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Can SOA get more flexible to meet complex challenges?
Addressing concerns of flexibility and complexity requires building and maintaining solid SOA governance and proper enterprise infrastructure. SearchSOA 2011-12 Survey
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A practitioner's guide to modern SOA testing
Changes in business needs have led to changes in system architectures. These have resulted in businesses asking a new set of questions to test managers, consultants and architects. For example: How does one test modern SOA systems? Feature
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Enterprise architecture challenges face application development leaders
The enterprise architecture challenges that CTOs and other high-level developers face have changed considerably over the past decade as SOA has grown and matured. From the Editors
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Business capabilities special report
'Business capabilities' are gaining attention as architects make sure IT assets bring real value to the enterprise. Thus, business capabilities are taking a central role in discussions of IT architecture. Special Report
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Web services security
Although many teams leave security as an afterthought, it's very important to ensure your Web services are secure and that all users (and their data) are safe. Special Report
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SOA and Web services advice 2010
SearchSOA.com's coverage of Web services and Web applications is marked by the presence of able writer William Brogden, who is always ready to dig into the nitty gritty. Special Report
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Mobile's impact on RESTful Web services
Thirty-year IT veteran Tom Nolle discusses the pain points that application architects face when working with Web services. This part of the interview focuses on the effect that mobile devices are having on the realm of RESTful Web services. Q&A
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Web Services Security School: Table of contents
Get the class syllabus here. Learn more about your professor and see which lessons are coming up. Web Services School
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Inside every Web service is a benefit struggling to get out
Figuring out why to use Web services is not so straightforward. CBDi Forum examines the cost benefit model. Commentary
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Web service management market moves
An incredible number of organizations have launched products that focus on managing Web services but few will survive. Commentary
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Microsoft, others put OData Web protocol up for OASIS standardization
The OData protocol, associated with JSON and REST efforts, started with Microsoft but may be expanded by the OASIS standards group. News | 06 Jun 2012
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VIP Art Fair picks OpDemand over RightScale for IaaS management
VIP Art Fair saved 40% on its IT budget by managing its Infrastructure as a Service with tools from OpDemand. News | 01 Dec 2011
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EAI expert Ruh envisions “The Decade of Services”
"We have learned a lot," says EAI and SOA expert William Ruh on the state of SOA and Web services. Among other things, perceptions of governance and standards have changed. Q&A | 04 Apr 2011
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Reporters' Notebook: Alcatel-Lucent, DeviceAnywhere forge deal for testing mobile services
Alcatel-Lucent enhances its offering for mobile services developers via an alliance with DeviceAnywhere. News | 30 Mar 2011
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Cloud brokers emerge to sort out the chaos of cloud services
Faced with a chaotic mix of cloud services, IT execs now must sort through a crowd of cloud brokers that claim to minimize risks and improve interoperability. News | 08 Mar 2011
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Running a Web service on Google App Engine
Google's App Engine for building Web applications in the cloud is beginning to support Java servlet-based Web services. It's still under development, but you can experiment using Eclipse support or command-line utilities in the SDK. News | 11 Nov 2010
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SOA Roundup: The true meaning of services
There's been a lot of debate and discussion going on across the ebizQ-o-sphere in recent days. Dave Linthicum examined the real meaning of "services," outlining four points about what makes and doesn't make a service. Michael Poulin had a response to... News | 26 Oct 2010
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SOA needs a Product Manager
IT organizations could take a cue from their counterparts in the durable goods manufacturing world: designate a product manager for the service. Article | 02 Jun 2009
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SLA management latest entry in Tibco's SOA portfolio
Unplanned demand spikes are a modern app dev pain point caused by ease of integration. Tibco has now added SLA management to its SOA platform in order to combat the problem. Article | 30 Apr 2008
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SOA needs practical operational governance
SOA has reached the point where implementers need operational governance, says Toufic Boubez, CTO at Layer 7 Technologies and an editor for the W3C WS-Policy specification. QUESTION & ANSWER | 03 Jan 2008
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Centers of Excellence: Managing organizational skills
Centers of Excellence are effective, but tend to slow projects down. Learn how to better organize skill sets with CoEs. Tip
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Portfolio management tools draw roadmap for business transformation
Business transformation, portfolio management and application infrastructure strategy are the pillars that support business integration success. Tip
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Who develops your business architecture for SOA?
Where do we find the analysts required to develop business architecture and transform business models needed develop aligned SOA solutions? Ramsay Millar discusses his research. Tip
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DMTF pursues a standard for interoperable cloud computing
The DMTF sees three main cloud computing roles: Cloud Service Provider, Cloud Service Consumer and Cloud Service Developer. Tip
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SOA methods and testing Web services – SOA questions answered: Part One
SearchSOA.com got the chance to talk with SOA expert Kerrie Holley about his book of SOA questions and ask him some questions about SOA methods and indentifying SOA services. Q&A
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Bringing EA, Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) and ITIL together
Enterprise architects are discovering capability-based planning as the tie that binds EA, Project PPM and IT service management together. Tip
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A view on W3C security standards for Web services
Check out this status report on work groups responsible for Web services security standards. The discussion starts with a look at W3C efforts such as the Web Security Context Working Group, XML Signature 2.0 and XML Signature best practices. Useful ... Tip
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The Subtleties of Service Convergence ZapFlash
This ZapFlash discusses the meanings for the term "software service" and why there is a convergence taking place in the marketplace among the various types of software services. Tip
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Inside every Web service is a benefit struggling to get out
Figuring out why to use Web services is not so straightforward. CBDi Forum examines the cost benefit model. Tip
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Web service management market moves
An incredible number of organizations have launched products that focus on managing Web services but few will survive. Tip
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How to minimize delays with project governance
Expert Todd Biske gives six strategic hints to help minimize deadline delays with project governance. Answer
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How to make an enterprise service bus work for your SOA
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is best utilized for mediation and operational policy enforcement, according to SOA governance expert Todd Biske. Answer
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Meshing service-oriented architecture with the cloud
Success with SOA (and ITIL) implies a maturity around service management. A mature service management approach should correlate with making better decisions around the cloud. Answer
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What is a capability map?
A capability model is only the first piece of the capability puzzle. The other half is a capability map that will enable the business to follow the capability model. Answer
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How do you draw up and follow a capability map?
How you draw a capability model and map is really up to you. You can define the taxonomy in an Excel spreadsheet or in any number of EA tools on the market. Answer
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Maximizing reusability of SOA services
Reusability is often seen as the "holy grail" of software development – everyone wants it but nobody gets it. As such, maximizing reuse is a very tricky challenge. Answer
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Complexity of Web services standards and the industry
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Why is a Web services management platform required infrastructure for effective Web services deploym
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Object Request Broker (ORB)
Also see ORBS, a term easily confused with ORB. In Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), an Object Request Broker (ORB) is the programming that acts as a "broker" between a client request for a service from a distributed object or compon... Definition
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white paper
A white paper is an article that states an organization's position or philosophy about a social, political, or other subject, or a not-too-detailed technical explanation of an architecture, framework, or product technology. Definition
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deep link
A deep link is a hypertext link to a page on a Web site other than its home page. Definition
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Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
The IRTF is an activity of the of the Internet Society. Definition
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linkrot
Linkrot is the tendency of hypertext links from one Web site to another site to become useless as other sites cease to exist or remove or reorganize their Web pages. Definition
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Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is a way that a programmer, using the Java programming language and development environment, can write object-oriented programming in which objects on different computers can interact in a distributed network. Definition
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The relationship between SOA and the cloud
Randy Heffner discusses SOA, cloud architecture, and how the two fit together in this, the first part of Heffner's keynote address from the 2011 SOA in Action VTS. Video
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Centers of Excellence: Managing organizational skills
Centers of Excellence are effective, but tend to slow projects down. Learn how to better organize skill sets with CoEs. Tip
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How to minimize delays with project governance
Expert Todd Biske gives six strategic hints to help minimize deadline delays with project governance. Answer
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Portfolio management tools draw roadmap for business transformation
Business transformation, portfolio management and application infrastructure strategy are the pillars that support business integration success. Tip
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Microsoft, others put OData Web protocol up for OASIS standardization
The OData protocol, associated with JSON and REST efforts, started with Microsoft but may be expanded by the OASIS standards group. News
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Can SOA get more flexible to meet complex challenges?
Addressing concerns of flexibility and complexity requires building and maintaining solid SOA governance and proper enterprise infrastructure. SearchSOA 2011-12 Survey
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Who develops your business architecture for SOA?
Where do we find the analysts required to develop business architecture and transform business models needed develop aligned SOA solutions? Ramsay Millar discusses his research. Tip
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VIP Art Fair picks OpDemand over RightScale for IaaS management
VIP Art Fair saved 40% on its IT budget by managing its Infrastructure as a Service with tools from OpDemand. News
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A practitioner's guide to modern SOA testing
Changes in business needs have led to changes in system architectures. These have resulted in businesses asking a new set of questions to test managers, consultants and architects. For example: How does one test modern SOA systems? Feature
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How to make an enterprise service bus work for your SOA
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is best utilized for mediation and operational policy enforcement, according to SOA governance expert Todd Biske. Answer
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The relationship between SOA and the cloud
Randy Heffner discusses SOA, cloud architecture, and how the two fit together in this, the first part of Heffner's keynote address from the 2011 SOA in Action VTS. Video
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About SOA services management
SOA services management is focused on the runtime aspects of an SOA, meaning it focuses on making sure that business services are reliable and live up to expectations given by other businesses, customers and suppliers. It also focuses on design time, meaning the service development and maintenance lifecycle. SOA service management concentrates on areas such as registry and repository. Here is the best place to find tips, articles and expert Q/As about business services management.