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Latest featured content about SOA

- Architecture,
- .NET,
- SOA
- Topics
- Workflow / BPM
Windows workflow is an excellent framework for implementing business processes. One thing that is missing in it is direct support for human activities. Several approaches to solving this problem exist, but they are not generic enough for general usage. In this article we will define one of the approaches to a completely generic implementation of human activities in WF.
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ByBoris Lublinsky
on May 05, 2008,
News about SOA
- Java,
- SOA
- Topics
- SOA Platforms
At JavaOne 2008, Jos Dirksen and Tijs Rademakers talked about using Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration (JBI) frameworks together to get the best of both worlds. Using a sample application, they explained how to deploy an SCA application on a JBI container. In another SCA related session, Mike Edwards gave an overview of SCA architecture model.
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BySrini Penchikala
on May 07, 2008,
- SOA
- Topics
- Semantic Web
The Linking Open Data Community Project has accomplished a global RESTful SOA giving access to over two billion interlinked statements (RDF triples) from some 50 distributed providers with one serious limitation: this stunning network provides read access only. The upcoming SPARQL Update language is going to overcome this.
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ByThomas Bandholtz
on May 06, 2008,
Articles about SOA

- SOA
- Topics
- Workflow / BPM,
- Web Services
In another "virtual panel session", we took the opportunity to talk with representatives of the new OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee and get their feedback on just why we need this work. Apart from asking them what BPEL4People (and WS-HumanTask) are all about, we asked them how this relates to other BPMN efforts and what else we can expect in this area.
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ByMark Little
on Apr 24, 2008,

- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- ESB,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Messaging
Scalability isn't the Boolean value stateless design tends to assume. Udi’s team averts a second failure using service contracts to address multiple dimensions of scale.
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ByUdi Dahan
on Apr 10, 2008,
Interviews about SOA

- SOA
- Topics
- Web Frameworks,
- Web Services
In this interview, recorded at QCon SF, Stefan Tilkov talks to noted Web services expert and open source developer Dan Diephouse about the benefits of using the Atom Pub and Atom standards for business applications, pros and cons of using REST, and upcoming features of the Apache CXF web services stack.
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ByDan Diephouse
on Apr 08, 2008,

- SOA
- Topics
- WS Standards,
- Programming
In this interview, recorded at QCon San Francisco 2007, CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski talks to Stefan Tilkov about his appreciation for REST, occasions when he would still use CORBA and the role of description languages for distributed systems. Other topics covered include the benefits of knowing many programming languages, and the usefulness of of Erlang to build distributed systems.
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BySteve Vinoski
on Feb 26, 2008,
Presentations about SOA

- SOA
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Cap Gemini's Steve Jones explains his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA.
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BySteve Jones
on Apr 14, 2008,

- SOA
- Topics
- Funding,
- Business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.
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ByAnne Thomas Manes
on Feb 19, 2008,
Books about SOA

- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- Domain Specific Languages,
- WS Standards,
- Web Services,
- ESB,
- Business Process Management,
- SOA Platforms,
- Orchestration,
- Modeling
Composite Software offers a new level of granularity when compared to SaaS (Software as a Service). Composite Software is about enabling "right-sourcing", i.e. move (or keep) arbitrary small or large elements of functionality wherever it is the most cost effective to operate them, not just entire systems. Economically, "right-sourcing" is far more efficient than "outsourcing" and SaaS. The goal of this book is start by understanding today’s software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.
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ByJean Jacques Dubray
on Nov 25, 2007,

- SOA
- Topics
- Web Services
This book argues that for SOA to succeed we must move our thoughts away from the implementation technologies and towards the "what" of the business. Using a straight-forward, pictorially driven, methodology the book explains who to discover what the business services really are and how to construct an overall business service architecture.
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BySteve Jones
on Sep 26, 2006,