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Presentation: SOA Masterclass - SOA Definitions and Patterns
Miko Matsumura teaches SOA Foundations: Definitions, Patterns, and evolution toward SOA. The video is an excerpt from webMethods SOA Masterclass taught recently in San Francisco. Miko teaches consumer, producer, and governance patterns.
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LitewareHR Update
Earlier we reported on Microsoft's Software as a Service sample, LitwareHR. Specifically, the problem with is only running on Windows Server 2003. Since then it has been back ported to Windows XP. The instructions are lengthy, but thorough.
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InfoQ Article: 10 Principles of SOA
In this article, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov, consultant at innoQ, proposes 10 principles to serve as a basis for SOA discussions. The list starts with Don Box's four tenets (service with explicit boundaries, shared contract and schema, policy-driven, and autonomous) and expands them to include wire formats, document orientation, loose coupling, standards compliance, vendor independence, and metadata
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SOA Maturity Models
Many large organizations decide to adopt SOA, and many are looking for guidance in the form of maturity models. An interesting discussion has recently taken place about the right way to approach this, and there are many different models and approaches to choose from.
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Psst ... got a SOA Reference Model? Want another one?
The Open Group starts work on another SOA Reference Model. But what is wrong with the existing OASIS model?
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Sun Targets Startups with New AMP and Solaris Offerings
Last week Sun made a number of announcements targeted at making Solaris more attractive to startups. Among the announcements was Solaris support for Apache, MySQL, and PHP effectively dropping the "L" from LAMP
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What's Become of UDDI and the Service Registry?
Two years ago UDDI v3.0 became an OASIS Standard. There are only a few vendors offering Service Registries and the main players have kept quiet. Many have blogged over the death of UDDI and the community seems to have lost interest in the Service Registry vision. Today as SOA Governance has become a major topic of interest, Service Registries are about to enter the scene, again.
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Interview with Miguel Valdes Faura on Bonita v3
Bonita, an open-source workflow and BPM solution recently released version 3. InfoQ sat down with Miguel Valdes Faura to talk about this release, which includes a set of graphical workflow development tools.
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Early Problems for Microsoft's Software as a Service Sample: LitwareHR
Microsoft is offering a new sample application called LitewareHR to serve as a springboard for discussions about software as a service. Available on CodePlex , this sample application uses many of the concepts and theories described in the white papers and articles on MSDN.
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Interview with Sanjiva Weerawarana: Debunking REST/WS-* Myths
InfoQ had a chance to talk to WS-* expert and WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana, one of the fathers and a firm advocate of the WS-* architectural vision, we questioned him on the WS-* platform and his views on Microsoft's role in standardization. Sanjiva also took the opportunity to address "WS-* and REST myths".
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InfoQ.com publishes its 1000th news post
InfoQ has this week published its 1000th news post; since the site launched just 8 months ago it has also published 90 in-depth technical articles, 4 original books, and a number of video interviews and presentations. Thank you to all our readers for their support and to the editors for all the hard work!
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biztalk247.com launches
Saravana Kumar, a BizTalk expert, launched biztalk247.com(BETA) on February 14, 2007. BizTalk 24 * 7 aggregates diverse resources regarding BizTalk and related technologies.
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Red Hat joins Interoperability Vendor Alliance
Red Hat announces it has joined the Interoperability Vendor Alliance, with IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Oracle and others.
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New JSR Proposed: Java API for RESTful Web Services
Sun has submitted JSR 311, Java API for RESTful Web Services, to the JCP, aiming to "enable developers to rapidly build Web applications in Java that are characteristic of the best designed parts of the Web". Reactions from the REST crowd are mixed.
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WS Reliable Messaging, Policy Updated for Public Review, WS-MakeConnection Introduced
OASIS has released WS Reliable Messaging, WSRM Policy and a new specification, WS-MakeConnection, for public review. Comments are due until 27 February.