August 11, 2009 12:14 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
cloud computing,
SOAThe reduced pace of the summer seems to bring out the morbid curiosity in some of the best and brightest of SOA analysis. Last summer, if you recall, SOA began its death march, which culminated at the end of the year (when things are really really slow) with the pronouncement that “SOA is...
January 6, 2009 2:18 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
SOA,
User storyWith all the blog enabled scuttlebutt ‘failed SOA,’ it is interesting to look at a SOA success story, albeit one that failed. Read on, Grasshopper!
November 18, 2008 1:36 PM
Posted by: Brein Matturro
Development,
SOA,
SOA developmentThere 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
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Composite applications,
Enterprise architecture,
SOA,
SOA development,
SOA governancePerhaps 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
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Enterprise architecture,
Podcast,
Security,
SOA,
SOA development,
SOA governance,
SOA infrastructure,
SOA management,
Software testingTesting 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.
October 31, 2008 5:50 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
.NET,
cloud computing,
Composite applications,
Development,
Microsoft,
Modeling,
REST,
SOA,
SOA developmentFor 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
Posted by: Heather Clancy
IBM,
SAP AG,
Small Midsize Business (SMB),
SOA,
SOA developmentRed 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.
October 15, 2008 6:05 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
IBM,
SOAIBM is ahead of the curve in providing vertical and horizontal service-oriented architecture products, but may be too far ahead of most of its customers, who are still in the early stages of SOA implementation, writes Dwight B. Davis at Ovum.
October 14, 2008 6:04 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
BEA Systems,
Complex Event Processing (CEP),
Conferences,
Development,
event-driven architecture,
Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP),
Oracle development,
OSGi,
SOAOracle Fusion middleware is currently based on a group of product suites for SOA and BPM that are "assemblies of convenience," argue Gartner analysts.
The suites are made up of Oracle's existing product line and the technologies from its acquisition of BEA earlier this year, according to a brief...