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


SOA World Editorial — Who's in Charge Here?

The most underestimated and undervalued aspect of SOA

Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2007





Things to Know to Become a Professional PHP Developer

Jim Plush has listed out the criteria of the qualities that a professional PHP Developer must possess. He says 98 per cent of people don’t seem to meet half of the criteria that he has listed.

Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2007





Formal BPEL standard set for approval

OASIS may, finally, get it done

Posted: Friday, March 30, 2007





How SOA increases your security risk

A Gartner analyst outlines three ways service-oriented architecture could hurt you

Posted: Friday, March 30, 2007





SOA Adoption to Soar from Increased IT Spending

IT spending among enterprises in Asia-Pacific is growing rapidly. The emergence of enterprise integration and the need for flexible business processes is triggering extensive IT adoption ...

Posted: Friday, March 30, 2007





Policies, Processes, Metrics and People

Bringing processes together with SOA governance.

Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007





Formal BPEL standard set for approval

OASIS expected to give nod next week

Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007





SOA, or the same old SOAp?

The next big thing, or more technobabble? What is this service-oriented architecture, anyway?

Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007





IBM's latest CICS release upgrades SOA support

In an era where tools from providers like SOA Software and NetManage are already providing SOA, it's not surprising that IBM should step up to the plate and SOA-enable its legendary CICS transaction system.

Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007





Securing Your SOA Session at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East

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

Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2007





OASIS Approves New Web Services Security Standards

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems has approved WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust as standards.

Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2007





Shimmin On Software: SOA Gets Real, Virtually

Enter SOA virtualization. Well, almost. The notion of tricking a server into running various operating systems or databases within separate virtual machines may be old hat, but it's just now beginning make its way up the stack.

Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007





Twitter: All Trivia, All The Time

The service's followers love its quotidian tidbits. Others cry: Enough already!

Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007





SOA-based software change management for mainframes

Despite the proliferation of computers of every size, mainframes still house most of the world's data. An estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL that run the world's financial services, banking and insurance centers.

Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007





Yahoo launches mobile ads and content service

Yahoo! Inc today announced the launch of Yahoo! Mobile Publisher Services, a suite of services designed to enable publishers to increase the discovery, distribution and monetization of their content on mobile phones. The new services publishers will have access to are the Yahoo! Mobile Ad Network, Mobile Content Engine, Mobile Media Directory and Mobile Site Submit.

Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007





Top five SOA insights from CIOs and CTOs

Almost everything you once knew about business computing has changed with SOA.

Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007





Worlds collide

But it’s a good thing as enterprise resource planning vendors embrace plug ’n’ play

Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007





Integration + governance = SOA?

One of my colleagues tossed out the shorthand "integration + governance = SOA" the other day and I quite liked it.

Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007





SOA: New efficiencies for small business?

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an IT term probably recognized by most large companies, but it's not so familiar to smaller businesses.

Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007





Web Services Security Takes Center Stage May 8-9

Industry experts and leading companies are bracing to showcase the best of SOA business solutions and technology at the 2nd Annual Web Services Security Conference & Exhibition, May 8-9 in Baltimore...

Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007





Can Social tools save plain ole’ Radio?

Social networking around music has emerged as a class of Web service.

Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2007





Google Building Software, Not Mobile Phone: Analyst

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says that Google appears to be building software for Web search on mobile phones and location-finding services to work with Apple's iPhone.

Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2007





Oracle upgrades Web apps tool

Oracle on Monday plans to announce availability of Oracle Application Express Release 3.0, which is a free tool for building and managing Web application using only a browser.

Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2007





When to Buy, When to Build Composite Applications and SOA

With service-oriented architecture (SOA), Ajax, the enterprise service bus and other new technologies maturing, application architects and business analysts have tough decisions to make...

Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2007





Research from ShmooCon: JavaScript flaws peril Web

Speaking at the ongoing ShmooCon hacker convention, SPI Dynamics researcher Billy Hoffman painted a dire picture of widespread coding vulnerabilities in many Web sites and online applications

Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007





Scalable Apps with Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET

Do you want to know a secret? A deep, dark, dirty secret? One that, if revealed, would cause great angst in the ASP.NET community and prompt shouts of "Aha!" from the anti-Microsoft crowd?

Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007





Where Is Microsoft Search?

Its stumbles on the Web could open the door for rivals to come after its core business

Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007





SOA Team Advances, States SDO Specifications, OASIS

Eighteen technology vendors focused on driving technology initiatives supporting the creation of industry standards around Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)...

Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007





How the Feds do SOA

The federal government is required by law to detail its huge service-oriented architecture project

Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007





Leveraging Synergies: RTI and SOA Unite

IT evolution is all about disruptive technologies and best-of-breed ideas merging together to lead to even better solutions for the enterprise. Two such that are coming together presently are Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) and SOA.

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007





SOA specs for submission to standards body

Eighteen software vendors in specification standards group aim to simplify SOA application development for users.

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007





Technology Leaders Submit Modeling Specification to the World Wide Web Consortium

Industry takes next step in standardizing the description of system information in XML formats.

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007





IBM aims to orchestrate SOA projects with Eclipse Jazz

The popular image of a programmer hunched over a keyboard in a windowless cinder block bunker with pizza boxes being shoved under the door is very 1984 in today's service-oriented architecture world.

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007





MICROSOFT SERVICE CREATION FOR TELCO 2.0

Vodafone’s service announcements with Ebay, MySpace, Google and Yahoo are evidence that the ability to effectively harness web services is becoming critical to telcos – according to web services giant Microsoft.

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007





Best Practices for Your Enterprise SOA

SOA is a business endeavor, and it should be communicated that way. "Trying to get the I.T. language out of what we talk about, and get into the business language, is an ongoing issue," ...

Posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2007





Smart Client Deployment in PowerBuilder 11

How the Intelligent Updater feature fits into PowerBuilder 11's .NET Smart Client support initiative

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007





Web Services Interoperability Organization, WS-I, to Host News Briefing

Industry Organization Discusses Secure and Interoperable Web Services and Unveils News on Profiles

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007





Grid computing and Web services

Web services and "grid" computing continue to be hot technologies that are evolving rapidly so it seems logical to examine what grid computing and Web services can offer each other.

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007





SOA: A Primer for Retail Leaders, Part II

As stated in part one of this three-part series, SOA is not technology, has nothing to do with technology, and the concepts of SOA hold significant benefit for you and your retail objectives.

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007





SOA, Web services security hinge on XML gateways

Enterprises are moving forward with service oriented architecture (SOA) projects to reduce complexity and increase flexibility between systems and applications....

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2007





WADL REST API description language getting some attention

To define and describe a web-service API, many developers would use WSDL. Although WSDL is meant to be extensible to any protocol and message format, most people use it for HTTP GET/POST and SOAP, when writing to WS-* standards.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





Google phone in pipeline: analysts

GOOGLE is developing its own mobile phone, according to industry insiders, while a Google official last week acknowledged the company was "investigating" such a project.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





Microsoft Pays Companies To Use Live Search

In addition to promoting the use of its Windows Live search engine, Microsoft said, the "Service Credits for Web Search" program also provides the software giant with valuable feedback on how search is used in an enterprise.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





SOA Testing Goes Beyond ...

... Web services. Or it should. That’s the view of Chief Geek John Michelsen, the top technologist at iTKO Inc. in Dallas.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





Is Microsoft Finally Ready To Play Nice?

The company appears as if it wants to work cooperatively with competitors.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





Are stacks making SOA a 'complex, hard to use beast'?

With today's release of Cape Clear 7, a new enterprise service bus with developer tools from Cape Clear Software Inc, Annrai O'Toole, the company's CEO, is playing David challenging the Goliath vendors approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





IBM Combines Virtualization Into SOA Strategy

In a bid to help customers shift IT processing resources during periods of peak activity such as dealing with unpredictable surges in Internet traffic,IBM ( News - Alert) has integrated virtualization capabilities into its service oriented architecture (SOA) offerings.

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007





GlassFish app server to swim in the enterprise

Sun bolsters open source platform

Posted: Sunday, March 18, 2007





Testing the "REST"

Techniques and strategies for testing non-SOAP-based Web Services

Posted: Saturday, March 17, 2007





Unused TV Spectrum Eyed for Web Service

Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and other technology companies are bumping into resistance from U.S. television broadcasters as they seek regulatory approval to deliver high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007





New-Style Software the Talk of CeBit

At the computer industry conference in Germany, "service-oriented architecture" emerges as the next big thing in business programs

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007





Enabling trustworthy e-Government

The delivery of e-Government is moving towards a task-oriented, Web services paradigm

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007





IBM Tackles SOA Quality Management

IBM has added software and services to its SOA portfolio that are designed to automate quality checking on SOA components and ensure the loosely coupled applications perform up to par on production networks.

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007





Tutorial on Web Services in CakePHP 1.2

Chris Hartjes in a post over the Keyboard web site tells you how to use the built-in web services in CakePHP 1.2. He gives some tips to carry out the process.

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007





Services Oriented Architecture: What it Means to the Server Room

The subject of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) gets a lot of ink these days. It has replaced from Web services as the buzz word du jour. And like Web services, SOA can be quite a concept to wrap one's wits around.

Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2007





IBM, Red Hat build SOA virtualization into Unix/Linux servers

Seeking to spur adoption of service-oriented architecture, IBM and Red Hat Inc. made parallel announcements today with both tying their SOA development capabilities to server virtualization inside their hardware offerings.

Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2007





SQL Server and SODA

Over the past year, I've been discussing some of the various technologies found inside SQL Server 2005. Three of these technologies are CLR integration, HTTP endpoints, and Service Broker.

Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2007





Does SOA Have an ROI?

The SOA train is leaving the station, or so it appears by looking at adoption rates among companies of various sizes.

Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2007





Doing SOA Right: Why Is It So Hard?

Is there a secret sauce to ensure your SOA's success?

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





SOA World - Racing Without a Speedometer

Accelerators, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), application switches...whatever you call them, this new breed of performance enhancing appliances is selling like hotcakes. The market for these turbochargers has zoomed from zero to over $1 billion in the span of a few years, heading towards what Gartner estimates will be $3.7 billion in annual sales in 2008.

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





Distinguished Line-Up of Keynote Speakers Announced for CMP Technology's Software Development West

CMP Technology today announced the industry experts chosen to keynote at the Software Development West 2007 Conference & Expo, to be held March 19 - 23 in Santa Clara, CA.

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





Microsoft Office won't go online

Microsoft has no plans to make Office into a web service

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





IBM tools aim to extend SOA quality management

New Rational, Tivoli offerings focused on quality of services

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





SOA, What's The Big Deal?

No disrespect to cavemen, but unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, there's no way you could have missed the IT industry's intensifying infatuation with SOA, or service oriented architecture.

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





IBM Unveils New SOA Quality Management Portfolio of Software, Svcs

IBM has announced the new IBM SOA quality management portfolio of software and services to help organizations ensure quality of their service oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





Taming the SOA Beast

Companies have invested heavily in building and stabilizing the legacy systems that support vital business components. SOA can offer these companies an efficient, robust way to decrease integration expense, increase business agility and consolidate applications through the reuse of valuable business

Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007





Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing

An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues.

Posted: Monday, March 12, 2007





The Secret to Driving ROI in MDM: Get the Business Involved

The real value of corporate data lies not in the data itself but the value it has in speeding day-to-day business transactions and in the insights that can be pulled from it.

Posted: Saturday, March 10, 2007





Whipping IT data into shape

Enterprises are tackling the ugly problem of reconciling widely distributed data, driven in part by the move to service-oriented architecture.

Posted: Saturday, March 10, 2007





AJAX and SOA...Together Forever?

The week after next I'm speaking at AJAX World, and thus have been thinking a lot about AJAX and SOA. Also, just coauthored a book on AJAX, and yes I did the SOA Chapter.

Posted: Friday, March 09, 2007





Specifying policies and practices for SOA

Most organizations start down the road to SOA with a pilot project of some kind.

Posted: Friday, March 09, 2007





Determining SOA's Maturity Level

How mature is SOA? How can one manage data when two systems intersect, as happens in a merger or acquisition?

Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007





"My SOA is Bigger than Your SOA"

Lately I've noticed a lot of SOA envy as organizations begin to roll out their new, and typically first, SOA projects. I hear things like: "How many services you got in your SOA?" or "We employ 10 WS-* standards, you?"

Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007





Technology News

Lost in Seattle with nothing but a camera phone? Just snap a picture of a nearby building, send off the photo to a database and soon you'll get back a map and information about where you are.

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





SOA World Editorial — Getting on the Grid

I find it fascinating to deal with the concepts of services in the context of infrastructure

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





EMC's Jeff Nick To Keynote SOA World Conference

Program includes Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA, Tools & Frameworks, Interoperability, Real-World SOA and Enterprise Open Source

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





SaaS will have significant impact on IT services and outsourcing providers, says Gartner

Although the Software as a Service (SaaS) market is still relatively small, IT service providers need to make important strategic decisions now, according to Gartner.

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





Form Armor helps non-profits stop Spam through Web contact forms

Webmasters at non-profit agencies have a new tool to help manage spam email submitted through Web site forms.

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





New Web Services Delivering Enterprise Level Quality of Service

Get the latest updates to critical innovations in Web Services and learn how you can achieve your business objectives using IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services.

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007





Perspectives on ASP.NET AJAX

Unless you've spent the past 12 months disconnected from the Net-perhaps vacationing on a remote tropical island or participating in a reality game show-you should know a few things about AJAX.

Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007