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:: Web Services and SOA News - February, 2009 ::


Achieving the promised business outcomes of SOA

Overview: In this program you'll learn why Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is so important to put in place early in the initiative.

Posted: Saturday, February 28, 2009





The Role of a SOA Platform During Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions are tricky business manoeuvres and if not done skilfully, can produce the very opposite of the synergy they aim to achieve.

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009





Windows 7 Beta Web Services Beta Available for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Microsoft is making good on a promise involving the availability of the Web Services API specific to Windows 7

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009





Enterprise SoA - Industry Survey

Industry Survey Part 1: The Methodology Author: Shuchi Nath Nagar Survey conducted as part of academic qualification by the Author

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009





Live Event: IBM Smart SOA Global Virtual Forum

Join the IBM Smart SOA™ Global Virtual Forum on Tuesday, March 3rd at 10:30 am ET / 7:30 am PT to immerse yourself in a cool virtual business environment

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009





SOA and DDD

Hot on the heels of The Death Of SOA and The Wake For SOA, the debate on what constitutes SOA continues.

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009





Reusability 'a primary SOA goal'

Reusability is a key goal of service-oriented architecture (SOA), two industry analysts have suggested.

Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2009





Open Source SOA eKit - Articles, Webinars, Whitepapers

SOA initiatives typically comprise very expensive investments in tooling, but it doesn’t need to be that way.

Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2009





SOA & The Tarpit of Irrelevancy

In his new three parts post, ThoughtWorks' architect Neal Ford blames vendors' marketing for the way SOA is perceived today.

Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2009





Microsoft Azure Offers Developers a Path to the Cloud

Tech Analysis: Azure is Microsoft's entry into the cloud computing world, pitting it against the likes of Amazon.com and Google.

Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2009





The Meta Cloud - Flying data centers enter fourth dimension

Just when you thought the cloud metaphor couldn't stretch any further, it has.

Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2009





Which Came First, the SOA or the Data Model?

Recently I have been engaged in two Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives within the context of a larger Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption plan.

Posted: Monday, February 23, 2009





Understanding SOA Technologies

Web services are most often used to implement an SOA. Fortunately, and unfortunately, there are many Web service standards to choose from.

Posted: Monday, February 23, 2009





Microsoft Debates Support for Web Services Forum

Microsoft executives have said they are considering whether or not to support the new Web Services Test Forum, which is backed by IBM, Oracle and others.

Posted: Monday, February 23, 2009





InformationWeek Analytics: State Of SOA

We polled readers to assess whether service-oriented architectures have simply hit an economy-induced bump in the road or are, instead, at a significant crossroads.

Posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009





SOA, BPM, CEP: Getting IT Budget in a Tight Economy

You’re in a squeeze. How things ultimately shake out is not relevant right now, because you need to act right now.

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009





Building a Modern SOA: Examining Offshoring All Over Again

Had a Bad Experience? Maybe You Were Too Hasty. Don't Repeat the Mistake

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009





Will SOA be reincarnated as 'private clouds'?

Private clouds, which offers greater control and security over applications and data than public cloud computing, bears a striking resemblance to service-oriented architectures.

Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009





How Green is Google, SOA, SEO? How Green is My IT?

The amount of information created and replicated worldwide in 2007 totalled 281 exabytes (an exabyte is a billion gigabytes).

Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009





Batch processing with SOA

Although typically thought of as an artifact of legacy computing, batch processes remain vital to today's real-time enterprises.

Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009





SOA Governance: Governing the Service Factory

This chapter covers a practical approach for governing both the operation of the service factory and the management of services after they have been deployed to production.

Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009





Making SOA ROI Real

Industry research shows that while many companies believe SOA is beneficial, only a few have reached a level of maturity that lets them to reap real benefits.

Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009





Navigating the SOA Journey from Project to Productivity

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has captured the attention and energy of CIOs across the globe given its tantalizing promise of IT agility and business responsiveness

Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009





The Application Server and SOA

Over the past few years the industry has lauded, and users have increasingly adopted, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to the development and deployment of their IT

Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009





SOA-cloud combination can bring benefits

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term of the day, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments

Posted: Monday, February 16, 2009





Breaking down the barriers to compliance through an SOA

Why is it that when we hear the word compliance we tense up anticipating that we’ve done or are about to do something wrong?

Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009





SOA Pattern Catalogue, Community Launched by Prentice Hall

SOA Design Patterns, a catalog of 85 design patterns for SOA projects, is now available from Prentice Hall.

Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009





The link between SOA and content aggregation

Joshua Michele-Ross is doing a superb interview series at FAST Forward 09 with various movers and shakers in content management

Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009





SOA and Some Inherent Challenges

From a functional meaning, the concept SOA has been in existence for many years- either in the form of message driven interface

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009





Developing a CICS-Based Web Service

Web services have opened opportunities to integrate the applications at an enterprise level irrespective of the technology they have been implemented in.

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009





IBM Unveils Cloud Computing Division, Strategy and Partnership

Until now, a potential IBM customer looking to build or refurbish a data center to supply infrastructure for cloud-type services must start with IBM Global Services and work his/her way through that formidable bureaucracy.

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009





The cloud-SOA connection

IT groups that understand SOA may be able to take better advantage of the cloud

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009





Microsoft Contributes to Apache Open Source SOA Project

Microsoft is contributing code to one of Apache’s open-source SOA project.

Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009





Reports of SOA's Death: Greatly Exaggerated or Dead-On?

Service oriented architecture has been embraced and derided, but mostly it's been misunderstood. E-Commerce Times contributor Dana Gardner discusses the fate of SOA with some top experts in the field.

Posted: Monday, February 09, 2009





Applying SOA Lessons to Web 2.0 Implementations

Two IBM’s Distinguished Engineers, Kyle Brown and Rachel Reinitz, start their new article with a quick discussion of the current Web 2.0 approach:

Posted: Saturday, February 07, 2009





Reference Architecture for Securing Web Services in a Heterogeneous Environment

Web services have played key role in integrating heterogeneous applications, particularly in the cross domains.

Posted: Saturday, February 07, 2009





SOA starts at the top

A service-oriented architecture can affect an entire oreganization, and that requires that change be driven from the top.

Posted: Friday, February 06, 2009





OASIS Members Approve Nine Web Services Standards

OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved new versions of nine Web services specifications as OASIS Standards

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2009





Sidebar: The State of Web Services Security Standards

WSS defines how to encrypt a session and add security features such as digital signatures to a message.

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2009





SOA Pattern of the Week (#3): Domain Inventory

You are not required to carry out an enterprise-wide adoption of SOA in order to realize its benefits. This is the very reason the Domain Inventory pattern emerged.

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2009





Guest View: Sometimes, slower is better

New technology for simplifying development is always good, right? New APIs and servers just make it easier to develop SOA applications, right?

Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2009





IBM's AppScan tool adds Adobe Flash, SOA scanning

IBM Rational Wednesday announced an upgraded version of its AppScan vulnerability assessment tool, adding a way to unearth security weaknesses in Adobe Flash

Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2009





SOA is DOA in the C-Suite

It’s a bad time to advocate service oriented architecture, never mind the irony that banks could benefit greatly from its use.

Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2009





Rationalizing SOA for success

In these uncertain economic times, IT budgets are tightening and service oriented architecture projects are at risk of flat lining.

Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2009





Leadership is SOA Rocket Fuel

Implementing a services-oriented architecture (SOA) across an organization has much in common with the world of rocket science, said an executive with Software AG Inc.

Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2009





Slump strengthens the business case for SOA

In hard times, IT needs to deliver more for less. Service-oriented architecture can make that happen, says Alan Bowling

Posted: Monday, February 02, 2009





Windows 7 Web Services API

With Windows 7, Microsoft is looking to provide developers with the necessary resources to build as well as integrate what the company

Posted: Monday, February 02, 2009





10 Cloud Computing Predictions

The cloud computing market arrived in a big way in 2008, with Amazon, EMC/VMware, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com

Posted: Monday, February 02, 2009




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