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February 20, 2009  5:58 PM

As with SOA, some development costs obscured by cloud computing



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing, SOA development

By George Lawton
Cloud computing offers an extremely appealing future for enterprise IT: the ability to leverage ready services with lower initial investment and a pay-as-you-need pricing model. But it will be filled with surprises, and some of these will reflect surprises encountered in...

February 18, 2009  4:47 PM

Another take on OSGi



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
integration, SOA development

Last week, WSO2 released an update tailored around OSGi to its SOA framework. Rob Hailstone, analyst, The Butler Group told us that he rated the WS02 implementation favorably, because it ''does seem to have...


December 9, 2008  11:41 AM

Interoperability remains SOA bugaboo



Posted by: Heather Clancy
SOA development, SOA standards

Despite years of work on Web services standards, interoperability remains a bugaboo. Continued »


November 18, 2008  1:36 PM

Let’s look behind those SOA implementation numbers!



Posted by: Brein Matturro
Development, SOA, SOA development

There was a sky-is-falling frenzy in the blogosphere of late in reaction to a Gartner press release headlined: "Number of Organizations Planning to Adopt SOA for the First Time Is Falling Dramatically," writes Rich Seeley on SearchSOA.com. But, perhaps, the glass is half full. Seeley takes a...


November 17, 2008  4:26 PM

Policy and contract focused architecture



Posted by: Heather Clancy
Composite applications, Enterprise architecture, SOA, SOA development, SOA governance

Perhaps architects are paying too much attention to the services when they work on service-oriented architecture implementation, writes Neil Ward-Dutton. He suggests that they might focus on "contract-and-policy-oriented architecture (CPOA)."


November 7, 2008  7:12 PM

Test SOA for the unexpected



Posted by: Heather Clancy
Enterprise architecture, Podcast, Security, SOA, SOA development, SOA governance, SOA infrastructure, SOA management, Software testing

Testing service-oriented architecture requires thinking outside the box to the point that your test cases hit an application with totally unexpected input, argues Thomas Fredell, CTO of IntraLinks.

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October 31, 2008  5:50 PM

SOA meets Cloud Computing at Microsoft PDC



Posted by: Heather Clancy
.NET, cloud computing, Composite applications, Development, Microsoft, Modeling, REST, SOA, SOA development

For Microsoft there seemed to be a somewhat humbler tone at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this past week. Even the biggest new SOA modeling and Cloud Computing initiatives were described as “nascent” works in progress and subject to change.


October 22, 2008  12:43 PM

Red Hat’s JBoss open source ’superplatform’ – Burton



Posted by: Heather Clancy
IBM, SAP AG, Small Midsize Business (SMB), SOA, SOA development

Red Hat's is transforming JBoss middleware into a "superplatform" providing an open source alternative to commercial offering from IBM WebSphere, Oracle, and SAP, writes Chris Hadad, analyst with Burton Group.


September 12, 2008  4:02 PM

Oslo – What it is



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
.NET, SOA development

Someday, maybe too not soon, Oslo will cease to be whatever someone wants it to be. In other words, Microsoft will disclose enough about the Oslo marchitecture for a consensus of people to decide what it is. Fortunately, Don Box is blogging a bit and we'll get a bit more inkling.


July 23, 2008  7:41 PM

So how SOA are ESBs?



Posted by: StorageSwiss
Enterprise architecture, SOA development, SOA governance, SOA infrastructure

Last week we at SearchSOA.com ran a story about how ESBs aren't as interoperable as users might expect them to be. The story prompted a response from StrikeIron CEO Dave Linthicum, basically...