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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 - ... 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 SOA ends era of big apps, opens door for Ruby on Rails ARTICLE - SOA is no longer just an alternative to traditional monolithic application development, for modern business there is no real alternative to SOA, argues Engine Yard's Tom Mornini. SOA adoption marked by broad failure and wild success ARTICLE - Burton Group has presented its SOA Report Card, finding most users are getting it wrong because they focus too much on IT and integration and not enough on the business. Eclipse Ganymede: Rich Ajax Platform focuses on users ARTICLE - The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform provides functionality to make end users' jobs easier by providing them with a consistent look-and-feel in a customizable user interface. 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 7 deadly sins of SOA ARTICLE - SOA has entered the mainstream, but ubiquity doesn't guarantee success, analysts said at the Gartner's summit this week. They warned of dangers that can derail SOA adoption. Web 2.0 resume app leverages SOA, Rails, cloud computing ARTICLE - Startup founded by former webMethods execs provides online multi-media resumes using Ajax applications built with Ruby on Rails and running in the computing cloud from Amazon.com. SOA marches on despite U.S. economic troubles, analysts say ARTICLE - Born in the recession that began this decade, analysts see SOA continuing its role as an cost-effective architecture even in a troubled economy. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND IT GOVERNANCE from SearchSOA.com Oracle details SOA, Java roadmap with BEA ARTICLE - Oracle executives pledge to upgrade and maintain BEA products with no forced migration, but plan to merge the two companies' ESBs technologies into a single product. Eclipse Ganymede: Web Tools build SOA foundation ARTICLE - Eclipse Ganymede offers new WSDL features and enhancements to the Web Tools Platform designed to make life easier for developers working of SOA projects. Sun Java CAPS chugs down SOA open source track ARTICLE - Sun is adding master management to its ESB with the announcement of the latest version of the Java CAPS 6 SOA platform. The application suite also offers complex event processing. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA AND WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT from SearchSOA.com Oracle details SOA, Java roadmap with BEA ARTICLE - Oracle executives pledge to upgrade and maintain BEA products with no forced migration, but plan to merge the two companies' ESBs technologies into a single product. Eclipse Ganymede: Web Tools build SOA foundation ARTICLE - Eclipse Ganymede offers new WSDL features and enhancements to the Web Tools Platform designed to make life easier for developers working of SOA projects. Eclipse Ganymede: SOA project adds WS-Policy, SCA tools ARTICLE - The Eclipse SOA Tools Project unveils new tools for architects and developers working with WS-Policy and SCA, as well as new components for SOA modeling and integration. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA PERFORMANCE from SearchSOA.com Microsoft SOA strategy: A failure to communicate? ARTICLE - Microsoft follows the road-less-traveled and its most apparent in its SOA strategy, which some see as muddled while others think it's on target, but not well communicated. BEA users draw up their own roadmap for Oracle ARTICLE - BEA users respond to SearchSOA.com's survey and give their perspectives on Oracle's plans for the products they rely on. 7 deadly sins of SOA ARTICLE - SOA has entered the mainstream, but ubiquity doesn't guarantee success, analysts said at the Gartner's summit this week. They warned of dangers that can derail SOA adoption. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC SOA REGISTRY AND REPOSITORY 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. 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. SOA benefits outweigh risks – IBM exec Q A INTERVIEW - The risk of moving a business to service-oriented SOA is outweighed by the risk of becoming non-competitive in the global economy, says IBM exec Karen Parrish. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC BPEL from SearchSOA.com 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. Online real estate SOA moves into BPEL ARTICLE - At Move Inc., BPEL is being used in the integration of legacy systems and new CRM and ERP products as the first step in an incremental "pragmatic SOA" implementation. 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. 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 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 ... Metastorm provides BPM pod NEWS - Metastorm Inc., a provider of business process management (BPM) software, today announced the availability of a New Account On-Boarding Process Pod for the financial services industry. The Metastorm New Account On-Boarding ... 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 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. SOA changing management, monitoring ARTICLE - SOA management tools are emerging, especially those using grid, virtualization technologies and legacy systems. 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 Adobe Flash targets SOA and B2B ARTICLE - Flash graphics are not just adding glitz to consumer applications anymore as users of the technology from Adobe Systems Inc. create industrial strength SOA business applications. SOA saves developers from grunt work, 3Com CIO finds ARTICLE - SOA reverses negative trends in developer productivity at 3Com Corp. by freeing coders from the hassle of maintaining hundreds of EAI point-to-point. SOA marches on despite U.S. economic troubles, analysts say ARTICLE - Born in the recession that began this decade, analysts see SOA continuing its role as an cost-effective architecture even in a troubled economy. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC APPLICATION INTEGRATION from SearchSOA.com