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Almost a year ago, we released the first edition of our free WS-* only version of LISA, in LISA WS-Testing. Now as we near 10,000 downloads, we wanted to know how teams are progressing in their adop...
SOA is an architecture, Agile is a methodology. One describes how we organize our resources, the later describes practices to use our resources to achieve our goals. Asking if SOA and Agile are compat...
The biggest difference between web services testing and full SOA testing is the concept of testing implementation and side-effects as opposed to just the middleware layer....
Continuous SOA Lifecycle Quality testing to prove functional integrity has huge returns for the business...
Technologies that are designed for SOA have been around for several years and are ready for prime time. For those of you driving toward SOA, the 2nd phase of SOA will provide your "car"....
While SOA offers several benefits, many SOA implementations are designed in a way that can impede performance. By designing a SOA with performance in mind, you can combine the flexibility and reuse th...
Rogue Wave Software's VP of Product Development, Patrick Leonard, discusses the role of an ESB within an Service Oriented Architecture....
I?ve never believed in the one-size fits all argument; REST has simplicity/manageability to offer in certain circumstances and WS-* works better in others....
Key features include support for ageneral notification framework, data transformations, durable object repository and high performance. Built on JBossAS 4.0.4 and EJB3....
Is SOA and BPM a marriage made in heaven or are they at cross purposes....
When asked to define SOA in front of IT savvy business people, what do you say?...
What ever happened to ?Binary XML?? Is the Fast Web Services initiative going to bring solace?...
A review of what technology is available to attach non-text data in SOAP messages....
The summer vacation season is upon us (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and thus, time for casual, light reading - SOA-style, of course....
Roundup of the main Web services announcements from JavaOne 2006, including project Tango, now officially known as Web Services Interoperability Technology....
The viral nature of gossip has taken hold of SOA 2.0 and run with it. There are more and morearticlescomingoutevery day, or so it seems....
Web 2.0 has almost many critics as SOA. Is all this Web 2.0 talk the blather of ?architecture astronautics,? or something of more importance to enterprises? futures? Some say Web 2.0 is actually all a...
The discussion about the difference between interoperability and portability isn't new by any means, and neither is it a Microsoft versus everyone else argument: J2EE and CORBA both suffer too....
Let the debate begin! John Hagel sums it up this way: SOA evangelists ?tend to dismiss Web 2.0 technologies as light-weight 'toys' not suitable for the 'real' work of enterprises.? Web 2.0 champions,...
Yes, yes, SOA will bring significant savings, efficiencies, and business opportunities if implemented properly. But who?s going to put up the money to get it all started?...
XML penetration in our organizations is about to accelerate dramatically ? and not under our direct control....
With the $350-million acquisition of application server provider JBoss by open-source platform vendor Red Hat, we'll see the rise of the first OSS-SOA powerhouse in the market. Will this usher in a ne...
What does a six-year SOA veteran see as the greatest challenge to service-orienting an enterprise? Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with immature standards, organizational politics, or spaghetti arc...
The ?Must Ignore Unknown? model works very well when the software doing the 'ignoring' is the last piece of software looking at the data. What if there are other applications to follow?...
Governance needs to involve the entire business. However, opening up the process too hastily is like inviting the passengers in a 747 to contribute their life experience and wisdom to help fly the pla...
I've been following an interesting industry discourse on a puzzling statement coming from a Gartner analyst, who now claims that Web services isn?t always the best fit for an enterprise service-orient...
We look at the five stages of SOA evolution, from a gleam in someone?s eye to SOA Nirvana....
Business value and governance are the dominant themes at this year?s gathering of top Web services and SOA deployers in financial services....
As we speed through the security industry?s gala ball?this week?s RSA Conference in San Jose?it?s clear that privacy and identity management are getting more attention than ever....
SOA needs enterprise information management. Enterprise information management needs SOA....
For many years, SOAP has promised that it is a "one-way" protocol. This statement somehow magically seems to want to differentiate SOAP from HTTP's request-response. To date, we haven't fu...
Think you have a carefully planned migration to XML and Web Services? Don?t look now, but XML is about to start coming in from unexpected sources....
Many SOA projects have moved from pilot to production, as the concept became mainstream for CIOs and enterprise architects. The biggest question has shifted from 'How do I make one?' to 'What is the b...
Two events happened recently that got me thinking that we do stand at a crossroads in the evolution of Web Services: firstly, the OASIS WS-Context specification has passed its final vote on the road t...
Online marketplaces will help bring service consumers and publishers together; this could have enormous ramifications for the way we build systems and manage our organizations....
I haven't seen any formal definition of SOA and I don't think there is any. As there is no (afaik) formal definition of the term 'enterprise architecture'....
Not every SOA project is going to be pretty, and some may even be weird. But in the end, it's up to end-user companies to decide what their SOA will look like....
In the SOA archipelago, team members are interdependent upon one another. But most enterprise efforts still lack a common, shared vision toward SOA. New tools promise to bridge what have been until no...
While no clear boundaries exist, service-oriented architecture and component-based architectures are two different animals that address very different problems....
SOA is clearly The Next Big Thing, but many companies run the risk of jumping into the approach without looking at where they are leaping. Here is a list of some of the most common pitfalls that could...
If any SOA-based solution degenerates into coded frameworks, the approach will be deemed to fail. In the interests of avoiding this scenario, it is essential to understand the various forms of mediati...
The most important letter in the ESB acronym is the "S". Customers are buying ESBs because they are interested in rolling out Service-Oriented Architectures. They are not rolling out "E...
The great astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle once observed that it's unlikely that a tornado passing through a junkyard would ever assemble a 747. The same holds true for Web services gelling into SOAs. It's g...
In a curious inversion of normal IT industry practice, we are watching with amusement as various vendors skirmish about who, exactly, first 'invented' the ESB....
Mediation is the most important attribute any ESB or SOA implementation and failure to address it results in excessive code, a lack of flexibility, and heightened risk of project failure. I discuss ho...
In the past, applications were "built to last", nowadays, it is more important that they are "built to change". I discuss why using services to enable rapid change is probably the ...
There?s been an interesting discussion going on about the performance of SOAP and the advantages of a binary protocol have in that situation over XML and HTTP. I agree with both sides to a degree, but...
Sometimes you can read too much into an event in the software industry. So, at the risk of doing exactly that, I thought it might be fun to comment on Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond....
The Java Business Integration (JBI) standard provides the core standards required to build SOA-based integration server software. I believe, that JBI is the only way forward, and it should be watched ...
In this weblog, I look at how two companies, Guided Intelligence and Saint-Gobain Calmar, are addressing the challenges of information integration by utilising a new breed of less complex, easier to i...
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