http://www.web2journal.com/ Latest articles from SOA World Magazine News Desk Copyright 2008 WEB 2.0 JOURNAL Fri, 16 May 2008 04:32:00 GMT WEB 2.0 JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.web2journal.com/read/565812.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565812.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can, and should be, applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recouped and, in some cases, service orientation can actually do more harm than good. In this talk, Kyle Gabhart will explore the subject of selective service orientation and how to go about effectively governing the service orientation of the enterprise. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565779.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565779.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Open source has made significant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be upgraded to a simple, open and affordable SOA integration platform. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments, with a focus on ESB, and illustrates this by describing some of the customer SOA solutions the speaker sees at Red Hat. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565703.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565703.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT Once upon a time data modeling played a central role in the process of developing applications. Thus far in the SOA era, there has been a heavy emphasis on process, and data has all-too-often been lost in the SOA shuffle. In this talk, we present a data model for SOA - i.e., a service-oriented data model. This model formalizes the notion of a data service, modeling data in SOA as a layer of interrelated data services. We explain the key components of this model, including a taxonomy of data service operation types, a mechanism for capturing the entities that the data services are 'about', and an approach to modeling relationships in SOA. The content of this talk is based on the data services model embodied in the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP), and the approach is based on lessons learned over a period of several years of working with data services and customer use cases. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565778.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565778.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While the Internet brings a lot of noise where 'it's cool' is the most popular definition, this presentation is an overview of what's out there on the enterprise RIA market. We'll talk about the pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for the development of the front end for complex SOA distributed systems. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565704.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565704.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT SOA is about people as much as technology. This talk will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or 'Web 2.0') features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers, businesspeople and technologists. We'll show you how a social registry/repository can enable both grass-roots development and CIO-pleasing governance, all with standard REST interfaces. And because we can directly connect SOA components and metadata with the human community creating them, the relationships of both the software and the people can be enriched. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565631.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565631.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT Managing Web Services in production is no easy task. Ensuring that services follow corporate security and SOA governance requirements, monitoring compliance with individual SLAs, preventing one client from degrading the performance of others and ensuring services built today will work in the future are a few of the challenges. Web service virtualization provides a separate layer that isolates business and operational rules, enabling you to quickly configure virtual Web services while enforcing business and operational policies. This services layer augments Web services management (WSM) tools and registries, making all the services in the enterprise more efficient and consistent. http://www.web2journal.com/read/568426.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/568426.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT TIBCO announced that mobilkom austria group (mag) set a new benchmark for the mobile phone sector, establishing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) covering Serbia and Macedonia in just six months using an enterprise service bus based on TIBCO software. The previously unheard-of timescales were made possible through the use of standardized functionality from back-office mag billing and CRM systems, located in different parts of Europe, that were reused for the new MVNOs. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565630.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565630.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT Development of service-oriented environments is an evolutionary process for organizations of all sizes. The architecture and design decisions made by system architects and developers will impact manageability and flexibility of service infrastructures. Efficient management of loosely-coupled services requires implementing practices to enable visibility, flexibility and automation of service operations. Questions to be answered in this session: What architectures are common for service deployment and integration? How can services be built for manageablility? Why is operational visibility essential for SOA management? How does SOA Management fit into SOA Governance? http://www.web2journal.com/read/565629.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565629.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:00 GMT SOA is mostly associated with technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweight framework that can be used to orchestrate services in the broadest sense. It is highly extendable, very versatile and can be easily embedded in client and/or server applications. Attendees will learn how jBPM can be used in a pure workflow scenario as well as in a situation involving automated business steps. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565994.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565994.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both the commercial and user-centric spheres, and important catalysts to drive successful deployment. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565993.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565993.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:00 GMT This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility http://www.web2journal.com/read/565972.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565972.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of BPM and Web services standards that appear to overlap at times, there is a central core of important ones. This session, led by Keith Swenson, Fujitsu's Chief Architect and Co-Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition Technical Committee (WfMC), is aimed at lending clarity to the fuzzy world of BPM and Web services standards and at explaining the benefits of investing in standards-driven solutions. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565934.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565934.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 12:45:00 GMT Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on such developments. In our discussion Chris Shayan is going to demonstrate that we can combine SOA and RUP with each other and finally make a Service Oriented Unified Process. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565933.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565933.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, databases, applications and networks. One of the biggest challenges inherent in realizing the benefits of SOA is effectively managing all of these diverse components to ensure the high availability and performance of the applications running in them to meet crucial Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This session will explore Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and offer practical insights into how CEP can be leveraged to enable rapid real-time problem correction and predictive problem prevention that is vital to successful SOA implementations. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565889.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565889.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:00 GMT This session will illustrate how service-orientation brings about the ability for organizations to see changes in business processes reflected quickly in their business systems by discussing real-world applications of SOA as applied to supply-chain management. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565890.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565890.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:00 GMT Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-based middleware. A better, distributed approach to SOA infrastructure can help reduce cost and increase the benefit of SOA implementation. This presentation includes an overview of the industry trends driving us toward SOA and explains why traditional middleware systems do not meet modern requirements as well as a distributed approach to SOA infrastructure. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565888.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565888.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:00 GMT The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why do enterprises set out to build a Service Oriented Architecture, but end up with a 'Service Averse Architecture'? There are many promises being made about the potential of SOA these days, followed by disillusionment as these promises don't pan out. However, SOA is more than a single IT project or even a series of implementations. Rather, SOA represents a long-term change in thinking and management of all aspects of the enterprise. SOA not only decomposes technology into loosely coupled systems, but also decomposes organizations into 'loosely coupled businesses.' This session will look at the latest survey data on ways organizations are embracing service oriented architecture, and how far along the road most are from full-functioning SOA. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565887.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565887.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:00 GMT Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and how they connect with the Enterprise. The emerging patterns of architecture can enable the savvy architect to empower their IT to embrace an accelerating vision of the network economy. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565857.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565857.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful semantics embedded in data are often inadequately considered when architecting and implementing large scale real-time SOA applications. This talk will introduce several real-time data-centric technologies that specifically address the challenges of wide-scale, real-time data distribution, as well as how these technologies seamlessly integrate into existing SOA frameworks. Examples will be drawn from military and aerospace applications that are already seeing success with real-time, highly distributed SOA applications. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565932.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565932.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 10:30:00 GMT The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from data. Technologies such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services simplify the job of developers. The ADO.NET Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction for data programming. It is the evolution of ADO.NET that allows developers to program in terms of the standard ADO.NET abstraction or in terms of persistent objects (ORM) and is built upon the standard ADO.NET Provider model. The Entity Framework introduces a set of services around the Entity Data Model (EDM) (a medium for defining domain models for an application). http://www.web2journal.com/read/565814.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565814.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT URIs are the lingua franca of the Web. They are in every Web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the Web. Without them, the Web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, URIs are interlopers. Some RDBMS have provided basic support for URIs via their object extension facilities; however, URIs are still not considered a formal part of RDBMS schema design. This talk explores how URI could evolve to become as important to RDBMS Schemas as it is to the Web. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565813.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565813.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 09:30:00 GMT As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, database architectures, information specialists, data integration experts, and anyone responsible for data persistence in an organization are increasingly being called upon to contribute to their organization's SOA initiatives - whether or not this was intended at the onset. In this presentation, we will review the technologies, best practices, and patterns that are shaping the way we utilize enterprise data. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565777.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565777.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 08:45:00 GMT The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fields of database engineering and SOA, in particular. Common notion of interoperability, loose-coupling between consumers and providers, and complexity-hiding, and demands for enabling extensive reuse of application services to address unforeseen business requirements for new user types, for new types of information and for new composite views has brought to the forefront the concept of Data Services Layer (DSL) as a distinct architectural layer. DSL is an essential part of an application architecture that combines data access functions and corresponding database structures and promises ensuring the next harvest for SOA ROI. http://www.web2journal.com/read/567399.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/567399.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT Patni Computer Systems announced its customizable solution framework for the development or modernization of insurance business applications. Initially, the framework will support Patni's application components for Life New Business. Based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and built using the company's branded PatniPlus methodologies, these application components are architected to integrate with existing custom or packaged applications within an insurer's systems infrastructure. http://www.web2journal.com/read/567202.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/567202.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT BPM is being used by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into their critical business processes. By leveraging a SOA architecture approach when implementing BPM, these organizations can accelerate project success, enabling rapid gains in productivity, implementation and cost savings. http://www.web2journal.com/read/567369.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/567369.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT HCL Technologies announced Penstock InsureWrite, an SOA-based policy underwriting system that automates the entire underwriting process, allowing insurance carriers to consolidate the multiple administration platforms used across their entire business. The highly competitive landscape of Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance has made it difficult for carriers to maintain an edge by continuing their core operations -- such as ratings, quoting, underwriting, policy issue and administration -- with legacy system support. Insurance carriers who fail to address their aging policy administration systems are finding it difficult to adapt to changes in the business environment, or to build and deliver products/services. HCL's Penstock InsureWrite addresses all these challenges. http://www.web2journal.com/read/567370.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/567370.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT Software AG announced that Volvofinans has selected CentraSite as its enterprise platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and metadata management. CentraSite will serve as the foundation for the new IT infrastructure being implemented by Volvofinans to accelerate the delivery of new products and services. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565935.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565935.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT It seems that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) continues to be this year's hot buzzword, rather than a well-defined, meaningful and valuable part of the Enterprise Architecture landscape. Before the term fades away completely, perhaps we should agree what's valuable about the move to SOA and how to make the leap, and make the leap valuable. OMG's SOA Consortium is making great strides in defining SOA to be a valuable business strategy for business agility, taking advantage of Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management and other concepts; and the OMG itself is making headway on modeling standards for services (as opposed to yet another set of standards for moving bits around wires). http://www.web2journal.com/read/565858.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565858.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it is too late. The session will be of interest to anyone planning an SOA initiative, primarily CIOs, Technical Managers, Project Directors and Technical Architects. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565859.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565859.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, especially runtime governance. In fact, the success of any SOA requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Similarly, security and governance usually play a critical role in the proper operation of a SOA. Although one may support these critical SOA functions using many different technologies and standards, there is no doubt that for most users today the popular WS-* standards will play a central role. We will conclude by considering how all of these standards might best work together to solve these real-world problems in your SOA. In the process, we will speculate upon some the strengths and weaknesses in the current Web services stack, the nature of the standards process and what trends might be most relevant to your own future success. http://www.web2journal.com/read/566028.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/566028.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock Exchange. The price of $25 a share represents a 32.5% premium to the EDS closing price of $18.86 on Friday. http://www.web2journal.com/read/565543.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/565543.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:00 GMT IBM announced two new advances in the insurance industry - a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration - that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core processes, such as claims and policy processing, more efficiently. Once implemented insurance companies will be able to automate and optimize their business tasks; allowing employees to focus more attention on customer-facing matters. http://www.web2journal.com/read/564508.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/564508.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT SOA Software announced that it has acquired LogicLibrary, a SOA Repository and Governance vendor. This acquisition combines two recognized companies, creating a dominant SOA Governance company with an impressive customer base. SOA Software is positioned by Gartner in the leader's quadrant of the 'Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007' report. The Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets evaluated 18 vendors and summarizes the state of the market for SOA Governance. The company focuses on SOA Policy Governance and SOA Operational Governance with strong registry, policy management, and service management capabilities. http://www.web2journal.com/read/562330.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/562330.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT HP has introduced enhanced quality and management software designed to meet new requirements for mainstream deployment of service-oriented architectures (SOA) by businesses. To make sure that services meet all functional and performance objectives and are ready for production deployment, HP has rolled out new versions of its SOA testing products -- HP Service Test and HP Service Test Management. http://www.web2journal.com/read/564249.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/564249.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT ParAccel announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, ParAccel will embed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture within the ParAccel Analytic Database, providing ParAccel customers with seamless and real-time updates from heterogeneous databases, including IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft's SQL Server. Customers can use this ability to create high performance operational data stores and tactical analytic applications such as operational BI. http://www.web2journal.com/read/564248.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/564248.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. According to the report, IBM is the de-facto industry standard market leader in SOA. IBM dominates SOA with 64% of the market, the rest of market is divided between 12 other participants with measurable market share, none of whom have even been able to garner as much as 8% of the market. http://www.web2journal.com/read/559507.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/559507.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite of model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Version 9 delivers model-based SOA for PLM and includes single-instance multi-language capabilities and support for the latest Microsoft platform products; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. http://www.web2journal.com/read/190210.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/190210.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skyway SOA Platform - Developer Edition. The Developer Edition is valued at $5400. http://www.web2journal.com/read/561790.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/561790.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in a simplified and even faster 2-Tier model. This additional support provides customers with more options for their service oriented architecture (SOA) deployment environment. In addition to CICS, SOA Express supports SOA deployments over .Net and J2EE application servers. As a result, organizations are able to migrate existing, core applications to an SOA as Web services regardless of platform or technology base. http://www.web2journal.com/read/562327.htmhttp://www.web2journal.com/read/562327.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. FS Sentry 7.1 provides SOA professionals the ability to virtualize and centralize disparate service endpoints. Service virtualization and aggregation across complex WSDL enables SOA deployments to simplify their service publishing and consumption process. By using modern identity management systems such as Sun Access Manager or HP Select Access, administrators can provide granular, operation-level control to their ever-expanding SOA deployments.