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


Google a "wake-up call", says Ozzie

GOOGLE'S success has served as a "wake-up call" to the financial power of web advertising, Microsoft's chief technologist says.

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007





Best Practices for SOA Service Development and Deployment

Going beyond Web services to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and a broad service oriented IT strategy greatly expands the possibilities of an organization by creating responsive, adaptive and optimized business performance.

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007





IBM weds SOA to information management

IBM Corp announced that it is combining its expertise in SOA and information management, saying that by doing so it will enable clients to more easily share data and deliver better service by freeing information from individual applications and reusing it throughout their enterprise.

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007





The story SOA far

Like death and taxes, hype in the IT industry is an inevitable fact of life.

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007





SOA Software Partners with Systar

SOA Software, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services governance solutions, and Systar, the provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) software solutions, have joined to provide SOA customers with SOA-enabled BAM offering in the market.

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007





WCF Services At a Glance

The Windows Communication Foundation is the framework in .NET 3.0 for building service-oriented applications. Dino steps through the essentials of building and configuring a WCF services

Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2007





Changing channels: new ways to do business

The proliferation of on-demand services in our personal lives has made many of us receptive to a comparable set of on-demand services to satisfy our professional needs.

Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2007





How to succeed with SOA

SOA needs to be a companywide design philosophy

Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2007





What's behind the SOA buzz?

It is hard to avoid service oriented architecture. SOA is one of those developments that the whole IT industry is talking about.

Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2007





And I'd like to thank Oscar.com: Web service offers extended speeches

It's a Hollywood tradition: Win a big award, thank everybody in the business. (Refer to handy list of names so that no one is forgotten.)

Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007





Competitive SOA

Service reuse is at once one of the least understood and most challenging benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007





Warring tribes hold SOA hostage

You know those charts that show how SOA development works with little arrows running back and forth between the enterprise architects and the SOA development team as they exchange helpful tips and information?

Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007





IBM Melds SOA and Information Management

BM today announced it is combining its industry leading expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and information management to help clients more easily share data and deliver better service by freeing information from individual applications and reusing it throughout their enterprise.

Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007





The world snaps over Google Apps

Is the backlash against Microsoft Office that great that the world will suddenly shift to using Google Apps and dumping Microsoft’s flagship software, after Windows itself? Don’t make me laugh.

Posted: Sunday, February 25, 2007





2007 Software Business Transformation Summit: Parallel Evolution – Software to Services, and Channel

The 2007 Software Business Transformation Summit provides software industry executives and senior enterprise IT strategists with an opportunity for contextual dialogue about the fundamental transformation that is occurring within the software business model.

Posted: Saturday, February 24, 2007





Three Takes: SOA Is Happening -- Time To Get On Board

Learn how to get the most out of a service-oriented architecture strategy.

Posted: Saturday, February 24, 2007





Dion Hinchcliffe Coins "Product Development 2.0"

Harnessing collective intelligence, users as co-creators, and turning applications into platforms

Posted: Friday, February 23, 2007





Oracle sows the seeds for SOA

An SOA (service oriented architecture) has the appealing allure for reducing costs and improving your company's agility.

Posted: Friday, February 23, 2007





AJAX Bringing Web 2.0 To Web Services According to Evans Data

Evans Data finds this in the rising use of AJAX, a key component of the Web 2.0 architecture

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





IMS: An Executive Guide

No mobile technology since 3G has created so much interest and discussion as IMS - the IP Multimedia Subsystem.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





Web.com and YP Corp. Forge Strategic Partnership

Web.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading destination for websites and web services, and YP Corp. (OTCBB:YPNT), a leading provider of nationwide Internet Yellow Pages and related services, today announced a strategic partnership to cross-market their respective services to new and existing customers nationwide. Specific financial terms of the multi-year deal are not available.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





Live Search Service and SDK Bow

Microsoft has released version 1 of the Live Search Web service and the Live Search Software Developers Kit.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





SOA Aligns Cultures

Will SOA help or hinder the alignment of business and IT? This is an essenttial question, and may help determine how successful SOA will be.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





SOA and Enterprise Architecture: Building a Foundation for Business Flexibility

Aligning IT with business strategy through SOA is best done in the context of an enterprise architecture.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





SOA Governance: 'An Ongoing Committee Exercise'

Most recent activity in SOA puts the spotlight on integration and development. I spoke with a panel of experts to examine TIBCO's latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as platform and webMethods Fabric 7 release.

Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2007





Complete Website Solutions: Tips For Choosing A Web Solutions Provider

Your website is intrinsic to your business, whether you're running an online store looking to attract local customers through the web or any business in between.

Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007





Project Tango

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is set to change the way .NET developers create and manage connected systems.

Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007





How to Visualize a Business Ecosystem

The power of service-oriented architectures (SOA) is apparent in a new field, enterprise ecosystem visualization. Innovative mash-ups allow users to visualize business information, such as regional sales for a particular product, on a map in three dimensions.

Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007





Enabling "Real World SOA"

Organisations are increasingly reliant on their IT infrastructure to help drive success. But in an increasingly competitive marketplace, capitalising on new business opportunities means moving fast.

Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007





What you need for a successful SOA

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is frequently touted as the "silver bullet" for complex IT integration problems. And with business factors like mobility, flexibility, governance, compliance, collaboration and security...

Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007





webMethods and ZapThink Launch SOA Master Class Online

SOA Master Class Online launched as a comprehensive educational resource

Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007





Getting the SOA Expertise You Need

Building a service-oriented architecture environment is challenging, but finding the necessary expertise is harder.

Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007





Using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE for Web services

Microsoft has a long history of providing excellent IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) for various supported languages.

Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007





IBM Delivers Software in Mainframe Simplification Drive

At the SHARE User Event — an annual gathering of mainframe users — IBM announced on Feb. 13 enhancements to software that are designed to enable professionals to more easily program, manage and administer a mainframe system

Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007





Corporate mashups meet SOA

Take two services, add a connector and call the right customer in the morning.

Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2007





Securing Your SOA: Co-founder and CTO of Securent To Speak at SOA World 2007

Sekhar Sarukkai will introduce delegates in June to "Entitlement Management in a Service Oriented Architecture"

Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007





Is the web slowing you down? Some shortcuts are a few clicks away

There are billions of Web pages in cyberspace, but chances are you regularly visit only five or 10, right?

Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007





Web extra: The next big thing: User-centric identity

Industry executives say user-centric federation is the next big thing in identity technology.

Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007





End-user and Vendor Organizations Form SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium announced the formation of a new advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) by 2010.

Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007





Scanning AJAX for Cross-Site Scripting Entry Points

Introduces you to a quick way to identify XSS entry points in your AJAX application

Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007





Debate Grows Over Software-As-A-Service Architecture

Browser-based applications offer simplicity, but some argue the PC should have a role, too

Posted: Saturday, February 17, 2007





Capitalizing on the Internet: Network neutrality = prioritizing privilege

Picture Johnny, an avid Facebook and MySpace user, sitting down to routinely check his messages and view any recent postings on his wall.

Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007





IBM and Nortel Team Up on SOA

IBM and Nortel announced an agreement to use each other’s technology, with the goal being to foster development of new applications.

Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007





SOA the Easy Way (If That’s Possible)

In a research report about getting started with Service Oriented Architecture, Forrester analyst Randy Heffner warned that SOA strategy “carries heavy risks of being overly theoretical and academic.”

Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007





European Fair CeBIT 2007: Intuitive Business Rules Management and SOA Break New Ground

The Business Rules Specialist Innovations Software Technology will show in the SOA-World Exhibition in Hall 4 of the Fair CeBIT 2007

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Best Practices for SOA Governance (Part II)

SOA governance is about supporting behavior that will help you achieve business goals. Part II of II.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Cost Reduction is the Key Long-Term Driver of SOA Adoption

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50500) has announced the addition of SOA Reality Check: Three Waves of Adoption through 2012 to their offering.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Latest Version Of SAFE Act Modifies Web Company Requirements

Language in a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson and a bipartisan congressional group, aimed at protecting children from online child predators, has changed recently and no longer includes requirements that Internet-related businesses monitor customers’ web sites.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Microsoft Is SOA-Ready for Wall Street

Microsoft is ready to take on the Wall Street service-oriented architecture scene with its latest developer and infrastructure technologies, said a consultant in building IT systems for financial services companies.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Preclick - Photo Software and Web Services Company - Funded $1.6 Million by MAG Fund

Last week Preclick Corp. debuted Preclick Internet Photo Messenger -- its new photo Web service -- at DEMO '07.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





Cost Reduction is the Key Long-Term Driver of SOA Adoption

Depending on who you talk to, Service Orientation is either the biggest disruptive innovation in software, or merely a rerun of object-oriented programming and development.

Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2007





New JSR Proposed: Java API for RESTful Web Services

Sun has submitted JSR 311, Java API for RESTful Web Services, to the JCP. According to the introduction:

Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007





Blogs, instant messaging and other web services go mobile

Vodafone struck deals with Yahoo, Microsoft and Google this week to bring their respective Web-based services - instant messaging, personal blogs, etc. - to its users. Web 2.0 goes mobile.

Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007





Blackboard Launches Scholar, a Free Social Bookmarking Service for Academia

First Blackboard Beyond Initiative Property Connects Blackboard Learning System Users Worldwide

Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007





SOA Adoption: Hype or Reality?

European banks adopt SOA to improve quality of their systems, survey results reveal

Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007





IBM and Nortel Ignite Telecom Industry Innovation With IMS and SOA Standards

Expanded IMS Ecosystem, Joint Interoperability Efforts and Product Integration to Break Down Network Barriers

Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007





SOA Consortium Forms for SOA Advocacy

The SOA Consortium(tm) is announcing the formation of a new advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010.

Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2007





SOA + CEP = 'a new physics of computing'

Service-oriented architecture has already proven a disruptive force in the world or IT, but adding complex event processing (CEP) to it could create "a new physics of computing," says John Bates

Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2007





AJAX Bringing Web 2.0 To Web Services According to Evans Data

Evans Data finds this in the rising use of AJAX, a key component of the Web 2.0 architecture

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo Expanded to Three Days

11th International SOA & Web Services Event Will Take Place June 25-27, 2007 in New York City

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





TIBCO's Matt Quinn To Present Service Virtualization Session at SOA World 2007 Conference & Expo

"How To Simplify Heterogeneous SOA" is the title of Quinn's session

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





World Summit on Intrusion Prevention and Web Services Security Conference, May 7-9, 2007 in Maryland

Unatek, Inc. today announced the program for the 2007 World Summit on Intrusion Prevention (WSIP) and Web Services Security Conference (WSSC).

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





Microsoft and BT Launch Connected Services Sandbox Competitions

Today at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft Corp. and BT announced the launch of the Connected Services Sandbox competition series to help promote the development of innovative customer solutions

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





New ILOG JRules 6.5 Enhances SOA Value Proposition With Deployment of Rule-Based Web Services

ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), today announced JRules(TM)6.5, a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007





Load Testing Web Services

Software testing is crucial to SDLC and load testing is integral to any efficient testing scheme

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





SOA Web Services — Learning the Language

In some ways, an industry is like a country. It has its citizens, the corporations, its own particular nuances that serve to make one industry just that much different from another (think insurance and financial services) as to be distinct, and it has a language.

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





"Web 2.0 - The Universal SOA" Session at SOA World 2007

Those services outside of the enterprise existing on the Internet create a "Universal SOA"

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





Parasoft's Kolawa Foresees An "Explosion of Web Services" in 2007

"Because they are so easy to expose," says Dr Adam Kolawa

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability

Interoperability is an important factor in the success of solutions that are based on Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), along with other key factors such as contracts, loose coupling, and reuse.

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





Ipedo Announces Expanded Web Services Capabilities

EII Platform Simplifies Creation of Data Services, Promotes Interoperability and Reuse of Enterprise Data Assets

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





SOA & Web Services - Is It Done Yet?

Three steps to checking in your code with confidence

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





Laszlo Systems and webMethods Become Charter Sponsors of SOA World 2007

11th International SOA World 2007 East Will Take Place June 24-26, 2007 in New York City

Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007





WebLogic Server 10 Update: Java EE 5, Spring Pitchfork, WS-*

BEA has released a new tech preview of WebLogic Server 10 that has passed the Java EE 5 CTS (compatibility test suite), making WebLogic the first of the big 3 to feature a release that passes the tests.

Posted: Friday, February 09, 2007





Local Government Technology Leaders to Meet

Technology leaders from cities and counties across the country will convene at the 2007 Technology Leadership Conference, May 6-8, 2007 in Denver.

Posted: Friday, February 09, 2007





Implementing SOA successfully

Martin Percival provides us with his top tips for implementing SOA successfully within your organsiation.

Posted: Friday, February 09, 2007





A New SOA Group Forms -- Integration Consortium

IT practitioners from a broad range of industries joined on Feb. 8 with end user companies, technology suppliers and standards organizations to establish the IC SOA.

Posted: Friday, February 09, 2007





SOA Stakeholders Launch Community of Practice

IT practitioners from a broad range of industries today joined with end user corporations, leading technology suppliers, standards organizations and the global stakeholder community to formally establish the IC SOA.

Posted: Friday, February 09, 2007





Real-World AJAX

There's a need for a dynamic Web interface that can layer over services and provide more value to the enterprise.

Posted: Thursday, February 08, 2007





Keys to Successful Governance with SOA

SOA governance is about supporting behavior that will help you achieve business goals.

Posted: Thursday, February 08, 2007





Yahoo: Pipe in data, then mash it up

The Web giant on Wednesday released Yahoo Pipes, a hosted visual-development tool that lets people manipulate data feeds from Web sites to create new applications.

Posted: Thursday, February 08, 2007