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Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
The Software Engineering Institute has published a new paper "Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture".
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InfoQ Japan Launches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.
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Gartner on Disruptive Trends in Platform Middleware
A Gartner Report elaborates how emerging Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture programming models, as well as the continued growth in adoption of key open source technologies (in particular Spring) have all combined to put significant pressure on traditional platform middleware vendors and may lead to disrupt the industry landscape.
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IBM announces a broad set of new product releases, services offerings and the SOA Sandbox
IBM announced a wide update to its SOA product line and services offerings. In addition, it published a large collection of white papers, presentations and labs as part of the SOA Sandbox.
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Interview: BT's Chief WS Architect Paul Downey on "Loving the Web"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.
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Oracle Makes $6.7 Billion Bid For BEA
Today Oracle confirmed that it has made a $6.7 billion dollar bid to buy BEA, according to various news media. The offer is for $17 a share, a 25% increase over BEA's previous $13 a share price range. Shares in BEA were trading at an avg of $13 before the announcement and are now trading at nearly $18 (as of 10:20am ET).
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Article: Establishing a Service Governance Organization
Service Governance is an essential aspect of a successful Service Oriented Architecture. Its establishment has to be planned and tested out early in the initial phases of a SOA initiative. In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray shows what it takes to create such a structure efficiently.
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Sustainable IT Achitecture Working Group Formed
SustainableITArchitecture.com is a new working group open to end-users, infrastructure vendors and system integrators. This working group focuses on defining an approach to re-engineering information systems based on a Service Oriented Architecture and an open and public enterprise methodology.
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Steve Sloan on BizTalk Server 2006 R2
InfoQ talked to Steve Sloan, Senior Product Manager, about the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in the context of SOA.
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Article: Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy
InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.
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The SCA Debate
David Chappell, from Chappell & Associates, started a debate on SCA by reasoning that "Microsoft Should Not Support SCA".
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Interview with SCA standards members and users
InfoQ took time to talk to some of the driving forces behind SCA at the OpenCSA Plenary held recently.
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Intalio|BPMS 5.0 released - A full fledged open source BPM system
Intalio last week released their open source based BPM System - Intalio|BPMS 5.0, including amongst other things a BPMN Editor and a BPEL server engine. The release is a milestone for Intalio in their effort to realise a complete solution for their BPM 2.0 vision. InfoQ took the opportunity to interview Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio CEO, and Arnaud Blandin, EMEA Director, about the new release.
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What does the term ESB actually mean?
In his blog, Nick Allen, program manager in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, went on to collect several definitions and clarify Microsoft's position on the question.
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Apache Tuscany Released as First 1.0 SCA Implementation
The the Apache Software Foundation has released the first 1.0 implementation of the Service Component Architecture (SCA), Apache Tuscany 1.0. SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA Application Development which are being standardized at OASIS as part of Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA).