offers an improved user experience making it easier to track and analyze SOAP messages in realtime. Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/soap-monitor-migra.htm SOAP Firewall Tutorial http://www.membrane-soa.org//soap-router-doc/soap-firewall-gateway.htm The tutorial describes how to configure Membrane Router to work as a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy can be deployed to a DMZ as a forwarder for SOAP requests from the internal network. Membrane Router is not a complete firewall product. It is a specialised tool that can complement a firewall with an application level gateway for Web Services. Thanks to the routing rules the reverse proxy can be configured so that only requests to certain services are reachable from the internet. The router is written in Java and can therefore be executed on Windows, Linux and other operating systems. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.membrane-soa.org/news/soap-firewall-tutorial.htm