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


SOA World Expo: Enterprise Mashup Services

Since Web 2.0 kicked off scarcely a day goes by without a headline targeting mashups and their enablers, AJAX and Web Services, as the next hot Web technologies.

Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008





Resolving RIA-SOA Conflict

From the first days of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, many enthusiasts found an analogy between RIA and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008





Is Microsoft dissing SOA just to push Azure Cloud computing?

Introducing Windows Azure for Cloud Computing at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business (STB),

Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008





SOA needs planning

Services-oriented architecture (SOA) is complicated; it needs planning and foundational components put in place to be successful

Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008





10 Ways to Avoid Emergency When Your Web Services Disappear on You

Venture capitalists telling the startups they invest in that the good times are over. Big companies hunkering down.

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008





DataServices World 2008 West: Universal Services for SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data

Breakout session to be given by Susan Malaika, Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Information Management Group

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008





Business agility as an emergent property of SOA

As students go through our Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) course, they experience a series of "aha" moments

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008





BPM, SOA and Web 2.0: Business transformation or train wreck?

Organisations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008





Shared language sells SOA

Services-oriented architecture (SOA) only works with executive buy-in that can be achieved through building a successful business case

Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008





Personal finance 2.0: A wealth of new Web apps

Using the Web to manage your money used to mean logging into a plethora of banks and other institutions to check balances

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





SOA World Expo - Why All This Fuzz About SOA?

A key to understanding SOA is the distinction between services and Business Services

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





Cloud Gazing From Silverlight 2

Developers who use Silverlight have their heads in the clouds, but can you blame them?

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





Sun Unveils Open SSO Enterprise To Secure Web Services

Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software, the only integrated open toolset for secure single sign-on

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





How to use Open Source SOA Safely in the Enterprise

Open source is very tempting - there are no license costs and you have access to the source code.

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





SOA Software drives governance

SOA Software, an integrated SOA governance vendor, has added support for extensions to Microsoft Windows Server

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





How to Better Manage Your Application Infrastructure

There are many challenges associated with managing the complex, multi-level application infrastructure that supports mission-critical business applications and services.

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





Can a Spoonful of Governance help SOA?

In an article last week, Steve Stefanovich, a principle architect at RDA Corp. asked the question "do you have a governance plan?"

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008





SOA to the Rescue in Recession

If the ROI for the SOA is worth the money and the effort then you move forward

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





When is Free Not Free? ERP Field Service vs. Best-in-Class Software

Many CIOs have bought the premise offered by ERP suite developers that the benefits of a tightly integrated package from a single vendor

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





Security concerns limit cloud for business

CONTROL, security and legal concerns are hampering business adoption of cloud computing, CSC chief innovation officer Lem Lasher says.

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





Use DFHLS2WS to expose CICS applications as a Web service

One important part of CICS Web services support is a couple of programs collectively known as the "Web Services Assistant."

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





Microsoft Announces the Next Version of Windows Embedded Standard to Be Built on Windows 7

Next generation of Windows Embedded Standard will offer a richer set of solutions for building smart, connected, service-oriented devices.

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





Mashing Up The Corporation

Many generations of technology have promised to help users build their own solutions.

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008





Cloud Computing Expo: The 451 Group to Present "SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing" Session

CIOs don't really care about the cloud. They care about budgets, security and compliance.

Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008





World tour drives SOA

The number one concern of today's CEOs is being able to adapt to the explosive rate of change, says IBM.

Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008





Microsoft Windows Azure cloud OS announced

After teasing with the news that they would be announcing a cloud OS back at the beginning of October, Microsoft have just announced Windows Azure,

Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008





Details about Microsoft's cloud computing expected at conference

Microsoft is expected to sort out its strategy for cloud computing, a broad change in how computer users retrieve and process information and applications, at the company's Professional Developers Conference this week.

Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008





The Shift to SOA: Repurposing Priceless Business Logic

Services oriented architecture represents an alternative to the slash-and-burn approach to system modernization.

Posted: Saturday, October 25, 2008





Beyond Parental Controls

Configured correctly, Parental Controls are remarkably effective. But you may want to do more.

Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008





PDFUndo Converts PDFs to Word

It's easy to find an application that will convert a Word document to a PDF for free, but it can be difficult to find a tool that will take a PDF document

Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008





Another view on the difference between SOA managment and SOA governance

SearchSOA.com's recently re-posed the common question: "What is the difference between SOA managment and SOA governance?"

Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008





Microsoft sets the stage for Windows 7

As users continue to grouse about Windows Vista nearly two years after its introduction, Microsoft appears relieved to turn its public focus

Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008





E-Commerce Tech Terms You Should Know

Transacting business seamlessly over the Internet means having a decent grasp of how things work, and more importantly, why they don't.

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008





Enterprise Mashups: The New Face of Your SOA

Enterprise mashups, one of the hottest Web 2.0 technologies today, could impact your SOA in a very positive way.

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008





How Quality IT Managers Respond to SOA Change

Managing IT quality has always been a hard job. There are too many applications and not enough time and resources.

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008





Software Quality Management for SOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) brings challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception.

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008





Accelerating Information System Interoperability for Secured Business Processes Automation

Faced with increased information privacy legislation, organizations must secure their online, automated business processes

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2008





First Comes BPM, Then SOA...

Had a chance to catch a good talk on Business Process Management with our partners at Software AG today.

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





IBM Expands Services to Lenders

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the expansion of its end-to-end loan fulfillment services to include new components and technology

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





Press Conference and Energy Report on the Question What Will the Global Energy Supply of the Future

Global Report Launch: Energy [R]evolution: Global Sustainable Energy Outlook

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





IntelePeer and Microsoft Collaborate on Applications That Showcase IntelePeer AppworX Integration

IntelePeer Joins Microsoft Partner Program to Integrate Hosted Rich Media Communications Services

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





Anatomy of a Web Service Contract

This chapter explains the Web service contract from a conceptual and structural perspective.

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





Infor ERP LX Adds Compliance and Language Features, SOA Enablement

Manufacturers using the Infor ERP LX suite of products for process or mixed-mode environments have new features and functions

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





What is cloud-based storage?

The combination of hosted computing and data storage in the Internet cloud has long been filled with compelling promises while bearing little fruit

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





One company's WAN challenge may not be the same as another's

Last time, we discussed a report entitled “The Application Usage and Risk Report” published by Palo Alto Networks

Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008





Enhancing Value for the Citizen: ICT Adoption in Regional & Local Government

Today’s state, regional and local government agencies face a pressing need to provide excellent citizen services in an effective and transparent manner,

Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008





Data Services for SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing

Rob Steward Vice President of Research and Development, to give General Session at DataServices World 2008 West

Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008





Tips for SEO based Web Development Services for a Website

Website Optimization is very beneficial to business owner because of online web marketing trend.

Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008





Keeping Web Services in Perspective

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) defines a Web Service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction

Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008





Leveraging 'TheWebService' for Data-as-a-Service

As www.ProgrammableWeb.com points out, there are about two services or Web APIs added every week, and that rate continues to accelerate.

Posted: Saturday, October 18, 2008





SaaS Integration: Real-World Problems, And How CIOs Are Solving Them

Installing SaaS applications is easy. It's integrating them that can drive up the cost and complexity SaaS is supposed to avoid.

Posted: Saturday, October 18, 2008





Microsoft greases collaboration on cloud

Microsoft had released the first version of the .NET code that'll underpin collaboration services in the company's planned cloud platform.

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





SOA Pioneer David Linthicum to Keynote at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West

'SOA By the Numbers' will be a must-attend for those wishing to get SOA right first time

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





Google Gmail Outage Brings Out Cloud Computing Naysayers

Because the outage appears to have lasted more than 24 hours for some, affected paying Gmail customers appear to be owed service credits, as per the terms of the Gmail SLA.

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





How To Survive the Global Recession Through Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing will be one of the main catalysts for technology-savvy companies to stay in business

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





Mitigating Risk in the New Economy

Addressing changing user needs and market trends...

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





Unit Testing Web Services

For Agile developers, following best practices by doing Test-Driven Development of web service code can require extra work, but it's worth the effort.

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





Windows Remote Desktop: Setting Up Web Access

The first installment of this tutorial series took you through enabling the Remote Desktop feature on your Windows XP or Vista PC

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





.NET-Based Data Access in SOA

Developers and IT architects involved in implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) in complex enterprise environments

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





A Tale of Two 'Cities'

Will 'Oslo' and 'Dublin' ease your distributed-systems development?

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008





Business Processes for SOA Governance

Prabhakar Mynampati, an Advisory Architect at IBM, published last week an article detailing 6 SOA Governance business processes.

Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008





Driving business and IT agility with service-oriented architecture

16 October 2008 Question: When will your business be through with change?Answer: Never

Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008





SOA Watch: Best of times for SOA architects

Times may be bad, but for those who “get” SOA, there are opportunities out there.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





Cloud Summit: SAP Sees Bright Future In Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is coming more quickly to smaller organizations, largely because it is financially compelling, a panel of industry CTOs and insiders agreed.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





SOA 'driving software development'

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is essential for software development, it has been claimed.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





Latest Recession Proof Trends in SOA

The concept of a "paradigm shift" was first popularized by Dr. Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





Open sourcery

Open Source Software is starting to gain a foothold in mainstream financial services applications.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





IBM goes back to basics with its SOA strategy

In what has become a twice-yearly exercise, IBM has rolled out its latest collection of new and enhanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) products, services and initiatives.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





Understanding the Web Services Architecture

Joe Casad examines the web services infrastructure and provides a quick look at how e-commerce websites process web transactions.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





SOA and Web Services on the Move

Voltaire said, “Before we converse, we should define our terms” — actually, he was quoting John Locke.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





Google Android + Facebook Could Be the Reese's of Smart Phones

Google's Android mobile and wireless software is creating quite a stir, spurring Motorola to hire an application development expert who can work on a special gadget.

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





The elements of Web service performance

Ever since the beginning of web services as a class of application, performance, in terms of response time and memory requirements

Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008





SOA and BPM speed messages for industrial distributor

Implementation of business process management and service-oriented architecture to replace legacy batch processing

Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008





Spammers Misusing Google’s Web 2.0 Services

According to Websense, spammers are increasingly using Google's Web 2.0 services for launching various malicious attacks

Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008





Anonymous proxy servers: Necessary or evil?

If there is truly a gray zone in the struggle between online good and evil, anonymous proxy servers live there.

Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008





SOA Product Review: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1

Superior performance for XML processing in Java and C/C++

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008





Web 2.0 Is Dead and Web 3.0 Is Five Years Away

SOA, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Will Flourish During this Recession

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008





Java gets a standard REST

The Java specification for REST-based web services, JSR-311 – also known as JAX-RS – has been finalised and released by the Java Community Program

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008





Path to free wireless Web cleared; FCC to auction unused airwaves

Large wireless carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless are opposing a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008





IBM expands WebSphere's framework support

Sometimes slow and steady wins the customer. IBM has delivered the first major release of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) in four years

Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008





How to Sell an SOA

SOA is complex – it affects almost every aspect of the enterprise if done to the fullestwith the basic premise of RDBMS

Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008





SOA Security Vision

This will be the last [at least for a while] post in the SOA Security Series, and I want to conclude by sharing my vision

Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008





When in Doubt, Consider the Customer

I have an interesting question for you: How many people are there between your customer and your CEO?

Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008





Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software Preview

Oslo will be available as an add-on to Microsoft's Visual Studio development suite. It includes a new programming language, a visual modeling tool, and a repository for storing models in a database.

Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008





IBM Builds on SOA Leadership With New Software and Services

IBM (NYSE: IBM) on October 8 enhanced its position as the worldwide leader in the service oriented architecture (SOA) market

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





MT Expert - IT: Why The Cloud has a silver lining

Auridian's Ade McCormack explains why small businesses should consider using web services...

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





Mozilla Geode for Firefox released

Mozilla has made available an add-on for Firefox web browser which enables the user to tell web services data about their location.

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





Data Warehousing in the Clouds

Data warehousing in the clouds has the potential to enable business executives and IT departments to do more with less, work around organizational latency and compete with agility in the digital economy.

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





Twitter, Google, Yahoo Tailor Web Services for Presidential Election

As the United States hurtles toward its Election Day on Nov. 4, Google, Yahoo and Twitter are among the Internet companies

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





Understanding the value of SOA

The true benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) are manifested in the ability to offer flexible product platforms

Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008





JBoss, CA Wily moves target SOA performance management

It is no secret that service-oriented architectures are complex with wide ranging service interactions via messaging middleware.

Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008





Yahoo Rolls out Enterprise Web Analytics

Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition

Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008





How to Apply ITIL to SOA Operations Management

An overview of its disciplines in the context of SOA requirements

Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2008





Mozilla Geode to Join Google, Yahoo for Geolocation Web Services

Mozilla Labs is set to launch a geolocation add-on called Geode in the wake of related Web services such as Yahoo Fire Eagle and Google's Geolocation API.

Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2008





WSO2 Introduces WSO2 Data Services for Exposing Data as Web Services Without Programming

Database Administrators Can Create Services for SOAs in Minutes, Unlocking Data from Databases, CSVs and Excel Files

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





Opinion: Peering behind the cloud

Cloud computing is at its peak of hype. In fact, it's probably about to jump the shark.

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





SOA India 2008- Become a SOA Expert Before Time Runs out!

The proud presenters of SOA India 2007, SDA Asia Magazine and sda-india.com, announced to have taken charge of its second edition

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





HP bolsters SOA governance in Systinet 3.00

HP on Monday is updating its SOA governance software, HP Systinet 3.00, which assists with discovering and reusing services

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





IBM Builds a Bluehouse in the Cloud

Quick, everyone to the cloud.IBM today unveiled a services lineup to help businesses of all stripes adopt cloud computing as a way to reach workforces

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





IT Strategy and Architecture: Creating an Enterprise Model to Support IT Strategic Planning out Now

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IT Strategy and Architecture: Creating an Enterprise Model to Support IT Strategic Planning"

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





Sun Microsystems Launches OpenSSO Enterprise

Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) announced the release of Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software, an open source access management

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





Browser surf wars

Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari... We rate the Big 5 of the browser brigade to help you decide which should be your window to the cyber-world.

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





SOA World Expo - Going Beyond Project-Driven SOA

Why are you doing SOA? And how are you going to do it?

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





What Happens When SOA and Virtualization Intersect?

Virtualization is a buzzword that is living up to its hype as it takes hold in IT. It has spawned magazine covers, conferences, and analyst reports

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008





Adobe AIR Moves Web Apps to the Next Level

Here's a sampling of current and upcoming Adobe AIR applications that blur the line between online services and desktop programs.

Posted: Saturday, October 04, 2008





SOA World Editorial: Plays Well with Others

I remember (vaguely) when I was in kindergarten, playing with my classmates, learning to make things out of clay and paper, and generally enjoying that sneaky introduction

Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008





IBM, EMC, Microsoft blasted for 'REST rip-off'

IBM, EMC, Microsoft and others have been blasted by the father of Representational State Transfer (REST) for making "misleading" and "idiotic" claims

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008





The Cloud Computing Model Won't Catch Up with SOA Anytime Soon

It will take a while for SaaS in a Cloud Computing model to catch up with SOA. One obstacle for the pure plays in the cloud

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008





Benefits of Standardizing SOA Development

Enterprises need to stop going from point-to-point with SOA and get some real direction.

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008





SOA Patterns: Basic Structural Patterns

This article is based on the book SOA Patterns (http://www.manning.com/rotem) scheduled to print February 2009.

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008





8 Winning Ways of SOA

The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008





Microsoft's .Net 4.0, 'Dublin' App Server Furthers SOA Plans

The new server technology first will be made available as a downloadable add-on to Windows Server and later built into the operating system itself.

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008





IBM Helps Clients Make Faster, Smarter Decisions With New Business Process Management Software

IBM today announced new software and services built upon service oriented architecture (SOA) to help clients redefine and improve their existing business processes

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008





SOA Watch: Calculating the cost of SOA

I get the same question over and over again: How much will my SOA cost?

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008





Microsoft prepping preview of REST support, app server improvements

Microsoft on Wednesday said it plans to significantly increase its support for REST as part of three technologies it will preview later

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008





Can You Bet on the Cloud?

There's no question that the cloud model is gaining steam, but large enterprises may not be ready to roll the dice.

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008





Microsoft Managed Services Engine How To: Virtualize Your SOA

If there is one truth in software development it is that change is constant.

Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2008




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