SOA

2001 of 2059 | Tutorial: Build SOA with Web services using WebSphere Studio, Part 3 - Part 3 of this tutorial series focuses on two DVD rental companies` interfaces and Web services implementations. It also covers how to create their WSDL service descriptors and connect the service to an aggregator service. You`ll also examine the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and learn how to scale this model for future versions....

2002 of 2059 | Use SLAs in a Web Services context, Part 5: Firewall Web services with a SLA guarantee - In Part 5 of this series, Judith M. Myerson explains how you can centralize your firewall administration to better control and monitor firewalls for multiple Web services and the associated services and applications in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). She also explains why you need to set up adequate firewalls for multiple Web services to protect against the malicious traffic that can enter the firewall and adversely impact guarantees specified in a service-level agreement (SLA)....

2003 of 2059 | Wisconsin Chooses Cape Clear Software`s ESB for State-Wide IT Integration - The ESB is being used to integrate a wide variety of applications, systems, and data across the state to reduce IT costs while, at the same time, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the state`s IT infrastructure....

2004 of 2059 | dev2dev Live: Apache Beehive - This interview discusses what Beehive consists of, how developers can use it, building controls and page flows, as well as other open source efforts such as XMLBeans....

2005 of 2059 | dev2dev Live: Web Services Interoperability - This interview reviews the history leading up to Web Services, gets to grip with SOA, and discusses real world interop scenarios, Web Service specifications that matter and more practical advice....

2006 of 2059 | Forum Systems, nCipher and Oblix to Demo Blueprint for Secure Enterprise SOA Infrastructure at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco - Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2004Forum Systems: XML Web Services Business Scenario Leverages Identity and Access Management, Web Security Management and Hardened Cryptographic Processing for a Best Practices Infrastructure to Protect Service Oriented ArchitecturesSAN FRANCISCO----Dec. 6, 2004-- Forum Systems, nCipher plc (LSE:NCH) and Oblix today announced that they will demonstrate best practices for protecting enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) at Oracle(R) OpenWorld San Francisco, running December 5-9, 2004 at the Moscone Center. Oracle has recognized these three companies for participation to highlight their technologies in the Protected Enterprise and Identity Managemen......

2007 of 2059 | Web Services Expert Tim Ewald has Joined Mindreef - Tim Ewald, formly of Microsoft, will focus on helping customers understand the requirements and processes for delivering reliable, scalable Web services and SOAs. "My experience has taught me that, though Web services and SOA offer tremendous promise, they also introduce increased complexity and the potential for serious communication issues"....

2008 of 2059 | Web Services Version Mania - This past week I attended Oracle`s Developer Days in New Jersey. The sessions basically covered Oracle`s pitch on SOA - although, unsurprisingly, after an initial high level SOA level-set, it seemed to focus more on the presentation, business and persistence......

2009 of 2059 | Heartland Developer`s Conference was a Blast! - Speaking and being at the Heartland Developer`s Conference was an absolute blast! As Rocky said, Joe Olsen, Kent, and the other organizers should be proud and for a V1.0 product have outdone themselves. They sold out at 150 people in less than 3 weeks. I want to first thank Joe Olsen and Omaha.NET for sponsoring me through INETA. These folks were super and any INETA speaker should be nothing but proud to go out and speak for these folks and the other fine Midwest user groups. I already alluded to the super 2 and 1/2 hour conversation I had with fellow INETA Speaker Rocky Lhotka that was a peak experience for me and apparently scared some folks-) Rocky is so smart and I just had one of thos......

2010 of 2059 | Insurance that SOA works - The Hartford Financial Services Group created an SOA-based reference architecture using a UDDI registry to simplify application component reuse.Insurance and security may be what The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. offers its customers worldwide. But it`s also what the investment and insurance provider`s application delivery group was looking for when it created an SOA-based reference architecture using a UDDI registry so that the company`s four lines of business could leverage the same applications....

2011 of 2059 | Systinet Unveils First Business Services Registry for SOA - Latest Version of Proven Systinet Registry Provides the Standards-Based Foundation for SOA Governance and Lifecycle ManagementCAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 15, 2004 ? Systinet, the provider of the leading foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced the release of Systinet Registry 5.5, the industry`s most complete and proven Business Services Registry. The Business Services Registry is the centerpiece of Systinet`s foundation for governance and lifecycle management within a service-oriented architecture (SOA)....

2012 of 2059 | Talking with Rocky at HDC - I had a great first night here at HDC in Des Moines hooking up with Kent Tegels, Robert, Adam, Rocky, Matt, Jeff and others for our reception. We of course beeing geeks set up the obligatory wireless network in Kent`s hotel room. I had a fascinating 2 and 1/2 hour free-ranging conversation with Rocky which started with SOA and went everywhere else. I don`t want to give it away for attendees who will have the keynote in an hour and 1/2 from now but lets just say that he is skepetical on SOA. Rocky and I both (in technology) go back to the DEC VAX/VMS days, myself having spent 6 years at Digital in the 80`s and we had a great conversation on SOA and .NET coming back to some of the ways of VMS......

2013 of 2059 | Some misc Web services and SO design & programming resources - Just for my reference (at least): Web services programming tips and tricks: Learn simple, practical Web services design patterns, Part 1  Web services programming tips and tricks: Learn simple, practical Web services design patterns, Part 2  Web services programming tips and tricks: Simple, practical Web service design patterns, Part 3 Patterns and Strategies for Building Document-Based Web Services Business Process Execution Language for Web Services - Free Online Book Edition Worth to mention that none of the above articles comes from MS or related folks... Those links point to some excellent meterial on all things messaging and message-oriented thining and design - from MSDN`s .NET Arch......

2014 of 2059 | Tutorial: Build SOA with Web services using WebSphere Studio, Part 2: Create a Web service from a Java class - Learn how to create a Web service that provides a DVD rental service and a client for that service. This tutorial shows you how to create a Web service from a Java class using WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition. The next two tutorials will cover two DVD rental services and a rental service search aggregator service....

2015 of 2059 | Web Services: the Right Way to Implement a Service-Oriented Architecture - SOA, as an architectural approach, has been driving the development of IT solutions for some time. Enterprises are using CORBA, J2EE and MOM, among other technologies and standards, to build SOA. In this white paper, we will answer the question of how an SOA based on Web services differs from these approaches, and we will review the primary advantages of a Web services-based SOA....

2016 of 2059 | Why ESB Requires Distributed Architectures - As the integration industry scrambles to board the ESB bandwagon, definitions in the area become flexible ? in many cases stretched to meet the needs of whatever a particular vendor happens to be selling. This is perfectly natural, but it does necessitate a certain amount of scepticism when evaluating these products or ?solutions?....

2017 of 2059 | Why ESB Requires Distributed Architectures - As the integration industry scrambles to board the ESB bandwagon, definitions in the area become flexible ? in many cases stretched to meet the needs of whatever a particular vendor happens to be selling. This is perfectly natural, but it does necessitate a certain amount of scepticism when evaluating these products or ?solutions?....

2018 of 2059 | Why ESB Requires Distributed Architectures - As the integration industry scrambles to board the ESB bandwagon, definitions in the area become flexible ? in many cases stretched to meet the needs of whatever a particular vendor happens to be selling. This is perfectly natural, but it does necessitate a certain amount of scepticism when evaluating these products or ?solutions?....

2019 of 2059 | Actional Corporation Announces the Initial Release of the Actional SOA Command and Control Platform - The Actional SOA Command and Control Platform provides organizations with a set of solutions for securing, deploying, monitoring and managing Web services and SOAs, all within a unified, yet open framework....

2020 of 2059 | BEA Announces Open-Source Milestones for Apache Beehive - The purpose of the Beehive programming model is to provide ease-of-use for Java developers. "Beehive combines the ease of use of Java Beans with Java meta data, to make it easy for developers to take their Java Beans and talk to Web services and create Web applications," said Conaty....

2021 of 2059 | Cory Isaacson Predicts SOA Performance Crisis - Cory Isaacson, president of Rogue Wave, says our current Web services infrastructure won?t support our bloated messaging system too much longer ? and intends to do something about it...

2022 of 2059 | PolarLake Announces Forthcoming Support for Distributed Deployment and Non-XML Enterprise Data Formats - PolarLake Integration Suite Version 5.0, a major release scheduled for Q2 2005, will provide support for deploying SOA and ESB solutions across the entire enterprise, enabling them to "evolve and control such deployments through multiple simultaneous project lifecycles without sacrificing flexibility". Supported formats will include binary data, common text formats, Excel, OAG BOD, ANSI X12 EDI, UN/EDIFACT EDI, FIX and HIPAA....

2023 of 2059 | The Daily Grind 490 - There was a time when I would have thought a laptop with 512MB of RAM was enough for any project I`d ever work on. Software Photo Story 3 - This new freebie from Microsoft is designed to build spiffy .WMV slideshows from your still digital photos. What most of the happy blog coverage isn`t mentioning is that you need to be running Windows XP and go through the "Windows Genuine Advantage validation" process to get a copy. I have no interest in letting Microsoft download another ActiveX control to my machine on the theory that all of their customers are crooks, so I won`t be getting a copy myself. MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready - Subqueries are amo......

2024 of 2059 | Tutorial: Build SOA with Web services using WebSphere Studio, Part 2: Create a Web service from a Java class - Learn how to create a Web service that provides a DVD rental service and a client for that service. This tutorial shows you how to create a Web service from a Java class using WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition. The next two tutorials will cover two DVD rental services and a rental service search aggregator service....

2025 of 2059 | Tutorial: Introduction to WSDL and UDDI publishing using WSADIE 5.1 - In this tutorial we will be investigating the two DVD rental companies interfaces and Web services implementations. We will then create their WSDL service desriptors and create a connect this service to our aggregator service. Then we will publish our aggregator service interface to UDDI for use in our next tutorial. We will also examine our SOA and how this model might be scaled for future versions....

2026 of 2059 | BUS STOP - Loosely Coupled on ESB: "Enterprise service bus, the buzzword that`s enjoying the peak of its hype cycle just now, is about to become obsolete." I wish so. People should finally realize that ESB is a dinosaur. This dinosaur provides EAI-type functionality to web services. However, web services do not need this offering as they have it already built in. Recently,......

2027 of 2059 | Giving WSDL 2.0 a whooping - I have noticed Rich Salz`s absence for a rather long time and he comes back to give WSDL 2.0 a kick in the head. Looks like I have to reserve my comments until I read through those specs. Frankly though, I am rather disappointed with the handling of the later XML Services Specs by W3C and this is not just the beef I have to pick with W3C. W3C`s definition of SOA goes like this: “A set of components which can be invoked and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered” Hell, why not they just say its XML Web Services This is just a plain crappy, poorly thought of definition. And it contributes to all the market mis-definitions......

2028 of 2059 | Giving WSDL 2.0 a whooping - I have noticed Rich Salz`s absence for a rather long time and he comes back to give WSDL 2.0 a kick in the head. Looks like I have to reserve my comments until I read through those specs. Frankly though, I am rather disappointed with the handling of the later XML Services Specs by W3C and this is not just the beef I have to pick with W3C. W3C`s definition of SOA goes like this: “A set of components which can be invoked and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered” Hell, why not they just say its XML Web Services This is just a plain crappy, poorly thought of definition. And it contributes to all the market mis-definitions......

2029 of 2059 | DataPower Experiences Significant New Growth for its Web Services Security, XML-Aware Networking Solutions - DataPower?s high-end network devices for Web services security, XML acceleration and SOA enablement attract new customers such as JPMorgan Chase Bank, Pfizer, CIBC, Cendant and more.....

2030 of 2059 | SOA, XML soothe integration worries - Experts at this week`s XML Conference 2004 relay how XML and service-oriented architecture solves critical integration challenges.WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Michael Hu is no Scotland Yard inspector. But his problem-solving skills may just be on par with any of the United Kingdom`s finest detectives....

2031 of 2059 | Users and Vendors Demonstrate Support for UDDI OASIS Standard at Gartner Web Services Summit - ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA; 17 NOVEMBER 2004--Implementations and interoperability of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) OASIS Standard were featured at today`s Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit. Representatives from The Hartford and Charles Schwab each presented details on their company`s implementation of UDDI registries as core foundation components of their Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Then, members of the OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee staged a live demo incorporating UDDI product offerings from IBM, Oracle, SAP, Systinet, and others in a business scenario....

2032 of 2059 | Two Compact Framework Items of Note - Two CF items of note via Jonathan Wells: Arif Kureshy, has written a very interesting article on the topic, "Architecting Disconnected Mobile Applications Using a Service Oriented Architecture", read it here. Video: Craig Neable talks about the new features in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Watch the video...

2033 of 2059 | Kiss your favourite XML editor bye bye! (and welcome Domain Specific Languages designers!) - With the advent of XML, each and every piece of software is configurable with it, from Virtual PC to IIS to log4net to Shadowfax and all the Application Blocks released from PAG ... you name it. If you think about it, however, it`s quite easy to realize that what those XML files are actually, is nothing more than a text-based representation of the concepts in the particular domain of the tool/app. So, log4net has the concepts of Appenders, Filters, Object Formatters, and so on, while Shadowfax (as most SOA frameworks) has the concepts of Pipeline, Handler, Service Action, and so on. Therefore, XML is just a means to express the particular layout/behavior you want these tools/frameworks to......

2034 of 2059 | David Chappell on why SOA will help business-oriented software reuse - In a recent Opinari email (I can't find it on his website), David Chappell defends his belief reuse is one the fundamental benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture and that SOA will be more successful than previous approaches such as object-oriented or component-oriented development.  His rationale is that services operate at a higher level of reuse than binary classes, and they solve many of the human problems that prevent reuse, such as having to have one single view of business entities and forcing reuse through 'draconian' human policies. Here's my summary of his three major arguments: Service orientation will lead to better reuse of business-oriented sof......

2035 of 2059 | Bottom-up SOA Just Gets You the ?A? - Many are comparing notes on two well publicised paths to achieving SOA. The bottom-up approach is currently the most common variety, where Web services are created on an ?as need? basis to fulfill mostly integration-related requirements....

2036 of 2059 | Bottom-up SOA Just Gets You the ?A? - Many are comparing notes on two well publicised paths to achieving SOA. The bottom-up approach is currently the most common variety, where Web services are created on an ?as need? basis to fulfill mostly integration-related requirements....

2037 of 2059 | Bottom-up SOA Just Gets You the ?A? - Many are comparing notes on two well publicised paths to achieving SOA. The bottom-up approach is currently the most common variety, where Web services are created on an ?as need? basis to fulfill mostly integration-related requirements....

2038 of 2059 | Fear and Loathing in airline integration, electronic tickets, and batch transfer processes. - I recently found another shining example of why overnight batch processing as a means for integrating applications is bad for business. Chapter 9 of my ESB book talks about how the latency and margin for error associated with this common business practice can be costly to a business. A recent experience really hit home for me.... ...

2039 of 2059 | I was recently quoted in e-Week - I spoke with Darryl Taft of e-Week recently about the emergence of JBI and its relevance to the ESB architecture. He did a write-up about JBI and included a quote from me in the writeup.... ...

2040 of 2059 | JSR-208 (JBI) and ESB presentation recorded live at JavaPro Live! - I recently spoke at a JavaPro Live! conference on the subject of Java Business Integration (JBI), a.k.a. JSR-208, and how it relates to the architecture of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). They recorded the session, and have it available for replay... ...

2041 of 2059 | JSR-208 (JBI) and ESB presentation recorded live at JavaPro Live! - I recently spoke at a JavaPro Live! conference on the subject of Java Business Integration (JBI), a.k.a. JSR-208, and how it relates to the architecture of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). They recorded the session, and have it available for replay... ...

2042 of 2059 | JSR-208, Java Business Integration (JBI) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) article published in Business Integration Journal (BIJ) - I recently wrote an article on the subject of JSR-208, a.k.a. Java Business Integration (JBI), and how it relates to the architecture of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)... ...

2043 of 2059 | Upcoming Talk At Austin SQL Server User Group - I`ll be speaking at CACTUSS on 10/19/04 at 5:30pm at the Microsoft Technology Center in Austin. The talk examines using XML with SQL Server 2000, SQLXML 3.0 and, if time permits, SQL Server 2005. Here are some details on the talk: XML capabilities are becoming a core requirement for many of today`s business applications. While XML has been the preferred technology for exchanging data, XML is now also becoming the technology of choice for system integration, loosely-coupled systems and service-oriented architectures. This talk examines the XML capabilities of SQL Server 2000 and the SQLXML 3.0 Web release in greater detail. SQL Server 2000 with SQLXML offers XML based CRUD functionality and......

2044 of 2059 | How SOA is changing the role of XML - The realization of service-oriented architecture through Web services is intrinsically driven by core XML technologies. The emergence of service-oriented design principles, however, is affecting how XML technologies are utilized and positioned within contemporary distributed solutions....

2045 of 2059 | Reading (in between feeds!) - For those that haven`t heard, I became a father on Monday 20th September.  Everything is going well, and I`m looking forward to spending the next few weeks getting to know my son. Although I may not be blogging as often during this time, I am hoping to catch up on some reading (in between feeding, diaper changing and sleeping of course!).  If you also have some cycles for reading, out of the Web Services related recent articles that have been released to MSDN, I thoroughly recommend this one by Felipe, Chris and Don.  "An Introduction to WSA and its specifications" covers the four tenets of SOA, core messaging and then a great overview of the specifications.  This is a great place to start ......

2046 of 2059 | Upcoming Presentations - In the last week of September, I will be giving two presentations at SQL PASS 2004 in Orlando, Florida: one on managing unstructured and semistructured data with SQL Server 2005 and one on Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SQL Server 2005. The first one will be on the new large datatypes, new features in the Full-text area and obviously the XML support. The second one will be about how to use SQL Server 2005 to build service-oriented applications using service broker, HTTP/SOAP etc. Also, in November, I will give a presentation at XML 2004 in Washington DC on XQuery in the context of relational database systems. It will provide a conceptual overview (similar to my book chapter in the......

2047 of 2059 | Ronan Bradley Talks about PolarLake`s Latest Products and Their Belief in Open Standards - Polarlake`s latest software, Version 4, has just been released, and Ronan talks about the movitations for their Products, new features in Version 4 including enhanced Business Activity Monitoring and support for the BPEL standard, plus his views on the Industry, ESB and the promulgation of standards....

2048 of 2059 | TechEd Europe: BoF Sessions - Here`s the list of all of the Birds of a Feather presentations planned for TechEd Europe.  I`m going to be talking on "Service Orientation - what does it really mean" next Thurs 1 July at 18:15, Room R.  The BoF sessions  are often the best value sessions at TechEd since they are a chance to talk with other practitioners about the practice of software development, rather than simply features of products.  It`s worth planning them into your schedule as the demand has been high and the room being used is likely to fill up. I`m going to be hosting a BoF on "Service Orientation, What does it really mean".   It will be a chance to go over the great definition deb......

2049 of 2059 | TechEd Europe: BoF Sessions - Here's the list of all of the Birds of a Feather presentations planned for TechEd Europe.  I'm going to be talking on "Service Orientation - what does it really mean" next Thurs 1 July at 18:15, Room R.  The BoF sessions  are often the best value sessions at TechEd since they are a chance to talk with other practitioners about the practice of software development, rather than simply features of products.  It's worth planning them into your schedule as the demand has been high and the room being used is likely to fill up. I'm going to be hosting a BoF on "Service Orientation, What does it really mean?".   It will be a chance to go over th......

2050 of 2059 | Answer to H. Steele Price`s post on FOR XML whitepaper - Thanks to Kent for pointing me to H. Steele Price`s posting on my FOR XML white paper. Instead of posting a local comment, I will reply here. First and foremost: Thanks for the cudos. I especially like the following quote: As my applications move more toward SOA style architectures returning XML data directly from SQL Server takes alot of the drudge work out of creating retrieve code.  Regarding an EXPLICIT mode designer: We already have some form of EXPLICIT mode designer (although it could be more user-friendly): Use XPath against annotated schemas and then read the generated query from the Profiler trace :-). Seriously, the goal is to make the EXPLICIT mode obsolete for the 98% use case.......