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


IBM cuts ribbon on SOA institute

IBM Corp. has launched a service-oriented architecture center devoted to helping federal agencies adopt and benefit from SOA information technology initiatives.

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Real-World AJAX Book Preview: A Safer More Secure AJAX

As with any new technology or methodology, AJAX development has security risks. Many of these are easily avoided through good Web coding standards.

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Oracle Launches Oracle(R) Universal Content Management 10g Release 3

New Product to Deliver Industry's Most Unified, Services-based Enterprise Content Management Software

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Should We Pay SOA Bonuses?

I was listening to talk radio this weekend, and to a gentleman who was selling a book that made the case that humans work better when using incentives.

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Ask The Web Services Expert: Questions & Answers

What is fundamentally different about testing a Web service from testing a traditional Web application?

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Web 2.0 Threats and Risks for Financial Services

Web 2.0 technologies are gaining momentum worldwide, penetrating in all industries as enterprise 2.0 applications.

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





SOA performance, easier said than done

Everything looks good on paper. When you're planning out a major new IT initiative, say a service-oriented architecture ....

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007





Master Data Management Meets SOA

A symbiotic relationship

Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2007





SOA & Open Source Java — Enable a Module-Based Approach to Constructing Services

The Jedi mind trick is a Force power that can influence the actions of weak-minded sentient beings

Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2007





Understanding SOA Architectures and Models - Part 2

While there are SOA reference architectures all over the place, including mine, the best known SOA reference architecture is defined by OASIS. Here is their definition, albeit a work in progress:

Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2007





Does my business need a Web site?

Does every small business need a Web site? It is estimated that over 60 percent of Americans regularly shop online, representing 8 percent of all retail sales.

Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2007





AJAX in a SOA

A service-oriented architecture isn't much more than a loosely coupled collection of services - often Web services

Posted: Friday, April 27, 2007





IBM SOA Partner Program Grows 200 Percent

New Tools and Assets to Help Business Partners Target SOA Opportunities

Posted: Friday, April 27, 2007





3 SOA Implementation Tips

Three tips for navigating the sea of service-oriented architecture standards.

Posted: Friday, April 27, 2007





IBM Opens First SOA Institute for U.S. Federal Organizations

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) center devoted solely to helping U.S. Federal agencies

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





Can You Buy SOA?

SOA World Conference Tech Chair Sean Rhody Live from SYS-CON.TV's Times Square Studios

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





How ADFS "Does" Identity Federation

Give external partners access to data by using Active Directory Federation Services

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





Outage planned for Web services

All ITS services, including LoboWeb, WebCT and on-campus Internet, will be down from 9 p.m. May 12 to 11 a.m. May 13.

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





SOA Help Wanted: Balancing Outsourcing, Insourcing and Re-Skilling

What's the best strategy for staffing enterprise service-oriented architecture initiatives? You might be surprised.

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





SOA Comes at a Cost

Companies look to develop best practices around the business processes and technology changes required with SOA as its popularity and use continues to soar.

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





Ready, Set, Evaluate! Windows Server 'Longhorn' Reaches Beta 3

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the first publicly available test version of the next edition of Windows Server(R), code-named "Longhorn."

Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007





The Big Shift with AJAX and Web Service Bus Architectures

AJAX and Web Service Bus architectures enable the shift from request and response to message and event-driven architecture

Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007





Web services transaction spec approved

OASIS has approved as an official standard WS-Context 1.0, bolstering Web services in transactional environments.

Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007





Web 2.0 Mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion Deal

Wouldn't trusted providers of Web services constitute a form of mashup governance by making their offerings mission critical, in effect engaging enterprises based on trust, compelling value, customer service and ease of integration and use?

Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007





CFDJ Cover Story — ColdFusion/.NET Integration

As both a .NET programmer and ColdFusion developer, I always wondered how I could leverage the world of .NET in ColdFusion. Both platforms come with powerful features and using them together might be a wonderful friendship

Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2007





Microsoft's BizTalk Services Simplify SOA

Microsoft has delivered a set of new services based on its BizTalk Server technology to help developers build new SOA-oriented applications.

Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2007





Tony Baer: Oracle's 'X' Marks the Spot

Oracle's Project X tries to accomplish what has so far eluded organizations: defining a set of common business objects so one enterprise system can exchange its customer object or process with another.

Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2007





SOA and SaaS: Where do the twain meet?

Just as light can be both wave and particle, software as a service (SaaS) can sometimes be part of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and sometimes have nothing to do with it.

Posted: Monday, April 23, 2007





Review: Move .Net Apps To Linux

The open-source .Net community has been growing rapidly over the past three years due to the efforts of Mono .Net, the Novell-sponsored project that lies at the heart of this movement.

Posted: Monday, April 23, 2007





SOA Governance Only Solving Part of the Problem

As I've stated here a few times before, while I do believe in the notion of SOA governance the available tools and technology will only get you a small part of the way down the true SOA governance path.

Posted: Sunday, April 22, 2007





SaaS, SOA, and AJAX

Most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) require the same software capabilities as large enterprises but don't have the resources and in-house technical expertise necessary to manage it themselves.

Posted: Saturday, April 21, 2007





Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Flavors of XML

Earlier we compared formatting payloads in JSON versus XML. One of the chief advantages of sticking with XML is that it can be validated ...

Posted: Friday, April 20, 2007





Four Keys for SOA Success, Even in Government

This month’s issue of Public CIO includes a lengthy feature on SOA implementations and what it takes to succeed.

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





IBM Updates WebSphere SOA Portal for Web 2.0 Era

Business Accelerators Said to Decrease Deployment Time

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





Joe McKendrick Asks "Just a Bunch of Web Services or SOA?"

Joe McKendrick will present "JBOWS* or SOA? – A Reality Check" (*Just a Bunch of Web Services) session at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo.

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





Business Processes for SOA Apps

This tutorial shows how one can quickly develop an SOA application which involves Web Services and processing business elements with Netbeans

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





Software standards: SOA and application development

The OASIS standards consortium has unveiled its Open Composite Services Architecture initiative.

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





Tricky Business: Building Fault-Tolerant Web Services

Building Web services and SOAs requires nothing less than a complete and thorough review and re-engineering of IT systems environments, from storage media and databases to servers and networks, to end-user applications.

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007





ZapThink To Present "Web 2.0 & SOA" at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East

Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena

Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2007





OASIS approved Web Services Transaction Ver 1.1

OASIS approved the Web Services Transaction Version 1.1 specification, which has three parts: WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity.

Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2007





SOA and Data Integration

The marriage of data integration and SOA could end up in divorce

Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2007





SOA & Web Services - Is It Done Yet?

Three steps to checking in your code with confidence

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007





SOA Best Practices - Four Steps to Securing Your Web Services

Security has the inherent nature of spanning many different layers of a Web Services system

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007





How Web services can use JavaSpaces

In my previous article I laid out some differences between the various technologies that get lumped under the term "grid computing" and how Web services and grid computing can work together.

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007





SOA For Document Capture

You can’t pick up a technology industry magazine (or read one online) without being assaulted by articles on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007





Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit

Over the last few years, it has become more and more apparent that in the brave new service-oriented world, application integration and development are two sides of the same coin.

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007





81 per cent of people turned off by housing association web services

8 out of 10 people are not using the housing association online services available to them, according to housing professionals within local authorities, in a survey commissioned by IBS OPENSystems.

Posted: Monday, April 16, 2007





Secure Your ASP.NET Apps And WCF Services With Windows CardSpace

I In May 2005, Microsoft introduced its vision for an identity metasystem that would reduce the complexities and risks associated with managing and exchanging digital identities.

Posted: Monday, April 16, 2007





Microsoft: The SOA road less traveled

When talking to analysts who cover service-oriented architecture and are studying Microsoft's approach to SOA, a one word description emerges: "different."

Posted: Monday, April 16, 2007





Explaining SOA

I have to explain SOA 3 – 5 times a day, depending on what I'm doing that day. It's a common question, and is still a good question if you ask me.

Posted: Monday, April 16, 2007





Evolving Applications for SOA and Virtualization Allow Greater Connectivity

To address key IT goals of standardization, interoperability, and reusability to help address business needs including time-to-market pressures, competitive differentiation, compliance, and cost control

Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007





Which Comes First? BPM or SOA?

Confused about which comes first, BPM or SOA? Should you focus on business improvement or on integrating to your legacy environment?

Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007





SaaS, SOA, and AJAX

Most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) require the same software capabilities as large enterprises but don't have the resources and in-house technical expertise necessary to manage it themselves.

Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007





New Microsoft data center powers Web services push

In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age.

Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007





On-Demand Integration: Addressing the SOA Challenge

On-Demand is a new business model that is becoming increasingly important to both Enterprise and Small and Medium Business (SMB) customers

Posted: Saturday, April 14, 2007





Security in a SOA

Key to achieving the plug-and-play goals of SOA

Posted: Saturday, April 14, 2007





Engaging the SOA Market the Open Source Way

Iona’s acquisition of LogicBlaze is targeted at the open source development for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007





Asian businesses still hesitant on SOA adoption

Nearly half of businesses in the Asia-Pacific region have no plans to initiate service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects, though more can be done to persuade them otherwise, according to a new study by research analyst IDC.

Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007





How To Navigate A Sea of SOA Standards

Facing too many emerging standards -- and not enough vendor support for them -- in your service-oriented architecture implementation? Consider these steps in your planning.

Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007





IT vendors need to elevate SOA knowledge across Western European industries, says IDC

An IDC study of SOA among Western European executives reveals that while familiarity with SOA varies signficantly between vertical industries, the importance ascribed to SOA is fairly consistent.

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





Passport to SOA

Sandy Carter's whirlwind tour of leading markets deploying SOA solutions.

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





SOA's Hidden Danger

There's been a great deal written about the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- some of it real and some of it hype -- about how adopting SOAs can make a business more nimble

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





Solve Performance Problems with FastSOA Patterns

Here we're going to show a FastSOA mid-tier service and data caching architecture applied in three real-world scenarios. The scenarios show how to accelerate SOA performance and mitigate performance problems

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





WS-BPEL Ratified as OASIS Standard

OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





5 things to consider when beginning an SOA

Best of the blogs: Sure, there are more points to understand when embarking on an SOA project, but David Linthicum starts with the top 5 to worry about. The first, of course, is people.

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007





Debbie Moynihan To Deliver "SOA and Open Source" Session at SOA World Conference & Expo

Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source!

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007





Improving Processes With Automated SOA Governance

Like many other parts of the IT infrastructure and software development lifecycle, the more you can automate your SOA governance, the more effective and efficient it will be.

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007





OASIS advances SOA standards

Pushing simplification in cross-vendor components

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007





The Indispensable SOA

What it's doing to industries and how you can start with it

Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007





CICS Gets Another SOA-Friendly Infusion

IBM Corp. last week announced a new version of its CICS Transaction Server for z/OS.

Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007





Beyond the Blueprint

Transformative issues can plague SOA projects as they move to implementation.

Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007





Time for a Web Services Reality Check?

"Web services are not the answer to every technical problem existing in companies today, but just as with many new technologies, Web services originally made a few promises that haven't quite made it to reality,"

Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007





Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack Beta 1 (x64)

Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 1 is now available for download.

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





Sean Rhody Named Tech Chair of SOA World Conference & Expo

Rhody is the founding-editor and editor-in-chief of "SOA World Magazine" and a respected SOA industry expert

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





Phixr: another Web-based photo editing app

Phixr is a free, Web-based photo editing tool that celebrates its one-year anniversary tomorrow

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





Security in a SOA

Key to achieving the plug-and-play goals of SOA

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





Chopping Down Trees: How To Build Flatter BPEL Processes?

The natural visualization of a business process is of boxes and arrows arranged in a tree-like formation

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





Management and Governance Key to SOA, Report Finds

Companies working to tie together their disparate software and database systems using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) appear to be having mixed results, according to a report issued by the research firm Aberdeen Group.

Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007





SOA Vendors Need to Increase User Understanding

IDC Report Issued in Milan Says SOA Knowledge Varies Among Industries

Posted: Saturday, April 07, 2007





SOA Adoption to Double in Enterprise

Nearly 60 Percent Surveyed Plan to Increase Web Services Security, Too

Posted: Friday, April 06, 2007





I'll push and you pull. The mashup approach to application integration

The phenomenon of mashup applications[1] on the web intrigues me. The applications themselves are fascinating enough but on top of that you have the richly painted canvas of reaction and opinion from the IT community.

Posted: Friday, April 06, 2007