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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