All posts by : InfoWorld: Web services

1 of 263 | Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference - The Eclipse Foundation will cite at the EclipseCon 2009 conference this week the latest developments in areas ranging from the core Eclipse platform to SOA and modeling, including plans to make the platform available as Web services. ...

2 of 263 | The cloud-SOA connection - Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises can access services hosted on third-party servers over the Internet. In SOA, enterprises use integrated application services in a more lightweight fashion than traditional application platforms. ...

3 of 263 | SOA gets an obituary - SOA is dead but services remain alive, according to a prominent analyst who published an obituary for SOA in a blog post on Monday. ...

4 of 263 | Is the WSTF one Web services forum too many? - Vendors including IBM and Oracle are launching an industry organization Monday for Web services interoperability, despite the existence of another Web services interoperability group with many of the same members. ...

5 of 263 | MuleSource adds to open source SOA, ESB - Furthering its open source SOA middleware, MuleSource this week upgraded both its SOA governance platform, enabling custom extensions, and its ESB, which offers REST (Representational State Transfer) support. ...

6 of 263 | MuleSource adds to open source SOA, ESB - Furthering its open source SOA middleware, MuleSource this week upgraded both its SOA governance platform, enabling custom extensions, and its ESB, which offers REST (Representational State Transfer) support....

7 of 263 | Software AG merges Infravio legacy with CentraSite SOA - Software AG's new CentraSite ActiveSOA software will finally merge the company's CentraSite metadata management tool for SOA (service-oriented architecture) with the SOA governance tool Infravio that it acquired through its purchase of webMethods last year....

8 of 263 | SOA deployments: What actually works - SOA may have seemed the savior of bad software architecture and poor development project planning, but the reality is that it's a complex and difficult venture. Thus, the number of failed SOA projects is about equal to the successful ones. In other words, you have a 50 percent chance of failing, and the odds of failure are even greater if you work within a larger Global 2000 organization or within the government....

9 of 263 | The benefits of an open-source SOA - Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright....

10 of 263 | Oracle buys ClearApp for SOA management - Oracle plans to buy ClearApp, maker of software for managing the performance of composite applications in SOA (service-oriented architecture) environments, the company announced Tuesday....

11 of 263 | Hoping to get SOA off the shelf - Mike Kavis wrote an interesting blog entry that explains why SOA is not just a technology to leverage legacy applications, but it's also good for startups. This got me thinking about how vendors could make it easier for startups or existing small businesses to begin the journey into SOA....

12 of 263 | Diving deep into Amazon Web Services - Amazon's Web Services (AWS) are based on a simple concept: Amazon has built a globe-spanning hardware and software infrastructure that supports the company's Internet business, so why not modularize components of that infrastructure and rent them? It is akin to a large construction company in the business of building interstate highways hiring out its equipment and expertise for jobs such as putting in a side road, paving a supermarket parking lot, repairing a culvert, or just digging a backyard swimming pool....

13 of 263 | Hooking your apps into Amazon Web Services - Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects....

14 of 263 | Sun technologist: SOAP stack a 'failure' - The SOAP stack for Web services was branded a failure this week by Tim Bray, a Sun Microsystems technologist and co-inventor of XML, who hailed the REST (Representational State Transfer) mechanism as a SOAP alternative....

15 of 263 | Progress makes another SOA buy - Application infrastructure vendor Progress Software has purchased Mindreef, a Hollis, N.H., maker of tools for testing SOAs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....

16 of 263 | Free service tracks Amazon cloud's performance - Customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) can now get free, real-time performance metrics through a site called CloudStatus....

17 of 263 | HP enhancing SOA products in mainstream effort - Seeking to enhance mainstream SOA deployments, HP is increasing SOA quality management capabilities Tuesday in several products....

18 of 263 | WSO2 boosts Spring developers with Web services - WSO2 is releasing Monday its open source WSO2 Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0 (WSF/Spring1.0), providing users of the Spring Java framework with an Apache Axis2/Java Web services engine for use in developing applications....

19 of 263 | Amazon adds resilience to cloud computing service - Amazon Web Services is adding new features to its hosted service platform Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to improve availability....

20 of 263 | Product review: LISA iTKO 4 brings high quality to Web service testing QA - If you believe the documentation, the white papers, and the news releases, iTKO's recently released LISA 4 is an SOA testing tool. That descriptor, however, is modesty riding on the back of the still trendy acronym "SOA" because LISA goes well beyond testing what are typically understood to be SOA components: Under one roof, it houses the abilities to test Web and Java applications, the ESB (enterprise service bus), JMS (Java Message Service) systems, EJBs, databases, combinations of the above, and -- oh yes -- Web services....

21 of 263 | SOA spend up despite unclear benefits - The number of companies investing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) has doubled over the past year in every part of the world, with a typical annual spend of nearly $1.4 million, according to a new research report from the analyst firm AMR Research that surveyed 405 companies in the U.S., Germany and China....

22 of 263 | Strategic security: Get a handle on authentication - It's a common dilemma: You host multiple Web-accessible applications, for both internal customers and external users. A few of your developers are keeping up on the last programming trends and security models, while some of your highest-seniority employees are stuck in programming models outdated a decade ago. You've got a hodgepodge of access and authentication methods, along with a lot of client-server interaction, and a little bit of Web services and SOA, as well as Citrix or Terminal Services thrown in. There are even a few people still dialing in on phone lines to access dumb terminal-based applications....

23 of 263 | WSO2 open-source mashup builder leverages JavaScript - WSO2 is offering its open-source WSO2 Mashup Server product, which leverages JavaScript and Web services in assembling mashups, on Monday. In positioning the product for use by JavaScript developers, the company is looking to enable delivery of more functional mashups than can be built with alternative GUI-based tools. A hosted online version of Mashup Server, called Mooshup.com, also will be launched Monday as a community site for developing and sharing mashups....

24 of 263 | User-group study: Mainframes live on through SOA - Mainframe systems are playing a key role in many SOA (service-oriented architecture) projects, according to a study released this week by IBM user group SHARE....

25 of 263 | Study shows SOA worries systems integrators - Although SOA efforts are still early-stage at most organizations, systems integrators who work for government agencies are concerned that SOA efforts might put them out of a job. So says the Input Executive Forum, a trade organization representing federal contractors and agencies. Instead of hiring systems integrators to add new capabilities into existing IT environments, "agencies with a SOA environment can just acquire the services they need," says Deniece Peterson, a senior analyst at Input whose study examined the impact of SOA on IT contractors....

26 of 263 | WSO2 bringing Ruby to SOA - With open-source software being formally introduced Monday, WSO2 seeks to bridge the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails Web framework with the SOA and Web services spaces....

27 of 263 | BlueNote Network to offer APIs for unified communications - BlueNote Networks, a communications middleware vendor, will announce today two Web service APIs for its SOA Edition of SessionSuite middleware....

28 of 263 | Salesforce launches data-sharing technology - Mashups and Web services in the enterprise are old news. But IT has paid little more than lip service to Web services that span business processes across the extraprise....

29 of 263 | Clean up your SOAP-based Web services - SOAP is the currency of the SOA marketplace ? for now, anyway. Though SOAP's significance may diminish as Web services evolve, its importance for the time being is unquestionable. Therefore, a substantial portion of the QA work by Web service providers and consumers must entail verifying the accurate exchange of SOAP messages. Not surprisingly, several SOAP-focused Web service testing tools have appeared....

30 of 263 | WSO2: A lightweight, fast, and free ESB - With the increased adoption of SOA, companies are finding the ESB (enterprise service bus) the "must have" application to connect disparate systems. Although a number of open source ESBs, such as Mule, OpenESB, Apache ServiceMix, and JBoss ESB have been around for a while, these products take a relatively heavyweight approach to integration by implementing the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification. A more recent open source arrival, WSO2 ESB, takes a lightweight approach, focusing on integration based on Web service standards....

31 of 263 | Five ways to roll out SOA - Back when SOA first started getting traction, the goal was simply to make application functionality available as a shared service. Companies made up their architectures as they went along ? and of course, they?re still doing that. The difference today is that, in the last couple of years, the business side has a better sense of the strategic value of IT, while IT has learned more about the competitive pressures business must endure. As a result, SOA now offers the possibility of greater alignment between IT and business than ever before....

32 of 263 | Progress Sonic and Cape Clear blaze the SOA trail - The concept of an SOA ?suite? may seem antithetical to those who were counting on SOA to free us from the tyranny of vendor lock-in, but there's an upside to this development. First, today?s ESB (enterprise service bus) suites are much more capable than the early point solutions. Second, when you're dropping six figures on a paradigm shift, you want to know someone has your back at every layer of the services stack....

33 of 263 | .Net, JMS worlds bridged - JNBridge will bridge the Microsoft .Net and Java Message Service (JMS) worlds Tuesday with the release of adapters linking the two platforms....

34 of 263 | Web services-based app server upgraded by WSO2 - WSO2 is upgrading its open source application server, which has been centered on Web services rather than being of the usual Java variety most common in this product space....

35 of 263 | IBM pledges access to its IP for standards - IBM is making it easier to utilize its patented intellectual property to implement nearly 200 standards in SOA, Web services, security, and other spaces....

36 of 263 | WS-I adding to blueprints for Web services usage - Blueprints for implementing interoperable and secure Web services are being amended by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to incorporate the latest SOAP technology and reliable message transmission, representatives of organization said on Thursday....

37 of 263 | NewsGator revamps enterprise RSS tool - As corporations increase adoption of content syndication tools, NewsGator Technologies has improved its enterprise RSS system with an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web interface, tagging capabilities, and support for BlackBerry devices and collaboration platforms from Microsoft and IBM....

38 of 263 | Accenture sets up SOA development center in India - Accenture has established a center in India to build software applications based on the SOA (service-oriented architecture) model using technologies from Sun Microsystems....

39 of 263 | Iona adds repository for SOAs - Iona Technologies Inc. is broadening its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool announced Monday for managing software services in an SOA environment....

40 of 263 | IT vendors hand over SOA specs to Oasis - A group of 18 software vendors made good on their previous commitment to hand over SOA specifications to standards bodies once those specifications, designed to make it easier for users to develop SOA-based applications, reach maturity....

41 of 263 | Software AG plans SOA alliance - German business application vendor Software AG hopes to create an alliance of small European software vendors targeting the market for SOA (service-oriented architecture) applications and services....

42 of 263 | Avaya Talks Up Voice as a Service - The great thing about SOA is that when you add a service, you instantly increase the potential of any application that can consume that service. Today, Avaya threw a new set of VoIP services into the enterprise SOA mix in the form of its CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Processes) solution....

43 of 263 | Game plan for Team SOA - Like any structure, governance needs a solid foundation. In the case of SOA, the trick is to get the right people involved and engage in some good old-fashioned fact finding, so you know exactly what you’re dealing with....

44 of 263 | Teaming up for SOA - Most organizations start down the road to SOA with a pilot project of some kind. The result is often a great technology learning experience and a handful of useful services upon which a related set of apps can be built and modified easily. But an isolated project seldom builds the skills needed to persuade multiple groups to collaborate on broader SOA development....

45 of 263 | Enterprise mashups meet SOA - The line is blurring between the enterprise and the Web. Mashups live on that porous perimeter, offering the reusability of an SOA plus very rapid development using prebuilt services outside the firewall. Soon, we may live in a world where it’s difficult to tell where the enterprise stops and the Web begins. It’s scary — and exciting at the same time....

46 of 263 | Mashup platform vendors - This sampling of mashup platforms runs the gamut from established portal servers to bleeding-edge Web pure plays. The list does not include commercial or open source AJAX toolkits. (See also "Enterprise mashups meet SOA.")...

47 of 263 | Mindreef eyes automated Web service tests - Mindreef plans to expand its Web services testing capabilities in the second quarter of this year to automate test scenarios based on WSDL contracts....

48 of 263 | IBM research projects cover SOA, Web 2.0 - IBM showed off research efforts in a number of areas, including SOA, wikis, and mashups, at its IBM Silicon Valley Lab on Wednesday afternoon....

49 of 263 | HP, SAP further cement ties around SOA - Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting application vendor SAP's SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies' increasingly close relationship....

50 of 263 | Cast Iron puts application integration in a box - Enterprise application integration can quickly take on nightmarish proportions: multiple applications requiring complex workflows, data that must change form from one app to another, and massive management snarls. Consequently, most EAI solutions are themselves fairly large and complicated....