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


Pragmatic SOA Interoperability

Architecture, not new middleware

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007





Are You Really Ready for SOA?

Before you design a modern IT architecture, you have to understand your business model.

Posted: Friday, June 29, 2007





SOA, RIA and the Human Factor

Why people try to implement SOA and do you really need it

Posted: Friday, June 29, 2007





Are You Ready for Mashups?

With the emergence of Web 2.0 and SOA technologies, mashups have gained in popularity.

Posted: Friday, June 29, 2007





WS-I adding to blueprints for Web services usage

Blueprints for implementing interoperable and secure Web services are being amended by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)

Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2007





The Truth About SOA Governance

Ungoverned SOA may be occurring right now in your enterprise and compromising all of your systems.

Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2007





Microsoft renews web apps push

Microsoft has released a beta of two online services in what the company claims will be a renewed campaign for web-based applications.

Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2007





Still no Focus on the “A” of SOA

Back from the SOA World conference held in NYC. I was only there for a day, but enjoy my short time at the conference including meeting practitioners and vendors.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





JDJ Feature — Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)

WebLogic Server 10 Technology Preview supports JEE 5. A feature of JEE 5 is the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) used to create Web Services and Web Service clients.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





WSDL 2.0 approved

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is announcing Wednesday that it has completed work on the WSDL 2.0 Web services standard, which expands HTTP and SOAP support for Web applications.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





Layer 7 introduces virtual SOA appliance

Layer 7 Technologies, which makes a variety of appliance and software-based XML firewalls, is adding virtualization to the mix. The result is that the software version of Layer 7's appliance becomes more compelling because you could now cram it into a VMware partition.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





W3C Completes Work on Critical Web Services Standard

Today, W3C has finalized a Web services description language with full support of the primary protocol for the Web, HTTP and the most frequently implemented Web services protocol, SOAP.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





Microsoft Unveils New Web Services

Plans test versions of two new free services: Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007





Bottom Line SOA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a promising harbinger of agility, but is certainly not without its critics. Although SOA is not a new concept, it's not a mainstream approach and has not yet demonstrated widespread, repeatable success.

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





Microsoft's David Greschler Outlines Virtualization at SOA World 2007

Keynote Centers on "Diversity of Virtualization," Streamed Live to Thousands of Global Viewers

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





SOA: Next Step in Healthcare Systems Evolution

Service-oriented architecture builds upon previous architecture approaches while not requiring complete re-engineering.

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





How EDA and CEP fit in with SOA

Most organizations at this point in time have made up their minds about SOA, such as when and if they will eventually invest in it

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





Mixing SOA and Batch Apps

Despite what most IT executives think, service-oriented architecture can fit with batch processes. Just beware of delays.

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





SOA Success Depends on Flexible Data Integration

OSS/BSS implementations continue to be limited by the time and cost of integration. While integration costs often overrun the cost for new software components

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007





More Than 9,000 Tuned Into Hal Stern's SOA World Opening Keynote

The largest independent SOA event in the world is expanded to three days and seven simultaneous tracks

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





IBM bringing Web 2.0 to corporate workers

Taking wikis and mashups to the enterprise is aim of new software

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





SOA and Web 2.0

I'm off to NYC again to speak at the SOA World Conference and Expo. My talk is entitled: 'Web 2.0'? – It's the Universal SOA taking place tomorrow

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





Piecemeal SOA

Agencies find an edge in starting with modest service-oriented architecture projects

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





What's in a Benchmark?

Opinion: In this case, Microsoft says plenty can be gleaned.

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





BPEL4People aims to bridge gap between humans and SOA

Recognizing that service-oriented architecture (SOA) business processes involve people too, a group of vendors today published specifications

Posted: Monday, June 25, 2007





SOA Editorial — The Rise of the Machine

Many recent science fiction novels deal with the concept of nanites - tiny bits of computers than can aggregate themselves to form new larger composites to assist their host.

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007





Microsoft Highlights Key Results from its Connected Services Sandbox

Microsoft Corp., at NXTcomm 2007, highlighted key results from its Connected Services Sandbox, an initiative to help promote its Telco 2.0 vision

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007





An Open Source SOA Strategy for Enterprise Service Buses

It's really about using open standards and open metadata ... as your foundation of integration, which means that you don't really end up with this problem of multiple ESBs

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007





Adopting SOA in RFID Deployments

How the combination of RFID and SOA can provide immense business benefits to the enterprise.

Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2007





Oracle To Present at SOA World Conference & Expo, June 24-27, in New York City

Oracle chief SOA technologist Dave Chappell will present a session entitled 'SOA Reality Check'

Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2007





Messaging standard OK'd for Web services

Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-ReliableMessaging) version 1.1, for message transference using Web services, has been approved as an official OASIS Standard, OASIS said on Thursday.

Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2007





Microsoft: SOA can free the civil servant

Implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT projects in the public sector would relieve civil servants from dead-end mechanical tasks, said Microsoft Corp.

Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2007





Microsoft Codename Acropolis Unwrapped

In case you've been living under a rock, Acropolis is a new framework currently in CTP

Posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2007





SYS-CON.TV Broadcasts "AJAX, SOA and Open Source Convergence" Power Panel from Its Times Studios

Leading Industry Commentators Outline the Present and Future of SOA and Rich Internet Applications

Posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2007





Yahoo! rolls out Go 2.0 mobile web service

Yahoo! says it is introducing a faster, improved version of its internet services for US mobile phone users.

Posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2007





Using EII to Fast-Track Your Way to SOA

As modern-day technology navigators, SOA architects are finding that EII or data federation provides an excellent charter for their voyage from planning and design to implementation.

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





JaxView Adds Agentless Management for SOA

Easily attain full visibility into your SOA environment with virtually no network overhead

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





BEA Arch2Arch Summit: Companies must bridge SOA divide

Getting the right people working together in the first place is one of the main barriers organisations face on the road to SOA success, according to HP's director of SOA.

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





Demystifying SOA in SAP NetWeaver

Upgrades are a fact of life in enterprise IT, but the benefits of SOA make a convincing case for NetWeaver adoption.

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





SOA platform vendors face more consolidation as competition heats up, says Butler Group

A Butler Group study reveals the competitive nature of the market for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment technologies.

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





JMS-based SOA monitors CERN particle accelerators

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) may not exactly be nuclear physics, but at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007





Microsoft re-launches MSN Mobile - revamped web portal for mobile phones

Microsoft has gone live with their newly revamped mobile web portal - MSN mobile!

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





'Italian job' Web attack hits more than 10,000 sites

The attack, which is primarily hitting Italian sites, has turned the pages into malware distributors

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled applications on Windows.

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





Webs and Documents and Services, Oh My!

The wait is finally over. After only three short months, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released their report

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





This Isn't Your Father's IBM

Though IBM is often viewed as a stodgy old technology giant focused primarily on delivering old-school solutions for big, plodding enterprises

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





SOA Cynic

SOA is a plausibly good and sometimes even useful idea that has been blown far out of proportion by various parties with their own axes to grind.

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





The SOA requirement for data integration

In the rush to build out service-oriented architecture a few fundamentals have gotten lost in the shuffle, perhaps none more than data integration.

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





SOA Uptake Still 'Early,' Analysts Say

A report from Research 2.0 describes the current use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as experimental.

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





Gartner: SOA governance remains crucial

Paolo Malinverno, Research Vice President for Gartner, took time out at Gartner's Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit 2007 in Nashville to discuss the fundamentals of SOA governance.

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007





Adobe Takes Web 2.0 to the Desktop

Adobe has delivered itself of a public beta of Flex 3, a free open source cross-platform framework for creating Rich Internet Ap

Posted: Sunday, June 17, 2007





Gears of War

The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft.

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





SOA Research In Academia Increasingly Industry Focused

The 2nd European Young Researcher Workshop on Service Oriented Computing was held this week at Leicester University.

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Market Forecast to Grow to $3.5B in 2010

The rapidly growing service delivery platform (SDP) market, including software and integration services, is forecast to hit $3.5 billion in 2010

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





SOA ROI = Dynamic Analysis

In speaking at the Gartner Show this week on SOA ROI, as well as attending some of the other sessions on the same topic, a few things became clear to me:

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





Web Services Meet RFID

Chris Clauss discusses the challenges and rewards of using EPCIS standards and SOA to build high-performance systems that collect and manage RFID data.

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





SOA underwrites insurance firms

Insurance companies must harness service oriented architectures (SOA) if they are to remain competitive in a changing market, financial services analyst TowerGroup has concluded.

Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007





Rapid Delivery Technologies for Enterprise Architecture: Web Services Concepts

This article introduces the concepts and reasons for the rapid growth of web services. It covers the concepts in some technical detail, with typical examples and applications using web services and the evolution of web services.

Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007





CAS+: Single Sign-On With Jifty (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, I shared my implementation of the Cental Authentication Service (CAS) protocol using the Jifty framework, CAS+.

Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007





Survey: SOA for Manufacturers and Owner/Operators

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is a very popular topic. The term SOA has come to mean many things to manufacturers, suppliers, integrators ...

Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007





SOA technology still baffles business

A major gripe of mine about service oriented architecture (SOA) is the lack of a clear definition of the term by the software industry.

Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007





Ubuntu's Malcolm Yates to Present at SOA World Conference & Expo

Yates' Session: "How Commercial Organizations Can Work with the Free Software Community"

Posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2007





A New Identity for Web Services

It's practically de rigueur these days for web sites with a lot of users and data to have web services. For example, YouTube.com has a set of REST web services

Posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2007





SOA governance, security concerns drive XACML interop

Leading vendors in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) space are working to demonstrate interoperability with Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 for their Web services software products.

Posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2007





Why End-to-End Testing For Integration and SOA is Essential

We expect a lot from SOA. We want business agility to support growth, attention to customers and efficient operations

Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007





SOA Using Java Web Services and AJAX

Java expert Mark Hansen provides a practical introduction to using Java Web services and AJAX to implement SOA

Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007





SOA Governance: The Basics

In a new InfoQ article, MomentumSI's Ed Vazquez explains the basics of SOA governance, with an explicit focus on the need for a holistic SOA governance model and shared governance principles.

Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007





Operating system virtualization and Web services

The computer press is full of interest in "virtualization" these days.

Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007





SOA World "Power Panel" on SYS-CON.TV Live From Times Square

Leading Technologists Gather in New York For the Upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo

Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007





Big challenges ahead for operating systems

Can two bitter rivals save the desktop operating system?

Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007





Web Services Implementation of a Third Kind

Redeploying existing Web Services using the new ASP.NET Web Services target in PowerBuilder 11

Posted: Saturday, June 09, 2007





Microsoft MVP talks about .Net, collaboration

Belgian-based U2U training consultant, and Microsoft MVP, Patrick Tisseghem, has specialized in Microsoft's SharePoint Server since its version 1.0 days.

Posted: Saturday, June 09, 2007





SOA, Web Services, and RESTful Systems

Representational state transfer, or "REST" for short, is a less restrictive form of SOA than web services

Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007





Apache Synapse Accelerates Open Source SOA

After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release.

Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007





How to cost an SOA project

As a consultant at both project and strategy levels I'm finding that a lot of real work needs to be done to get SOAs up-and-running.

Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007





Now's the time for a sweet deal in commercial real estate

Services is where the money is and it's the key remaining area where you can differentiate yourself from the competition.

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007





New Digital Signature Services OASIS Standard

OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved Digital Signature Services (DSS) version 1.0

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007





Web Hosting Professionals Gearing up for HostingCon 2007, Keynotes Announced

The biggest hosting event of the year approaches, HostingCon2007 on July 23-25. Three keynotes have been announced, which will cover industry trends and next generation technologies

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007





Considering SOA? Start with the benefits

As with all IT innovations, following initial inflated expectations, we are entering into a period of disillusionment around service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007





The Flesh and Bone of SOA

BPEL & Role Activity Diagrams

Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 2007





Microsoft, Liberty join for Web services identity interop

For the first time representatives of Liberty Alliance and Microsoft are going to sit down together along with VeriSign Inc

Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 2007





SOA Hike in Asia/Pacific

While business outcomes are crucial to sustain any project momentum, it is increasingly evident that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 200