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:: Web Services and SOA News - January, 2008 ::


Web Service Virtualization for SOA Runtime Governance

Gregory Brail's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





The End of Middleware As You Know It at SOA World

Eric Newcomer's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





The Companies Included in the Research ‘SOA Governance in the Enterprise’ Proved That SOA is Viable

Research and Markets has announced the addition of SOA Governance in the Enterprise to their offering.

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Announce Program for SOA in Healthcare Workshop: Realizing Quality

Conference will be held April 15-17, 2008 in Chicago, IL, USA

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





IBM, Mitsubishi Electric and ILS Technology Develop Reference Architecture for Automotive Industry

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, IBM and ILS Technology LLC today announced they are delivering a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





Pete's Security Podcast: The Challenges of SOA Security: A Discussion with Layer 7

What follows is a transcript of my podcast with Adam Vincent, the Federal Technical Director of Layer 7 Technologies.

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008





Avoiding a SOA Fiasco: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Jacek Kruszelnicki's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





How to Implement a Highly Distributed, Real-Time Data-Critical SOA Application

Gordon Hunt's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





Virtualizing End Points - A Closer Look at this Game Changing Virtualization Architecture

Etay Bogner's Virtualization Session at the Virtualization Conference and Expo, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





Turning self-service into a reality

Companies that want to benefit from self-service should start off by identifying the most regular high-volume service interactions

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





Survey Indicates High Levels of Maturity and Success for Deployed SOA Systems

AmberPoint today announced the results of its State of SOA Adoption Survey, which the company conducted to gauge the use of SOA in the enterprise.

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





IBM announces Master Data Management server for SOA

IBM Master Data Management (MDM) Server, which Big Blue is announcing today, is designed to simplify getting data from a variety of sources into service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





A Safe and Flexible Architecture

The conflict over enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) is just an illusion.

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008





A revolution is taking shape

When the founder of Microsoft retires this year, it will not only mark the close of a remarkable business career.

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





SOA integration: Accenture launches Innovation Centre for Oracle in Europe

Recent data out of industry analyst firm IDC confirms many organizations have successfully completed small-scale service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





SOA World Editorial: Facing Facts

Last month I wrote about the future, what might be ahead for SOA and beyond, focusing significantly on user interfaces.

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





ControlC: Turning Cut & Paste Into A Web Service

ControlC is an interesting new site that takes normal copy and pasting (Ctrl-C) and runs it through a web service.

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





Enterprise mashups, SOA's killer app?

Why are enterprise mashups sexier than service-oriented architecture (SOA)?

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





HP Unveil SOA Governance Software

Hewlett Packard (HP) has announced a set of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance software and services aimed at eliminating risks like service disruption for businesses.

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008





Joggle collects content across devices on Web

Fabrik on Monday introduced Joggle, a new Web service powered by Adobe AIR that promises to make it easier

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?

The debate around Push versus Pull architecture has been resurrected, sparked by a posting from Jive Software's CTO Matt Tucker declaring that the push based approach of XMPP is the future for cloud services:

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





New Open Source WSO2 Mashup Server Combines Best of Web 2.0 and SOA to Enable the Social Enterprise

WSO2 Mashup Server and Mooshup.com Mashup Service Let Mashups Scale From Individuals to Enterprise Teams to Internet Communities

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





Advertising everywhere

Is there any LCD screen that hasn't been turned into a revenue-generating billboard?

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





Oracle: New SOA Tools for EnterpriseOne

Oracle has upgraded its SOA-enabling tools for its ERP suite JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





IBM and Fair Isaac Tie the SOA Knot

IBM and Fair Isaac have expanded their cooperative efforts into a joint strategic and global marketing alliance.

Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008





IBM: Users Say SOA ’Skills Gap’ Hampers ROI

Corporate execs looking to capture full value from SOA investments say they are handstrung by a lack of SOA skills throughout their organization

Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008





SOA World Special: Why Flexibility Is Key to a Successful Data Migration

Data migration has rapidly risen from distant acquaintance to the CIO's very best friend. In this article, Celona Technology's Paul Hollingsworth explains why data migration is the new hot topic of 2008 and examines what can be done to ensure migrations are delivered on time, to budget and aligned to business need.

Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008





SOA and Unified Communications: Together at Last

As companies continue the pursuit of reaping the cost savings and productivity enhancements offered by integrating real-time voice traffic over the corporate Wide Area Network (WAN)

Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008





SOA Consortium Offers Podcast Featuring IBM's Sandy Carter on 'IT Needs SOA Skills'

The SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM, on IT Needs SOA Skills

Posted: Saturday, January 26, 2008





Blueprint For Application Performance Management

Managing performance of Web services-based applications requires new tools.

Posted: Saturday, January 26, 2008





BI Becomes the Jewel in SOA's Crown

High-tech vendor consolidations often take place in waves.

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





Skywire Software Achieves IBM SOA Specialty Partnership Status

Skywire Software announced it has achieved IBM SOA Specialty partnership status after successfully completing IBM’s rigorous SOA (service-oriented architecture)

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





SOA and Virtualization: Friend or Foe?

Tom Woteki's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





OpSource To Sponsor AJAX World Conference & Expo

OpSource delivers Rich Internet Applications and a unique Rich Web Technology as a service

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





SOA and Virtualization: Friend or Foe?

Tom Woteki's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





WSO2 open source mashup builder leverages JavaScript

WSO2 also relies on Web services with the launch of WSO2 Mashup Server and its hosted online version called Mooshup.com

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





Opinion: Goodbye, notebook; hello 'Web tablet'

The notebook computer is doomed. OK, that's a little strong. And as one of the people who worked on the first laptop PC, the GRiD Systems Compass Computer Model 1101

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





The Dark Side Of SOA

SMEs May Face Challenges With Service-Oriented Architecture Security

Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008





IBM Introduces Latest Set Of Web 2.0, Collaboration Tools

Lotus Mashups lets employees pick and choose their own portals using a company's business software or Internet apps, such as a Wikipedia page or a Google search bar.

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





SOA by the Numbers

David S. Linthicum's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





Web Service Virtualization for SOA Runtime Governance

Gregory Brail's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





Avoiding a SOA Fiasco: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Jacek Kruszelnicki's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





UIC-SoA Lectures/Episodes

UIC SoA Spring 2008 Lecture Series... 02.11 Donald Bates (Dir., LAB Architecture Studio, Melbourne)

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





Roundtable: Technology Trends for 2008: BPM and SOA

One of questions we get asked most often from our members is: “What is the relationship between BPM and SOA?”

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008





WebLogic Server 10.3 Adds HTTP Pub/Sub Server, Optional Services Startup and FastSwap Deployment

BEA systems recently released a technology preview of WebLogic Server 10.3 version. This tech preview is a pre-release of WL Server 10.3 which is the follow-on release to version 10.0. The new server release focuses on the enhancements in the following three areas:

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





OpSource Announces Keynote Speakers and Panelists for SaaS Summit 2008: Third Annual SaaS

OpSource(TM), the SaaS delivery experts, today announced the keynote speakers and panelists for its third annual SaaS Summit. Jim Steele, Chief Customer Officer and President of International Operations, salesforce.com

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





SOA mature, diverse and successful – study finds

If nothing succeeds like success, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is poised for victory, according to a new "State of SOA Adoption Survey" conducted by AmberPoint Inc., the SOA governance vendor.

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





IBM Adds AptSoft to SOA Portfolio

IBM on Wednesday acquired privately held AptSoft, a Burlington, Mass.-based developer of software used to identify and alert businesses

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels

SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM,

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





Should SOA and Good Architectural Governance Become a Corporate Responsibility?

Perhaps shareholder lawsuits that cancel yearly bonuses will become the new motivator

Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008





SOA Data Security Workshop

As the internet continues to become more hostile and Information Technology infrastructure comes under contractual and government regulation

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





Microsoft's Muglia on Virtualization: "It Is Still Early Days of Virtualization"

Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, speaks out

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





HBO to let subscribers download movies, TV shows

HBO will launch a service to let its content available on the Internet and allow subscribers download movies and televisions shows over the Web

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers

Whilst the idea of Software as a Service (SaaS) is increasingly mainstream Hardware as a Service (HaaS) is still a new concept.

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





Survey Indicates High Levels of Maturity and Success for Deployed SOA Systems

SOA Adoption Survey Also Points to Heterogeneous Nature of SOA Environments, Including Many “Non-SOA” Components

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





Some Thoughts on Service Descriptions and SOA

With the advent of Web services, most enterprises that I deal with now have thousands sometimes tens of thousands of services under management.

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





User-group study: Mainframes live on through SOA

Because mainframes hold a large chunk of the world's business information, they are integral to SOA projects, according to IBM's SHARE user group

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





SOA Adoption Increases across Western European Sectors

A recent IDC (News - Alert) study indicates that there is a growing interest in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption across Western European sectors.

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





Horror stories offer reason for long-term SOA planning

Perhaps every software application from the era of punch cards to today's service-oriented architecture (SOA) started out with good intentions, but the road to cost over-runs is paved with good intentions.

Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008





SOA World Product Review: iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing

Testing is a first-order constituent of SOA governance. Assuring that services and service infrastructure components meet functional and technical requirements across lifecycle stages and environments, including production, is an architectural precept in SOA.

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Interview: IBM CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero

As confAs covered on InfoQ before, Project Zero introduces a scripting (Groovy or PHP) based development environement for quickly creatingn

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Government urges residents to use web services to cut CO2 emissions

The government is urging residents to use council web services to help cut CO2 emissions.

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





HCL Technologies Launches SOA Competency Center for Retailers

HCL Technologies announced the launch of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Competency Center for Retailers at this week's National Retail Federation Convention.

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Processing XML Using Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)

Overview: The Java Architecture for XML Data Binding (JAXB) technology gives Java developers an efficient and standard way

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Who's Responsible for SOA Quality in a Service-Oriented Architecture?

Service-oriented architectures are much different than our traditional siloed applications. SOAs span multiple tiers and multiple applications

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Five steps to better data management

WE OFTEN BEGIN a new year by reflecting on the past and planning for the future, resolving to dedicate or rededicate ourselves to the disciplines of a healthier lifestyle.

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





NRF Afterthoughts: Will the Desire to Implement SOA Finally Bring Everyone to the Standards Table?

For too long, companies have ignored standards because they thought there was something unique about their own requirements

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008





Managing your online identity

Here's the one thing I hate about using the web - all the passwords I have to remember to access various internet services.

Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008





What's Next After SOA?

This is the time of year when trend or predication articles start cropping up. Year after year I'm asked if I would be interested in writing about what's to come.

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008





A Bright SOA IDEA: The Road Map for Service-Oriented Success

Implementing SOA without a roadmap and a guide almost certainly means disaster

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008





Ensuring Web Site Performance

In today’s Web 2.0 world, organizations strive to make their Web sites more appealing to visitors.

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008





Yahoo helping OpenID plan, which might simplify Web log-ins

Having to remember different passwords to sign onto various Web sites is a major annoyance in the Internet age.

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008





How to Effectively Measure and Monitor Activity in Your Portal Environment

Oracle Portal combines a rich, declarative environment for creating a portal Web interface, publishing and managing information

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008





Top 10 mistakes when implementing SOA projects

Commentary--A growing number of companies are implementing SOA projects to lower IT integration

Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008





Your data anywhere & anytime

You never know where or when you'll need to get work done. With these tools and tips, your vital programs and files will always be along for the ride.

Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008





SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East Call for Papers Now Open

The best minds in SOA will converge in New York City on June 23-24, 2008

Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008





The SOA implications of Oracle's BEA purchase

This fall, leaves will turn bright colors in New England, Americans will elect a new president and what Oracle Corp. plans to do with BEA Systems Inc. after the $8.5 billion acquisition closes may be clearer.

Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008





WSO2 Unveils Web Services Framework for Ruby

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced the debut of the WSO2 Web Services Framework for Ruby (WSF/Ruby) 1.0

Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008





SOA World Magazine 6th Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations Open

Recognizes excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors

Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2008





SOA - A Business Agility Strategy

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business agility strategy. Repeat after me: Business. Agility. Strategy. There are so many technology-focused definitions of SOA floating around that it's difficult to remember that simple fact.

Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2008





WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5

David Chappell, Principal of Chappell & Associates, presents the various communication styles provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2008