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SOA World Magazine News Desk
SOA World Magazine News Desk (formerly Web Services Journal) trawls the world of distributed computing and SOA-related developments for the latest word on technologies, standards, products, and services and brings key information to you in a timely and convenient summary form.

Needs and Solutions to Create Truly Enterprise AJAX Solutions Using AJAX and SOA
'Services' are everywhere, from internally focused SOAs to public services from Federal Express, eBay, Amazon and Google. But there's no 'User' in 'SOA'. And delivering services to business users can get harder when enterprise application requirements for security...
Pratical Introduction to Using Java Web Services and AJAX to Implement SOA
Java expert Mark Hansen provides a practical introduction to using Java Web services and AJAX to implement SOA. Mark covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications. He begins by reviewing the 'big p...
SOA - Does the Shoe Fit?
This session will discuss the feasibility of adopting SOA in an organization, and what needs to be in place in order to undertake a successful SOA implementation. The discussion will include applicability of SOA standards; incorporation of technologies such as B...
Driving the Next Generation of IT
The confluence of several mature architectural paradigms with new user-centric paradigms will drive the next generation of IT. Next-generation IT will be based on the combination of model-driven architecture and service-oriented architecture applied to applicati...
Examining How Complex Event Processing Applies to a SOA Environment
Complex Event Processing software provides the foundation for making an SOA event-driven. CEP software in an SOA environment offers re-usable processing and analysis services that are available for all applications to leverage. This approach de-couples event proce...
Wiring Up and Deploying Existing Rigid Flows through Web 2.0
British Telecom Openreach Portal is one of new breed open-source portal platforms that have embraced new and futuristic technologies to provide an unparalleled service to end customers. BT Openreach Portal provides the facility for UK-based communication providers...
SCA Simplifying the Building of SOA Solutions
Apache Tuscany provides an open source services infrastructure for building SOA. It's based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse servic...
Getting Value from Web Services: Putting BPEL to Work
It's time to get busy. With WS-BPEL 2.0, the SOA community now has a robust, pervasive orchestration standard. Using BPEL, it's fast and easy to integrate service endpoints and deliver high-powered composite applications. Learn how organizations are putting BPEL t...
What's Ahead for SOA?
In the mid-1990s, just before the dot-com boom and the growth of the Internet as a platform, virtually all software used by companies and individual consumers was packaged and commercially licensed. In the meantime, we have seen the dot-com boom and subsequent bus...
Possibilities for Highly Interactive User Experiences
The Web was a 20-year setback for user experience. Only now are technologies and products emerging that can bring us the interactivity we traded away for access to distributed information when the Web took over. This session will present the possibilities for a hi...
SOA for Your Business
In traditional application architectures, the design phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plays a critical role in enabling well-architected solutions. Yet there hasn't been much discussion about the design or the modelling phase of SOA-based ap...
Tailored for SOA: Automated Regression Testing Process
As enterprises evolve toward SOA, many underestimate the impact a proper testing strategy has on the enterprise agility and successful realization of the SOA ROI. In fact, the distributed nature of SOA demands a new paradigm on how reusable services are developed,...
Seperating Hype from Reality
The information overload on SOA largely describes the merits and principles of SOA and the variety of products intended to address SOA needs. There is, however, an acute dearth of information on bridging the gap between wanting to get started and actually deploying ...
Win-Win Solution for Enterprises
Enterprises continue to look for return on investment of their service-orientated architectures, and it is Enterprise Web 2.0 that makes this possible by connecting the last mile of SOA to end-users. This is a win-win-win solution for the enterprise; where not onl...
Reducing Friction and Managing Organizational Change
As organizations introduce service orientation as a computing theme formally supported through enterprise architecture, they are encountering several obstacles. Service orientation promotes the sharing of capabilities across traditional enterprise system, inform...
Pioneering a Model-Driven Approach
According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, sees SOA as a technology that will extend the...
Helping Your Enterprise
When an enterprise starts moving in a SOA direction, probably the most important question is how to get buy-in from your business users, who most likely don't know what SOA is and could care less what technology IT uses to get them the data: just get the things do...
Latest on OASIS: Correlation Between Open Standards and Open Source
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oas is-open.org) is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-bus...
BRMS: The Right Way for SOA Implementation
To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work. BRMS (Business Rules Management System) helps companies meet the SOA promises of re...
Unearthing the Dark Secret of Traditional Architecture Spending
This session will explore the vastly different cost models of SOA and traditional point-to-point architecture and present a simple but powerful ROI model that can be used by anyone to justify SOA expenditures and even guide implementation. This exciting model un...
Hacking Into a Hacker's Mind
The adoption of Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms to perform more critical online transactions has resulted in the urgent need to audit and assess these applications for security vulnerabilities. Many enterprises are currently develo...
Understanding the Misunderstood Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy to reduce costs and streamline operations, and is often seen as a relatively simple way to reduce personnel requirements, save money on software licenses, and increase reliability. In reality, ho...
Picture of Progress: SOA in Organizations
Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and far between. In most case...
SOA Proposition: Becoming More Complex Due to Evolution of Web Services Standards
The releases of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together with the evolution of the J2EE Web services platforms are some of the factors that have significantly increased the software architect's options for Web services interoperability scenari...
What's the Gossip about Mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications?
The reason for much of the chatter about mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) arises from the fact that mashups, and Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena: the 'B'...
Visualizing Financial Data through XBRL
Users of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions, and regulators, will learn how to receive, compare, and analyze data much more efficiently via the XBRL standard. A key component of the XBRL Solution is a visual mashup layer; the dyn...
Addressing Real Challenges
Service-oriented architecture concepts have been around for a while and all of the benefits and promises it offers look good on paper. The complexity of implementing and deploying SOA in large enterprises is, however, often overlooked. The problems get further e...
Security: Central Precept in SOA Lifecycle Processes
Convincing stakeholders that security should be a central precept in SOA lifecycle processes can be challenging. It requires using working, hands-on examples to shatter preconceptions and then demonstrating effective, layered defenses to establish belief in the pr...
Money Can't Buy an Open Source Community
As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars...
Hal Stern's SOA World Keynote on SYS-CON.TV
Hal Stern lays out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity.
Troubleshooting SOA, Web Services and J2EE Source Software Stacks
Applications continue to become more on-demand and application environments continue to grow in complexity and scale. Real-time troubleshooting is now a requirement for every application administrator, developer, and support person. How can developers, data center...
Open and Closed Source SOA
The two biggest trends affecting IT today are SOA and open source. Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source. Because both SOA and open source offer long-term reductions in cost coupled with an increase in flexib...
Getting the Most from Your SOA: Using a Modeling Approach for Application Performance Management
With SOA, companies are deploying a new class of increasingly complex, mission-critical applications. SOA allows quick changes and reactions to business needs. But this flexibility comes with a cost - the inability to effectively manage production application pe...
Lost in the Hype Around Web 2.0 and AJAX
Lost in the hype around Web 2.0 and AJAX is the fact that your visually attractive Web 2.0 application actually needs to do something useful. In this session we'll illustrate an AJAX application generated from XML-based models. Given that standards-based starting ...
IONA to OEM Hyperic as Part of FUSE Family of Open Source SOA Products
IONA Technologies will use Hyperic's flagship product, Hyperic HQ Enterprise, as the foundation for its new monitoring and management system, FUSE HQ. FUSE HQ is available now as part of IONA's latest version of its FUSE family of open source SOA products. The FUS...
IONA FUSE Solutions Accelerate Adoption of Open Source for SOA
IONA Technologies has released a new version of its FUSE family of open source SOA products and updates to the FUSE community. The FUSE products are IONA's tested and certified releases of SOA Open Source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. IONA selects ...
Borland Commissioned Independent Study on Application Development
Application development organizations lag behind their business and IT peers when it comes to their use of metrics, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Borland Software. Despite the pivotal role of IT in enabling busine...
Customers Benefit from Model-Driven Visibility into Cross-Platform SOA Application Performance with ClearApp
ClearApp announced support for Oracle SOA Suite with the latest version of its flagship ASM solution, QuickVision 7.5. The product's support of Oracle SOA Suite can provide customers a top-down topology of their SOA applications across heterogeneous platforms. F...
IONA Leads SOA Innovation with Latest Artix Release
IONA Technologies announced updates to IONA Artix, the company's advanced SOA infrastructure suite. With Artix, IONA offers Global 2000 customers an alternative to centralized and proprietary middleware stacks. The Artix suite includes, Artix Enterprise Service ...
Composite Software Supports SOA Initiatives for U.S. Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Composite Software announced that the U.S. Army has selected its Composite Information Server to play an integral role in the Army's data integration infrastructure. The U.S. Army plans to create a data services layer within its service-oriented architecture (SO...


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