SOA management

Oauth enlivens the identity and access management landscape

By Alan Earls - For his part, Scott Morrison, CTO at Layer7, a provider of API security and governance for service-oriented, Web-oriented and cloud-oriented integration, argues that OAuth is the most interesting thing happening in identity and access management...

Identity management for federated SOA

Alongside the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2009 in Las Vegas this week, SOA security vendor, Forum Systems released a new identity broker hardware appliance, Forum STS. With an increasing number of enterprises expressing interest in moving SOA into cloud...

Transactions are the currency for SOA management

AmberPoint has been busy, announcing support this week for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, and, earlier in the month, announcing integration with IBM WebSphere DataPower. We talked with the company recently.

SOA service managers wanted

Ovum analyst Tony Baer reaffirms the link between SOA and IT Service Management in a blog post - entitled ''What’s a Service? Who’s Responsible?'' He talks briefly about the role ITIL can play, and in more detail about an emerging notion...

Test SOA for the unexpected

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.

HP builds ‘culture of governance’ for SOA

HP solidifies leadership in SOA governance with Systinet 3.0, which now covers services lifecycle, business process, and IT service management, writes analyst Dana Gardner in his blog this week. "The newest market leading Systinet UDDI...

SOA acquisition week: Progress adds Mindreef

You wouldn't know the mergers and acquisitions market on Wall Street was in the doldrums if you were just watching Progress Software Corp. this week. First, Progress snapped up IonaTechnologies Inc.,...

SOA Software seeks governance dominance

SOA Software Inc. says its acquisition of LogicLibrary Inc., announced today, creates "a dominant Integrated SOA governance automation company." The two companies were both rated as leaders...

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...

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...