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MomentumSI Releases new SOA Framework
MomentumSI released yesterday its SOA Framework -Harmony. It contains 5 perspectives which include Lifecycle, Governance, Technology, Maturity Model and Information Model. A SOA Framework is typically used to structure the organization, processes, activities, metadata... deployed for service construction.
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Interview: Joe Walker about DWR 3.0
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with the <a href="http://getahead.org/dwr">DWR</a> (Direct Web Remoting) project lead <a href="http://getahead.org/blog/joe/" title="Joe Walker's Blog">Joe Walker</a>. He discussed the upcoming release of DWR 3.0 including major features, helpful features and fixes for developers, a time line and a look at the future of DWR.
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Interview: Patrick Curran discusses the Java Community Process
In this interview, new JCP chairman Patrick Curran discusses his goals for the JCP, what role standards play, the interactions between innovation and standardization, the impact of OpenJDK, the Java SE TCK and Apache Harmony, the shift in application servers from Java EE to SOA, future Java technology standardization, interesting and successful JSRs, and the future of the JCP.
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Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs
Microsoft switches from the Web Structured, Schema’d & Searchable (Web3S) protocol to Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) for services offered by Microsoft's Live Platform on the Web.
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Microsoft Releases Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
Microsoft released last week WSSF - Modeling Edition, a major release of the Web Service Software Factory. Don Smith, product manager in the Pattern & Practices team, unveiled an ambitious road map for this factory which is now fully integration the DSL vision set forth by Steve Cook's team.
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Flux 7.7: Increased Monitoring and Secure FTP Capabilities
Initially released in 2000, Flux is an embeddable Java software component for Java development teams who need job scheduling, file transfer and workflow management. Flux 7.7 extended the product's secure file transfer capabilities and increased the scalability of the Operations Console. InfoQ discussed with David Sims, Flux President about the new features and other product developments.
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Higgins 1.0: Identity Management Solutions from the Eclipse Foundation
Identity management for networked and distributed applications continues to present several unique challenges for users and developers. Higgins is a suite of identity management solutions from the Eclipse foundation, created with the intent of simplifying and adding consistency to online authentication.
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Amazon S3 Outage : Do SLAs Lead to Trust?
Amazon Web Services' popular Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a major outage last week that caused some to question their reliance on S3. InfoQ discussed the outage with Amazon and affected users and examines the risks of SaaS and cloud architectures.
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Microsoft Claims to Hold the ETL Record at 1 TB in 30 Minutes
Microsoft and Unisys are claiming that they hold the record for loading information into a relational database. The unofficial benchmark was 1 TB of TPC-H data moved in under 30 minutes using an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool. The previous record for that volume was 45 minutes and was held by Informatica.
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Burton On Real World SOA Experiences
Chris Haddad of Burton describes a new study they are doing on the success of real world SOA deployments. We've been here serveral times before over the past few years and none of the studies have been particularly accurate. If you are taking part in the study, why not share your experiences here?
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Interview: CORBA Guru Steve Vinoski on REST, Web Services, and Erlang
In a new 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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Enhanced Manageability with OSGi, SCA, BPEL and Spring
Ever since the OpenSOA initiative published the white paper entitled: "Power Combination, SCA, OSGi and Spring", the combination of these three technologies has generated some interest. In a recent post, William Vambenepe explores potential new management capabilities for this type of SOA platform.
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SaaS Architecture Maturity Model
With Software as a Service (SaaS) becoming more and more mainstream, the architecture behind the offering is getting more discussion. Dharmesh Shah wrote about the economics of the SaaS architecture maturity model.
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AIR 1.0: Kevin Hoyt and Matt Rozen From Adobe Give Platform Overview
With the production release of Adobe AIR, InfoQ sat down with Adobe’s Kevin Hoyt and Matt Rozen to learn more about the platform.
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Flex 3.0: Update From Adobe's James Ward
With the production release of Flex 3, InfoQ sat down with Adobe’s James Ward to find out more about Flex 3. Last year, Ward gave InfoQ readers an overview of Flex 3 and discounted a number of Flex misconceptions. In this interview, Ward discusses Flex and open source, along with a number of items from the Flex ecosystem.