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:: Web Services and SOA News - November, 2007 ::


SOA project failing through lack of governance

Service oriented architecture (SOA) projects are in danger of failing to fulfil their potential through lack of governance, a survey of IT directors has found.

Posted: Friday, November 30, 2007





SOA Feature Story: Real-Time SOA Starts with the Messaging Bus!

Service Oriented Architectures are increasingly being used to implement high-performance and real-time systems. Traditional systems operate in "human real-time," where human patience is the limit.

Posted: Friday, November 30, 2007





Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns

The rumor mill is already raging over the potential functionality and capacity for Google's online storage service we talked about earlier this week

Posted: Friday, November 30, 2007





Mashups open up business Web 2.0 opportunities

Several of the IT industry's big names have released or are currently developing mashups, one of the tech buzzwords of 2007.

Posted: Friday, November 30, 2007





DOD is extending net-centricity to RFPs

The Defense Department and the Association for Enterprise Integration are developing ways to offer incentives for using service-oriented architecture

Posted: Friday, November 30, 2007





Web services: from hype to real-world applications

We've all heard the hype around Web services:

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





IBM Simplifies Mainframe Management

IBM on Wednesday announced a significant update to one management tool, and talked up another that it recently shipped.

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





Gartner analysts tackle enterprise SOA

During a Composite Application Seminar hosted by InterSystems this week Gartner explained the importance of moving towards an enterprise wide service-oriented-architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





Unifying Grid Virtualization, SaaS and SOA

The advent of SOA and standard-base Web services together with Internet based delivery models has provided the essential base

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





SOA and Mass Data Movement via ETL

On the one hand, there's extreme pressure on businesses to deliver new customer offerings and innovative business capabilities, match increased competition

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





Microsoft offers $300m for web-washing ad campaign

Microsoft is touting $300m in advertising pork to the shiny suits of Madison Avenue in return for a smart way to pimp its lacklustre web services.

Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007





Speaking SOA in Tongues

This happens due to differences in WSDL between the Apache Axis toolkit and one of the ESB products

Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007





Integrating Open Source Into Your SOA Project

The Open Source Software development model is becoming a more prevalent approach to developing many services quickly and cost effectively.

Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007





SOA virtualization gets real

Ready or not, here comes service-oriented virtualization.

Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007





Implementing a High Performance Service Oriented Architecture

This white paper describes how to integrate Objectivity/DB within SOA to create a platform approach to Web Services-based data storage.

Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007





WSJ: Google Developing Online File Storage Service

Google is working on a Web-based file storage service that would allow users to store all of their word-processing documents, music, video and photos

Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2007





Web Services with Ruby on Rails

Ruby was a rather obscure object-oriented dynamically typed "scripting language" until it suddenly got a lot of notice due to the appearance of the Rails Web application framework.

Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2007





Bringing SOA Value Patterns to Life

Based on in-depth research of over 100 early adopters, this Oracle white paper reveals how service-oriented architectures (SOAs)

Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2007





What's In It For Me?

Peter Rhys Jenkins explores the linkage between SOA Governance and Realpolitik.

Posted: Monday, November 26, 2007





SYS-CON.TV Broadcasts SOA World 2007 West Keynote

In his opening keynote address at SOA World 2007 West in San Francisco, Software AG Deputy CTO Miko Matsumura challenged an SOA World audience to make service-oriented architecture

Posted: Monday, November 26, 2007





On the Mark: Tread Carefully in SOA Design

Marty Moseley worries that you’ll make a mistake in your service-oriented architecture development, one that puts data quality at risk.

Posted: Monday, November 26, 2007





Web Service offers carbon-neutral design capabilities.

Used for evaluating building design strategies, Green Building Studio v3.0 provides architects with capabilities for assessing carbon neutrality potential

Posted: Monday, November 26, 2007





Write Secure Web Services

Web services and binary attachments have proved a difficult pair to make work well together when it's time to implement security.

Posted: Sunday, November 25, 2007





Consuming Remote Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX

It's amazing how much data is accessible through Web services these days. Everything from weather, to stock quotes

Posted: Saturday, November 24, 2007





SAP TechEd '07 in Bangalore this November

Bangalore: SAP TechEd ’07 will take place in Bangalore on November 28-30.

Posted: Saturday, November 24, 2007





IBM Helps Telecoms Create New, Dynamic Services With SOA, Web 2.0 Technologies

IBM announced new and enhanced products to help telecommunications carriers, equipment providers and application developers

Posted: Saturday, November 24, 2007





Returning Complex Types from AJAX-Enabled Web Services

Dan Wahlin walks you through exactly how to return any object that contains sub-objects exposed through properties.

Posted: Friday, November 23, 2007





Software's Enterprising Minds

At a convention in San Francisco this month to mark Oracle's 30 years in business, founder and CEO Larry Ellison was asked what software firm the database leader plans to buy next.

Posted: Friday, November 23, 2007





SOA Poised for Takeoff in Asia: Springboard

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) market in Asia (excluding Japan) is expected to grow at a CAGR of 40% from 2006 to 2010

Posted: Friday, November 23, 2007





SOA relief is within your reach

Being a financial planner in Australia is rewarding. But it isn’t easy from a legal-compliance perspective

Posted: Friday, November 23, 2007





Two-thirds of Organizations Think Virtualization is Business-critical

Two-thirds of large and mid-sized organizations think virtualization is business-critical, according to some new research by TheInfoPro (TIP).

Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2007





Google Testing Ads That Get 'Action'

The search leader is developing a so-called pay-per-action ad service that could boost its coffers by billions of dollars

Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2007





Ensuring SOA ROI

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have gained much attention as a unifying technical architecture that can be concretely embodied with Web service technologies

Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2007





The SOA Conundrum

SOA changes not only the way in which systems are developed, but who they are developed by.

Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2007





IBM Helps Telecoms Create New, Dynamic Services With SOA and Web 2.0 Technologies

AT&T Uses IBM Technology to Develop Next-Generation Network Applications

Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007





FSF finalizes GPL-based license for Web services

The Free Software Foundation has published a new open-source software license aimed at developers whose code is used for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications

Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007





F1000 Use Cases Share Keys to SOA Governance

HP, IBM, Software AG WebLayers shared top SOA Governance Use Cases at a recent online event, giving attendees a glimpse

Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007





Microsoft opens Windows to networked embedded apps

Tomorrow's embedded systems will be access points for a growing array of network services, according to executives at Microsoft Corp.,

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





Sending Out An SOA

The move from mainframes to the departmental minicomputers to the desktop personal computers, the emergence of networking as the solution

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





Attack of the bots139

Smarter botnets and attacks targeting web services will be the two most serious threats facing users next year, according to McAfee.

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





FileURLs Makes it Easy to Share Documents

Every now and again you find yourself stuck with a file that's just too large to e-mail but too small to package up and post on the Web

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





Consumers Increasingly Using the Web to do Business with Utilities

The revolution of the ubiquitous World Wide Web has extended to customer care so much so that consumers of utilities like Gas, Water and Electric Power

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





Visual Studio 2008 Ships

Microsoft released its Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM), Nov. 19.

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT

I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool.

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





Miko Says: 'Make SOA Real'

Service oriented architectures (SOAs) should form the core of most -- if not all -- enterprise operations.

Posted: Monday, November 19, 2007





SOA World 2007 Observations

I see some really important shifts in people's perception and adoption of SOA infrastructure

Posted: Sunday, November 18, 2007





SOA and EDA, and the Problems They Solve

For several years companies have been trying to solve two strategic problems with middleware.

Posted: Saturday, November 17, 2007





Expand Web Apps With SODA and WCF

Simplify and augment SCM-style apps using SODA, SQL Server 2005, and Windows Communication Foundation.

Posted: Saturday, November 17, 2007





Next-Generation SOA Infrastructure

Nowadays, developers are faced with a bewildering array of technologies for developing Web services.

Posted: Friday, November 16, 2007





‘IT’ Viewed as Critical to Business Process, SOA Emerging as Key Enabler

IT needs to play a ‘critical’ role in supporting process management initiatives but is still a far cry away from fully satisfying this mandate.

Posted: Friday, November 16, 2007





SSL Certificates for web service providers / web designing / web hosting and IT companies etc.

In the growing and increasing world of electronic commerce, online safety & security is paramount. SSL Certificates creates a secure environment.

Posted: Friday, November 16, 2007





Who's paying your electricity bill?

If firms want departments to cut their energy use, then it is time they paid their own electricity bills

Posted: Friday, November 16, 2007





The future of SOA and BPM and emerging trends

During a Microsoft software-oriented architecture (SOA) user conference analyst firm Gartner advised businesses to increase their focus on penetrating the SOA market

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





Shopping Online -- What Happens After You Place Your Online Order?

Did you know that the data you provide with your online order can determine how fast it is shipped?

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





IBM Creates New Centers of Excellence to Help Clients Launch Safer Products Faster

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a global network of nine Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Centers designed to help customers launch new products

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





Retail Banking Platform for 24X7 Businesses

Polaris Software's Intellect 787 intends to give banks the capability to service markets in diverse geographies and cultures in a multi-channel context

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





IBM floats Blue Cloud computing plan

IBM on Thursday announced an offering called Blue Cloud meant to make it easier to run large-scale applications with massive databases over the Internet.

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





The call hasn`t ended

May a thousand Google phones bloom! That must have been Google’s intent when it recently unveiled an ambitious strategy

Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007





Microsoft Smartens Windows Embedded CE With Web Services

Release Candidate 2 of version 6.0 also updates the OS's ability to manage video telephony, pluggable font engine support, and thin-client technology.

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007





Wanted: VP of SOA

ZapThink frequently writes about how organizational, political, and funding issues are typically the greatest challenges facing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007





Nortel Offers SOA-Enabled Enterprise Communications

Nortel has launched an initiative to use service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology to more flexibly support the communications needs of enterprises and organizations.

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007





Simplifying E-Commerce With SOA for Payments

Ultimately, the proper SOA platform partner can complement service providers by enabling them to reduce the friction associated with payment enablement by virtue of which increases transaction volume

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007





Leverage Federated ESBs to benefit from a 'SMART SOA'

According to a May 2007 research report titled "Succeeding With Multiple SOA Service Domains and Disparate ESBs" Gartner predicts that by 2009

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007





Windows CE marries embedded, Web services

Tomorrow's embedded systems will be access points for a growing array of network services, according to executives at Microsoft Corp.

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





CA's Principal Architect Gives SOA Reality Check at SOA World 2007 West

Paul Lipton give General Session on exposing the hidden risks

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





Enterprise SOA Powering Human Resources

Establishing an enterprise-wide view removes siloed organizational mindsets and focuses on enterprise value.

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





Business Intelligence and Data Delivery: Converging with SOA

There are two main technical trends I’m seeing in my clients today. The first is their drive for information that has integrity, consistency, and usability

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





SOA a good idea

Although SOA has reached the point where it generally is considered to be a good idea, BEA's deputy CTO Theo Beack is concerned that much of the resources dedicated to the modern enterprise infrastructure are underutilised, reports SOA World.

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





Data Services in SOA: Issues and Possible Solutions

Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures, whether it is for Master Data Management (MDM),

Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007





WSO2 Extends SOA Support with Version 1.5 of Open Source Enterprise Service Bus

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today that it has significantly extended the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support the heterogeneous

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





WebLayers CTO Invited to Share Strategies for Successful SOA Governance at SOA World Conference

WebLayers(TM) Inc., the market leader for automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance, announced today that its CTO Guy Loewy has been invited to lead a session

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





IBM Buys Cognos Outright, Acquires Strong SOA Position

IBM announced today the $5 billion dollar cash acquisition of Canadian business intelligence and performance management company Cognos, giving IBM a reputable product line

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





Oracle Introduces Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack

Offering Delivers a Comprehensive, Standardized Approach to Business Process Integration

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





Microsoft Outlines Pricing, Packaging and Licensing for Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V Server gives customers a new server virtualization option that can provide simplified, reliable and cost-effective virtualization solutions which can be easily plugged into existing infrastructure.

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





SOA implementations must show benefits to business, not just IT

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations aren't catching on as quickly as many SOA vendors might have hoped, according to two recent studies.

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007





WSO2 Becomes Silver Sponsor of SOA World Conference & Expo

WSO2 is a company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation

Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2007





Membership and Social 2.0 Website Design Services launched by Membership Media Services

Member Media Services. Com has announced its official launch to the public today. The web services and design group is focused on building attractive 2.0 optimized social websites

Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2007





Rolling Review: Thinking Inside the SOA Box

As service-oriented architectures move into the IT mainstream, can appliances reduce complexity? We'll find out in our latest ongoing review series.

Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2007





Your SOA Needs BPEL for Orchestration

WS-BPEL 2.0 has emerged as the definitive standard to define stateful, complex and, robust service orchestrations

Posted: Friday, November 09, 2007





Win 2003 High Availability Solutions, Generic Resources

Server clustering technology, which we have been discussing throughout our series (within the context of Windows Server 2003 R2), delivers high availability by emulating a variety of features

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007





TIBCO Software to Present Virtualization Session at SOA World Conference & Expo

Different architectural components of service virtualization - mediation, deployment, governance and service management

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007





Pragmatic Web Services Interoperability

Web Services platforms implemented by vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, BEA, and WS02

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007





IBM to Present "SOA with Apache Tuscany" Session at SOA World Conference & Expo

Apache Tuscany provides an open source services infrastructure for building SOA solutions.

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007





SOA Case Study: Leveraging SOA in Business Processes

Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, an award-winning series of next-generation session border control solutions. Recently, the company unveiled the Covergence Policy Manager, a policy enforcement solution for real-time applications.

Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007





Testing SOA Solutions

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in their production environments.

Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007





SOA and REST, the interoperability conundrum

John Michelsen, chief scientist at iTKO Inc., the service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing and governance provider, believes developers do not have to chose between Web-oriented architecture (WOA)

Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007





Microsoft rolls out Web services to link to Windows

Microsoft Corp. released on Tuesday a suite of free Web services that connect to its Windows operating system, delivering a major element of its strategy

Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007





WebLayers to Sponsor InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, Nov. 7-8 in New York City

WebLayers(TM) Inc., the market leader for automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance, announced today that it is sponsoring the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Microsoft announces SaaS developer pack for Outlook

Outlook + Services will provide blueprints to make connected Outlook add-ins easier to make and deploy.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Presentations of the BeJUG SOA Conference available on parleys.com

The videos of three talks at the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) Enterprise SOA'07 Conference have been published on parleys.com.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Microsoft unveils SOA strategy

Microsoft has unveiled a multi-year strategy designed to help businesses create software based on a service oriented architecture.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





ESBs in 2007: Taking the Open Source Bus to SOA (Part II of II)

This article is the second of two that digs deeper into the ESB/MOM portion of the mid-stack, from an open source perspective.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





IBM Web service ‘stagnating'

IBM's Web content management (WCM) technologies have been stagnating at a time when competitors are paying greater attention to Web publishing tool sets

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Enterprise lacks SOA skills

Enterprises suffer gaping holes in the skills required for service-oriented architectures (SOAs), reports VNUNet.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Introducing Model-Driven Development

Organizations increasingly rely on software solutions to automate their business activities.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Write a Web-Based Unit Test

Web applications have a solid and growing presence in enterprise-level businesses.

Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2007





Microsoft Says it Will Ship Visual Studio 2008 This Month

Microsoft has committed to releasing Visual Studio 2008 and its .Net Framework 3.5 technology by the end of this month.

Posted: Monday, November 05, 2007





Solving Real-World Business Problems with SOA

The financial services industry is well suited to application solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) due to the heterogeneity across front-, mid-, and back-office systems and different business lines.

Posted: Monday, November 05, 2007





TIBCO's Michael Peachy to Present SOA and AJAX Session at SOA World Conference and Expo

Best practices for developing SOA and AJAX in parallel

Posted: Monday, November 05, 2007





Multi-Enterprise SOA

The most powerful tool we have for accelerating growth & delivering acquisition value

Posted: Sunday, November 04, 2007





SOA Changes Run Deep

The emphasis on total quality becomes absolutely critical as SOA reshapes how IT works.

Posted: Sunday, November 04, 2007





Web Services Using Apache CXF

Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world.

Posted: Friday, November 02, 2007





SOA Governance Terminology and Positioning

I have finally found an elegant solution to the SOA Governance terminology and positioning conundrum

Posted: Friday, November 02, 2007





Security Experts Warn of Web 2.0 Woes

While Web 2.0 applications might be all the rage for developers and increasingly important in the enterprise, security experts warn they represent a serious threat

Posted: Friday, November 02, 2007





Dancing with Elephants - Making SAP More Agile with Event-driven SOA

Although there are compelling reasons for pursuing SOA initiatives, the road to enterprise-scale SOA is not easy and can be loaded with potholes.

Posted: Friday, November 02, 2007





Strategies for Versioning Web Services

As architects and developers continue to design and implement Web Services in distributed environments, they are faced with a versioning issue

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007





Survey: .NET, Java in SOA Horserace

An August survey from Evans Data Corp. finds a real .NET-vs-Java horserace for SOA dev platform supremacy.

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007





IT Pros: Our SOA Governance ‘Not Sufficient’

More than three-quarters of IT professionals working on SOA projects say their current SOA Governance ‘not sufficient,’

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007





Bringing SOA to small enterprises

At the recent Butler Group and OASIS conference on SOA standards and their impact on the public sector, one speaker described the Japanese government's initiative to use SOA to boost the number of small- and medium-sized enterprises

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007





Method to Microsoft's madness

If you snorted a little coffee out your nose when you read that Microsoft had paid $240-million (U.S.) for a 1.6-per-cent stake in Facebook, don't feel bad.

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007





IBM looks at how to get beyond SOA pilots

Initial success with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) pilot project does not necessarily mean it will easily scale up to an enterprise implementation

Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2007




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