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SOA Implementation Info Center EMAIL THIS When implementing an SOA, many companies face major development and cost obstacles. The SOA Implementation Info Center provides news articles, case studies and best practices for architects and IT managers involved in SOA development and implementation. MUST READ A brief history of SOA Published by: SearchSOA.com | 10 Jan 2007 EXPERT RESPONSE - Thomas Erl discusses the evolution of SOA, from the onset to the current strategic goals and setbacks. A defining moment for SOA Published by: SearchSOA.com | 20 Oct 2004 ARTICLE - SearchWebServices.com readers and industry experts submit their 50-word definitions for a service-oriented architecture. BPEL Published by: WhatIs.com | 15 Aug 2002 WORD - BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web services is an XML-based language designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid computing environment - even across multiple organizations - using a ... BPEL definition Published by: SearchSOA.com | 09 Sep 2002 PICK - If BPEL4WS looks like a mess of gibberish to you, then check out this definition. It explains the background of the programming language specification Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, including where it ... BPEL Learning Guide Published by: SearchSOA.com | 09 Mar 2006 LEARNING GUIDE - This learning guide introduces you to BPEL4WS. In this guide you'll find articles, downloads, white papers and more that will explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web services. SOA IMPLEMENTATIONS from SearchSOA.com CA adds federated security to fight growing threats to SOA ARTICLE - CA disclosed security survey results as it announced a new Federation Manager for SOA at CA World, where John Swainson listed SOA among a host of 'disruptive' technologies. Roy Schulte on the BPM drive and SOA adoption Q A INTERVIEW - Gartner's middleware maven talks about the 'B' in Business Process Management. Executive dashboards are key to successful implementations, he explains. COBOL apps moving to SOA: Rip-and-replace meets the recession ARTICLE - OpenSpan forged a deal with Software AG announced at the latter company's Innovation World conference, to bring legacy executive desktops into the SOA sphere. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) EDUCATION from SearchSOA.com Software architects navigate transitions ARTICLE - If you have navigated a few paradigm shifts, you are on the road to SOA. Ten ways to identify services TIP - SOA is increasingly becoming an unavoidable part of project delivery for many organizations. This article discusses ten approaches for identifying services. Analysts, users find roadblocks along the SOA highway ARTICLE - "SOA is not working in most organizations," concludes Anne Thomas Manes, research director of the Burton Group. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT from SearchSOA.com Top 10 issues with mashups NEWS - The good news is that "mashups have offered the potential to finally make widespread software reuse a reality, enable SOA initiatives to achieve positive ROI, and radically drive down the cost of application development while ... SOA inside job at HP NEWS - Service-oriented architecture (SOA), governance, and Ajax are being employed in a massive re-architecting of the internal IT infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard Corp. This article details how SOA is being used to handle 1,500 ... HP leveraging Mercury SaaS NEWS - Leveraging service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing and management technology it acquired with Mercury Interactive, Hewlett-Packard Corp. announced that it will make its line of "Business Technology Optimization" products ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA GOVERNANCE from SearchSOA.com SOA Governance ALL-IN-ONE GUIDES - Learn about service-oriented architecture governance planning, implementation, vendors, and troubleshooting with this SOA governance all-in-one-guide. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) ORCHESTRATION from SearchSOA.com Services reuse drives ROI for SOA, survey finds ARTICLE - Software component reuse is catching on and paying off, said the head of Evans Data, which recently surveyed developers on their SOA project experiences. On lightweight Java frameworks and service-oriented architecture ARTICLE - Narrower, focused development approaches such as the Spring framework arise as alternatives to full-fledged J2EE. Domain bridging, skills of abstraction define the software architect ARTICLE - Conceptual integrity, product line thinking, conversance in varied domains, goal orientation and an eye for the essentials – these are some skills that mark a software architect. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND IT GOVERNANCE from SearchSOA.com Roy Schulte on the BPM drive and SOA adoption Q A INTERVIEW - Gartner's middleware maven talks about the 'B' in Business Process Management. Executive dashboards are key to successful implementations, he explains. Business agility as an emergent property of SOA TIP - Implementing SOA isn't traditional systems engineering (TSE) at all, but rather a fundamentally different approach to dealing with complexity in the IT environment. On lightweight Java frameworks and service-oriented architecture ARTICLE - Narrower, focused development approaches such as the Spring framework arise as alternatives to full-fledged J2EE. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT from SearchSOA.com Services reuse drives ROI for SOA, survey finds ARTICLE - Software component reuse is catching on and paying off, said the head of Evans Data, which recently surveyed developers on their SOA project experiences. Microsoft Oslo at PDC: Dial 'M' for modeling language ARTICLE - Microsoft's Oslo SOA modeling initiative gained clarity at the Professional Developers Conference this week with the unveiling of the "M" modeling language. SOA runtime governance pacts for Parasoft, AmberPoint and Software AG, Progress ARTICLE - Parasoft and AmberPoint announced an integration between SOA quality and runtime governance tools, while SoftwareAG's webMethods Insight turned to Progress' Actional tool set. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA PERFORMANCE from SearchSOA.com Sun previews GlassFish V3 ahead of Java EE6 release ARTICLE - It's a 'prelude' allowing developers to get their hands on the future GlassFish OSGi-based lightweight server. V3 supports JRuby and Comet server data push formats. SOA runtime governance pacts for Parasoft, AmberPoint and Software AG, Progress ARTICLE - Parasoft and AmberPoint announced an integration between SOA quality and runtime governance tools, while SoftwareAG's webMethods Insight turned to Progress' Actional tool set. SOA Skills: Enterprise architects in demand, job researcher finds ARTICLE - There is a growing demand for service-oriented architecture professionals and a broadening of the definition of the SOA skill set. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA REGISTRY AND REPOSITORY from SearchSOA.com SOA governance: We have a problem ARTICLE - Users seem to know they have an SOA governance problem, but they remain unsure as to how to fix it, according to Software AG's Miko Matsumura. Mule architect sees REST with Atom rising, UDDI fading Q A INTERVIEW - Dan Diephouse, the creator of XFire and software architect at MuleSource Inc., discusses the advantages in using REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol. Java One: Mule architect looks to bring REST to SOA Q A INTERVIEW - In a conversation at JavaOne, MuleSource's Dan Diephouse, talks about his work on Mule Galaxy, the REST-based open source registry/repository that is going GA later this month. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC BPEL from SearchSOA.com Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Tutorial TUTORIAL - Find enterprise application definitions, tips on Workflow managment, and first-hand stories from successful BPEL application integration in this BPEL Tutorial. Verizon uses BPEL app to cut down on code, check for fraud, and go green ARTICLE - Verizon Wireless employed Oracle BPEL Manager with a rules engine to study call patterns which led to a reduction in lines of Java code for an app that provides fraud detection. Visual orchestration tool addresses event processing and SOA ARTICLE - A tool for enterprise architects, business analysts and Java developers includes an integrated engine for complex-event processing. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI IMPLEMENTATIONS from SearchSOA.com Oracle-Systinet deal a win-win ARTICLE - While Oracle gets a UDDI v3 registry and lifecycle management capabilities, Systinet extends its reach among SOA infrastructure platforms. Oracle 'Fuses' Systinet registry into middleware NEWS - SOA registry vendor Systinet today formed an agreement with Oracle to embed Systinet's SOA registry with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. UDDI registry helps NASA create an earth science 'marketplace' ARTICLE - NASA's Earth Observing System Clearinghouse leverages Systinet registry in its SOA to enable third parties to query and share data and register services. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC BPMN from SearchSOA.com Visual orchestration tool addresses event processing and SOA ARTICLE - A tool for enterprise architects, business analysts and Java developers includes an integrated engine for complex-event processing. UML and SOA the Microsoft way ARTICLE - Microsoft plans support for UML in its planned Oslo platform for model-driven SOA, but is not basing its new tools on that modeling language, explains Burley Kawasaki. BPMN linking business and IT for BPM/SOA ARTICLE - The oft stated SOA goal of bringing together business and IT to work on applications is being realized by users of the BPMN, argues Ismael Ghalimi, a leader in its development. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA ORCHESTRATION AND CHOREOGRAPHY STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS from SearchSOA.com New BPMS tools from Intalio NEWS - Intalio Inc., the open source Business Process Management System (BPMS) vendor announced the release for the 5.0 version of its BPMS product, which allows users to design and execute complex processes by breaking them down in ... Why does SOA need BPEL? NEWS - The answer is orchestration, says Mike Pellegrini, principal architect at Active Endpoints. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), the OASIS standard, is important because allows developers to create high-level ... Talking SOA appliances NEWS - The emergence of SOA appliances and the BPEL4People specification are covered in a podcast panel discussion hosted by analyst Dana Gardner. SOA and appliances dovetail, he notes, "because the very concept of an appliance is ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA MANAGEMENT STANDARDS from SearchSOA.com Amazon Mechanical Turk Web services app touts improved development GUI ARTICLE - Amazon Mechanical Turk now offers Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools for business analysts and users seeking to better integrate people into Web 2.0 workflow processes. How governance and quality define SOA maturity Q A INTERVIEW - This Q&A with Parasoft's Rami Jaamour delves into how governance is key to SOA maturity and what role quality plays in attaining that governance. Boubez: SOA virtualization, SLAs and access control policy Q A INTERVIEW - WS-Policy for SOA is good to go but work remains to bring access control and service level agreement policy language specifications, says Toufic Boubez. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI (UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION, DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION) from SearchSOA.com Mule architect sees REST with Atom rising, UDDI fading Q A INTERVIEW - Dan Diephouse, the creator of XFire and software architect at MuleSource Inc., discusses the advantages in using REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol. Data services pain points have become an SOA target for JBoss Q A INTERVIEW - Users have found SOA performance hindered by data issues. Red Hat's Craig Muzilla tackles data services pain points and who is responsible for addressing those problems. MuleSource debuts REST-based SOA registry/repository ARTICLE - With the release today of an open source registry/repository, MuleSource seeks to be the Wal-Mart of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI TOOLS from SearchSOA.com Oracle-Systinet deal a win-win ARTICLE - While Oracle gets a UDDI v3 registry and lifecycle management capabilities, Systinet extends its reach among SOA infrastructure platforms. Oracle 'Fuses' Systinet registry into middleware NEWS - SOA registry vendor Systinet today formed an agreement with Oracle to embed Systinet's SOA registry with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. UDDI registry helps NASA create an earth science 'marketplace' ARTICLE - NASA's Earth Observing System Clearinghouse leverages Systinet registry in its SOA to enable third parties to query and share data and register services. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI EXAMPLES from SearchSOA.com Tip - How to access a JAXR registry NEWS - In this technical tip, Robert Eckstein shows how the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) can be used by a Java client application to access a business registry on the Internet. Using sample code, he examines the JAXR ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI) from SearchSOA.com COBOL apps moving to SOA: Rip-and-replace meets the recession ARTICLE - OpenSpan forged a deal with Software AG announced at the latter company's Innovation World conference, to bring legacy executive desktops into the SOA sphere.