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webMethods acquires Infravio
BPM and integration vendor webMethods will acquire SOA registry provider Infravio for US $38 million in cash.
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SOA, What is it Good For?
In a series of news articles and discussions and blogs, the SOA community goes through the difficulties associated with SOA deployment with a degree of soul-searching. Surveys indicate that SOA is a long term committment of organizations and that the key drivers for SOA remain constant.
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Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
Amazon has quietly been expanding their business model as of late. They are targeting developers with three new computing services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Serve (SQS). Bloggers have been commenting on how the products could revolutionize how applications are provisioned and deployed.
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freebXML 3.0 Final Released
The freebXML Registry team announces the release of version 3.0-final of the royalty-free open source implementation of the ebXML Registry standard. InfoQ gets some information about this release from Farrukh Najmi, one of the leaders of the project.
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Java SOAP Framework XFire 1.2 Released
XFire, the high performance Java SOAP framework from Codehaus has released version 1.2, the last version before the project merges with Celtix into Apache CeltiXfire. XFire includes such features as Spring integration, JBI support, and pluggable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans. Improvements since version 1.1 include JiBX data binding, Aegis binding inheritance, and HTTP GZIP.
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InfoQ Article - Give it a REST: Mark Baker on Web Services
InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to REST evangelist Mark Baker about REST principles, its benefits, and the relationship to Web services.
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WS-RM 1.1 Committee Draft Published
The OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange TC has published a committee draft of WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) 1.1 and WS-RM Policy Assertion 1.1, an important step towards a single standard for reliable web services messaging.
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Top Ten Web Service "Issues"
What are your top ten Web service issues and advice? Andre Tost, Soccer fan and IBM Senior Technical Staff Member writes a bloglike article articulating the top ten issues he and his customers have with Web Services.
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BEA Acquires IT Governance Vendor Flashline
Breaking News. BEA acquires Flashline, a Web Services and SOA governance asset repository company. The metadata repository is often cited as a critical component of SOA, providing a shared location to manage metadata, govern the asset lifecycle, and measure results.
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IBM Buys Internet Security Systems
Continuing the acquisition rampage, IBM acquires Internet Security Systems for 1.3 Billion in cash. In the past weeks, IBM has acquired Webify, Filenet and MRO systems. What does this acquisiton rampage suggest?
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Sun Releases Identity Management to Open Source
OpenSSO is an open source access management software distribution that provides the means to build authentication, authorization, and session management for Java and web applications and web services. Sun will be basing the Sun Java System Access Manager product on OpenSSO.
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webMethods buys into SOA Semantics
SOA integration and interoperability requires a structured understanding of the semantics of data. webMethods has acquired a semantic technologies company called Cerebra to connect SOA and BPM components.
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XML Overload: Bad Design or Neccesary Evil?
As discussed in the recent InfoQ News item SOAP Attachment State of the Art, XML files are reaching epic proportions in real world SOA implementations. Is this bad design or a neccesary evil? A recent study by Rogue Wave Software helps clarify.
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Understanding SOA Governance
Lori MacVittie has written an excellent introductory article to SOA governance, including an overview of relevant standards and the different kinds of product offerings.
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ESB SCA WCF and TLAs
Patrick Leonard, VP of Product Development at Rogue Wave has posted a short commentary on Webservices.org about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its relationship to SOA. Patrick focuses on other specifications and frameworks that can enable "greater realization" of SOA solutions.