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


The browser bunch

It used to be that Web browsers were just that: a way to browse the Web.

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





Next-Generation Service Infrastructure & the Semantic Challenge

Driven by SaaS market momentum, the growth of large service ecosystems involves radical changes in both enterprise Business Process organization and IT infrastructure to fit interoperability and agility requirements.

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





ZapThink Report: Visual Fusion Suite "Killer Use Case" for SOA

IT Analyst Firm Reports IDV Solutions' Enterprise Mashups Become the "Killer Use Case" for SOA

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





Microsoft sheds light on its internet strategy

At Microsoft’s Mix08 conference for web designers and developers earlier in March

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





Where Are the Clients In a SOA?

The best "enterprise architecture" plan will never be realized as long as developers assume the client of a piece of code

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





Vendor-oriented architecture hampers SOA – Zapthink

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is now touted by vendors as a new approach to business computing

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008





WSO2 boosts Spring developers with Web services

WSO2 is releasing Monday its open source WSO2 Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0 (WSF/Spring1.0)

Posted: Sunday, March 30, 2008





SOAP Over JMS Interoperability

Exposing a Java Web Service via JMS using Apache Axis 1.4 and consuming it from both Java and .NET clients

Posted: Saturday, March 29, 2008





Do You Have a DSG (Dumb SOA Guy) Issue?

Understanding the core value of SOA

Posted: Saturday, March 29, 2008





Q&A: Nicholas Carr - The World Wide Computer Explained

Q: Can you give us a brief definition of the "World Wide Computer" theory you write about in The Big Switch?

Posted: Friday, March 28, 2008





Banking on SOA Governance: Guiding IT Investment for Business Value

For an industry-leading financial institution, achieving and maintaining a competitive edge isn’t left to chance.

Posted: Friday, March 28, 2008





10 Tips for Getting Started with SOA

Dig around a little and you'll find that service-oriented architecture is worthy of much of the hype it receives.

Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008





Spring to get upgraded with REST

Due in late summer, next version will also feature unification in programming model between Spring Web Flow and Spring MVC

Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008





SOA experts: Learn to speak business

For service-oriented architecture to succeed, information technology professionals need to understand the business needs

Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008





SOA revolves around BPM at power company

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) development is not your father's IT project.

Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008





Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws

At CanSecWest, Google security engineer reveals that hundreds of thousands of Web pages serve up buggy Shockwave Flash files, which could be exploited by hackers

Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008





Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care

When researching FuseCal this morning, one of the things that made it so appealing to try was the fact that you could just enter in a URL

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





This Briefing Offers a Comprehensive Take on the Most Significant Trends in the SOA Solutions

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “2008 Trends to Watch: Service-Oriented Architecture” to their offering.

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Windows Server 2008 security not as advertised, says researcher

Microsoft boasts that Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows sever yet, but a researcher who put it to the test claims the product isn't as ironclad as advertised.

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Leveraging Web 2.0 safely in the enterprise

Many employees have turned to Web 2.0 services to help complete their work, but the integration of Web 2.0 into workflow must be done carefully

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Effective, Agile, and Connective (Part 2)

Composite applications built from predefined enterprise services form the core of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA).

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





ESB alternative cited for SOA

Enterprise service buses may be synonymous with services orchestration and related capabilities in an SOA. But there is another approach to SOA

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Prioritizing BPM & SOA: Best practice integration for better business outcomes

BPM and SOA technologies are becoming increasingly entwined as organizations aim to offer business leaders

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Driving Innovation In Retail With SOA

You’d be forgiven for thinking that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a buzzword that represents all that’s cynical about the IT industry

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Microsoft's SOA Strategy: Back to Earth

Last fall, Microsoft took the wraps off its pie-in-the-sky service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy.

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008





Burton Group Calls for Industry to Prove SOA Success

Burton Group VP and Research Director Anne Thomas Manes is concerned by initial service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption research findings.

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





In demand: Tech needs web services skills

Businesses need to recruit more tech professionals who can help develop an infrastructure

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





Web Services Interface establishes direct-to-fund accounts.

Designed to eliminate paper-based processing of new accounts, automated Web Services Interface enables broker/dealers

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





SOA and Virtualization: How do They Fit Together?

Enterprises are pursuing SOA and virtualization with great speed and at the same time, although perhaps in different departments.

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





BPMN linking business and IT for BPM/SOA

When working on service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects, business analysts and IT professionals speak the same language when they work with Business Process Modeling Notation

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





New Options for .NET-Java Web Services Interoperability

When it comes to web services interoperability between .NET and Java

Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008





What's a hacker to do?

Guy Fawkes recently posted darkly about.... well, about many things. In part, though, he posted about this idea:

Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008





Hands On: Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Microsoft is synonymous with the ubiquitous Windows operating system. But its Microsoft Office productivity suite pulls

Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008





Kana and IBM Strengthen Ties, Open Technology Pact

Kana Software and IBM announced that the two companies are significantly expanding their Global Strategic Alliance agreement.

Posted: Sunday, March 23, 2008





The PowerBuilder Blogosphere

A sign of a vibrant developer community is the active blogosphere that surrounds a technology. Here's a more or less random selection of what's being talked about this month in the PowerBuilder community's blogs.

Posted: Sunday, March 23, 2008





Using Web Services in a PocketBuilder Application

A shortcoming of PocketBuilder 1.x and 2.x has always been the difficulty in accessing Web Services.

Posted: Saturday, March 22, 2008





Bring the World of IT Applications & Communications Together with SOA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-driven concept based on a style of architecture that uses loosely coupled services and components

Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008





Opinion: WSO2 Mashup Server takes first steps

Mashups -- or composite applications -- promise the ability to easily create useful new applications from existing services and Web applications.

Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008





Applying a BPM and SOA Approach to Achieve Agile Business Integration

Learn how to leverage a new kind of Business Integration, including BPM and SOA, to transform technical capabilities into business agility.

Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008





SOA Mixes Well with AJAX in New York

Some of the best attended sessions at a packed AJAXWorld involved SOA

Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008





Top 10 Web Services to Look for in 2008

Zpryme Research & Consulting is pleased to announce its first annual list of "Web Services that will shape our lifestyles" in 2008.

Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008





CRM leaders offer vital SOA clues

The approach being taken to deliver customer relationship management software is providing a telling indication on how the enterprise application

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008





SOA and RFID priorities for technology management

Technology recruitment may be slowing down in the current economic climate, as IT executives struggle to cut back spending, but two technologies are emerging as must-haves.

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008





Enterprise Ajax + SOA = User-Driven IT

Alone, SOA and Ajax both promise considerable payback to IT, but combined the two technologies are two sides of the same coin

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008





IBM Launches SOA Best Practices Portal

IBM this week went live with its first consolidated SOA portal, offering Best Practices

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008





Microsoft Office Lurches Online

Thanks to Google (GOOG) and startups such as Zoho, there are free, Web-based programs that can sub for Microsoft Word, Excel

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008





Review: New Browser Eases Web Sharing

Many people now create and share content on the Internet or blend services from various sites in their daily tasks

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





Panel Discussion: Web 2.0 and SOA

Web 2.0 is about enabling end users to easily access information from multiple sources, and use it in new and creative ways

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





The "S" in "SOA" is services

Within the world of SOA, services are the building blocks and at the lowest level of the stack.

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





Reducing the Risk of SOA Transactions

Virtually all SOA systems are heterogeneous composite applications.

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





Virtualisation and SOA top the CIO’s shopping list

More than half of chief information officers (CIOs) have put service oriented architecture (SOA) into their 2008 budgets

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





Study: Shift in SOA Testing Approach a Must

How effective is the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concept in a progressive company?

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





Surfing Change through Enterprise SOA Governance

Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) helps businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions.

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





IT unaware of SOA risks

IT professionals are not fully aware of the risks associated with service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





SOA adoption rises on business value – Forrester

More organizations are implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a business enabler.

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008





AppLabs releases SOA Survey Results

Hyderabad, India; Philadelphia, USA; London, UK; 18th March, 2008: AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company

Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2008





New Rewards, New Risks: Mitigating SOA-based Compliance Risks at the Network Layer

Service-Oriented Architecture is an approach to enterprise architecture that is based on the idea of software applications

Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2008





Cleaning up Your API

Many of you who read my column probably know that I enjoy writing geographic mashups using the Microsoft Virtual Earth API.

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





New Dimensions in Spatial ETL: Safe Software's FME User Conference 2008

While the theme of Safe Software's FME User Conference, held March 6-7 in Vancouver, was New Dimensions in Spatial ETL (extract, transform, load)

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





Spending on SOA Software and Services Reached $1.4 Million in 2007

Fifty three percent of companies survyed had active SOA projects by the end of 2007.

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





Microsoft SSDS - Dumb Name, Brilliant Idea!

A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





Tips to avoid SOA implementation problems

SOA is all the rage because of its promises of increased agility and business alignment if done right, but a misstep can lead to failure

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





ON COMPUTERS : Refurbished PCs often give plenty of bang for buck

New computers are fairly inexpensive now, but refurbished computers are the cheapest of all.

Posted: Monday, March 17, 2008





Vista SP1 to hit Windows Update Tuesday, reports say

Retail copies, sporting new lower prices, also set to debut this week

Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2008





OGC® and OASIS Announce Progress on Standards Cooperation

Groups cite collaborative contributions and adoption of standards for Web services, emergency management, e-business, and security

Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2008





Find The Right Path To SOA, UC Convergence

Vendors are emphasizing two approaches to collaboration. One focuses on the architecture, the other on the desktop. Which is right for you?

Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2008





OBA Solution Patterns In The Real World

Large-scale systems such as SAP and PeopleSoft, and other comprehensive line of business (LOB) systems, are critical for the successful management

Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008





Web Services Companies Focused On The SME

On-Demand Services From Large Compute Clouds

Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008





The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites

Remember The Graduate when Benjamin Braddock was advised to go into plastics. The clip is here. It seemed like a safe bet at the time - and it was.

Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008





SOA Governance with IBM Rational Asset Manager Software

The success of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in terms of software development and delivery is dependent on a strong governance environment

Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008





IT chiefs vent SOA frustration

IT leaders are eager to embrace the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA), but many are frustrated by the dearth

Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008





Tackling the 800-pound ESB Gorillas: An Open Source Perspective

The ESB market is unique in the sense that its core capabilities are still evolving

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





SYS-CON Events Announces DataServices World at SOA World Conference & Expo

For CTOs, enterprise architects, system architects, information architects, developers, database gurus, consultants and analysts

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





Can IBM SMash Enterprise Mashup Security Fears?

Security is often seen as a big barrier to enterprise mashups: With many of them built by non-IT staff and integrating Web services

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





SOA Viewpoint: How To Mediate Semantics in an EDA

Systems that pass data to each other share commonly understood semantics

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





SOA-Compliant Solution Will Support Advanced BSS/OSS Infrastructure

Highdeal Signs Agreement with Mobile Satellite Ventures to Support Its Next Generation Hybrid Communications Network

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





Microsoft selects EDS to help lure big business

New software will help call centers to manage customer

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008





A Little SOA Goes A Long Way

Kyle Gabhart's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





CEP - The Secret Weapon for SOA Application Performance Management

Rich Schreiber's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





Service Oriented Unified Process

Chris Shayan's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standard in the Service-Oriented Enterprise

Paul Lipton's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





How EDA Extends SOA and Why It Is Important

Everything is moving toward on-demand business where service providers react to impulses - events - from the environment.

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM

Koen Aers's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





Web Service Virtualization for SOA Runtime Governance and Control

Gregory Brail's Virtualization Session at the Virtualization Conference & Expo, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





Importance of Web Application Firewall Technology for Protecting Web-based Resources

Web-based applications and services have changed the landscape of information delivery and exchange in today’s corporate

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





WINDOWS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES ANNOUNCES 2008 DEVELOPER AWARD WINNERS AT MICROSOFT CONFERENCE

Windows in Financial Services, the magazine for Microsoft intelligence in the financial enterprise, today announces its 2008 Developer Awards at Microsoft’s Sixth Annual Financial Services

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





SOA Viewpoint: Layers are Encapsulations and Tiers Are Barriers

The use of layers and tiers is a way of enforcing architectural principles on a services model

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008





Google Swallows DoubleClick

Google closed on its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick this morning a couple of hours after the European Commission

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





A Little SOA Goes A Long Way

Kyle Gabhart's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





Implementing a Highly Distributed, Real-time Data-critical SOA Application

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

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





Web Service Virtualization for SOA Runtime Governance and Control

Gregory Brail's Virtualization Session at the Virtualization Conference & Expo, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





Project Insight Project Management Software Announces Web Services Integration

Real-time access to project budgeting and costing information

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





Employing SOA the proper way

WHAT won’t a service-oriented architecture do for a corporation? It will not address fundamental problems such as a misconceived business model

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008





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

Fifty Three Percent of Companies Had Active SOA Projects by the End of 2007

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





Web 2.0 Expo Conference to Take Place in San Francisco in April 2008

A global annual gathering of aces in the IT sphere, who are building the next generation web, will take place in San Francisco in April 2008. The program will spotlight experts, leaders, and up-to-date innovations.

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





New IBM mainframe faces challenges

IBM has released the System z10 mainframe, its first update of the z series since the release of the z9 three years ago.

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





The new frameworks

As delivery of service-oriented computing proliferates around the globe, the networking architectures of the Middle East are realigning to embrace this new trend. Adrian Bridgwater examines the issues at hand.

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





10 lessons learned on SOA excellence

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects start with governance and end with governance at Thomson Financial, the arm of The Thomson Corp., which provides online information services to customers.

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





SOA Excellence: Some Lessons Learned

Perfection shouldn't be the goal for enterprise architects in setting up a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





CIO Council starts wiki on architecture guidance

The CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee launched a wiki today asking for feedback from public- and private-sector experts

Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008





Girls In US And UK Command Remarkable Web Usage Numbers

Found in Sunday’s edition of The Times of London, an article by Kate Spicer and Abul Tahrreport documents a trend of increasing Web adoption among girls and young women

Posted: Saturday, March 08, 2008





Next-Generation Web Platforms: The Next Episode Is RIA + SOA

RIA represents the rich user interface and SOA represents the services that it consumes

Posted: Friday, March 07, 2008





Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7

Build secure Web services with transport-level security using IBM Rational Application Developer V7 and IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.

Posted: Friday, March 07, 2008





Microsoft Begins Free Web Service for SOHO Operators in Japan

Microsoft Co. said Thursday it has launched a Japanese-language version of its Microsoft Office Live Small Business free online services

Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008





SOA Governance: Start Small and Build Incrementally

If governance were a house, you would be left with the options of either building it from the ground-up or attempting to haul a complete house

Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008





Windows Server 2008 Available for Evaluation

Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2008, and there are 8 editions to choose from.

Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008





Web Security: Rein In Dangerous Web Apps

Part Two: Web security always comes down to a single common denominator: application security.

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?

Danny Allan's RIA Session at AJAXWorld, March 18-20, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





IDS Scheer Announces Support for OASIS Reference Model with ARIS SOA Architect

New Reference Model for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Provided by the International Standards Organization

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





When Should AJAX Be Used?

Mike Padilla's RIA Session at AJAXWorld, March 18-20, in New York City

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





Identifying and Federating Today's SOA Power Centers Through Enterprise Service Buses

No two SOA deployments are alike, even within the same company. Service-oriented architecture is a popular and successful approach

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





SOA data services using a common data model

The data you want depends on your point of view.

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





Portals in an E-Commerce 2.0 World

"Social shopping sites are definitely already more semantic than general Web 2.0 sites," Wishpot CEO Max Ciccotosto told the E-Commerce Times.

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008





Final Destination: SOA for the Retailer

For once there is widespread consensus: analysts say it is the next attraction; vendors say their products already support it

Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008





Using the NetBeans IDE for RESTful Web Services

The integrated development environment landscape is dominated by two open source offerings, NetBeans and Eclipse.

Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008





What's in Store for SOA in 2008?

In 2008, a growing number of SOA deployments will start to adopt open source, such as messaging and service enablement SOA products, and investigate one or more of the cloud-based services available.

Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008





First look: Microsoft Office Live Workspaces goes public

In October 2007, Microsoft unveiled a free web-based service called Office Live Workspace.

Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008





SOA: The dream and reality

Service-oriented architecture — and the vision for its potential

Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008





Challenges for Business Process Management is Depicted in the Report Building End-to-End Process

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Business Process Management: Building End-to-end Process Solutions for the Agile Business to their offering

Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008





IBM offers SOA/data governance guidance

The importance of governance for both service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations and the enterprise data consumed by them was emphasized by IBM at two user events this past week.

Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008





Microsoft to expand its Web services for businesses

Microsoft Corp, faced with Web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability

Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008





Why Is an Enterprise RIA Platform Different?

Apps must be optimized to deliver high response times even when data sets approach 100,000+ records

Posted: Sunday, March 02, 2008





Are Virtualization and SOA Related?

What is "service-oriented" virtualization"?

Posted: Sunday, March 02, 2008





Checklist for building that website

If you have been thinking about building a website for your business, here are a few things you should consider before you start.

Posted: Sunday, March 02, 2008





Microsoft's Google killer strategy: Finally on the way?

With Google beefing up its app business, we've been wondering when Microsoft would respond.

Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008





Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition

Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition, also known as the Service Factory, is a collection of resources to help you model

Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008




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