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


Google Sites: New service from Google based on JotSpot

Search engine giant Google has announced their latest web based service named Google Sites.

Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008





Cloud Computing Initiatives Being Floated

It's time for tech investors to get their heads in a cloud.

Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008





Next edition of .NET Micro Framework adds Web services support

The impending ubiquity of .NET in computing devices everywhere got a big boost this week with the unveiling of a new edition of its handheld and embedded device runtime, now capable of communicating with Web services.

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat.

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





Composite services next step for mainframe SOA?

Composite services encompassing mainframe transactions, data and application logic is the future of integrating big iron into service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Focus on Security, Web, Virtualization

Wave of New Microsoft Enterprise Products Brings Benefits to IT Professionals and Developers

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





Use Threads and Build Asynchronous Handlers in Your Server-Side Web Code

Fortunately for developers, threading in ASP.NET is a lot easier than it was in ASP. In this article, the author takes a look at threading in the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





AJAX application architecture, Part 2

When using ASP.NET AJAX Extensions to transition your site to an AJAX experience, there are two main programming models to choose from

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008





Wave of New Microsoft Enterprise Products Bring Big Benefits to IT Professionals and Developers

Kicking off more than 225 events around the world and joined by more than 4,000 customers and partners, Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





SOA Software Announces 30 New Integrator Partners

Integrated SOA Governance Provides New Revenue for Professional Services Companies

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





Thomson Financial to Share Tips on Successful SOA Deployments at March 6 SOA Forum Webinar

Interactive Session Will Focus on Forming an SOA Center of Excellence, Enforcing Policies Through Automated Governance

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





Microsoft Restores Downed Hotmail Service

The bug affected Hotmail, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Windows Messenger, and other Web sites and services that rely on users' Windows Live IDs for logins.

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





Dell shows world its web services face

After a year chock-full of software acquisitions, Dell is ready to go public on its plans for flogging web-hosted services.

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





The Last Mile in SOA - Taming the User Interface

"I oppose absolutely the browser as a means of delivering applications"

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





Web-to-Print…A Misnomer

Web-to-print started with the onset of e-commerce. It was defined as a commercial prepress process that bridged the gap between digital content online

Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008





New IBM Software, Resources Accelerate Innovation on the New z10, the World's Most Powerful Business

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software and resources to educate the next generation workforce on building applications for the IBM z10 Enterprise Class

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008





50 ways to make your software do more

Stuck with a boring browser? Wish that Word could handle more tasks? Feel hemmed in by Photoshop?

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008





Introducing Open SOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the most talked about trend in the software industry today.

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008





Silverlight 2.0 - One Framework to Rule them All

Any blog post about the .NET Framework also includes borrowed half-quotations from Lord of the Rings

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Simpler Project-Managing Apps Get the Job Done

Though Microsoft Project is a capable project management program, not everyone needs its power.

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Layer 7 Technologies Introduces Drop-in Solution for Mainframe SOA Enablement, Interoperability

New Hardware-Accelerated Appliance Incorporates Mainframe Applications into SOA for Highly Secure Performance

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





IBM and Partners Utilizing SOA Strategy to Help Healthcare Providers Improve Efficiency and Patient

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web

On sabbatical in 2001 from Macromedia, Kevin Lynch, a software developer, was frustrated that he could not get to his Web data

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





SOA Made Easy with Open Source Apache Camel

XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





AMR Research Finds Average Spending on SOA Software and Services Reached $1.4 Million in 2007

Companies adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) spent $1.4 million on software and services in 2007

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Addressing the SOA Skills Challenge

One of the primary challenges organizations face when planning SOA initiatives to drive user value and make the best use of the voice communication

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Managing Batch Processing in an SOA

Most enterprise IT operations rely heavily on batch processing operations. The reliance doesn't go away when you move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





SOA spend up despite unclear benefits

AMR report shows agility is the top actual benefit for early adopters, not code reuse

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





It is a stable system and works beyond packaged software

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not something that has come out of nowhere. It is a stable, evolved IT system that efficiently recycles software

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





SOA strategy and execution is failing in many companies

How many times have you heard that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the next big thing?

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008





Sun Delivers xVM Ops Center for Virtualization

Its prospective contribution to the industry's lengthening virtualization caravan when xVM come out this summer

Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2008





Microsoft Memo Looks to Ease

A top Microsoft Corp. executive addressed key points on the company's bid to buy Yahoo Inc. in an internal memo that appears to be both a message to Yahoo and an attempt to address concerns among Microsoft staff over any deal.

Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2008





Go Get It Yourself!

A smart person once said that children are best seen, not heard. Unfortunately, many of us feel the same way about our customers.

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





Alcatel-Lucent and HP team up to deliver SOA security

Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with HP on a product that will aim to secure service-orientated architectures (SOAs).

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





Microsoft Launches SkyDrive Online Storage Service

Windows Live SkyDrive offers users up to 5 GB of free storage in password-protected servers.

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





Oracle Nominated for SOA World Magazine's "Readers' Choice Awards"

Nominated in: Best Legacy Addapter, Best Web Services Utility, Best Portal Platform, Best XML Database, and Best Testing Tool

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





Viewpoint: Why All This Fuzz About SOA?

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

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





So, What Is This WCF Anyway?

WCF is really picking up steam, so we asked Microsoft Developer Evangelists Steve Resnick, Richard Crane and Chris Bowen to walk us through the basics of Windows Communication Foundation.

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008





Connecting A to B: a decision tree approach

One of the most common problems tackled by IT teams is integration. In its most basic form the question is "How to connect A to B?"

Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008





New Microsoft Interoperability Principles Ensure Open Connections and Promote Data Portability

With the emergence of Web services and service-oriented architectures, and the growing importance of software plus services

Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008





Build a Reuse Framework for SOA

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is touted by many as the key to code reuse, which, practically speaking, is easier said than done

Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008





JBoss SOA platform offers modular options

The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, announced at JBoss World 2008 in Orlando, FL last week, and made available for download this week, offers developers options for using the modules they need for their service-oriented architecture (SOA) project.

Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2008





Visit the Web Services Interoperability Organization, WS-I, at the HIMSS 2008 Conference in Orlando

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I: www.ws-i.org) establishes Best Practices for achieving interoperability for Web services.

Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2008





Data service platforms for SOA emerging – Burton

This may be the year that data services platforms (DSPs) emerge from the shadows of the enterprise service bus (ESB) to take a more prominent role

Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2008





SOA Feature: Index XML Documents with VTD-XML

How to turn the indexing capability on in your application

Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2008





SOA Comparison Kit For Oracle, IBM, BEA, and TIBCO Platforms

The Kit delivers an SOA use case design, source code to the implementations of the use case on Oracle, IBM, BEA, and TIBCO

Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008





3 Enterprise Rich Internet Applications Tools Examined: JSF, Flex, and JavaFX

2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications

Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008





Developing RESTful Web Services in Perl

If you are a web developer and aren't familiar with the term "REST," you should know that you regularly work within this software architecture.

Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008





Microsoft Office Live Small Business (MOLSB) review

Microsoft's Office Live Web service was designed for small businesses that needed an easy solution for creating websites and business emails. Microsoft Office Live Small Business offers a single service with a number of pay-for add-ons.

Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008





Appcelerator Named "Platinum Sponsor" of AJAX World Conference & Expo

Appcelerator is an open source software company specializing in RIA and SOA-based services development

Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008





As Ye SOA, So Shall Yea Reap

We’ve created a wall of jargon around IT. It’s time to pay the price.

Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008





Yahoo, Microsoft at odds on technology

If Microsoft succeeds in its conquest of Yahoo, what then?

Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008





So You Have a SOA Management Dashboard. How Do You Drive It?

There are a lot of companies starting to focus on better SOA Governance

Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2008





SOA World Feature: SOA as a Business Strategy

If you had to pick a single business benefit that service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide

Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2008





How Mozilla Will Blend Desktop and Weave

Mozilla stays competitive with Google, Microsoft with its Weave framework for Firefox.

Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2008





SOA is SOL without BPM

How many times have you heard that SOA is the next big thing?

Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008





IBM WebSphere Application Shatters Industry Benchmark, Powers SOA

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008





Successful SOA implementations are on the increase

Most SOA implementations are now successful, with nearly four out of ten enterprises meeting all their goals and 60 percent meeting most of them.

Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008





Computing in the clouds

Cloud computing is giving a whole new dimension to online computing.

Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008





OASIS Members Form New Committee to Advance BPEL4People

OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee

Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008





Handicapping the Probability of a Mobile Web Boom

Cloud computing is one of the terms du joir these days in tech. A historic substitute is “server-side.”

Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008





SOA Consortium Releases New SOA Hot Topics Roundtable Podcast on CIO SOA Concerns

The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and transcript of the SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: CIO SOA Concerns

Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008





Software via the internet offers a cost-effective alternative to licensing

Buying software through a conventional licensing agreement can be expensive and restrictive but, as Paul Stevens reports, a new generation of web-native software

Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008





SOA: A Policy for Preventing Insurance Fraud

It’s no secret that staged car accidents, a sudden change in a spouse's life insurance policy, and doctors diluting medicines

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





Wall St. Will Take Services Oriented Architecture Software Slowly

Leading bank and investment-firm CIOs, IT directors, staff technology gurus and the like spoke February 11 at the New York City conference

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





HP ramps up SOA software launches

Hot on the heels of a raft of SOA software and services announcements, HP is gearing up to launch several new key pieces in its software arsenal in coming months, Computer Business Review has learned.

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





SOA redefines governance

A services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach builds a tight relationship between business and IT, increases business agility

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





Customers seeing success with SOA: survey

Companies that are implementing systems based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) stand a good chance of being successful

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





Integrated SOA Governance

SOA is high on the agenda for most large enterprises today. Whatever your goals are for Enterprise SOA, it is critical to ensure

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008





OSS, SOA and Web 2.0 in the e-Commerce sector

People have thought of establishing a relationship between SOA and Web 2.0 for quite some time. However, Dion Hinchcliffe notes that:

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





Setting Up an Effective SOA Governance Model

While organizational business units and departments are in a hurry to embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), without a proper control or governance of SOA adoption, the organizations are at risk of building unmanaged SOA environments that result in chaos and failure.

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





RPT-Mobile Fair-Yahoo links mobile phones to Web services

Unfazed by Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) bid to acquire it, Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) launched a mobile phone tool

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





Web convergence gains pace as Microsoft buys Danger and Nokia announces two new services

The convergence of the Web with your mobile phone gained pace Monday at the World Mobile Conference.

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





ECM and SOA: Still far apart

Today we released a research summary arguing that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products are ill-equipped

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





Web services implementation methodology for SOA application

With the popularity of Web Services technology and the increase trend of developing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software, there is a need for an implementation methodology for Web Services

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008





Why 'Enterprise Architects' Are Ineffective with SOA

The fact is, tactical needs have trumped strategic direction over the years

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





Microsoft users get ability to ship via FedEx from inside Outlook

Package-delivery firm offers free add-in for scheduling pickups, tracking packages

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





Microsoft OfficeLive Small Business Launches New Tools, Enhances Free Service to Help Small Business

Service aims to help small businesses more easily and affordably take, promote and manage their businesses online.

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





Gates Talks up Custom Office Apps

In one of his final speeches as a full-time Microsoft employee, Gates pitches SharePoint and Office Live services at this year's Office developers confab.

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





Tibco Releases ActiveMatrix 2.0

Latest SOA platform features an enterprise service bus and an Eclipse-based development environment.

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





SOA comes of age

True believers spread the word about its transformational power

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008





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