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XACML finally ready for prime time?
XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, an Oasis standard approved more than 2 years ago, has been demonstrated to work cross vendor platforms on Burton's Catalyst Conference last week.
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WSDL 2.0 approved as an official W3C Recommendation
WSDL 2.0 has finally been approved as an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation on June 27 2007. The Web Services Description Working Group has been working on the standards for more than 6 years. The recommendation was due on the 31st of December 2006 but has received an extension to the 30th of June this year.
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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Role of Service Registries in SOA Increasing in Importance
Since the days of UDDIv1, the concept of service registry has evolved under the momentum of innovators and market leaders. The latest vendor to enter this market is SAP. The new SAP registry aims at supporting the alignment of business architecture, enterprise architecture and solution architecture from design time to runtime.
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IBM Announces Info 2.0
IBM announces a new initiative, Info 2.0, to help bring value to Web 2.0. According to IBM: Info 2.0 is a technology (or information fabric layer) for simplified integration of data and content via Information Mashups.
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Innov8: BPM/SOA video game simulator in the works at IBM
IBM has been working on Innov8, a 3D video game SOA/BPM simulator. At the moment only a demo and screen shots are available, and the game is set to be available in September. The game aims to teach an introductory level understanding of BPM enabled by SOA, including the typical steps of a BPM project and real world experiences of IBM's expert BPM practitioners.
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WS-BPEL4People on its way to OASIS
A group of several vendors suggests a new WS-* spec that goes by the interesting name "WS-BPEL4People". Compared to WS-BPEL which deals with automated business processes, the WS-BPEL4People spec, which has been under works for nearly two years now, aims to add human workflow capabilities to SOA in general and to the recently approved WS-BPEL 2.0 spec specifically.
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Google Scalability Session Report
Dare Obasanjo shared his notes on a session given by Jeff Dean at the Google Conference on Scalability, "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets".
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Presentation: Rod Smith - Mash-ups Meet the Enterprise
In this presentation recorded at JAOO, IBM's Rod Smith discusses the read/write web, and discusses how the approach known as "Mashups" might be used in enterprise scenarios for "do-it-yourself" IT.
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Is BPMN good enough? BPMN Survey is requesting your feedback
The relationship between Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture is now well established. BPMN is a key ingredient of the Composite Application vision if we ever want to make business process definitions explicit within our application model. The BPM group at the Queensland University is looking for contributors for a BPMN survey.
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Sun Announces Metro
Sun Microsystems has announced Metro, the new name for the JAX-WS RI and Project Tango.
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APP vs. Web3S: the Quest for a RESTful Protocol
In contrast to Google, who base their public RESTful services on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Microsoft has found the need to go down a different route and has introduced Web3S.
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Applying REST Principles to Complex Applications
In a blog post, REST expert Joe Gregorio shows how to apply REST principles to complex applications, using the Apache DayTrader Benchmark, which requires reliable delivery of orders, as an example.
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Article: Service Firewall Pattern
InfoQ publishes a sample pattern from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns. Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept messages to provide better security.
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SOA Research In Academia Increasingly Industry Focused
If this years European Young Researchers workshop on Service Oriented Computing is anything to go by then academic research is much more heavily influenced by industry directions than ever before. Although not always the best of partners, industry and academia can learn from one another. But who is driving the innovation: academic research or industrial pragmatism?