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


Powerful Web Services with PHP and SOAP

You've tried your hand at building mashups, experimented with a few RESTful Web services, maybe even started your own. Sure, you've got data sharing working.

Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008





SimpleDB Simplifies Data Storage

Web 2.0 concepts may be difficult for some businesses to implement, but it gives entrepreneurs new and improved ways to operate their business.

Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008





Enterprises must ditch silo computing

Organisations are moving from traditional hierarchies based on command and control to looser structures requiring collaboration

Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008





Forensic SOA

One surprising but intriguing sign that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is finally entering the mainstream is the increasing number of lawsuits

Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008





Hostile bid for Yahoo could change future of the web

The future of the web may lie in whether Microsoft Corp.'s bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. turns hostile

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008





Web Leaders to Highlight E&P/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in May

The annual Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show, presented by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008





Solving the SOA Data Dilemma

A hub provides an ideal way to manage data within a services-oriented architecture.

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008





SOA, BPM and DFD and the Art of Designing Systems

Data Flow Diagram technique (DFD is extremely useful in the context of today's BPM

Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008





IBM News May Signal Enterprise Mashup Maturity

An assortment of vendors are releasing enterprise mashup development tools during this week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco

Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008





Yahoo targets small, medium cos with Web-hosting services

Yahoo Inc. has launched a service to build and host websites for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India for a fee

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008





With Live Mesh, Microsoft Admits Web Is Now Central To Computing

Ray Ozzie says Microsoft's software and services endeavor is a shift from its PC roots and key to sharing content and data over a number of devices.

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008





MAAS (Mudslinging as a Service) at Web 2.0

Who's a real platform provider? Opinions abound at Web 2.0.

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008





Virtualization - From Silos to a Service-Oriented Infrastructure

The Role of the Network in Virtualizing Applications & Infrastructure Services

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008





IBM and Finnish Defense Forces Enlist SOA to Deliver the Future of Integrated Command and Control

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will team with the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) to develop a new industry framework

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





IBM researches improved mobile web services

Mobile devices like cell phones now outnumber PCs three to one. Convinced that much of the world will tie into the Web without using PCs, IBM is researching better ways to access the Web through those mobile devices

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





Microsoft To Release SOA Tool Paving The Path To Oslo

Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





SOA's role in centralized data dictionary for messages in WSDLs

What is a centralized data dictionary for messages in WSDLs? Is it a good idea to have an enterprise data dictionary or is it defeating the whole notion of SOA?

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





Load Testing SOAs which Utilize Web Services

This white paper provides a practical, working example of constructing a SOAP testing script for the Google Web Services API using the scripting language Python.

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





SOA picture worth 1,000 words for HP

It's a cliché that SOA planning should focus on the big picture, but Hewlett-Packard is offering new graphical tools that actually create pictures for doing that planning.

Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008





Put SOA to the test

Proponents of service-oriented architecture often talk about the technology in revolutionary terms, emphasizing SOA’s ability to cross information

Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008





OnDemand Integration - Integration-as-Service

The way business applications are evolving, enterprises are learning to accept and embrace the notion of applications

Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008





Web 2.0 Expo preview: Mashups upgraded for the enterprise

Vendors set to unveil links to Excel, new ways to mash up Web content, corporate data

Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008





The Quest for Administrative Simplification and Cost Reduction

A substantial percentage of health care expenditures derive from administrative inefficiencies that stem from a lack of unifying technology

Posted: Saturday, April 19, 2008





More than Code

In enterprise architecture, Web services continue to dominate the discourse in design and implementation

Posted: Saturday, April 19, 2008





How to Simplify Heterogeneous SOA: Service Virtualization

Raghu Thiagarajan's Virtualization Session at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 East

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008





Microsoft Tests 'Albany' Subscription Software Program

The service is meant to bolster the company's presence in the booming Web services market while protecting its multibillion-dollar packaged software franchise.

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008





Microsoft Broadens RFID Integration

The company's latest BizTalk RFID software aims to foster management and integration of RF-based applications across the enterprise.

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008





The Road to SOA Success Goes Through Enterprise Architecture

Gartner research shows that a large number of enterprises that build service oriented architectures do not realize the benefits that they anticipated.

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008





IBM Enters Data De-duplication Market, Acquires Diligent Technologies

Single solution to support data protection, archive and data-retention applications

Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008





Keep on workin’ in the free world

The net is the new workplace where every tool you need to do your job can be downloaded in a matter of seconds.

Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008





GSM Cracking: Coming Soon to a Computer Near You via a Web Service

A web service that will make it easy and inexpensive to crack the GSM A5/1 encryption protocol, quickly enough for a call that is still in progress

Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008





Google Website Optimizer launched

Google has launched a new web service that promises to allow users to evaluate how well specific designs of a website work.

Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008





On-Demand In Demand: Model Defies VC Trend

Though stock prices of publicly traded on-demand software companies have taken a beating recently, venture capitalists are betting big on the long-term trend.

Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008





Are you ready for 'green SOA'?

The IT industry has been increasingly moving toward greener practices in order to cut costs and consumption, and adopting SOA is seen as the next step

Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 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, April 15, 2008





Facelift Your SOA with Rich Internet Applications

Yakov Fain's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008





Web Services 2.0 Make Good on the Web’s Promises of Flexibility and Customization

Now that Web services have gone 2.0, new service-oriented business applications (SOBAs) offer complete, cost-effective adaptability to unique business models, processes and best practices.

Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008





SOA is not a technology

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects are often abandoned because they are incorrectly assessed and implemented

Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008





SYS-CON.TV Today @ 1PM ET: The Convergence of B2B, SOA & BPM

Ken Vollmer, a Forrester analyst who has assisted hundreds of clients in North America & Europe with their integration projects

Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008





Van Huizen: Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications is Driving SOA Middleware Growth

Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software

Posted: Monday, April 14, 2008





Oracle Partners Embrace Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)

System Integrator and ISV Partners Sign on to Co-Develop Strategic Integration Products and Leverage AIA to Build Extensions and Services

Posted: Monday, April 14, 2008





SOA benefits outweigh risks – IBM exec

When considering moving to service-oriented architecture (SOA), telcos, retailers and banks are still risk averse, says Karen Parrish, IBM vice president of industry solutions,

Posted: Monday, April 14, 2008





Chatty vs Chunky: A Dev Guide

More and more, developers in online forums and at events are asking for more info on the concept of "Chatty versus Chunky,"

Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2008





Avoid Top 5 Web Service Security Flaws

There is a new Top 5 threats list for web services. Prepared by web services researcher Spire Security LLC and Forum Systems

Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2008





Devs Should Brace for Wave of Process, Modeling Tools

In the last several weeks, Microsoft, IBM, BEA, CompuWare and Borland, among others, have all shipped new tools and/or extensions to help Java

Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2008





Demystifying SOA for Architects, Devs

This is to be the first in a series of articles aimed at helping developers, architects and managers navigate the ever - shifting SOA

Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2008





End Users To Gain Voice in SOA Blueprints

Finally, it appears that enterprise end users will get their chance to influence the creation of SOA Blueprints for the real world.

Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2008





Getting to the Last Mile of SOA Success: Service Management

Overview: You have implemented SOA to add the flexibility to IT which businesses crave

Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2008





Ask The SOA Expert: Questions & Answers

What design options do we have to integrate SOA-based components with legacy real-time components in a system? Could the SCA standard be of any use here?

Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008





Google App Engine Goes Up Against Amazon Web Services

Google App Engine is a development "platform in the cloud" that currently has a relatively narrow scope

Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008





SMSOfficer Lets You Text On The Job

For more and more people, text messaging and SMS have replaced IM and e-mail, especially if you work at an office

Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008





3 steps for successful SOA

Imagine asking a CEO if he knew where all his enterprise applications were, how secure they were

Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008





DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40

If you think SOA is a purely a software play, think again. XML hardware provides acceleration and integration functions

Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008





Forrester Analyst To Discuss the Convergence of B2B, SOA & BPM on SYS-CON.TV

"Frictionless value chains" are the key, says Ken Vollmer

Posted: Friday, April 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: Wednesday, April 09, 2008





“Mobile Web: State of the Market, Technology, and Business Issues” Report Assesses the Challenges

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Mobile Web: State of the Market, Technology, and Business Issues” to their offering.

Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008





IBM's Smart SOA Vision Explained at Impact

IBM's 2nd annual IMPACT SOA conference is being held this week and there are over 6000 attendees here.

Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008





What's New about SOA?

It is has been said that “imitation is the greatest form of flattery” but to borrow an idea is still plagerism.

Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008





The Daily Poll: Battle in the Clouds

Last night, Google made one of the more significant product announcements in company history, entering the realm of “cloud computing”

Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008





SoA locks down middle in preparation for an all-out catwalk push into the A bomb site.

In this strat, Spirit of Amiga shows that setting up a proper defense on T is a key to launching the an effective offense.

Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008





Google defends user data policy after EU report

Google Inc on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results

Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008





Terms of (dis)service: ISP user agreements overreach

Perhaps we've been missing out. While ISPs and web developers have long granted themselves god-like clauses

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





IBM Creates Global Social Network to Advance SOA

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new social network focused on advancing service oriented architectures (SOA).

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





Database in the Sky

Using a web service as your database can save you lots of time, money and frustration.

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





Enterprise SOA

Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents an open IT architecture for developing services-based business solutions

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





Spring Users To Get Assist In Building Java Web Services

WSO2's grafted approach to Spring's Web services may appeal to open source developers eyeing rapid, lightweight Java developments.

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





Using Model-Driven SOAv

Gartner Research calls it the "trough of disillusionment" -- every new technology's sophomore slump, after the early promise fades.

Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008





The Million Dollar SOA Question: Software ESBs or Hardware Appliances?

Service-oriented architectures have now become the norm for IT to deliver value to their respective businesses.

Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008





Microsoft's Weekend Bombshell to Yahoo! BoD: Off Come the Gloves!

"Our proposal is the only alternative put forward that offers your shareholders full and fair value for their shares"

Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008





Are Virtualization and SOA Related?

Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and configuration cost.

Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008





SOA Pioneer David Linthicum To Keynote at SOA World 2008

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

Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008





SOA Consortium Director To Keynote SOA World 2008 East in NYC

Dr Richard Mark Soley Will Speak at SOA World 2008 About "Making the SOA Leap"

Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008





Is Google bringing Bigtable out of the closet?

TechCrunch is speculating that Google may begin the first major phase of becoming an infrastructure provider for developers

Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008





DataServices World: Data Services Layer and Its Role in SOA

Mark Davydov's Session at DataServices World, June 24, in New York City

Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008





Automatic Authentication Wakes the Sleeping Web Services Giant

Winston Churchill once referred to the Soviet Union as a giant with its nostrils pinched because its lack of ice-free ports

Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008





Online real estate SOA moves into BPEL

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) are being used to tie together vertical real estate applications

Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008





SOA - Is it Buzz or Best Practice? Unraveling the Mystery of Service Oriented Architecture

Remember when CRM was the IT buzzword of the 1990s? Companies were implementing CRM, they were leveraging CRM

Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008





Whipping the QA Process Into SOA Shape

Many of the benefits of service-oriented architecture are placed at risk during the quality assurance process.

Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008





Web 2.0 and Business Intelligence – How Do They Fit Together? Part 4

In my first article of this series, I highlighted several Web 2.0 technologies. These include:

Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008





RIA, SOA & Web 2.0 Mashups - Mash What?

It's what you don't see about the emerging Web that has everyone excited these days

Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008





Keeping SOA Under Control

By now, most IT professionals and managers are well-acquainted with the concept of service oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008





DataServices World: WADL & URIs as Database Types

Mark Hapner's Session at DataServices World, June 24, in New York City

Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 2008