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Don't Let Consumers and Service Providers Communicate Directly
Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink discusses why most integration-developers aren't "doing" SOA and why this is bad for Service Oriented Architecture. He discusses the problem and illustrates some straightforward approaches to alleviate it, which don't always require significant investments in new infrastructure.
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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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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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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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Infiniflow: Next-Generation Distributed Application Server based on OSGi and SCA
Paremus recently released version 1.2 of Infiniflow, a next-generation distributed application server based on OSGi and SCA. InfoQ spoke with Paremus Marketing Manager Andrew Rowney to learn more about this release and about Infiniflow's new application server model.
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CogHead's CTO sees Service Consumption as the Next Evolution for SaaS
Greg Olsen, CTO of CogHead, sees a major evolution for SaaS under the pressure of newly built infrastructure and business services which are narrowly focused and delivered in a cost-effective way. Not everyone agrees, some still sees SaaS as being driven by ROI and mid-market demand for low cost business solutions which do not require complex implementation projects.
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Presentation: Anne Thomas Manes on the Business Value of SOA
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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OSS, SOA and Web 2.0 in the e-Commerce sector
People have thought of establishing a relationship between SOA and Web 2.0 for quite some time yet these two cultures are generally failing to cross-pollinate. InfoQ spoke with Marc Osofsky and Dave Gynn from Optaros, a consulting company which is delivering solutions using Open Source, SOA and Web 2.0. We discussed enterprise-readyness, component selection and rapid delivery methodology.
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Article: Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow?
Tom Baeyens wrote a summary of the state of Workflow & BPM standards and tools. After a detailed look at BPEL, BPMN, and other technologies such as choreography, XPDL, BPDM, jPDL, Tom takes the stance that it is time to abandon the idea that non-technical business analysts can draw production-ready software in diagrams and separate the analysis process models and executable process models.
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Relax-WS: Trying To Make WSDL Easier To Use?
The Relax-WS project has been building on Relax-NG Compact Syntax to provide a simpler way of defining WSDL that is more natural for programmers and does not lose any metadata in the resulting translation.
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LongJump Introduces Database-as-a-Service
LongJump, a provider of customizable business application, has introduced a new service to provide database hosting to companies that are looking to reduce maintenance and administration costs.
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Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0
The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.