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WS-BPEL 2.0 Approaching Public Review
The Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0 Specification is approaching the public review stage. This is an OASIS specification and governs process execution in SOA.
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SOAP Attachment State of the Art
Colin Adam from WebServices.org provides a helpful review of what technology is available to attach non-text data in SOAP messages.
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SOA Hot or Not
Jeff Schneider of MomentumSI blogs what's "Hot" and whats "Not" in SOA, and a nice response from Joe McKendrick of ZDnet. InfoQ community, get your opinions on this heard! What are you involved in in SOA that's "Hot"?
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IBM Buys Insurance Focused Webify
Big Blue snaps up Insurance focused SOA vendor Webify. Both IBM and Webify were at the center of a significant SOA outsourcing project with Fireman's Fund Insurance. Terms were not disclosed.
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SOA Helps Secure Your Retirement
Pension Benefit Guarany Corporation, a federal corporation insuring pensions of 44.1 million American workers has entered into a 6$ Million dollar contract to develop an SOA.
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Reviews Mixed on Google's New Project Hosting Service
Last week Google announced a new hosting service for open-source projects. Developer comments around the web have been mixed. Some developers have been impressed with the service while others feel underwhelmed.
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InfoQ Article: Agile - The SOA Hangover Cure
Carl Ververs, an expert on SOA Integration writes about the application of "Agile" development philosophies and methodologies in order to build a sustainable and valuable SOA system.
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HP/Mercury Acquisition: Commentary
Mercury's Systinet Division provides one of the leading SOA governance platforms. InfoQ gathered commentary on the acquisition of Mercury Interactive by HP, and what it means for the SOA governance market place.
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Service Component Architecture Forges Ahead
Nine new companies have announced participation in the Service Component Architecture project and have announced a new web site at OSOA.org. Leaders of the SCA project include BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP AG and Sun Microsystems.
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New Release of V1: Agile Enterprise Development Suite
This new release from VersionOne allows all project stakeholders -- project managers, executives, developers, product managers, customers, and testers -- to collaborate and coordinate plans and progress much more effectively. With extended support for the Agile life cycle, this tool offers better visibility into the entire software development process.
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HP buys Mercury Interactive
HP buys Mercury Interactive. Mercury had recently been embroiled in an options scandal which consumed top management including Ammon Landon, former CEO of Mercury. This combined entity provides for a powerful Enterprise System Management offering with HP OpenView and industry leading testing tools such as Winrunner and Loadrunner.
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SOA Integration and Methodologies
Miko Matsumura interviews John Harby, an independent consultant, OASIS Techican Committee member and SOA practitioner on popular SOA implementation methodologies.
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InfoQ Article: Top 8 SOA Adoption Pitfalls
Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author. He has written two books on SOA. In this InfoQ article, Thomas explains the pitfalls others have fallen victim to inorder to help you chart a safer route down your own SOA roadmap. To this end he has collected the eight most common SOA adoption pitfalls.
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soapui 1.6 beta now available
soapui 1.6 beta1 is now available. soapui is a desktop application for inspecting , invoking , developing and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services (java, .net, etc).
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SOA Mission Accomplished--90 Percent Complete
A recent Aberdeen survey of over 120 IT firms indicates that nine of every ten companies are adopting or have adopted service-oriented architectures and will exit 2006 with SOA planning, design, and programming experience.