Needs and Solutions to
Create Truly Enterprise
AJAX Solutions Using AJAX
and SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk '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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 7,684 |
Pratical Introduction to
Using Java Web Services
and AJAX to Implement SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 6,768 |
SOA - Does the Shoe Fit? By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 4,876 |
Driving the Next
Generation of IT By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 5,432 |
Examining How Complex
Event Processing Applies
to a SOA Environment By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 5,265 |
Wiring Up and Deploying
Existing Rigid Flows
through Web 2.0 By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 7,523 |
SCA Simplifying the
Building of SOA Solutions By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 5,204 |
Getting Value from Web
Services: Putting BPEL to
Work By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 4,368 |
What's Ahead for SOA? By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 3,986 |
Possibilities for Highly
Interactive User
Experiences By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 4,921 |
SOA for Your Business By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 3,859 |
Tailored for SOA:
Automated Regression
Testing Process By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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,... Dec. 13, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 3,555 |
Seperating Hype from
Reality By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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 ... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 3,061 |
Win-Win Solution for
Enterprises By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 4,581 |
Reducing Friction and
Managing Organizational
Change By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 2,748 |
Pioneering a Model-Driven
Approach By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 3,090 |
Helping Your Enterprise By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 2,990 |
Latest on OASIS:
Correlation Between Open
Standards and Open Source By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 3,606 |
BRMS: The Right Way for
SOA Implementation By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 2,977 |
Unearthing the Dark
Secret of Traditional
Architecture Spending By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 2,532 |
Hacking Into a Hacker's
Mind By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 2,376 |
Understanding the
Misunderstood Server
Virtualization By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 2,584 |
Picture of Progress: SOA
in Organizations By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 2,146 |
SOA Proposition:
Becoming More Complex Due
to Evolution of Web
Services Standards By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 2,549 |
What's the Gossip about
Mashups and
Service-Oriented Business
Applications? By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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'... Dec. 13, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 3,057 |
Visualizing Financial
Data through XBRL By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 3,693 |
Addressing Real
Challenges By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 3,559 |
Security: Central Precept
in SOA Lifecycle
Processes By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 13, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 2,222 |
Money Can't Buy an Open
Source Community By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 5,534 |
Hal Stern's SOA World
Keynote on SYS-CON.TV By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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. Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 4,462 |
Troubleshooting SOA, Web
Services and J2EE Source
Software Stacks By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 3,416 |
Open and Closed Source
SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 3,486 |
Getting the Most from
Your SOA: Using a
Modeling Approach for
Application Performance
Management By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 2,922 |
Lost in the Hype Around
Web 2.0 and AJAX By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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 ... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 6,040 |
IONA to OEM Hyperic as
Part of FUSE Family of
Open Source SOA Products By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 11, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 3,051 |
IONA FUSE Solutions
Accelerate Adoption of
Open Source for SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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
... Dec. 11, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 3,841 |
Borland Commissioned
Independent Study on
Application Development By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 10, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 3,919 |
Customers Benefit from
Model-Driven Visibility
into Cross-Platform SOA
Application Performance
with ClearApp By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 10, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 2,020 |
IONA Leads SOA Innovation
with Latest Artix Release By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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 ... Dec. 10, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 2,380 |
Composite Software
Supports SOA Initiatives
for U.S. Army, Office of
the Secretary of Defense By SOA World Magazine News Desk 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... Dec. 10, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 1,972 |