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


OASIS approves a Web services standard that could ease 'mash-ups'

Must every spreadsheet you ever use until the end of recorded time be an "Excel spreadsheet?"

Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008





SOA or DOA

Web applications built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) promise to greatly improve IT efficiency

Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008





This Report Answers How Nordic Companies Achieve Alignment between Business and IT

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Nordic IT Organisation 2007" to their offering.

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008





Microsoft Contributes Web Services Protocol to Broaden Interoperability

As part of its customer-focused commitment to interoperability, Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has contributed its Web services protocol

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008





Ask The SOA Expert: Questions & Answers

I understand the basics of XML firewalling, but what other SOA security measures can I potentially look to take at the network level?

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008





Dell Found Guilty of Deceptive Business Practices

Dell Found Guilty of Fraud, False Advertising, Deceptive Business Practices and Abusive Debt Collection Practices

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





SOA in a JVM: OSGi Service Platform - A Dynamic Component System for Java

OSGi was popularized by Eclipse upon the foundation's adoption of OSGi as its core plug-in technology in 2004

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





EC calls for IPv6 leadership

The European Commission is looking for governments to lead the way in IPv6 switch

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





IBM Helps Rotech Healthcare and Osaka Gas Accelerate Performance and Lower Costs Using WebSphere

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that businesses are taking advantage of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to manage software applications

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





Yahoo BrowserPlus Challenges Adobe Air, Google Gears

Amid speculation about its mysterious BrowserPlus platform, Yahoo May 27 released a sneak preview of the software for programmers.

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





Calais: Putting Wings on the Semantic Web?

The OpenCalais project aims to make more of the Web easily accessible.

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008





Microsoft to unveil social bookmarking site

Microsoft is going head-to-head with social bookmarking sites such as Reddit, Digg and del.icio.us by launching a new web service

Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2008





New Adobe Flaw Being Used in Attacks, Says Symantec

An unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported Monday.

Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2008





OWASP - Web Services Security

OWASP chapter meetings are free and open to anyone interested in application security.

Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2008





Technology is key differentiator among banks today in the quest to attract and retain customers says

LINK Development to discuss benefits of business integration technology at Financial Services Technology Summit in Doha

Posted: Monday, May 26, 2008





SOA and Virtualization: The Ultimate IT Power Couple

The Virtualization Freight Train Is Coming & SOA Is On Board

Posted: Monday, May 26, 2008





SOA: It's the People, Process and Orientation

To service-enable or not to service-enable? It's a vexing question. All indications are that the industry is moving

Posted: Monday, May 26, 2008





Online, lingo adds to insight

As Internet evolves, so does vocabulary for those who use it

Posted: Monday, May 26, 2008





Windows Communication Foundation: Application Deployment Scenarios

In November of 2006 .NET 3.0 has introduced a new Web Service implementation platform (WCF) simplifying the design

Posted: Sunday, May 25, 2008





AJAX RIA World - The Tale of Two Webs

The Browser-Desktop Border is Blurring: There is no absolute truth in defining the web - the web is in the eye of the beholder

Posted: Sunday, May 25, 2008





What are the server roles in Windows Server 2008?

Windows Server 2008 is designed around certain roles and features.

Posted: Sunday, May 25, 2008





Cloud Spotting

Microsoft's forecast - and its margin implications - is nothing to sneeze at

Posted: Saturday, May 24, 2008





SaaS Could Gum Up Open Source's Code-Sharing Model

Advocates are concerned SaaS providers will transform but not contribute their innovations back to the community.

Posted: Saturday, May 24, 2008





Moving closer to the internet as an operating system

The internet is arguably evolving as an operating system in its own right, with IP, HTML, SMTP and other underlying protocols combining with online application frameworks such as SOAP, web services, Ajax, Ruby on Rails and mash-ups.

Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008





SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine Announce Judges for SOA Case Study Contest

Contest Open to Organizations In All Industries Including Government that Have Completed Successful SOA Projects

Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008





Consumers Want More Mobile Web Service and App Choices, Control

Some 80 percent of consumers would prefer a service provider that gives them more choice in the applications and services available on their mobile device

Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008





Where Are We with SOA ...and Where Do We Need to Be?

Joe McKendrick's SOA Session at SOAWorld, June 23-24, in New York City

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008





Microsoft spiffs up Mediaroom developers’ kit

Microsoft this week released a beta version of its Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework to the 150 software developers that are part of the Microsoft program

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008





Opera Mobile 9.5 Sparkles On the HTC Touch Diamond

Includes Numerous Innovative Features that Elevate the Internet Experience On a Phone

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008





AJAX World - SOA Created AJAX and Rich Internet Applications

Synergize WSRP, Web 2.0, and AJAX with ESB for Customizability and Security

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008





SOA World - SOA SDLC: On-Demand

Spending time with my parents over the holidays got me thinking about the differences between my generation and the previous one.

Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008





Report: Consumers To Demand Personalization In Mobile Web Access

IBM's survey predicts nearly 1 billion mobile users will access the wireless Internet by 2011, representing $80 billion in Web services revenue.

Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008





Report: SOA Market To Jump FourFold by 2014

A new report on the surging SOA market predicts that the size of the SOA infrastructure market will grow by more than fourfold

Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008





Ten ways to identify services

In a service-oriented IT landscape that has been shaped according to the principles of service-orientation

Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008





Is SOA testing tough enough?

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) represents a huge shift in the way we approach computing.

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008





Google Health Service Is Finally Here

The internet search giant Google Inc. has finally launched its long-awaited Google Health (google.com/health), a product that will enable users to upload and store medical records

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008





IBM Pushes Federated Identity Management

With Version 6.2 of its Federated Identity Manager, IBM brings multiple identities into a centralized system.

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008





Is it SOA or SOB?

This is the third in a series of newsletters that attempts to paint the picture of the forthcoming perfect storm relative to the ability of IT

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008





IBM Outlines Software for a Greener World

At a gathering of international customers at its Pulse 2008 conference here, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a comprehensive strategy

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





Dissed Online? How to Fix Your Brand's Rep

Today's consumers don't hesitate to post their comments, good and bad, on the Internet. Here are some tips for damage control

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM

JBoss's Koen Aers to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, June 23-24. in New York City

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





Q&A: Software's advance is so steady, you probably don't even notice it

Software isn't in a rut. In fact, its development has been so steady, we've come to expect continued progress (and therefore fail to appreciate it). Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





JavaOne 2008: SOA, SCA, REST and Comet Discussed

Even though 'Service' comes first in SCA, it doesn't feel like it was designed to build a SOA

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





Point for Discussion of SOA, Virtualization, Java, Data Services, AJAX, iPhone, RIAs & Open Source

SYS-CON.com Continues Its Role as Source of Good Questions & Excellent Answers

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





WOA is me - Another acronym? WOA and SOA

The problem with IT: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Just when one concept is finally understood and gaining traction

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





A secure SOA for DOD

2008 GCN Technology Leadership Award winner Vera sets the requirements for protecting enterprise services

Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008





13th International SOA World Conference & Expo in NYC: Themes & Topics

A round-up of themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008

Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008





Rolling Review: Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Networking Gateway

The first entry in our all-in-one SOA appliance review shows that increased competition means lines between product categories are blurring -- and IT is benefiting.

Posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008





SOA's Second Act: Dynamic Documents Top the Agenda

Organizations are Now Beginning to Take a Closer Look at the Role of Unstructured Assets as Part of SOA

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Growing an SOA Garden

Turn flawed perspectives into something positive

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Manufacturing Semantic Interoperability for a SOA Adaptation Strategy

Without semantics, data has no meaning and is just a binary

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Changing the Process of Web Development

All new or emerging businesses are rightfully cautious of the big investment required to launch a successful web presence.

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Case Study: Java and the Mac

It all started with the boss out of Dilbert

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





"Virtualization Is Now a Key Strategic Theme for Every IT Department," Says Citrix CTO

Exclusive Q&A with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix & Founder of XenSource

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Application Security for Open Source - The New Frontier

Building a partnership between security and engineering teams

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





The potential and future of SOA

Utilising technology more effectively makes it possible for businesses to address many of the challenges they face everyday.

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008





Oracle links SOA, data services, BI and BAM

Oracle Corp., originally a database vendor, now includes data services, business intelligence (BI) and business activity monitoring (BAM) in its service-oriented architecture (SOA) suite.

Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008





Should your architecture focus on SOA or BPM?

While SOA was the big name in the buzzword tag cloud, BPM is quickly getting bigger and bigger.

Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008





The human side of SOA, Part 2 - Evolving from technology to business

All organisations have both short term and long-term goals. For most businesses, IT is no longer viewed as a strategic differentiator

Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008





Can opening up 'everything' save Yahoo?

The executive vice-president hopes third-party developers can help the web giant position itself at the heart of the internet

Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008





Where The Web Is Weak

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008





SAP Accelerates the Path to SOA for Customers

SAP Announced a Design and Development Governance Offering for Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture

Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008





Microsoft's Has the Best Web 2.0 Developer Platform

There’s a survey report out that ranks the best Web 2.0 development platforms by the people who actually use them.

Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008





JavaOne 2008: SOA and Performance

A well performing SOA implementation requires considerable work and performance tuning

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





The human side of SOA, Part 1 - Returning IT to its former glory

Application architectures have evolved greatly over the last 30 years of computing.

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM

JBoss's Koen Aers to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, June 23-24. in New York City

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





Fujitsu's Keith Swenson to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Keith Swenson's SOA Session - Making Sense of the BPM & SOA Standards Alphabet Soup

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





WSO2's Glen Daniels to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Glen Daniels' SOA Session: A Social Registry - Bridging Technology and Community for SOA

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





BEA's Michael Carey to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Michael Carey's Session - Data Services Modeling: Data Modeling in the SOA Age

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





SOA Can Deliver On Promise With Right Strategies In Place

Insurers are discovering that a service-oriented architecture -- guided by the right governance and cultural change management strategies -- can deliver on SOA’s promise of a more agile IT organization.

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008





Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is…an architectural pattern.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Survey Shows Links Between Server Virtualization and Networked Storage

Transition from Direct Attached Storage to Networked Storage is Dictated by the Needs of Server Virtualization

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Microsoft's Hotmail, Live Messenger Head To BlackBerry

BlackBerrys aren't just for business messaging anymore, and Microsoft isn't depending only on Windows Mobile for its mobile strategy.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Research and Markets: Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014”

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





EDI to XML: A Practical Approach

While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are beginning to gain traction

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Building the bridge to SOA

Five bridge components help create a vivid mental picture of the five components an organization needs to expose the unique value embedded

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA

If you read this column and listen to my podcasts, you know that I call SOA what SOA is…an architectural pattern.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





8 mobile tech tools and tips for a tough economy

Having my father get laid off from his state government job a few weeks back has kept me busy.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Web services testing

The basics of web services, the underlying pitfalls and the testing strategies involved in deploying them securely.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





Software AG presents SOA summit

The Software AG SOA Governance Summit Spring 2008 will take place on 14 May in New York City, according to Business Wire.

Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008





My Search Enhancement Wish List

NOW WE ARE BEST SERVED BY VIEWING OUR USERS AS EXPERTS AND MEETING THEM ON THEIR OWN TERMS.

Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008





Mocking Web Services

Some of the Web services testing approaches were previously covered in an InfoQ post.