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Experts debate correct move to an SOA
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There has been a great deal of discussion on the need to better align business with IT in order to successfully implement service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Taking on Web services with resolve
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With a corporate ad slogan extolling 'It's everywhere you want to be' and a payments network that indeed serves nearly every country in the world, you can bet Visa IT executives feel the onus of availability and reliability.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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SAP pushes SOA program
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Looking to help customers more easily use service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology, SAP AG is formally launching a program to provide services and tools that it said will yield practical business results.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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SOA Made Simple
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Regular readers of this column might notice that I've spent a lot of time on WSDL. There's a reason for this: after XML and SOAP, I firmly believe that service description is the most important component of designing, building, and deploying heterogeneous web services.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Creating Containers for Service Oriented Architectures
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We are about to embark on a new era where we have to think differently about the nature of an application. Many companies that are starting to plan for service oriented architectures haven't come to terms with the redefinition of the application.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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BEA Systems unveils SOA web-based tool
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BEA Systems Inc, a global application infrastructure software company, today announced the expansion of its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) capabilities and service offerings by making available a web-based tool.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Hosted SOAP Web Services For Easy Shipping Process Integration
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ExpediteBiz recently launched ExpediteShip for DHL (ESDHL) SOAP Web Services, the first hosted SOAP web services for DHL shipping process integration.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Flash, Web Services, and Data Binding
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In Part One (MXDJ, vol. 3 issue 2) we looked at one of three different ways to consume a Web service, here we look at two other ways and some of the pros and cons of each approach. In this next example we'll explore using data binding in a different way from Pt. 1, by not relying on the Bindings tab of the Component Inspector panel. Instead, we'll create the bindings through ActionScript.
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Blue Titan updates SOA fabric
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If a service-oriented architecture (SOA) were a living organism, its Web services and subsystems would be its organs, a Business Process Management tool would be its thought patterns and its central nervous system would be the very network on which it sits.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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A Look Ahead to the Service-Oriented World
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BEA recently announced that it is broadening its SOA consulting practice, and that it has created a tool companies can use to learn about SOA and figure out how prepared they are to transition to the new architectural model.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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HP Helps Seed Next Generation Of Web Services
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New WSDM specs for communicating management information fill a gap in Web-services standards.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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Forum Systems Joins Liberty Alliance
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Forum Systems Web Services Firewall and Gateway Security Solutions To Support Second Generation Specification for Federated Identity
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
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Integrating an ASP.NET Application with J2EE PART 1
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We all know that the .NET platform offers a great set of tools for building robust Web applications. There are times, however, when as .NET developers we need to understand how we can integrate the great features of .NET with other platforms and technologies. We often find our clients using both .NET and J2EE technologies successfully in their architectures.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
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Study Finds Significant Momentum In XML Web Services And SOAs
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A study of the Web services and XML-based projects at Fortune 1000 companies found that those that are using XML are substantially expanding its use, and say that the projects have delivered on or exceeded their expectations.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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Rescue Service for Mainframe Data
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A growing number of companies are using Web services to move data from older systems into new applications.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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Industry Standards Can Help Pave the Road to Compliance
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Hundreds of new industry-specific mandates, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and privacy requirements based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, are either now in place or scheduled to take effect in the near future.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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Oracle Buys Oblix to Secure Web Services
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Oracle acquired Oblix for an undisclosed sum, adding new single sign-on software to to offer secure Web services to corporations.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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Sun Chemical Implements Service-Oriented Architecture on BEA
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SOA Designed to Help Accelerate Innovation, Add Value to Lines of Business By
Simplifying, Standardizing Application Development and Integration
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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AmberPoint touts graphics in SOA management pack
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Amberpoint is enhancing graphical capabilities in its management system for SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and Web services.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005
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XWebServices, Inc. Launches Email Address Validation Web Service - XWebEmailValidation
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XWebServices, Inc. is proud to announce the official launch of its newest web service, XWebEmailValidation. XWebEmailValidation is an XML SOAP based Web Service which validates Email addresses for client applications.
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Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2005
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Web Architectures Hold the Promise of a New Integration Model
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It took a few years, but there's finally cogent evidence that service-oriented architectures will be the corporate IT infrastructure of the future.
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Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005
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How to Identify, Specify, and Realize Services for Your SOA
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There has been a lot of buzz and hype, some factual, some not so well-founded, surrounding the opportunities presented by Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and their implementation as Web services. Analysts have predicted, pundits have professed, professors have lectured. And companies have scurried to sell what they had as SOA products, often missing the point that SOA is not a product.
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Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005
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Research and Markets: Analysis and Predictions of Japan Web Services 2004-2008
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Japan Web Services 2004-2008 Forecast to their offering.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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XML Appliances Optimize Web Services in the Data Center
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Enterprises are increasingly turning to service oriented architectures (SOAs), both to exploit SOA's potential for eliminating redundancies and accelerating project delivery though the consolidation and reuse of Web services, and as a means of streamlining business processes among departments and organizations.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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Sonic Offers TIBCO Customers Competitive Trade-up
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ESB-based SOA Products Sweep Away Legacy EAI.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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Enterprise Software Aids XML, Web Services and SOA Governance
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Web services are supposed to work together to make life easier. Yet they only work well together if they're designed properly. WebLayers in Cambridge, Mass., has introduced an enterprise software tool to aid in effective governance of XML, Web services and SOA to ensure interoperability.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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ESB vendors enhance their 'SOA middleware'
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While the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) still has many scratching their heads, the ESB market is starting to bloom early this spring, in accordance with analysts' predictions.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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Reactivity Releases SOA Gateway
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Reactivity is extending enterprise XML Web services infrastructure with its SOA Gateway, the industry's first gateway optimized for SOA deployments in data centers.
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005
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SOA - Top down or bottom up approach?
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There has been a great deal of discussion on the need to better align business with IT in order to successfully implement service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
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Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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Faster Web services on the horizon?
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Web services have become a victim of their own success, according to some. Do they need speeding up, and if so how can it be done?
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Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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An Extensive Examination Of Web Services: Part 5
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In this article we'll look at the serialization and deserialization process, and see how even complex types - such as custom classes and arrays - can be effortlessly serialized and deserialized.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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GT Software and Infravio partner for mainframe web services
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Atlanta-based GT Software announced that Infravio has joined the GT Software Partner Program to give customers using the GT Software Ivory Mainframe Web Services product the ability to manage their web services with Infravio technology.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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Users wary of vendor-led SOA promises
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Adopting a service oriented architecture (SOA) may herald a new era in application interoperability, but end-users are cautious about buying into vendor solutions that claim more than they can deliver.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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Suppliers Extending Enterprise Service Buses For SOA
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Enterprise service bus software is superior to messaging technology for implementing service-oriented architecture systems, say Sonic and Iona.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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2005 Will Be the Year of SOA — Are You Ready?
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You might have been asking yourself for a while now what this Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) thing is and why it should matter to you. If you're a developer you've probably been wondering what you'll need to learn to avoid being left behind. You'd probably also like to know what steps you can take to position your development team and your organization for the future.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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Are Web services the future of supply chain computing?
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Two new concepts are beginning to enter the IT lexicon: Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture. Both represent new ways for companies to integrate the business software applications they use to manage their front office and back office operations, especially with trading partners.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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Synchronizing Business and IT
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Today’s enterprise services are composed of a collection of infrastructure services, applications and business processes. To be able to adapt quickly to business changes, enterprise IT must evolve from the management of individual resources to the management of interrelated services. This can be achieved through the design strategy of the Adaptive Enterprise and application management standards from HP.
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Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
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IONA Introduces the Next Generation of Extensible ESB with Artix 3.0
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Artix 3.0 Enhancements Address Requirements of the Most Complex Integration and Interoperability Challenges Facing Enterprise IT.
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Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
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Web services moves from theory to productivity driver
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The service oriented architecture (SOA) represents a summation of technologies that have been refined over the past two decades. The core principle of a uniform means of connecting systems is simple in theory, but has been difficult to achieve in practice. It has taken the software industry several attempts to arrive at an architectural model that is up to the task.
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Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
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Web services will need managed IDs to stay safe
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As web services evolve from app-to-app to more complex transactions, they introduce new challenges for CSOs to consider.
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Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
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Sonic CTO Insight: IT Shifts into the Next Gear with SOA
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Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have become mainstream and the need for a solid SOA infrastructure is widely accepted, according to Sonic Software Chief Technology Officer Gordon Van Huizen.
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Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
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Accessing Resources: New Web Service Application Patterns for a Service-Oriented World
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WS-ResourceFramework and WS-Transfer, two new specifications for accessing XML representations of resources through Web Services have been announced.
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Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
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Intel: Hardware helps Web services become reality
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As hardware companies such as Intel usher in a new era of mobile computing, software developers will need to change their applications to reflect new ways of accessing corporate data, according to Intel's chief software strategist and director of strategic initiatives for Intel's Solutions Market Development Group, Chris Thomas.
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Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
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Understanding Coupling in the Context of an SOA
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Since the beginning of computing we've been dealing with the notion of coupling, or the degree to which one component is dependent on another component in both the domain of an application or an architecture. Lately, the movement has been towards loose coupling for some very good reasons, but I'm not sure that many architects out there building SOAs understand the motives behind this.
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Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
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Iona Embraces Mainframes, Eclipse in New ESB
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Iona Technologies enhanced its flagship enterprise service bus (ESB) by adding support for mainframe systems and integration with the popular Eclipse development platform.
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Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
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SOA Command and Control
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One of the ongoing challenges for business today is finding ways to do more with less. Companies are under relentless pressure to deliver products and services to market faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Investments in information technology are expected to drive the business forward, not only in terms of gaining efficiencies and increasing responsiveness, but in creating new top-line opportunities.
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Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
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Microsoft flexes its SOA muscles with Indigo
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If .NET was Microsoft's response to Enterprise Java, then Indigo is Microsoft's answer to service-oriented architecture (SOA). As Microsoft incubates the Indigo platform, analysts predict that it will position the company as a strong competitor against application platform vendors.
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Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005
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Microsoft "Indigo" Community Technology Preview Helps Developers Connect
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Developers get an early working glimpse into Microsoft’s latest Web-services technology.
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Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005
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webMethods Contributes to Three W3C Web Services Recommendations
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Addressing Speed and Efficiency of Message Processing, Company
Continues Leadership in Web Services Standards
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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OASIS ratifies long-awaited SAML 2.0
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OASIS on Monday ratified the long-anticipated Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Version 2.0, formalizing a key standard for federated security.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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Flash, Web Services, and Data Binding
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This is not Web Services 101. This is not an introduction to Flash. This is not art. This is not a love song. Now that that's out the way, be prepared to bind data like there's no tomorrow.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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IBM Moves to Align BPM with Web Services Standard
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With the ratification of the Web Services Distributed Management standard last week—and of a critical component in that standard called Common Base Events—IBM is working to align and integrate CBE concepts into its business process management capabilities.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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SOA emphasized by IBM exec
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SOAs (service-oriented architectures) are needed to accommodate the distributed nature of today's businesses, said an IBM official at the SD (Software Development) West 2005 Conference here on Tuesday.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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Tool Governs SOA, XML, Web Services Life Cycles
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WebLayers Inc. this week will roll out its first commercial release—WebLayers Center 2.0—a product that analysts say is among the first enterprise tools to provide governance of XML, Web services and SOAs, starting at the design phase and running through the life of the services.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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IBM pushes web services for content management
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IBM has unveiled a new software portfolio that extends the reach of content management using web services, to enable all types of data to be captured, managed and searched as part of normal business processes.`
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005
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How open source helps architects deliver SOA
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Before we can discuss the technologies and best practices that will improve business software in 2005, architects and developers need to recognize a simple, often painful truth: Software development creates negative value.
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005
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Premier 100 Q&A: AT&T's Eslambolchi on software code, SOAs, security
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AT&T's top IT leader, Hossein Eslambolchi, this week warned of security problems of 'biblical proportions' unless more is done to improve the quality of software code.
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Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005
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Web Services to Make MBS Green?
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Software hasn't kept up with advances in hardware, according to Bill Gates.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Eclipse adds new members, unveils Web services tools
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BEA Systems, Borland Software and host of other vendors have recently joined the Eclipse Foundation, giving the open source juggernaut more momentum in its quest to provide the de facto development environment.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Microsoft's Bill Gates outlines his future vision for business applications
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At the Microsoft Business Solutions Convergence 2005 in San Diego, California yesterday (March 9, 2005), Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates made a keynote speech outlining his vision for the future of business applications.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005
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SOA, MSOA, and Java
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SOA is obviously the new buzzword of the day. Among the many acronyms, one that is seen very often is 'Same Old Architecture.' In many ways, this is true. The key differentiator between the paradigms that have been prevalent in the past and this new incarnation of 'service-orientation' is that the new definition of services is targeting the business as well as the technical side of the house.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Eclipse Foundation rolls out open source Web services platform
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The Eclipse Foundation introduced its' first developer release of the Eclipse Web services tools recently. As part of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project, the new Web services tools are designed to help shorten development time, simplify the development of Java Web services, and automatically validate for conformance to industry standards.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005
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SeeBeyond Addresses Strategic Approach to B2B
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ebizQ-hosted Webinar to Highlight Value of SOA-based B2B Hub in Enabling B2B Consolidation and Added ROI.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 09, 2005
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Dancing with Web services: W3C chair talks choreography
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As companies embrace service-oriented architecture, the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) continues to gain traction as a means to weave Web services into meaningful business processes.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 09, 2005
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OASIS Standard Enables Web Services Management
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E-business standards group OASIS approved Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) as a standard, eliminating a key barrier for the broader adoption of Web services.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 09, 2005
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Is SOA really just the same old architecture?
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In a presentation at TheServerSide Java Symposium last week, Gregor Hohpe, enterprise integration practice leader at Chicago-based ThoughtWorks Inc. and co-author of the book Enterprise Integration Patterns, played down some of the hype around service-oriented architecture (SOA) and offered some practical advice to developers and architects.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2005
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Eclipse project adopts web services to improve quality
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An open source application lifecycle management (ALM) project is adopting web services as part of a move to raise the quality threshold of tools it produces.
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005
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Sonic Sounds Off with SOA Upgrade
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Sonic Software has added a collaboration server and database service to the new version of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform, built on top of the company's enterprise service bus (ESB) technology.
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005
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SOA's tipping point
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More than half of IT execs are looking seriously at service-oriented architectures -- a significant milestone.
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2005
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Fujitsu and Software AG plan SOA attack
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Fujitsu Ltd and Software AG are already well on the way to the first offering to come from their joint development effort, with a suite of modules to support service oriented architecture that should be delivered by June.
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Posted: Friday, March 04, 2005
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Web services take off
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According to the survey, 35 percent of respondents who have deployed Web services use them as an application-to-application interface with business partners.
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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005
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Eclipse adds new members, unveils Web services tools
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BEA Systems, Borland Software and host of other vendors have recently joined the Eclipse Foundation, giving the open source juggernaut more momentum in its quest to provide the de facto development environment.
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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005
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An Extensive Examination Of Web Services: Part 4
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So far in this article series we have examined the standards involved in Web services, looked at creating Web services with Visual Studio .NET, and have examined WSDL and creating proxy classes to consume a Web service.
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Posted: Thursday, March 03, 2005
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Yahoo! Introduces Yahoo! Search Developer Network
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New Service to Provide Developers with Comprehensive Web Service APIs For Yahoo! Search and Overture Services.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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Using Web Services and EAServer - Cross-platform communication
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With the latest version of EAServer, Sybase has added increased support for SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. These standards enable you to make your EAServer components available as Web services.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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The need for speed: Web services performance tips
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While Web services may promise superior integration, it also presents a significant challenge when it comes to speed and performance.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2005
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