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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.

Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008





E-Commerce Web Services: Better, Faster, Cheaper

E-commerce firms are turning to Web services to streamline operations. A Web service, for instance, could carry out payment validation by taking details from one system

Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008





Yahoo goes full steam ahead with ’open’ strategy

When Yahoo announced its Yahoo Open Strategy (Y OS) last month, it offered a vision that, if realised, could give back the company the mojo it lost several years ago.

Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008





Aras Delivers Version 9 of Advanced Model-Based SOA for Enerprise PLM

Delivers Model-based SOA for PLM and Includes Multi-Language Capabilities and Support for Microsoft Platform Products

Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008





Sun's rocket-fuelled cloud

Sun is building a cloud competitor to Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Live Mesh which will offer storage services amongst its many other services.

Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008





Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA to connect your business vision with software

Microsoft Dynamics has made investments in Web services and other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies across our product lines to help customers take a "Real-World" approach to SOA.

Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008





Dynamic nets need dynamic security

The traditional approach of getting security right in an environment from the beginning does not apply to the service-oriented architecture(SOA) environment.

Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008





Advantages of a Custom Website versus using a Website Builder Tool

The internet has revolutionized business all around the globe. Almost every competent new or existing business wishes to exploit the incredible potential of the internet

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





Micro Focus Upgrades SOA Express

New Version of SOA Express Adds Support for Direct Deployment Into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS)

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





Getting Started : Your Guide to SOA Success

More and more organizations are turning to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase productivity

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





Web Callback Service: A Comprehensive Way to Stay connected

The importance of VoIP is increasing with time. More and more people are experiencing the joy of making long distance calls

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





10 Killer Texting Tricks

To many people over the age of 30, text messaging can seem like one of those strange, complicated behaviors only teenagers understand.

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





.Net comes to WebSphere Portal

In the beginning, Mainsoft released Visual MainWin for Java EE, which compiled .Net CIL (Common Intermediate Language) code into Java bytecode.

Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008





Are You Ready for SOA?

It’s a question we’re asked a lot: How do I get started with SOA?

Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008





SOA Governance: Rule your SOA

SOA Governance is no side issue, but rather the key factor to overall SOA and business success! Effective SOA Governance supports your IT organization

Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008





JavaOne: JBoss on SOA middleware, Java EE and data services

There's traditional middleware and then there's SOA middleware and determining where they might converge or diverge is still a work in progress for vendors, says Craig Muzilla, vice president of Red Hat Inc.'s Middleware Business Unit.

Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008





Speeding Web services

Corporate application portfolios are changing as software-as-a-service (SaaS), rich Internet applications and service-oriented architecture

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008





HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

The next giant leap in technology is here: selling power and server space like a metered utility. Everyone expected Google to be the first to pull it off, but it's being trounced by an unexpected player: Amazon.

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008





Without Yahoo, Microsoft remains alone on the Web

Now that Microsoft Corp has shelved its bid for Yahoo Inc, it must convince investors it has a viable "Plan B" to fix an online business

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008





A Fair Comparison of REST and WS-* using an Architectural Decision Framework: is the Debate Over?

Olaf Zimmermann and his colleagues from IBM Research have developed last year an Architectural Decision Metamodel to facilitate Enterprise Application Development.

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008





Grid applications merge with SOA infrastructures

Our company's SOA efforts and grid efforts have taken place completely separate from one another, now we're looking to bring them together.

Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008





How WOA Can Re-Humanize SOA

Question: Why do you think SOA has become so siloed in IT? Wasn’t it supposed to solve the silo problem?

Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008





FIs and tech firms team up to aid banks' SOA

Financial institutions Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, ING, Deutsche Postbank, Standard Bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank have teamed up with software firms, Microsoft, SAP, SunGard, Temenos and Callataÿ & Wouters

Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008





Cellphone carriers try to radically improve mobile Web browsing

The wireless industry is trying to radically improve mobile Web browsing by making it as much like the PC experience as possible.

Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2008





From Live Mesh to the Open Mesh

My friend Marc Canter has written a series of blog posts outlining the issues, constructs, technologies, and standards required to build out an "open mesh,"

Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2008





Integrate VSTO with SharePoint Content Types

Office Business Applications (OBAs) are composite applications built using the services, tools, and servers that comprise the Microsoft® 2007 Office system.

Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008





Safer Authentication with a One-Time Password Solution

Passwords can be a big security and manageability headache for enterprise IT administrators.

Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008





Team Foundation Server Event Service

Microsoft built Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a collection of major and minor services including version control

Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008





Broadening the Reach of SOA

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

Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008





Not Just a Pretty Dream: Why Cloud Computing May Be the Most Durable 2.0 Tech.

It appears that cloud computing is the latest Web 2.0 technology under fire in the blogosphere, but of all the tech that's come out of this whole new way of doing things

Posted: Saturday, May 03, 2008





Long-Tail SOA and the Mythology of Re-Use

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of applying a standard design pattern to all services.

Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008





Web-Based IT Management Spec Gets Official Nod

Two years after first launching its Web Services for Management standard, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has ratified it as final.

Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008





The IBM-Google connection

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt gave a speech and chatted with IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano onstage Thursday at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference here.

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008





Service Component Architecture spec promises to make SOA easier

Service Component Architecture (SCA), a service-oriented architecture (SOA) specification for transforming IT assets into reusable services

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008





HP Boosts SOA Management Offerings

On Tuesday, Hewlett Packard announced several upgrades to its products aimed at managing and testing service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments.

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008





Leveraging the Mainframe in Your SOA Strategy

It's a phrase that we hear all too frequently: "We're moving off our mainframe." Yet virtually anyone who has ever had a mainframe continues to utilize it in some fashion.

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008




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