January, 2008

Deadline extended for SearchSOA.com products of the year

Last week we got flooded with requests to extend the deadline for our Products of the Year Awards submissions. Normally we'd have taken a "no soup for you" stance on this, but when the requests topped the dozen mark we figured we should grant an extension.

Now you've got until...

RIA and composite applications survey

Let's face it, service-oriented architecture is boring. I mean, with all that planning and attention to detail and consistency. Maybe that appeals to the small percentage of people out there who lead highly organized lives, but for most humans in your app dev shop the efficiency and better business...

SOA governance seminar coming to a town near you

For the past two years, we at SearchSOA.com have been told regularly by our members (numbering 450,000+ these days), that you need help with governance. Apparently the mechanics of running an SOA is one of the biggest challenges users face. That's no surprise, the reuse, performance, management...

Oracle buys BEA, but the app dev, SOA suites still conflict

Oracle Corp. finally came up with an offer BEA Systems Inc. couldn't refuse, but the sale is merely a prelude to a pile of "now what?" questions. The next year in the application...

SOA, primed for recession?

Could growing fears of an economic slowdown in the U.S. be good news for service-oriented architecture? While it's morbid to consider, the answer might be yes. While most companies...

SOA in 2008, what do users see?

Over the past few weeks the media has been full of 2007 recaps and 2008 predictions. It's not just the tech media or the service-oriented architecture space. The national and international media does it too, in every arena: politics, entertaiment, business, etc. All in all, it probably counts as a...

New SOA modeling lesson

A wise person once said that when you set out to do something, a good place to start is at the beginning.

Service-oriented architecture is no different. Often would be practitioners of SOA start in the middle, trying to integrate two different applications. In many cases that serves a...