SOA

51 of 2041 | Understanding Governance as Decision Rights - Todd Biske, whom I respect for his writings on SOA, seemed to miss the mark in his recent blog post about SOA Governance and Decision Rights.  In that post, he said: if you focus on education, you can allow individual teams to make decisions, because you’ve given them the necessary information to make the right decisions. If they don’t have the information to make decisions that will lead toward the desired behavior, it turns into a guessing game. Not only can there be confusion in what the correct decisions are, there can also be confusion on what decisions should be escalated up the chain. If we instead focus on creating policies and making those policies known so tha......

52 of 2041 | Visual Studio 2010 och .NET Framework 4.0 - Föga förvånande så kommer nästa version av Visual Studio alltså att ha versionen 2010 (jag tycker visserligen att MMX hade varit coolare) och att .NET Frameworks nästa version blir 4.0. Fokusområdena för de kommande versionerna är: Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management Detta innebär att visionen för Visual Studio Team System och ALM blir större och målet är att ett projekts alla roller ska täckas upp för att underlätta åtkomsten till information och resurser. Enabling emerging trends Här handlar det om att se till att ha stöd för utveckling mot och med den senaste funktionaliteten i dagens och morgondagens plattformar, alltså en flexibel miljö med möjigheter till vidareutveckli......

53 of 2041 | Application Architecture Guide 2.0 från Patterns & Practices - Jag tycker att det är otroligt viktigt med arkitektur som bottnar i en vald plattform och missionerar ständigt vikten av att inte lämna arkitektur till skäggiga gubbar som stannar på molnnivå. Låt de göra sitt lysande jobb men se till att någon kommer in och drar ner det i en konkret platta. Bottna och kom i mål eller spendera tusentals timmar på att rita otroligt vackert partitionerade modeller och misslyckas… Enkelt… Eller… Ok… Jag vet… Det är inte helt lätt… Det intressanta är att på sista tiden har det blivit så bekvämt att skikta både arkitektur och nu även typer av arkitekter baserat på en så skarp, ren och andligt vacker gräns som WSDL. En av mina rädslor kring detta är att vi miss......

54 of 2041 | SOA World Tour - October 15 - Join IBM in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 for the Smart SOA™ World Tour! Website:  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/smart_soa_world_tour_na_events.html?S_TACT=107AG01W&S_CMP=campaign (let me know if this link doesn't work and I'll send you my original invitation) The Smart SOA approach drives real sustainable performance and ROI through process optimization by empowering business users to change processes dynamically and delivering the visibility to sense and respond to changing business conditions. We will review how you can get started with process automation and progress to more advanced capabilities while describing exciting new BPM announcement......

55 of 2041 | Newsletter TechNet Flash (Septiembre) - Suscríban a otros boletines Los primeros pasos de la infraestructura IT del futuro   La visión de Microsoft respecto a la tendencia conocida como "cloud computing" se desprende del concepto más general de "IT dinámico" y se sustenta en la siguiente convicción: la arquitectura que mejor se adapta a los desafíos del presente y del futuro próximo se basa en la dupla "software + servicios". En este sentido, la llegada de Windows Server 2008 Hyper - V las nuevas capacidades incluidas en SQL Server 2008 y sus Data Services, un renovado concepto de confiabilidad de punta a punta (End to End Trust) en la infraestructura de sistemas y la llegada de Internet Explorer......

56 of 2041 | RTM for HPC Server 2008 is now available - In case you missed it, RTM for Windows HPC Server 2008 is now available here.  Don't forget to grab the SDK for HPC Server, which allows you to program MPI, as well as access a cluster programmatically via the HPC Server API. There are also a number of tutorials and how-to articles available on Microsoft's developer resources page, two of which we wrote and blogged about earlier:  "Classic HPC Development using Visual C++", and "From Sequential to Parallel Code".  The former is for more experienced HPC C++ developers, and uses OpenMP, MPI and MPI.NET to develop an image processing application.  The latter is oriented towards newcomers to......

57 of 2041 | Brian's Travel Blog: Jordan - OK, keeping with the recent theme, here's another entry in my travel blog :) Very soon I will get back to technical posts, I have some pent-up ones waiting to be written, some about BizTalk and some about Oslo, so stay tuned! We recently completed the design/planning stage for the Jordanian government ESB project. It has been an honor to work with such a talented team, and as part of the planning process we did a non-trivial amount of development, solving some very tough problems along the way. I made several trips to Amman over the past year, and took full advantage of being there by seeing as much as I could of the country in the time I had. I have been saying that I have seen more of Jo......

58 of 2041 | Calais Semantic Web Service Adds Professional Version - Calais, the Semantic Web service, from Thomson Reuters, is today announcing a new commercial version at the EmTech Conference on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Calais is a web service and open API that allows web publishers to automatically scan content and pull out semantic metadata. In other words, the services built on the Calais API can semantically mark up content automatically. According to Tom Tague, who leads the Calais initiative at Thomson Reuters, they finally reached a critical mass of people using Calais, including both large companies and smaller web startups, who were telling them that in order to really utilize Calais, they needed a professional version with a......

59 of 2041 | Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move? - Cisco on Wednesday rolled out its collaboration portfolio as it targets the enterprise market–and notably the Microsoft SharePoint juggernaut. At least Cisco isn’t alone–Oracle earlier this week unveiled Beehive, which is another collaboration effort. Oracle wouldn’t say that Beehive is a direct competitor to SharePoint, but it certainly looks that way. Oracle is looking to occupy [...] ...

60 of 2041 | News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple - Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with T-Mobile G1 Larry Dignan: Google’s Android: Following the money on mobile search Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Can Google out-cool Apple? Josh Taylor: [...] ...

61 of 2041 | Best Places to find Windows HPC Server 2008 Resources - Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about Windows HPC Server 2008 which just RTM'd. Community Sites which contain a lot of screens casts and interview content TechNet Edge - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the IT Professionals. Channel9 - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the Developer. WindowsHPC.net - The HPC Community and technical forums. http://www.microsoft.com/hpc - The Microsoft product portal.   See the on-demand webcasts via the events tab. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/hpc - A listing of resources for developers. A great list of bloggers on this subject from within M......

62 of 2041 | DNJ Interview with Solidsoft CTO Andy James - Ok, ok, so he's my boss ;-) Still, it's a good article about BizTalk and SOA from someone who's been about, if you know what I mean ;-)DNJ Interview Link...

63 of 2041 | News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0 - Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session Larry Dignan: Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2 Video: Oracle unveils Beehive Oliver Marks: Oracle’s Beehive: [...] ...

64 of 2041 | 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......

65 of 2041 | 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....

66 of 2041 | Can SOA be done with an agile approach? - In this article Martin Fowler looks at SOA and implementing Agile around the concept. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...(read more)...

67 of 2041 | Oracle OpenWorld: Looking for some excitement. - If you’re going to kick off a conference these days - that is, when the economy is tanking and people are wondering if the doom-and-gloom is headed for the tech sector - it’s probably best to give folks something to buzz about. At Oracle OpenWorld, company president Charles Phillips introduced Beehive. The built-from-the-ground-up open software is [...] ...

68 of 2041 | Recherche Architectes SOA - SearchSOA.com nous confirme que la demande est forte concernant les profils architectes SOA, avec 3 grandes catégories : l’architecture technique (mise en oeuvre de la SOA aux niveaux infra et applicatif), l’architecte métier (coller au processus métier), et l’architecte des choix SOA (cohérence et rationalisation des investissements)....

69 of 2041 | Service Oriented Architecture - best practices - On the SOA Institute.org site are many interesting articles about SOA architecture best practices like: SOA Governance for the Organization: Best Practices for Getting StartedAvoiding SOA Security Anti-Patterns: Practical Planning for Success SOA Architecture Considerations Flexibility by Design: Adapting to Changes at Run-Time in SOA Implementations For some white papers or articles you have to register, but the registration is free. ...

70 of 2041 | Video: Oracle unveils Beehive - At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle President Charles Phillips and Chuck Rozwat, the company’s executive vice president of product development, announced the release of Beehive. Beehive is an open, integrated communications system that includes instant messaging, video conferencing, and e-mail. They explained that collaboration is a snap when users have all their communications in [...] ...

71 of 2041 | ACSUG Meeting - Building SOA with Microsoft Technology, October 9th - Ulrich Roxburgh -   Auckland Connected Systems User Group   Building SOA With Microsoft Technology Ulrich Roxburgh       Ulrich Roxburgh has worked for Microsoft Consulting Services for 9 ½ years, in various capacities ranging from Senior Consultant...(read more)...

72 of 2041 | SOA & DDD For Everyone - We’re two weeks away from closing the registration for the SOA & DDD course and there’s news. I’ve been in contact with a company looking at backing nServiceBus and, at this point, they’ve decided to subsidize the course. I can’t talk about the other things that are going on just yet, but will keep you [...]...

73 of 2041 | Bartlesville .NET User Group: Service Oriented Development with Windows Communication Foundation - Here are the slides from a presentation I did for the Bartlesville .NET User Group on Service Oriented Development with Windows Communication Foundation.  These slides are a subset of a much larger presentation I do.  The slides cover the basics behind Service Oriented Architecture/Development and over view of the power behind Windows Communication Foundation.  Because of time constraints this presentation does not include all the detail and demos that the larger presentation consists of. Enjoy! ...

74 of 2041 | Bartlesville .NET User Group: Service Oriented Development with Windows Communication Foundation - Here are the slides from a presentation I did for the Bartlesville .NET User Group on Service Oriented Development with Windows Communication Foundation.  These slides are a subset of a much larger presentation I do.  The slides cover the basics behind Service Oriented Architecture/Development and over view of the power behind Windows Communication Foundation.  Because of time constraints this presentation does not include all the detail and demos that the larger presentation consists of. Enjoy! ...

75 of 2041 | Nest siste uke av Early Bird på TechEd EMEA - Vi nærmer oss siste uke av early bird-tilbudet for årets TechEd i Barcelona. Har du ennå ikke vurdert om du skal dra eller ei, bør du stikke innom TechEd-sidene og sjekke ut de 17 ulike trackene. I år er det egne spor for web- og grensesnitt, Windows Mobile, SharePoint, BI, SOA og Business Processes og ikke minst "Best of PDC", som jeg personlig vil anbefale. I tillegg kommer en hel drøss andre spennende spor og break-out sesjoner, og ikke minst hands on labs. Bland dette sammen med mulighetene for å bygge videre på nettverket ditt og du har oppskriften på en knallbra uke med verdens beste bransjekolleger. Jeg skal helt klart til Barcelona, skal du? Meld deg på før 26 september, så sparer ......

76 of 2041 | What is an Architecture Style? - Recently, I have had discussions with folks at Microsoft about Architecture Styles. This term has been used in the IT industry for a very long time. I think the earliest reference was in the early 80's. But that is neither here, nor there in my opinion. We have been using this concept for a long time. As you can see from my graphic I used above, architecture styles are also used in the other architecture field as well. I think this provides us with a great way of relating what that means to our field. So what is this term, Architecture Style? It's a bit difficult to answer this as there really isn't a full definition for this term. It's a lot like standards such as IEEE 1471. There is ......

77 of 2041 | Interesting new (asynchronous) capability with XDS.b - Hello everyone! As some of you may have noticed already, we have recently completed moving our HealthIT content from the MSDN site http://msdn.microsoft.com/health to the new Microsoft in Health Architecture & Technology site at http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/technology/default.mspx.  The old (msdn) link will become invalid sometime around February 2009.   In the meantime, it will transfer you automatically to the new microsoft.com site.    Now that we are done with this work, I can resume (or startJ) my blogging activities to update you on some of the great and exciting work we are doing at Microsoft in Health these days.   Great event!......

78 of 2041 | Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference - October 22, 2008, Austin, TX -   I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Technology Conference in Austin, TX to be held on October 22, 2008.   ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!!   Event Date & Time: October 22, 2008, 9:00 – 16:00 Central Time   Event Location Microsoft Corporation Austin Office Stonebridge Plaza, Building One 9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78759    Registration Information: Click here   About the Conference Join us for a day of developer-oriented technical sessions, featuring Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, Microsoft Silverlight 2, Windows Presentation ......

79 of 2041 | Project planning and application life cycle management - One of the most important and often overlooked things to cover in planning phase of the projects is the application life cycle (ALM) management for upcoming portal. In this context I don't mean just the lifecycle management for the customizations, rather for the full process and environments. Every single project done with SharePoint technologies (WSS/MOSS), should define the clear rules and practices to manage the process as early as possible. By setting the ground rules immediately in the planning phase of the project, you can take them into account during the technical planning of the deployment and of course also in the operational planning. Following image and table defines one exampl......

80 of 2041 | 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....

81 of 2041 | The Canadian Connected Systems Conference 2008 - Canada’s Connected Systems Road show: Can’t make it to PDC but would like to hear more about BizTalk and how it relates to broader connected systems and SOA initiatives? Please join us at one of these locations for a day. We’ll be putting out a registration...(read more)...

82 of 2041 | Software + Services - El Poder de Decisión - Desde que fue anunciada esta visión y estrategia de Microsoft, se ha debatido en diferentes foros si la opción de tener datos, autentificación, reglas/flujos de negocio y/o capacidades de computo en la nube, es una alternativa real y viable para la empresa en general y para el mercado mexicano en particular. Lo que es indudable es que estas nuevas opciones permiten tener acceso a tecnologías complejas de instalar, soportar y escalar, son ya una realidad y representan una alternativa real de agilidad, facilidad y escalabilidad para soluciones innovadoras que no necesariamente son de misión critica, pero que representan nuevos canales de difusión y captación de nuevos clientes . El que no se......

83 of 2041 | The Architecture and Integration Summit - October 30 - The Architecture and Integration Summit hosted by the University of Minnesota and the Integration Consortium is coming soon. October 29th is a pre-conference tutorial day while October 30th is the main event with keynote presentations, track presentations, a panel debate on SOA versus REST, and a cocktail reception hosted by event sponsors – all at the McNamara Alumni Center. While Roy Fielding may not have invented the World Wide Web, he is in fact one of its chief architects and is the opening keynote presenter on the topic “The Web as Integration Architecture”.  Dr. Fielding is chief scientist at Day Software and is best known for his work in developing the WWW infrastructure, definin......

84 of 2041 | More on Internet Telephony Conference on September 17 - SOA Telecom Architect , an on-line publication focused on service oriented telecommunications software, published this press release on the panel that I will be part of discussing SaaS (and CaaS).  Also participating in this panel are representatives from Jamcracker and IntelePeer .  For those less familiar with IntelePeer, this week they released their AppworX platform , which is an open CaaS platform that seamlessly delivers enhanced voice and multimedia features from within any Web or...(read more)...

85 of 2041 | 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....

86 of 2041 | Microsoft PDC 2008 : Cloud Computing, SOA et Windows 7 sont à l’honneur - La liste des sessions de la conférence Microsoft 2008 pour les développeurs et architectes est au 2/3 disponibles (Il faut bien garder quelques surprises de dernière minute pour cet évènement qui se tient tous les 2 à 3 ans, et lors duquel Microsoft présente ses investissements technologiques). Comme en témoigne le “nuage des sessions”, ce cru 2008 se concentrera sur trois thèmes : le Cloud Computing, la SOA au travers de l’initiative Oslo et Windows 7. Voilà une belle occasion pour aller faire un...(read more)...

87 of 2041 | Tech-ed 2008 is dead - Long LIVE Tech-ed 2008 ! - Tech-ed live is on-line !  In the opinion of yours truly who has been to absoluley every Tech-ed ever in New Zealand this years event was another success. For sure one may refelect that last years Tech-Fest was better than the year befores etc but on balance the event continues to grow in popularity and stature. This year sees the introduction of Tech-ed live which makes it easier to access presentation recordings and other materials. Tech-ed Live - content from Tech-ed including access to session notes etc ; See http://www.microsoft.com/nz/teched08/live.aspx Tech-ed live architecture track - Details on the architecture track, sessions and exclusive interviews (most less tha 10 minu......

88 of 2041 | Next UK SOA/BPM user group meeting - The next UK SOA BPM user group meeting is scheduled for the October 14th in London; check out the details in Mike's blog. ...

89 of 2041 | 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......

90 of 2041 | bloggersguides.net - När jag arbetade som konsult och började kika på BizTalk (2003/2004) fanns det sparsamt med dokumentation och information om plattformen (2004:an var ju i princip en helt ny plattform jämfört med BizTalk 2000). Alan Smith, engelskättad BizTalk MVP bosatt i Sverige, var en av de räddande änglar som hjälpte mig genom att publicera sin eminenta "Bloggers guide to BizTalk" - som samlade de allra bästa blogg-postningarna om BizTalk sammanställda i en smidig hjälp-fil. Nu har Alan precis publicerat en ny portal - http://bloggersguides.net/ - där han förutom Bloggers guide to BizTalk även kommer samla information om 'Oslo' - Microsofts framtida SOA-plattform som kommer annonseras stort på PDC. ......

91 of 2041 | SOA/BPM User Group Meeting - The next session of the SOA/BPM User Group has been arranged, we are still finalising content but the event registration is now available. If you would like to see the details or sign up refer to the following url: http://sbug.org.uk/forums/p/68/99.aspx#99   ...

92 of 2041 | UK BizTalk Events - Microsoft have asked us to advertise the following events to members of the UK SOA/BPM User Group BizTalk RFID – Connecting the Edge to Enterprise – 29th October 2008 SOA & BPM Vision Briefing – 23rd Sept 2008 ...

93 of 2041 | Europeans Explore Security Challenges and Solutions at OASIS Open Standards Forum - Event to Feature Special Workshop on SOA and Telecommunications...

94 of 2041 | BizTalk: Patterns: discussion "BizTalk, From Hub/Spoke to ESB" - There is an interesting discussion "BizTalk, From Hub/Spoke to ESB" in the MSDN BizTalk forum: [http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3478379&SiteID=1] ...

95 of 2041 | 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....

96 of 2041 | Schedule Announced for Conference & Workshops on SOA, SaaS, Virtualisation & ECM - Saltmarch Media Announces Schedule for Business Technology Summit 2008<br><br>IBM and WebEx Sponsors at Business Technology Summit. Early Bird ...

97 of 2041 | Au Revoir August - eek! In case this is your first time here, welcome! I'm looking forward to a great September. Here's what I blabbed about in August. See you soon! Happy Facebook Friday - want more or less? IE8 Beta2 4U Calling All Data Landlords Mile High Silverlight Yes, that's right, I'm 100% Synthy! Birth of ADO.NET Data Services Windows HPC Server 2008 - Just Add SOA Innovation and the Right Passion - Cat Stories Part 3 SQL CAT - Cat Stories Part 2 Silverlight DeepZoom - Cat Stories Part 1 SEE and Sustain Presentation Zen and the Empire Strikes Back Evil Laughter and MSDN Search Huh? E7? Windows 7? Future Health Vision Video - now available in download S......

98 of 2041 | Engineer accidentally deletes cloud - We’ve all done it – that’s what the recycle bin is for right? But deleting a whole “cloud”? You have to hand it to The Register for their headlines alone - Engineer accidentally deletes cloud. To be fair to XCalibre they held their hands up and admitted the mistake which some of the larger cloud computing players can learn from – transparency is going to be crucial to build the reputation of the cloud as a way to do business. As are lots of data centers! On the former, credit to Google for doing as they said they would given recent Google Apps downtime – giving SLA credits. Whether that is what customers want is another question but in the transparency front, they also promised to crea......

99 of 2041 | A Virtude e o Meio - Existem notícias recorrentes de que boa parte dos projetos de SOA falham. Falham por não gerarem o retorno esperado, falham por excesso de complexidade ou simplesmente não chegam ao fim. SOA parece ser o nome de mais uma síndrome da bala de prata – a solução de todos os problemas. Vi isto acontecer com a Orientação a Objetos. Em 96, a empresa de informática que não estivesse usando OO não tinha futuro. Não havia profissionais com experiência...(read more)...

100 of 2041 | DNJ Interview with Solidsoft CTO Andy James - Ok, ok, so he's my boss ;-) Still, it's a good article about BizTalk and SOA from someone who's been about, if you know what I mean ;-)DNJ Interview Link...