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SOA Implementation Info Center EMAIL THIS When implementing an SOA, many companies face major development and cost obstacles. The SOA Implementation Info Centre provides news articles, case studies and best practices for architects and IT managers involved in SOA development and implementation. MUST READ A brief history of SOA Published by: SearchSOA.com | 10 Jan 2007 EXPERT RESPONSE - Thomas Erl discusses the evolution of SOA, from the onset to the current strategic goals and setbacks. A defining moment for SOA Published by: SearchSOA.com | 20 Oct 2004 ARTICLE - SearchWebServices.com readers and industry experts submit their 50-word definitions for a service-oriented architecture. BPEL Published by: WhatIs.com | 15 Aug 2002 WORD - BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Web services is an XML-based language designed to enable task-sharing for a distributed computing or grid computing environment - even across multiple organizations - using a ... BPEL definition Published by: SearchSOA.com | 09 Sep 2002 PICK - If BPEL4WS looks like a mess of gibberish to you, then check out this definition. It explains the background of the programming language specification Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, including where it ... BPEL Learning Guide Published by: SearchSOA.com | 09 Mar 2006 LEARNING GUIDE - This learning guide introduces you to BPEL4WS. In this guide you'll find articles, downloads, white papers and more that will explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web services. SOA IMPLEMENTATIONS from SearchSOA.com Weak encryption creates SOA vulnerabilities ARTICLE - Identifying service-oriented architecture security concerns caused by weak encryption issues may prevent greater business concern. A view on building essential SOA skills ARTICLE - Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software, discusses how to make sure that the needs of a business and the implementation of a SOA align for the best interest of the business. Distributed processing to boost performance at online book marketplace ARTICLE - AbeBooks.com recently purchased by Amazon.com, opted for Oracle Fusion Middleware to achieve complex transactions with near real-time performance. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) EDUCATION from SearchSOA.com Ten ways to identify services TIP - SOA is increasingly becoming an unavoidable part of project delivery for many organizations. This article discusses ten approaches for identifying services. Analysts, users find roadblocks along the SOA highway ARTICLE - "SOA is not working in most organizations," concludes Anne Thomas Manes, research director of the Burton Group. A new batch for SOA NEWS - Increasingly mainframes are being included in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) mix but traditional batch processing conflicts with the SOA online transaction processing model. Sridhar Sudarsan, IT architect with IBM's ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT from SearchSOA.com Top 10 issues with mashups NEWS - The good news is that "mashups have offered the potential to finally make widespread software reuse a reality, enable SOA initiatives to achieve positive ROI, and radically drive down the cost of application development while ... SOA inside job at HP NEWS - Service-oriented architecture (SOA), governance, and Ajax are being employed in a massive re-architecting of the internal IT infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard Corp. This article details how SOA is being used to handle 1,500 ... HP leveraging Mercury SaaS NEWS - Leveraging service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing and management technology it acquired with Mercury Interactive, Hewlett-Packard Corp. announced that it will make its line of "Business Technology Optimization" products ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) ORCHESTRATION from SearchSOA.com A view on building essential SOA skills ARTICLE - Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software, discusses how to make sure that the needs of a business and the implementation of a SOA align for the best interest of the business. Business-side often drives BPM initiatives today ARTICLE - BPM is often posed as the killer app for SOA. At least one analyst suggests combining SOA and BPM is not as simple as vendors would have their customers believe. IBM rules SOA/BPM with ILOG buy – analysts ARTICLE - SOA needs business rules management system technology for its business process management focus, which is why IBM's acquisition of ILOG is important, analysts say. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND IT GOVERNANCE from SearchSOA.com Quan on the Cloud part 1: IBM Autonomics director heralds user facing applications Q A INTERVIEW - What does cloud computing mean at IBM? Dennis Quan, director of development in IBM's Autonomic Computing division, answers that question in this interview. A view on building essential SOA skills ARTICLE - Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software, discusses how to make sure that the needs of a business and the implementation of a SOA align for the best interest of the business. Business analyst role key in SOA software development projects ARTICLE - The traditional business analyst role needs to change if service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to advance in organizations, analysts say. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT from SearchSOA.com Oracle buys performance specialist ClearApp ARTICLE - For ClearApp the purchase means a powerful channel for innovative products. For Oracle it means another enhancement to its Web- and transaction-oriented management offering. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) melds with ColdFusion - builds calendaring system for child services agency ARTICLE - The San Diego Department of Child Support Services took its ColdFusion skills into the world of Web 2.0 when it created the RIA view for a child services agency calendaring system. Amazon Mechanical Turk Web services app touts improved development GUI ARTICLE - Amazon Mechanical Turk now offers Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools for business analysts and users seeking to better integrate people into Web 2.0 workflow processes. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA PERFORMANCE from SearchSOA.com Oracle buys performance specialist ClearApp ARTICLE - For ClearApp the purchase means a powerful channel for innovative products. For Oracle it means another enhancement to its Web- and transaction-oriented management offering. Business analyst role key in SOA software development projects ARTICLE - The traditional business analyst role needs to change if service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to advance in organizations, analysts say. Smaller technology projects avail where full-fledged SOA can stall ARTICLE - Enterprise architects can gain or lose momentum based on choices they make in selecting service-oriented architecture projects. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA REGISTRY AND REPOSITORY from SearchSOA.com SOA governance: We have a problem ARTICLE - Users seem to know they have an SOA governance problem, but they remain unsure as to how to fix it, according to Software AG's Miko Matsumura. Mule architect sees REST with Atom rising, UDDI fading Q A INTERVIEW - Dan Diephouse, the creator of XFire and software architect at MuleSource Inc., discusses the advantages in using REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol. Java One: Mule architect looks to bring REST to SOA Q A INTERVIEW - In a conversation at JavaOne, MuleSource's Dan Diephouse, talks about his work on Mule Galaxy, the REST-based open source registry/repository that is going GA later this month. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC BPEL from SearchSOA.com SOA, BPEL working on the railroad ARTICLE - Commuter trains in San Francisco will soon be issuing tickets from a new SOA-based ticketing system, which combines BPEL, wireless handheld devices and a legacy data center. UML and SOA the Microsoft way ARTICLE - Microsoft plans support for UML in its planned Oslo platform for model-driven SOA, but is not basing its new tools on that modeling language, explains Burley Kawasaki. Oracle links SOA, data services, BI and BAM Q A INTERVIEW - When it comes to incorporating data services, business intelligence (BI), and business activity monitoring (BAM), Oracle has not lost sight of its database roots. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI IMPLEMENTATIONS from SearchSOA.com Oracle-Systinet deal a win-win ARTICLE - While Oracle gets a UDDI v3 registry and lifecycle management capabilities, Systinet extends its reach among SOA infrastructure platforms. Oracle 'Fuses' Systinet registry into middleware NEWS - SOA registry vendor Systinet today formed an agreement with Oracle to embed Systinet's SOA registry with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. UDDI registry helps NASA create an earth science 'marketplace' ARTICLE - NASA's Earth Observing System Clearinghouse leverages Systinet registry in its SOA to enable third parties to query and share data and register services. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC BPMN from SearchSOA.com UML and SOA the Microsoft way ARTICLE - Microsoft plans support for UML in its planned Oslo platform for model-driven SOA, but is not basing its new tools on that modeling language, explains Burley Kawasaki. BPMN linking business and IT for BPM/SOA ARTICLE - The oft stated SOA goal of bringing together business and IT to work on applications is being realized by users of the BPMN, argues Ismael Ghalimi, a leader in its development. BPEL4People seen uniting SOA/BPM NEWS - As OASIS begins the standardization process work on BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask, it is taking a step toward bringing service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) closer together, writes Joe ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA ORCHESTRATION AND CHOREOGRAPHY STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS from SearchSOA.com New BPMS tools from Intalio NEWS - Intalio Inc., the open source Business Process Management System (BPMS) vendor announced the release for the 5.0 version of its BPMS product, which allows users to design and execute complex processes by breaking them down in ... Why does SOA need BPEL? NEWS - The answer is orchestration, says Mike Pellegrini, principal architect at Active Endpoints. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), the OASIS standard, is important because allows developers to create high-level ... Talking SOA appliances NEWS - The emergence of SOA appliances and the BPEL4People specification are covered in a podcast panel discussion hosted by analyst Dana Gardner. SOA and appliances dovetail, he notes, "because the very concept of an appliance is ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA MANAGEMENT STANDARDS from SearchSOA.com Amazon Mechanical Turk Web services app touts improved development GUI ARTICLE - Amazon Mechanical Turk now offers Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools for business analysts and users seeking to better integrate people into Web 2.0 workflow processes. How governance and quality define SOA maturity Q A INTERVIEW - This Q&A with Parasoft's Rami Jaamour delves into how governance is key to SOA maturity and what role quality plays in attaining that governance. Boubez: SOA virtualization, SLAs and access control policy Q A INTERVIEW - WS-Policy for SOA is good to go but work remains to bring access control and service level agreement policy language specifications, says Toufic Boubez. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI (UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION, DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION) from SearchSOA.com Mule architect sees REST with Atom rising, UDDI fading Q A INTERVIEW - Dan Diephouse, the creator of XFire and software architect at MuleSource Inc., discusses the advantages in using REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol. Data services pain points have become an SOA target for JBoss Q A INTERVIEW - Users have found SOA performance hindered by data issues. Red Hat's Craig Muzilla tackles data services pain points and who is responsible for addressing those problems. MuleSource debuts REST-based SOA registry/repository ARTICLE - With the release today of an open source registry/repository, MuleSource seeks to be the Wal-Mart of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI TOOLS from SearchSOA.com Oracle-Systinet deal a win-win ARTICLE - While Oracle gets a UDDI v3 registry and lifecycle management capabilities, Systinet extends its reach among SOA infrastructure platforms. Oracle 'Fuses' Systinet registry into middleware NEWS - SOA registry vendor Systinet today formed an agreement with Oracle to embed Systinet's SOA registry with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. UDDI registry helps NASA create an earth science 'marketplace' ARTICLE - NASA's Earth Observing System Clearinghouse leverages Systinet registry in its SOA to enable third parties to query and share data and register services. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC UDDI EXAMPLES from SearchSOA.com Tip - How to access a JAXR registry NEWS - In this technical tip, Robert Eckstein shows how the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) can be used by a Java client application to access a business registry on the Internet. Using sample code, he examines the JAXR ... VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI) from SearchSOA.com SOA Data Integration Tutorial LEARNING GUIDE - This tutorial will focus on data services, data governance, XML, REST, data mashups, business intelligence (BI), XQuery, Service Data Objects (SDO) and ADO.NET. REST architecture integrates data services to SaaS ARTICLE - REST makes data services accessible to non-technical business users working with Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, start-up SnapLogic CEO says. Business-side often drives BPM initiatives today ARTICLE - BPM is often posed as the killer app for SOA. At least one analyst suggests combining SOA and BPM is not as simple as vendors would have their customers believe. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC APPLICATION INTEGRATION from SearchSOA.com