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


Simplifying Web Services with REST web service protocol

The REST (Representational State Transfer) web service protocol is the latest way that services can be delivered over the web

Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008





Vertical application integration a reality with SOA and BPM

According to Softline Accpac sales director Keith Fenner, one of the advantages of a SOA-BPM partnership is that it enables better integration

Posted: Friday, November 28, 2008





What's New for Web Service Development in Sybase WorkSpace 2.0

A more scalable, robust, high-performing runtime for Web Services

Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2008





Making Microsoft Office Apps Into SOA Services

Tibco and OpenSpan are teaming up to combine functions from Office applications into a new composite that helps automate the business process.

Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2008





Systems management: IBM middleware strategy

IBM is the 500lb gorilla in the middleware room. The firm's sheer size, along with its experience in applications, operational systems

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





2009 Tips for Big Web Companies

2009 is approaching quickly, and the consensus is that it's going to be a really tough year.

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





SOA/Web Services - Business Process Orchestration with BPEL

Our journey began with our Department of Defense research projects when we saw an opportunity to solve our data management challenges with XML

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





Microsoft Reaches for the Clouds

Microsoft is giving customers a lot to chew on these days. At its recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





Why Microsoft Will Gouge Google in SAAS (or Not)

The emergence of Microsoft Windows Azure and its Online Services pose a real challenge to Google in enterprise applications, according to one analyst.

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





soapUI testing for WADL and REST-oriented services

The soapUI software has gained a tremendous amount of traction in recent years as a suitable means to tame the WSDL tiger.

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008





The BPM Value Proposition Pays Off Best in an SOA Environment

Is it best to look at business processes and workflows as services?

Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008





Article: Harvesting SOA

In a new and exclusive article, Wil Leeuwis takes a look at the conceptually new aspects of SOA from a historical perspective.

Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008





Business Case for SOA

As we have reported previously, one of the main ingredients of successful SOA implementation is the ability to clearly articulate SOA

Posted: Sunday, November 23, 2008





SOA awareness up, but adoption slowing

SOA (service oriented architecture) adoption has slowed over the last year in the Asia-Pacific region, but adoption will continue steadily, according to Springboard Research.

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





The Web Host Industry Week in Review

This week saw several announcements related to several of the larger dedicated hosts working on cloud-based offerings

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Will Microsoft Online Services Cannibalize On-Premises Exchange, SharePoint?

Microsoft executive Chris Capossela denies that Microsoft Online Services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online will eat into the market share of Microsoft's traditional on-premises messaging and collaboration software suites.

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Ensuring CICS security with the Web Services Security standard

One of the wonderful things about the World Wide Web is its almost anonymous openness, allowing browser clients to access remote servers

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Flexible Data Access With LINQ To SQL And The Entity Framework

With the releases of LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers now have two products from Microsoft

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Peaceful Coexistence: How SOA Enables ERP and Execution Platforms to Work Together

An ERP system is good at planning and doing the books, but when it comes to getting your hands dirty -- managing inventory, people and transportation, an Execution Platform excels.

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Intel Presents General Session at SYS-CON’s SOA World Conference & Expo

"SOA evolves in a set of micro domains," stated Intel's Joshua Painter, as he examined the state of SOA practices at SOA World Conference & Expo

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008





Yahoo and T-Mobile Join Forces

The famous Yahoo company has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, more precisely in Silicon Valley.

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





Dos and Don'ts of SOA Data Access

Memo to enterprises moving toward service oriented architecture (SOA) as a way to slash costs.

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





XAware to Speak at SOA World Conference & Expo

XAware has announced that Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West to be held November 19-21, 2008

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





Web Service Monitoring Company Identifies the Five Major Causes Of Web Service Interruption

In their most recent statement, Web Service Guard releases information on the five major causes of website service interruptions and IT Failures.

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





SOA World: The Road to SOA Performance

Focusing your service-oriented architecture (SOA) performance management efforts on the application testing stage

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





The Cloud vs the Platform: What's Best for the Enterprise?

Commonalities exist between the failed Web service startups of a decade ago and the rash of new cloud-computing services that have come out of the woodwork in the past year.

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





Microsoft personalises Dynamics software

Microsoft has added new customisation to its CRM Dynamics NAV 2009 product, which will be generally available from 1 December.

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008





SOA Innovation Applied

Are you a victim of outdated call center design syndrome? Symptoms include chaotic agent desktops, frustrated agents

Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008





SOA for the People: SOAWorld Session Discusses How Social Governance Brings Viability to Web 2.0

SOA brings together people, not just software. That’s why integrating Web 2.0 concepts into a SOA

Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008





Security a primary concern for SOA and Web services applications

Security threats are the biggest reason companies might think twice about implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008





Amazon Bolsters Its Cloud With Content Delivery

With its relatively simple interface and services, CloudFront is aiming to meet content delivery needs of startups and Amazon Web Services customers.

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





Yahoo: Should Microsoft Rebid or Walk Away?

Jerry Yang just can't seem to get out of Microsoft's way. His stepping down as CEO is a short-term inhibitor to possible acquisition.

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





Mashups Get Down to Business And Add New Value to SOAs

Mashups are the rock stars of personal productivity, allowing people to easily combine Web data to create new Web services

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





What PaaS Means For Growing Companies

Platform-as-a-Service is mostly for software developers. But by making it easier to create programs, PaaS promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies.

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





Ensuring Service Enablement from SOA

The single reason that you use IT within your organization is for service enablement.

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





Should Yahoo Join Google, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com in the Cloud?

Could search engine and Web services giant Yahoo begin offering SAAS or PAAS in the cloud a la Google, Amazon.com or Salesforce.com?

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008





SOA Could Rebound as Recession-Busting Strategy

Adoption of the hard-to-explain technology is down, but it’s still possible to make a convincing business strategy case.

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Alfresco, Booz Allen Hamilton, EMC, Magnolia, Nuxeo, Open Text, Quark, SAP, Saperion, Vamosa, Vignette, and Others Collaborate to Enable Information Sharing Across Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Repositories

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Tackling quality challenges of SOA and multi-tiered systems: A technical perspective, part 2

Part 1 of this article discussed the distributed nature of systems when SOA is involved, and some of the difficulties inherent in ensuring quality when multiple teams are involved.

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Adobe steers Flash toward RIA implenetation

Adobe’s not just for artists anymore. At today's session of its developer conference in San Francisco, the company behind Flash and Photoshop

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Will SOA slowly take over the world? Some believe it already has.

At least one Gartner analyst has noted that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an inevitability*.

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Re-Reading Gartner tealeaves: SOA is not a train wreck

There was a sky-is-falling frenzy in the blogosphere of late in reaction to a Gartner Inc. press release headlined: "Number of Organizations Planning to Adopt SOA for the First Time Is Falling Dramatically."

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens

Fresh research from IDC on service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption patterns shows what users of SOA identify as essential success factors

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Microsoft's Cloud Vision

After more than a year of speculation, Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for how it will deliver its next generation of software and services.

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Building Workflows

Applications rarely serve one function these days. Often they're used in conjunction with other applications to accomplish processes

Posted: Monday, November 17, 2008





Security Threats Hinder SOA: CA Study

Nearly half, or 43 percent, of senior IT executives perceive security threats as the most critical issue in the implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Saturday, November 15, 2008





Open Source SOA Requires Expertise

New tools cost less and handle tasks with ease, but commercial players are easier to use.

Posted: Saturday, November 15, 2008





Legacy-to-SOA modernization goes to court - 1: Product news

How does the world deal with omnipresent legacy platforms? Means to update them include rewriting apps, re-hosting apps

Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008





Microsoft’s web-based Office Suite will work with iPhone Safari browser

Microsoft is going to launch a web-based version of their office Suite sometime in 2009.

Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008





Survey charts consolidation, virtualization, SOA and ITSM success - New Research Report on Companies

The fifth annual survey of North American IT decision makers continues to document strong correlations between the use of IT service management (ITSM)

Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008





WS-Resource Access Activity Begun At W3C

Back in 2006 several specifications were submitted to W3C, including WS-Eventing and WS-Transfer,

Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008





Enterprise JBoss JBPM: Creating A Scalable, Standards-Compliant and Cost-Effective SOA Environment

This excerpt from the upcoming book, Open Source SOA, addresses the Service Component Architecture (SCA), and its sister technology, Service Data Objects (SDO), emerging standards used in service-oriented architecture for creating multi-protocol, multi-language services based on reusable components.

Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008





Cloud Computing Journal: Amazon, Google, Microsoft - Big Three Cloud Providers Examined

GOOG very much believes that the web is the platform; we have a divergent opinion

Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2008





Microsoft updates Windows Live to be starting point for "what's new"

With most people using a variety of online services for sharing photos, e-mailing and social networking, Microsoft is trying to create a central place

Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2008





Microsoft UK SOA/BPM Conference

Microsoft will host the SOA and BPM Microsoft Conference 2008 at the Microsoft UK Campus in Reading (26 November 2008).

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008





Building the Open SOA Platform

The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects.

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008





Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware for SOA Experiences Accelerated Adoption

Arcturus Realty Corporation, Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority, Collect America, Innowave Technology, LCC, and West Virginia University recently selected or implemented Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware’s

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008





Managing Complexity Within a BPEL Environment

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become mainstream technology for integrating disparate systems and applications.

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008





Google adds voice, video chat for Gmail; flu tracking to Web

Google Inc. on Tuesday added voice and video chatting to Gmail and launched a free Web service to track flu around the country.

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008





With new Web services, more companies are working in the ‘cloud’

When Tien Tzuo founded an online billing company called Zuora last spring, he had his head in the clouds.

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Active Endpoints Announces "SOA" Contest

Active Endpoints has announced a contest for the 2008 holiday season. Bring SOA Home for the Holidays offers evaluators of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Software Business Forecast: Cloudy, but Clearing Up

“Cloud computing” may be one of the most aptly descriptive buzzwords to emerge in recent years: when you ask tech or business people

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Bridging Technology and Community for SOA

SOA is about people as much as technology and this session will demonstrate how adding a layer of social features

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Create a Center of Excellence in SOA Governance

A critical success factor of any SOA is the establishment and enforcement of good SOA Governance.

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Getting a Handle on SOA Risk

Services have a lot of potential for providing value to the enterprise, but their use also brings a level of risk.

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





SOA's Dirty Little Secret

As we enter the brave new world of software-as-a-service and software-based-on-services (like mash-ups and composite applications)

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





Smart Web App Development

CIOs and system architects find themselves stymied as they try to sledgehammer complex SOAs into their enterprises.

Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008





SOA World Expo: The Agile Life Cycle for SOA

In the past, test “scripts” in TM tools were largely recorded as actual step-by-step instructions (in a Word doc or Excel spreadsheet)

Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008





IBM Develops New Enterprise Integration Platform for MITAS

IBM and MITAS, one of Europe's largest tire manufacturing companies, today announced an agreement under which IBM will create a new enterprise integration platform

Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008





Connect Non-SOAP HTTP Requesters and Providers to WebSphere Application Server V6 Enterprise Service

This article shows you how to connect non-SOAP HTTP service requesters and providers to the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server V6 Service Integration Bus. This lets requesters and providers leverage the integration capabilities of an enterprise service bus.

Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008





Design and Implement PHP Web Services with New Book on Representational State Transfer (REST)

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a form of software architecture; systems that follow it are often called RESTful.

Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008





The Case for Coordinated EDM and SOA Strategies

And what strategic EDM & SOA components require attention to facilitate the appropriate coordination - Part 1

Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2008





Determining ROI is Greatest Challenge for SOA, new Evans Data Survey Shows

Determining the Return on Investment for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) project is the greatest challenge facing developers working on SOA programs

Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008





Standards are Standing in Way of External SOA

The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a world where everything interoperates seamlessly, pieces of applications are reused endlessly

Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008





Creating an Effective SOA Service Taxonomy

It's hard to think about service-oriented architecture without thinking of services; after all, services are the main focus of SOA (it's even in the name).

Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008





SOA & Web Services Development Survey - Out Now

Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bcf47d/soa_web_services) has announced the addition of the "SOA & Web Services Development Survey" report to their offering.

Posted: Friday, November 07, 2008





SOA World Expo: Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle with LISA

In this series we are going to look at four aspects of the Agile lifecycle: test & quality management, application lifecycle management, IT operations, monitoring and performance, IT and SOA governance.

Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2008





De-hyping CMIS

It has been a little less than two months since the news of a proposed new enterprise content management standard hit the streets.

Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2008





Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA

Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable

Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2008





Focus on the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Society and Integrating Individual Communities

Web Exclusive. This article is companion content for The New Language of Marketing 2.0: How to use ANGELS to Energize Your Market, by Sandy Carter.

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





SOA... Now What?

A discussion around the value of SOA strategies and the opportunity to leverage process management strategies

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





Data Access and Data Services for Grid, Cloud, SOA and WOA Computing

The DataServices World conference in Silicon Valley provides an opportunity, Nov 19-21, to put data services under a microscope

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





SOA adoption in Europe ‘almost universal’ says Gartner

A global survey of more than 300 large firms employing 1,000-plus people, found that 53% were already using service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





Cloud Computing Tools For Managing Amazon, Google Services

Getting the most out of Amazon's Web Services or Google's App Engine requires the right tools. We run down the benefits of Elastra, Coghead, Heroku, Enomaly, and Hyperic CloudStatus.

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





How SAML fits into your SOA security scheme

With software delivered as a service on the rise and more organizations moving toward service-orientated architectures (SOA)

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





Microsoft BizSpark Embraces Startups With Free Software, Services

Microsoft is launching a new program called BizSpark to encourage startups to build on their stack this morning.

Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008





Inside the SOA big tent; Azure at PDC; more

SOA is a big tent. On the one hand you have developers working with sketchy APIs, services of questionable granularity, metadata

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008





SOA Design Patterns: Capability Composition Patterns

Capability composition patterns build upon the service identification and definition patterns to establish the concept of service composition. Thomas Erl discusses this pattern in this chapter.

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008





SOA projects are in decline – Gartner

Planned service-oriented architecture projects have halved in the past year, Gartner finds, with finding skills and making a business case the principal hurdles

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008





The Web Services Dilemma

A flood of Web services is upon us. Google Maps API, Amazon.com and eBay, online banking, and FedEx and UPS package tracking

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008





Web freeloaders can breathe easy at Web 2.0 Summit

With warnings of doom coming from Web investors, and CEOs cutting back on staff in order to focus their companies on revenue

Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008





WebSphere 7.0 Supports Java EE 5, Web Services Enhancements and Web 2.0 Feature Pack

The latest version of IBM Websphere Application Server supports JDK 6.0, EJB 3.0, web services enhancements and Web 2.0 Feature Pack.

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Photo Gallery: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference

Get a glimpse of the conference where Microsoft allowed an early look at Windows 7, at its first Web-based Office applications, and at its new Azure platform for cloud computing.

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Determining ROI is Greatest Challenge for SOA, new Evans Data Survey Shows

Determining the Return on Investment for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) project is the greatest challenge facing developers working

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Innovations in Business Process Thinking Report Provides You with Six Evaluation Criteria

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Innovations in Business Process Thinking" report to their offering.

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo: Round-up of Themes & Topics

For architects, developers and managers - being held 19-21 November, 2008, at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Stormy weather: 7 gotchas in cloud computing

Users hit turbulence on the trip to cloud computing.

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





OPC, XML, .NET and real-time applications

DCOM is alive and well. DCOM fills a void that XML web services cannot fill. OPC DA (based on DCOM) will continue to dominate applications.

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Latest Features of webMethods Application Modernization Suite Create an Economical Bridge to Future

New functionality adds productivity and make better use of existing system resources

Posted: Monday, November 03, 2008





Why the Most Popular Web APIs Are Free

And should the possibility of future fees affect your development efforts?

Posted: Sunday, November 02, 2008




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