SOA

1 of 2150 | Interesting book coming up - Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementationhttp://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10185 ...

2 of 2150 | MSFT -= vapourware - Interesting quote from Rich Turner's blog today:"Microsoft explicitly does not claim to have a SOA. We do not subscribe to the notions of SOA and do not refer to any of our products as SOA. We do strongly subscribe to the notions of SO as abstract guidance and goals for building distributed systems. We have a broad range of powerful products, technologies and services which can be used to construct sophisticated, powerful, efficient solutions ... but we don't have a SOA because we don't believe such a thing exists, and if it is, its too poorly defined for us to adopt."...

3 of 2150 | Ordina organises the first annualy international SOA Symposium for practitioners in Amsterdam - In early October 2008 the first annualy international SOA Symposium will be held in the Amsterdam Arena. A lot of international speakers will be there, amongst them Thomas Erl and Brian Loesgen!There are 40 speaker sessions across the following 10 tracks: - SOA Architecture & Design - Service Modeling & BPM - SOA & Business - SOA & REST - SOA & Web 2.0 - SOA Governance - SOA Programming - SOA Innovations - SOA Infrastructure & Technology - SOA Project Delivery & Methodology Post-conference there will be three five-day certification workshops: - Certified SOA Consultant - Certified SOA Architect - Certified SOA Analyst The workshops are organised by SOASCHOOL.com.The symposium and the worksh......

4 of 2150 | 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. ...

5 of 2150 | SBUG Event 15 April 2009 - There is a UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting planned for the 15th April 2009. For details of the event please refer to; http://sbug.org.uk/forums/p/121/173.aspx#173   ...

6 of 2150 | SBUG Meeting 26th May 2009 - There is a UK SOA/BPM User Group event planned for 26th May 2009 For details please refer to http://sbug.org.uk/forums/p/122/174.aspx#174   ...

7 of 2150 | On Writing: Before you apply to this lab... - There are certain places that people expect text to be rote, boring, and dry. When you come in with some humanity instead, it really stands out. Example: Sönke Johnsen’s “Advice For Potential Graduate Students,” a wonderful piece of writing that is given to lab applicants. An excerpt: In many ways you will turn into your advisor. Advisors teach very little, but instead provide a role model. Consciously and unconsciously, you will imitate your advisor. You may find this hard to believe now, but fifteen years from now, when you find yourself lining up the tools in your lab cabinets just like your advisor did, you’ll see. My student Alison once said that choosing an......

8 of 2150 | BizTalk 2009 training in Beijing and below Zero temperatures - What a week it has been folks - I left Sydney in 30C degrees with sun, sand and beaches.....I thought "How cold can it be?" (you never really get that appreciation till you hit the ground)> Cold....very cold!!! Now I've been skiing many times, but this was just something else. It caused Beijing to be blanketed in snow and very beautiful - What a fantastic place!!! Definitely a come back place - just nothing like what I expected. The people so friendly, helpful and always with purpose in their eyes. The food is some of the freshest I've eaten and such healthy diets (steamed cabbage, mushrooms etc etc) - nothing like the 'Western Chinese Resturants' back home :) ......

9 of 2150 | News to know: HP, Hulu, IE 8; SOA; Citrix; Bearing Point - Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Larry Dignan: Citrix to offer free XenServer; Takes shot at VMware HP’s mixed bag: Sales weak across all units, earnings on target; Outlook weaker than expected Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility list: 2,400 major sites (and counting) Microsoft’s [...] ...

10 of 2150 | Whither SOA Facts? - Say it isn't so! The Encyclopedia of SOA has fallen off of the internet! That or the site now requires a WS-Transfer-enabled web browser.  ...

11 of 2150 | ARCast.TV - Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions - Dr. Zhiming Xue interviews Steve Michelotti, senior solution architect at e.magination. Steve discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than 3 billion daily transactions, 99.99% of all transactions under 250 ms response time. One particular challenge they faced was dealing with the garbage collection (GC) process that is normally managed by the CLR of the .NET framework. With potentially millions of .NET objects in memory, a generation 2 GC can take 5 to 8 seconds on a 64-bit server with 16 GB memory, which quickly breaks the SLA. At their first attempt Steve and his team tried to red......

12 of 2150 | Full agenda available for C2C and 4Developers conferences - Last month I wrote about two conferences coming up soon in Poland. Organizers were busy all the time working on providing you with greatest speakers and technical content, and today we know the full agenda of both events. 4Developers, 7th March, Kraków Here is the agenda for .NET track: Ted Neward - Busy .NET Developer’s Guide to F#: Introduction Marcin Celej - Wykresy przy uzyciu biblioteki .NET Charts Szymon Pobiega - Inversion of Control w systemach zbudowanych w oparciu o obiektowy model domeny Marcin Kruszynski - Model-driven development w technologii “Oslo” Barbara Fusinska - Od aspektów do Design by Contract, czyli wyraz swoje intencje Mateusz Kierepka - BOKU ak......

13 of 2150 | Saas vs. Software + Services - Saas vs. S+S Saas is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can benefit from the economies of scale of the data and behavior of that architecture being built and hosted in the cloud by a third party in a multitenant fashion. Software + Services is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can achieve some of the same economies of scale as Saas while simultaneously benefiting from the synergies and efficiencies of the data and behavior of that architecture being partly built on premises and partly built by third parties in a multitenant fashion, as well as, partly hosted on premises and partly hosted in the cloud in a multitenant fashion. The cloud mea......

14 of 2150 | Speaking in San Diego tonight (Feb 17 2009) – Microsoft’s SOA offerings - I’ll be speaking at the ASP.NET SIG of the San Diego .NET User Group tonight. Abstract is below. Meeting starts at 6:00 at the Microsoft La Jolla office. This is basically the same presentation Allan Naim and I did recently at the SOA BP conference in...(read more)...

15 of 2150 | Coming up for Air... - So its been a while since my last post...  okay, about 3 months if you check the archive.  I've been heads down for just about that long to help get the next release of the MSE ready (which will be available later this month).  We have been working on some really exciting scenarios and capabilities that will really help take SOA to the next level.  Of course, by SOA, I really mean massively distributed systems.  In this next release, we are taking service virtualization one step further by representing every single component of the service, from the server all the way back to the source system.  This not only allows you to maximize the reuse of those items as b......

16 of 2150 | New Blog on Monitoring Distributed Systems -   My good friend Dhananjay Mahajan has started a new blog where he discuss aspects of application health and new trends in .NET and SOA based architectures. Dhan is an expert in the management and monitoring of applications. Dhan works at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the System Center division working on Monitoring of Web based applications. His primary interests are SOA architecture management, synthetic transactions, Diagnostics and root cause analysis and monitoring of Distributed...(read more)...

17 of 2150 | SOA is Dead? It's About Time! - Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group raised quite a few hackles in the IT press yesterday when she asserted that SOA is Dead. Anne has the chops to talk on the subject - beyond her respectable career as an SOA Analyst for the Burton Group, she was also a former CTO of Systinet, an SOA governance company that eventually was bought up by Hewlett Packard, and was one of the early architects of the WS-* architecture ... so when she says "It's dead, Jim", people listen. ...

18 of 2150 | Revised Application Platform Sales Training - Have you switched from product to platform selling yet? We have just refreshed the online sales training for partners on application platform – go check it out in the PLC : Microsoft Application Platform University (APU) Here is the full list of courses in this area for your convenient reading: Selling the Application Platform Module 1: App Plat Introduction Module 1: Application Platform Introduction Agenda & about the course and learning objectives:  • Leveraging field tested “platform selling” approaches to drive more strategic business discussions w/ customers • Understand an “Integrated Platform” selling approach w/ other models and offerings Presenter: Will Yafi - CEO......

19 of 2150 | SOA is not dead; the dream of silver bullet is, again! - Anne Thomas Manes has an interesting post stated that SOA is dead.   Despite the dramatic eye-catching writing style, she does get a little bite on the issue. "Successful SOA (i.e., application re-architecture) requires disruption to the status quo. SOA is not simply a matter of deploying new technology and building service interfaces to existing applications; it requires redesign of the application portfolio. And it requires a massive shift in the way IT operates. Does this sound familiar to you? If not, let' see this part "The latest shiny new technology will not make things better. Incremental integration projects will not lead to significantly reduced costs and increased agility......

20 of 2150 | 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. ...

21 of 2150 | WSO2 releases Carbon - WSO2 just announced the debut of Carbon SOA Framework which extends some of their award winning products with componentization capabilities based on the OSGI specifications. Additionally, they have also announced the first wave of products based on the...(read more)...

22 of 2150 | Elargissez votre vision : architecture SOA - L’architecture SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) est une architecture basée sur des services simples. Un service est une fonctionnalité encapsulée dans un composant qui peut être appelé en utilisant des arguments simples ou complexes et qui renvoie un ou plusieurs résultats. La communication avec le service se fait dans un format standard. Il existe plusieurs typologies de service, mais les services web sont les composants les plus utilisés dans une architecture SOA. Un web service est une fonction qui peut être appelée en utilisant des arguments et renvoie un résultat en utilisant le protocole Internet. Les avantages d’une architecture SOA sont : -     ......

23 of 2150 | What does Connected Health Framework mean for the Middle East and Africa region? -   This is one of the questions that often came up during my conversations with health IT professionals and I would like to share my perspectives on this topic.   Let's start with a brief description of CHF:   Connected Health Framework is a set of vendor-agnostic best practices and guidelines for building electronic health (or e-Health) solutions based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) and industry standards. The Architecture and Design Blueprint provides healthcare organizations with an approach to developing information networks with common business and technical design definitions. The Architecture and Design Blueprint will continue to evolve to help mov......

24 of 2150 | SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business - In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". I'm not against finding a new name for this thing that we have been until-recently-referring-to-as-SOA but I still am looking for a reason why.... ...

25 of 2150 | SBUG Newsletter - We have just published the 1st newsletter from the SOA/BPM User Group.  It is available to download here: http://sbug.org.uk/media/p/157.aspx ...

26 of 2150 | TOGAF 9 is now available ! - There really has never been a better time to get into Enterprise Architecture as the global economic downturn means that smart companies will be looking at making efficiency savings through strategic implementations and process streamlining, identification of function duplication and better IT/business alignment. Enterprise Architecture is a hard thing to get off the ground so why try and re-invent the wheel and benefit from the experiences of others in many different organisations. Using a framework can help and this is what TOGAF is. TOGAF is one of the most popular Enterprise Architecture frameworks for many different reasons and justifies a post on it's own. The latest version is an in......

27 of 2150 | After the MS SOA and Business Process Conference - Well, the SOA and BP conference hosted by Microsoft is over. Three of us attended the conference from our company. So, I was able to attend the majority of the sessions that I was hoping to. Naturally, as the title suggests, the theme circled around Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management; but the conference provided Microsoft and some of their partners to do the following: Read More ...

28 of 2150 | OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data - Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our Office Business Application for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with your Line of Business (LOB) data. Whether that involves using SharePoint as well depends on the application. Since we wanted to store the unstructured data (the Northwind customer P.O.) SharePoint is a good fit here. There are a lot of options when thinking about how to expose your LOB data. For instance, you may already have a service oriented architecture at the enterprise that exposes data contracts and processes that you can consume from Offi......

29 of 2150 | Mapping a Repeating Source to a Delimited List - My last couple of projects have been very interesting, challenging and a lot of fun.  My current project is no exception.  I have the pleasure of working with a great group of people (I've got to give a shout out to C-Mappity (Casey), v-slice (Dan), Sniff Packy Packet (Rich) and 10 Bit (pronounced 2 bit) (Mike) - you know who you are).  Anyways, this a great group and we are working on a fun project to create their services architecture which will be the framework for their ESB. During our redesign and re-platform of  some of their current services we have come up on some interesting scenarios.  One that I think many people may run into is the need to take a source......

30 of 2150 | New and Notable 286 - Just came back from Jonathan's Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. The original car was so light (2.6 ounces instead of 5) that we had to gle so much metal to it and he won an original award for "Most Armor Plated" car ASP.NET MVC Not even a day old and there is a refresh for the ASP.NET MVC RC ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate now available in Web Platform Installer T4 Templates: A Quick Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers - good choice team! MVC Contrib RC1 (Code Camp Server Waiting on URL Generation Bug) Oslo/CSD/SOA Via Jon Flanders, learned that there is a new Oslo SDK here Steve Martin reports on this year's SOA and BPM Conference - lookin......

31 of 2150 | Calgary Offering 1 Day EA Course - The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be interesting to folks in that area. See below for details: Phil Unger, from the Calgary Enterprise Architecture Forum, is organizing a one-day course focused on developing the skills Architects require in their day to day work. The course will run March 4th, 2009 in Calgary. If you are interested, please contact Phil or Craig for the abstract and registration details. This course provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the subject areas related to enterprise architecture plus technical and business opportunities and industry trends. The course, delivered by......

32 of 2150 | Microsoft's Annual SOA and BP conference - SOA meets Cloud - Today we wrapped up the 6th annual SOA and BP conference here in Redmond.  This was the 14th stop on the tour which continues around the world thru April.  Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote to kick off the conference and took that opportunity to talk about both the last few weeks and the road ahead. As we talk to customers around the world, it’s clear that the message on SOA being a “how” rather than a “what” is really sinking in.  Now we spend more of our time talking about extending Service Orientation than we do defining it.  I took a very non-Microsoft approach – instead of blathering on about technology, I instead spent time debunking the myt......

33 of 2150 | Agent-Design Patterns for Building Distributed Service Bus Applications - Another blog that is several months late, but as usual, better late than never. I am currently preparing my presentation for tomorrow's Real World SOA: Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference I finally made the time to read Danny Garber's paper on Agent-Design Patterns and it was well worth the read. Danny introduces the notion of a Distributed Service Bus (I think I have also heard him refer to it as an Internet Service Bus) allowing multiple organizations to collaborate on extremely complex business processes. As with most business processes, these are subject to service unavailability errors, message translation and enrichment requirements, but because they span multiple orga......

34 of 2150 | Microsoft Moves Up in Gartner Magic Quadrants - In Gartner's recently released Magic Quadrants for Back-end Application Integration, SOA Composite Applications and New Systematic SOA Applications Microsoft has moved solidly into the Leader's quadrant. Of particular note is the Back-end Application Integration MQ, where Microsoft is now the most highly rated in the Leader's Quadrant, ahead of such competitors as IBM, Oracle, Sun and Tibco. ...

35 of 2150 | SOA is Dead? It's About Time! - Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group raised quite a few hackles in the IT press yesterday when she asserted that SOA is Dead. Anne has the chops to talk on the subject - beyond her respectable career as an SOA Analyst for the Burton Group, she was also a former CTO of Systinet, an SOA governance company that eventually was bought up by Hewlett Packard, and was one of the early architects of the WS-* architecture ... so when she says "It's dead, Jim", people listen. ...

36 of 2150 | Microsoft in the Leaders quadrant for application infrastructure - It's been a long time coming, but this is great to see, from Steven Martin's blog.  I began the SOA journey with Microsoft in 2002, and it's great to see not only the external validation of the platform, but also to hear in the most recent earnings release that, despite the downturn, the server and tools business within Microsoft is growing at 15%. http://blogs.msdn.com/stevemar/archive/2009/01/27/microsoft-positioned-in-the-leaders-quadrant-of-latest-magic-quadrants-for-application-infrastructure.aspx Technorati Tags: interoperability,SOA,BizTalk,.NET,Microsoft...

37 of 2150 | Microsoft Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure - The latest round of research is out from Gartner, and they have positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants. The Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects , Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects,  and the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects. In my humble opinion, placement in the Leaders Quadrant validates Microsoft as a leading provider of platform technology for service orientation and integration. We believe that these reports highlight the depth of our offering in these space......

38 of 2150 | Microsoft y Stonehenge - Acabo de verlo en una noticia de InfoWorld y me ha parecido interesante, pues es la primera vez que Microsoft participa, contribuyendo con código, en un proyecto de Open Source. Se trata del proyecto Stonehenge, que es un conjunto de aplicaciones de ejemplo para SOA que abarca lenguajes y plataformas y demuestra mejores prácticas e interoperabilidad. El objetivo del proyecto Stonehenge es desarrollar un conjunto de aplicaciones de ejemplo para demostrar la interoperabilidad a través de varias tecnologías de plataforma mediante protocolos estándar definidos actualmente en W3C y OASIS. Según esa noticia, en la pasada conferencia ApacheCon 2008, Microsoft ya manifestó su intención de soport......

39 of 2150 | OASIS Members Form Committee to Address Gaps in SOA Standards for Telecommunications - Microsoft, Primeton, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, BT, HP, Nortel, Telecom Italia, NEC, and Others Collaborate to Help Telecoms Offer Secure, Intelligent Services...

40 of 2150 | Web Service governess - Hi All,<br><br>Newbie here... I work for a big company and we have implemented a SOA architect we dont have any governess around our services and I ...

41 of 2150 | L’équipe MTC vous donne rendez-vous aux TechDays 2009!. - C'est désormais le rendez-vous incontournable des professionnels de l’informatique, développeurs et décideurs techniques avec 23 parcours thématiques, 300 conférences techniques, plus de 140 partenaires experts Microsoft autour de 5 grands thèmes : Découvertes: Windows 7, Windows Azure, SaaS, Cloud Computing… Architecture et Développement: Windows Live, SOA, Visual Studio, .NET, Silverlight, Design, Biztalk… Infrastructure et socle applicatif de l'entreprise numérique: SQL Server, Windows Server, Virtualisation, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, High Performance Computing, Small Business Server, Enterprise Business Server, Sécurité, ERP… ......

42 of 2150 | January BRDNUG Meeting Next Wednesday: Entity Framework - location: At Lamar Advertising Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM Sponsored by: TBD Presenter(s): Brett James and Steve Schaneville Brett is a Senior Development Consultant at Sparkhound, Inc. with over 10 years of software development experience. The last 6 years have been spent working with .NET technologies for both Web and Windows applications. Steve is a Software Development Manager at Amedisys, Inc. His experience includes 9 years of C++ and C# development in Windows and Web applications. Currently he is using the Entity Framework as the data layer for a web-based SOA enterprise application at Amedisys. Topic: ADO.Net Entity Framewor......

43 of 2150 | SOA Samples at Apache - The Stonehenge incubation project at Apache has started collecting together different implementations of SOA applications to demonstrate interoperability between different vendors. The first application is based on the StockTrader sample application that includes a multi-tier web service. All of the initially contributed code is available from the Stonehenge Apache repository....

44 of 2150 | SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business - In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". I'm not against finding a new name for this thing that we have been until-recently-referring-to-as-SOA but I still am looking for a reason why.... ...

45 of 2150 | Join Us in this Evening Event on Software Plus Services at Reston VA, Jan. 28, 2009 - Software + Services is Microsoft's approach for the next generation of computing. Central to the strategy is bringing together the best of cloud-based services and the software that resides on a world of devices. The power of local client or on-premises server software combined with the reach and always up-to-date nature of services in the cloud will be more compelling than software OR service only approaches. The Software + Service approach is a confluence of multiple industry phenomena including SaaS, SOA, and Web 2.0. While different vendors are evolving their offerings from different starting points, the entire industry is converging on the Software + Service approach. The speakers wi......

46 of 2150 | ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2 -January 2009 - ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2 - January 2009 is now available for download. I know what I'll be doing this weekend :) ...

47 of 2150 | BizTalk ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2 now available on codeplex - Although the final ESB Guidance 2.0 will coincide with the release of BizTalk 2009, the CTP2 in now available on codeplex...

48 of 2150 | Morte da SOA? - Três semanas sem notícias do mundo ( férias :) ) e agora as notícias retornam. As que mais me chamram a atenção: Analista do Burton Group proclama que, com a crise, agora “SOA is dead” ( ver ): Sempre achei os projetos de SOA tendendo para ambiciosos e bons para consultorias grandes, mas nem tanto para seus clientes. Mas, mesmo com a crise, não acredito na morte da SOA... Serviços, WebServices e arquiteturas de composição estão aí para ficar. Afinal, se bem feitas, nos retornam os valores de agilidade,...(read more)...

49 of 2150 | SOA: Dead, or In a Coma? - Great article from my colleague Denny Boynton adding to the interesting debate around the article Anne Thomas  (well respected analyst at the Burton Group), wrote a post on her blog pronouncing SOA to be dead. Read all about it here....

50 of 2150 | InfoWorld ? 2009 Technology of the Year ??: Visual Studio 2008?Silverlight?? - 2008????????????????????????????? InfoWorld ? BEST OF ?40????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ?????????? IDE ??? Visual Studio 2008 ????????? Visual Studio 2008 ??? Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ?????·???????#1 ??????????????? ??? InfoWorld ????: Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework, and it's peerless among IDEs for any language. The 2008 version expands the development targets to include SOA, Web 2.0, Windows...(read more)...