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


OpenID: Can It Become Single Sign-On For The Web?

The upstart identity system has attracted major backers but faces low adoption and competition from Windows CardSpace and Novell's Bandit Project. Can it reach critical mass?

Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2007





Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation

The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) reached recommendation status on August 28 2007

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007





Meeting SOA and Web Services Security Challenges, Part 2

"SOA compounds the security decision because many moving parts, as in modular programs, come together as the final application.

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007





The Best Laid (SOA) Plans

SOA planners should use these enterprise architecture management best practices.

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





NIST issues guidelines on securing Web services

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a 128-page guide to help organizations understand the security challenges

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





WebEx to Present at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo

AJAX Shows the Way to Enterprise Software Success

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





Meeting SOA and Web Services Security Challenges, Part 1

"We set out to see what kind of documents were out there that might result in economic damage to banks," said researcher Scott Dynes.

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





The Quest for Mainframe Data Access for SOA

In today's customer-centric enterprise, regulatory mandates, globalization and corporate mergers and acquisitions are accelerating

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





IBM SOA for Mid-Market Executive Kit: Unlock Business Value with Service Oriented Architecture

SOA is a cost-effective strategy that offers dramatic benefits to mid-sized companies.

Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007





Enterprise Mashups Track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West

JackBe CTO John Crupi, IBM CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies David Boloker, and more...

Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007





Giving Voice to Enterprise 2.0 Web Services via AJAX

Competitive advantage will come from harnessing VoIP and SOA to rich Enterprise 2.0 Web services

Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007





Keynote Speech by Mr. Stephen Mak, at the "Web2.0 and Business Innovation: Generating Value "

It is my honour to speak with you today on such an interesting theme - "Web 2.0 and Business Innovation: Generating Value With Lead Users".

Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007





HP Rolls Out Printers, Web Services For Businesses, Consumers

Hewlett-Packard(HP) on Tuesday launched a $300 million marketing campaign to help drive its strategy of leveraging Web-based printing services

Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2007





SOA Enterprise Mashups Without Data Services?

SOA has become a popular approach in breaking down barriers to enable the reuse of services across enterprise silos

Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2007





Anarchy hits free-wheeling SOA-land

SERVICE oriented architecture, the snap and play approach to business software that promises so much, is being hampered by the old bogey - a lack of standards among users.

Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2007





Java versus Microsoft for SOA

Java versus .NET for service-oriented architecture (SOA) development is something less than the war of the worlds, but as an industry debate analysts offer contrasting views.

Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2007





Yahoo! first Web mail service to add SMS

Yahoo! went live today with new Yahoo! Mail Web service, most notably adding free, real-time text messaging built right into the e-mail Web interface.

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





SOA Consortium Presents: SOA Governance Roundtable Podcast

The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide presentation of the SOA Governance Roundtable that was held at its recent European general meeting

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Survey: Only 37% of enterprises achieve positive ROI with SOA

Nucleus Research and KnowlegeStorm have recently released a report of a survey they did, citing that only 37% of 106 enterprises

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Service Oriented Architecture for Enterprise Applications

Most IT organizations today need to justify their projects with an expected Return on Investment (ROI) and on Customer Satisfaction

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Does Microsoft get SOA?

It may sound odd to assert that Microsoft might have something to prove in the world of software, but in the case of service-oriented architecture it may be true

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Sullr: Who's Calling Me?

Every now and again, I'll get call from a number I don't recognize. I normally don't answer unless I'm expecting a call

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Business Communications Platforms Breath New Life into Legacy Voice Systems

I often come across CIOs and other IT professionals who are frustrated that their corporate communications services seem out of date

Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007





Open Standards Forum Tackles Web Services and Government

The public and private sectors will tackle "Enabling Transformational Government through Web Services and SOA"

Posted: Sunday, August 26, 2007





SOA Software Service Manager 5.0 + Workbench 5.0 Product Review

Platform-independence, adapting to client consumption and service provider needs, and situational awareness

Posted: Friday, August 24, 2007





IBM Federal SOA Institute Launches IT Certification Program

First SOA Certification and Training Program for Federal IT Professionals

Posted: Friday, August 24, 2007





Mixing It Up With SOA and SaaS, Part 2

"It's unlikely than an organization will strictly choose one path or the other when it comes to SaaS and software services that are built in-house.

Posted: Friday, August 24, 2007





Lotus Notes and Domino 8 accomplish SOA goal

I'll admit that in my IBM Lotus Notes 7 review about two years ago, I got Version 8's release date a wee bit off.

Posted: Friday, August 24, 2007





Service-oriented Architecture: SOA’s inherent flexibility helps government automate and collaborate

In order to respond more quickly to ever-changing business needs, share information more efficiently and securely

Posted: Friday, August 24, 2007





Closing the Loop

Governance is the tail that wags the SOA dog. An organization that deploys Web Services without a solid governance program is headed for serious trouble in terms of reliability, security, and cost.

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





IBM launches SOA training program

IBM has launched a service-oriented architecture certification and training program for federal information technology professionals

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





Selling SOA to the Business

Richard Veryard, a software industry analyst for the CBDi Forum, ponders the question: Do we have to sell SOA? If yes, how should it be done? He also talks about the cost and ROI of SOA.

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





Spring Web Services 1.0 focuses on 'contract-first'

The "contract-first" approach to Web services creation provides developers with the right path to service-oriented architecture (SOA

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





Pilot SOA/BPM Tools Now! Wait Until 2009 to Implement in Mission-critical Processes: AMR Study

In a new survey by AMR Research, it has been revealed that although SOA/BPM tools are maturing rapidly, companies focused on adding unique business processes to their enterprise...

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





Service-Oriented Infrastructure Building

Aligning IT infrastructure with the business needs.

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007





Microsoft Brings Its Web Services To Nokia Phones

The phone maker said Wednesday it would bring Microsoft's Windows Live suite of Web services, like e-mail and instant messaging, to many of its cell phones.

Posted: Wednesday, August 22, 2007





Approaching SOA Testing

So, does testing change with SOA? You bet it does. Unless you're willing to act now, you may find yourself behind the curve as SOA

Posted: Wednesday, August 22, 2007





Doubtful Diagrams and Far Out Figures of Web 2.0

I'm against the vast overuse of meaningless diagrams that presenters use to confuse, impress, and befuddle the Web 2.0 audience

Posted: Wednesday, August 22, 2007





Data Services Made Easy for Adobe Flex Applications

Flex has gotten popular lately because of its rich GUI capabilities.

Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2007





Flock 0.9.0.1 for Windows

This one-stop Web browser offers easy blogging and integration with Web services, but not all of its features are configurable.

Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2007





Spring Web Services 1.0 Released

Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack

Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2007





The SOA backlash begins

There's nothing journalists like better than an easy piece of copy to write (actually, there are several things they like more

Posted: Tuesday, August 21, 2007





Service Platforms Emerge as the Foundation for SOA

SCA, domain-specific languages and XML processing capabilities - the next generation

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





The Scaling Crisis Around SOA

Making solutions scale is nothing new. However, the SOA technology and approaches employed recently are largely untested with higher application and information and service management traffic loads

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





SOA Plays Well with AJAX and Web 2.0

SOAWorld 2007 brought together an amazing group of IT professionals who helped describe and expand the definitions of SOA

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





Achieving Decision Consistency Across the SOA-based Enterprise: Using Business Rules Management

The adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides businesses with the ability to rapidly deploy new applications

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





Shuffling virtual servers for optimum power efficiency

Today's datacenters squander AC power on excess capacity. But what if you could assemble dynamic, virtual server farms on the fly and consume only the power you need?

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





Industry report: SOA is overly hyped

"Rumors of SOA adoption rates are exaggerated," says an industry report being announced on Monday that tosses some cold water on the hot topic of SOA.

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





So you think you know SOA?

The term service-oriented architecture gets thrown around a lot these days

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





Ask The Web Services Expert: Questions & Answers

In SOA we publish our functions in the form of Web services. It seems quite feasible if we are dealing with the general purpose service that many people on the Internet use it

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





SOA quality is job one

You can build a complex house of cards, but when you're finished, it's still a house of cards.

Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007





SOA Feature — The Three Faces of SOA

COTS, Legacy, and New Development

Posted: Sunday, August 19, 2007





Less hardware offers a lot more in the new world of virtualisation

Events on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley last week brought to mind the moment in Mike Nichols's 1967 film, 'The Graduate',

Posted: Sunday, August 19, 2007





Bread Today, Jam Tomorrow. Making SOA a Hit with Business Leaders

The dawn of any new age in computing comes with its false dawns, early warning bells signalling a lack of standards

Posted: Saturday, August 18, 2007





New IBM Lotus Expeditor Software Mobilizes Mashups for Desktop, Laptop and Road Warriors

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new technology that is designed to arm professionals with the ability to combine information

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





Building SOAs That Benefit Business Users

Matching user needs to the IT benefits of moving to Service-Oriented Architecture

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





Service Pack Previews Arrive

Microsoft last week released community technology previews of upcoming service packs for Exchange Server 2007

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





Origins and Influences of Service Orientation

SOA has evolved from several earlier design paradigms, including object orientation, web services, and others. In turn SOA has influenced changes in the technologies upon which it is based.

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





SOA Security Basics

Security for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) was described by Brian V. Cummings of Tata Consultancy Services at the IBM SHARE conference this week

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





SOA Governance - Rule Your SOA

This whitepaper underscores the fact that SOA Governance is no side issue

Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007





An Introduction to SOA and Virtualization

I’ve been asked a number of times recently by industry peers and technology journalists about “virtualization” as it relates to SOA

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





Is SOA Ready to Move from the Whiteboards and into Production IT?

Is SOA ready to move from the whiteboards and into production IT? As you might have guessed

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





SOA Quality Assurance

Since today's complex SOA and Web 2.0 applications are becoming increasingly difficult to test at the application level, leaving the burden of testing to QA is inefficient and ineffective. A new approach is needed.

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





The Importance of SOA Governance

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become the new de facto standard for designing and creating reusable business rules

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





Best Practices for Accelerating Problem Resolution in .NET Applications and Web Services

Whether you're in the process of building .NET applications or already running .NET-based Web Services

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





BPEL4People adds human factor to SOA

Vendors active in creating Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) 2.0, which became an OASIS standard this past spring, are now working on two specifications that extend it to include human activities.

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007





WebSphere CTO champions Web SOA on Project Zero

IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about Project Zero and how the REST framework being developed in it will impact enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) by extending it out into Web-oriented architecture.

Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007





Why SOA Needs BPEL To Achieve Orchestration

BPEL is for creating higher-level abstaction on top of Web services

Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2007





Microsoft seals aQuantive deal

In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive yesterday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest

Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2007





The Foundation of SOA Quality

Some industry analysts and media surveys report that many, if not most companies are engaged in some form of SOA initiatives

Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2007





SOA and Software Appliances

One important trend in regard to SOA deployment options is virtualization.

Posted: Monday, August 13, 2007





Microsoft offers Windows Live in dashboard format

Microsoft has begun offering its Windows Live services in a new dashboard view format. Users of Windows Live

Posted: Monday, August 13, 2007





AJAX - SOA - Web 2.0 - "Empowering Business Users Through Enterprise Mashups"

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) efforts are typically thought of as a “behind-the-scenes” solution.

Posted: Monday, August 13, 2007





Is SOA Ready to Move from the Whiteboards and into Production IT?

Is SOA ready to move from the whiteboards and into production IT?

Posted: Sunday, August 12, 2007





Open Source SOA for Strategic IT

Service Oriented Architecture is becoming a major "buzzword" in IT and business circles.

Posted: Sunday, August 12, 2007





Sensor data gets Web services format

The Open Geospatial Consortium has approved a new Extensible Markup Language-based schema for describing data that comes from remote sensors.

Posted: Friday, August 10, 2007





Before you budget: 5 benchmarks to consider

Budget season is once again upon us, and as IT leaders, we are often faced with a stark realization about the prior year

Posted: Friday, August 10, 2007





Web 2.0 Is A Gift, Not A Threat, To VCs

So many have posited that Web 2.0 is a threat to the venture capital model.

Posted: Thursday, August 09, 2007





OASIS forms six committees to simplify SOA

Can forming six committees result in simplification? OASIS believes this is the way to go with its SOA efforts.

Posted: Thursday, August 09, 2007





IBM chides Microsoft over SOA

IBM has criticized Microsoft over its approach to service-oriented architecture, saying the software giant offers a "lightweight messaging infrastructure."

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007





Selecting a professional web design company

From a web design company’s perspective, it can also be difficult extracting enough information from a potential client to provide an accurate cost of the potential website project.

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007





Java Increases and .Net Declines in SOA Platform Deployments, New Evans Data Survey Shows

The number of companies planning or executing SOA deployments on a Java platform increased slightly during the last six months