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SAP To Better Link IT with Business Analysts
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In 2005, enterprise IT professionals familiar with SOA and web services tools and techniques will face a remarkable career opportunity.
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Posted: Monday, February 28, 2005
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Hands-On Scenarios for Starting SOA
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So you want to build a SOA? Great! Let's look at two starting scenarios and discuss strategies for getting your SOA off the ground in each one.
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Posted: Monday, February 28, 2005
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IDC Debuts Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Conference 2005 in London 17th March
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IDC believes it is time that businesses took service-oriented architecture (SOA) seriously. The industry analysts will hold their first Service-Oriented Architecture Conference, which will run on 17 March 2005, at One Whitehall Place, London.
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Posted: Monday, February 28, 2005
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A Web Services Journey
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About four months ago I was commissioned by a small company to research the Web Services space and define a set of best practices for developing web service components and writing composite applications. This is quite an open ended assignment but the aim is basically to come up with an architect and developer play book.
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Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2005
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Web Services: The Way to Go When You Have a Lot of Development Environments
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Carmen Suarez is systems support manager at the Dade County Enterprise Technology Services Department. Her group supports over 40 departments serving Dade County's 2.2 million residents.
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Posted: Thursday, February 24, 2005
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Open source eclipses commercial tools for Web services development
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Open source is giving tools vendors a run for their money. As developers question commercial implementations of Web services standards, they are increasingly turning to open source alternatives such as the Eclipse development platform.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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The Safest Way to SOA? BPM
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There are substantial differences between SOA and BPM -- differences that can have broad-ranging effects on the organizations that deploy them. SOA addresses the technology need for agility and adaptability, while BPM addresses both the business and the technology needs.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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eBay Expanding Web Services Developers Program
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eBay is releasing a range of new services and enhancements designed to grow its Web services programs.
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Posted: Monday, February 21, 2005
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Web services boost data security efficiency
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Government agencies are turning increasingly to Web services to speed application development, share data and conduct transactions more easily.
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Posted: Monday, February 21, 2005
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Amazon.com Opens Web Services to France and Canada
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Developers will now be able to create Web services for Amazon.com sites in France and Canada.
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Posted: Sunday, February 20, 2005
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IBM claims real-world SOA success
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IBM has sought to dispel the rumor that there is far more hype about service oriented architecture than there are customers actually getting value from it, by highlighting the news from financial services company Standard Life Group that it has successfully implemented SOA.
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Posted: Friday, February 18, 2005
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IDG's InfoWorld Sets Agenda for SOA Executive Forum Events on Enabling Business Agility
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InfoWorld, the leading provider of comprehensive technology intelligence, today announced the official agenda for the SOA Executive Forum event series, taking place on May 5 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, and on May 17 at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City.
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Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Web services let loose using policy
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One of the promises of Web services was that developers would be able to build loosely coupled applications. Toufic Boubez thinks that promise has been broken.
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Posted: Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Web services power the eBay 'platform'
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The world's biggest online auction site has transformed itself into a development platform thanks to Web services, according to the head of its developer program.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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XWebServices.com Launches Mortgage Loan Application Web Service - XWeb1003
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XWebServices.com is proud to announce the official launch of its newest web service, XWeb1003. XWeb1003 is an XML SOAP based web service which provides integration and management of the Uniform Residential Loan Application (Form 1003) to client applications.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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New Report Evaluates Leading SOA Management Vendors, Finds Market Primed For Growth
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Loosely Coupled,
the leading specialist website for early adopters of enterprise
service-oriented architecture (SOA), today issued its SOA Management 2005
Report, the technology industry's first report to evaluate in detail all of
the leading vendors of web services management software.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Give Your Web Services Consumers the Exact XML They Need to Succeed
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Web services are first and foremost about messages. No matter what platform you are using, what industry you are building services for, or what levels of complexity are available in your Web services stack, it all comes back to messages.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Liberty Alliance Releases First Phase of Web Services Framework
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Because the importance of identity has been elevated across the board, Liberty Alliance, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, has released ID-WSF 2.0, the second version of its Web services framework specifications.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Build Better Business Processes with Web Services in BizTalk Server 2004
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In this article I will focus on one Web services specification that is critical, yet has been largely overlooked: the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or BPEL).
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Automate Your ASP.NET Web Services Testing
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Web services are already being used extensively in corporate intranet environments and are making their way into commercial use, too. But because Web services are relatively new, techniques to test Web services programmatically are not widely known.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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ABCs of Four New Web Services Standards
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Standards are crucial in many information technologies, but in no area are they more intertwined and vital than in Web services. It's no stretch to say that without standards, there would be no Web services.
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Posted: Monday, February 14, 2005
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Liberty Focuses on Mobile Web Services
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The Liberty Alliance Project released Mobile Business Guidelines 2.0, a document for describing how service providers can deploy secure mobile Web services.
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Posted: Monday, February 14, 2005
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Cashing in on the SOA vs. EIA Battle: The Next New Thing. Or Is It, Really?
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Who is providing SOA? How do I get SOA? How do I start selling SOA? I need to get into this SOA market right now!
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Posted: Monday, February 14, 2005
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Registry - the link between Corporate Governance and XML
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What do Corporate Governance and XML have in common? I believe they are the two primary drivers of change in IT over the next five years.
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Posted: Friday, February 11, 2005
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Liberty Alliance beefs up web service security
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Latest release supports Security Assertions Markup Language 2.0.
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Posted: Friday, February 11, 2005
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Do customers really want SOA?
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It's still early in 2005 and service oriented architecture (SOA) is already being positioned to be one of the most talked about terms of the year.
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2005
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An Extensive Examination Of Web Services: Part 3
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In this part we'll examine how to consume a Web service from a client application.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2005
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Web Services: Why Can't We Just Talk?
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This month's Web Services Edge conference marks four years since the first detailed W3C note on the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and nearly five years since the first public specification of SOAP.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2005
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How To Identify, Specify, and Realize Services For Your SOA
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When implementing an SOA, it is critical to address the techniques required for the identification, specification and realization of services-- their flows and composition, as well as the enterprise-scale components needed to realize and ensure their quality.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2005
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A 'Milestone' for Web Services
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Microsoft's Dan'l Lewin talks about Indigo, the giant's latest bid to win developers' support for a new way of writing software.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 08, 2005
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So, What the Heck Are Web Services?
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Good question, and it raises lots of others. Here are some straight answers about this critical new movement in computing.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 08, 2005
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How an SOA lets you put the customer first
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One of the most powerful byproducts of a services-oriented architecture (SOA) is the impact on the customer experience. An SOA can simplify IT which leads to better delivery time and stronger business processes.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 08, 2005
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UDDI 3 - more than just Web services 'Yellow Pages'
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The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specification is shedding its reputation as simply being the 'Yellow Pages' for Web services lookup and discovery. UDDI registries are becoming intelligent repositories that house a plethora of meta data and metrics information around more manageable Web services.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Keep Web Services on a Diet
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Opinion: Use affirmative APIs and content-analysis tools to make sure they're eating right.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Financial Industry Floats Open-Source Messaging Standard for Web Services, SOA
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A coalition of financial institutions is working to develop an open-source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology, hoping to make Web services and service-oriented architectures fit for duty on Wall Street.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Interview: State CIO predicts small businesses and SOA will shape Wisconsin
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Service oriented architecture ... will come to reality in 2005. Not only in application development and deployment, but also in terms of application integration, data sharing and business process optimization.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Trash-Talking on Grid and SOA
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When Ellison and other executives chatted about how Oracle's 10g product is helping companies adopt service-oriented architecture (define), and Oracle's support for open standards, On Demand software (such as software as a service), another story began to emerge: SOA's impact on the industry.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Real World Web Services by Will Iverson
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'Web services' is one of those tech buzzwords that bubbles up and takes hold. Sometimes those buzzwords fade and never fulfill their promise (Remember all that talk about 'push technology' in the late 90's?). Web services, however, seems to be fulfilling its promise.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Web Services 2005 -- Five Keys Unlock the Gate
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The potential impact of web services on corporate computing is great.
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Posted: Monday, February 07, 2005
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Industry struggles toward interoperable Web services
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A generic Extensible Markup Language architecture for Web services advocated by the Web Services Interoperability Organization will 'significantly reduce the cost and complexity of connecting disparate systems,' according to a message from Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates.
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Posted: Friday, February 04, 2005
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Tools Part of the SOA Challenge
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Web services are increasingly becoming a key component of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) because of their ability to interoperate with several platforms, said a panel of distributed computing experts. However, there is still some rocky terrain to navigate before anyone will be able to really enjoy full SOA implementation.
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Posted: Friday, February 04, 2005
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Novell To Present Web Services Framework Tutorial at Web Services Edge Conference
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Novell Tutorial Will Discuss The Future Of SOA, Using exteNd, JBoss4, MS.Net, Eclipse, Visual Studio, and Macromedia Flash.
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Posted: Friday, February 04, 2005
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Sorting out Web services security standards
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One of the most active parts of the XML Web services community is the groups developing security standards.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Infravio to Speak at Web Services Edge 2005 East in Boston
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Jim Bole, Infravio vice president of products and services, will present at the Web Services Edge International Web Services Conference & Expo in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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OASIS Blesses UDDI Directory Spec for Web Services, SOA
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Aiming to boost business uses of Web services, OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, on Thursday announced that UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) specification Version 3.0.2 was approved as an OASIS standard.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Digital Evolution CTO To Present at Web Services Edge Conference and Expo
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Alistair Farquharson to Discuss B2B, Enterprise SOA and IBM Global Services Partnership, February 15-17 2005, in Boston.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Sun talks Java, SOA at Wall Street conference
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Despite a shift in focus toward Web services, the former Java on Wall Street conference remained true to tradition on its first day, providing attendees with the latest developments to the Java platform.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Web Service API and the Semantic Web
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As the Semantic Web gains momentum, it's important for Web service developers to keep abreast of its technologies and prepare for a change in their industry. This article from a recent issue of Web Services Journal looks at how the Semantic Web applies to Web services, including what specifications are under development and how you might prepare for integration with future semantic applications.
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Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Sun, Microsoft Breaking SOA Barriers
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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are closing the gap between them in an effort to speed the adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA), a Sun official said at the Web Services on Wall Street 2005 conference here.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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The Missing Link Between Business and Web Services?
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The enterprise service bus (ESB) is, arguably, emerging as the preeminent platform for building, deploying, and managing Web services. However, once you have created and deployed your Web services, what's the next step? For many developers, it is the orchestration of those services into composite applications and business processes. In the past, this area has proved troublesome.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Distributed Parallel Computing with Web Services
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Web services technology has become the ubiquitous connectivity fabric amongst diverse business domains and technical camps. At the same time, distributed parallel computing is becoming the de facto architecture for managing the performance of computationally intensive, long-running programs.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Best Practices in Integrating Data Models for SOA
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This article describes how an essential precursor to any SOA implementation is a data modeling exercise that integrates all underlying data models, focusing more on the business requirements than on system- and application-specific requirements.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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SOA What?
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One of the fun parts of being a software architect is trying to figure out how to build whatever it is that you are supposed to build. It's even more fun when you look at the architecture for an entire enterprise, and have to make choices that integrate every complexity and account for every nuance of the portfolio, even if only long enough to get something in place before ripping something else out.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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ESB Myth Busters: 10 Enterprise Service Bus Myths Debunked
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Since releasing my latest book, Enterprise Service Bus, I have been doing a fair amount of visiting corporations, conducting seminars, and generally discussing with enterprise architects the subject of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how an enterprise service bus (ESB) backbone can be leveraged to provide a framework for an enterprise SOA.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
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The concept of a service-oriented architecture is a powerful tool for simplifying enterprise integration. Following the three principles of modularity, encapsulation and loose coupling will achieve some amount of improvement for an individual service. It is insufficient to have a loose set of principles to guide enterprise architecture designs.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Reusing old code
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Adopting an SOA design philosophy can reduce costs while making IT more nimble. Once, during a tour of a modern vehicle building plant, Eric Newcomer was startled to come upon an ageing VAX -- the original minicomputer -- controlling some machinery.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Infravio to Speak, Exhibit at Boston's Web Services Edge Show
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Company Exec on 'Web Services Security - A Key Element of SOA Governance,' Best Practices in Web Services Security, Service-Oriented Architecture Policy and Governance.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2005
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SOA Leaders Council Expands to New York Metro Area
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After Successful Launch, Chicago Chapter Readies Next Event
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2005
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SeeBeyond Showcases Financial Services SOA Solution
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Building on the 2004 launch of its SeeBeyond Financial Services SOA ('SeeBeyond FS-SOA') offering, SeeBeyond announced the introduction of a packaged composite application solution specifically focused on addressing corporate actions.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2005
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