SOA development

JavaOne report: Apache Tuscany, can SOA be this easy?

In front of a packed room of a few hundred developers at the 2008 JavaOne conference yesterday, IBM's Jean-Sebastien Delfino gave a presentation of the Apache...

What’s next for Java? Take a look at GlassFish.

I'm heading out to the JavaOne conference this week and it struck me that Java has had a very quiet year. Two years ago Sun launched Java EE 5 and almost immediately analysts began to call it a heavyweight dinosaur

SOA versus perfect SOA

In the early days of client/server adoption in the 1990s there were lots of articles lamenting the fact the client/server wasn't living up to its promise. It was just another theory that didn't really work all that well in practice. But after a few years client/server was just the way application...

Open source leading SOA charge in 2008

Last August I noted that Microsoft regularly finds itself buried under an avalanche of news coming from its Java-based competition. It's impossible to compete with that kind of volume and that fact...

SOA, Progress and the R-word

Two interconnected debates are raging in the blogsphere over how service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be running into resistence in 2008. One debate covered this week in a SearchSOA article is about...

Podcast: Mulesource CEO on why SOA requires many ESBs

This podcast with Mulesource CEO Dave Rosenberg covers the role of the enterprise service bus (ESB) inside an SOA. Rosenberg notes that an ESB shouldn't be thought of as a singular piece of software sitting in the middle of every application, tossing aside the hub-and-spoke model from the EAI...

Eclipse forms OSGi community

At EclipseCon this week, the Eclipse Foundation announced that it is forming a new open source community project "to...

Red Hat buys SOA knowledge transfer expertise

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) expertise is still not available off-the-shelf.

That's the reason Red Hat Inc. bought Amentra Inc., a integration services provider headquartered in Richmond, VA., which...

Web 2.0 leading SOA in buzzword compliance?

Marketers in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) world seem to be  falling all over each other to make their new products Web 2.0 buzzword compliant. Although Web 2.0 is a dubious term technically since there is no real Web 2.0. It is a clever catchall phrase for the more glitzy browser...

Looking for a few good WSDLs

I recently ran into an architect who was trying to wrap his head around SOA. He had sorted out most of it, but one thing was gnawing at him: what makes for a good WSDL? Obviously that can change dependent on the service in question, but it dawned on me that a good set of examples would be in...