The latest round of Mindreef's Web services tool has an absolutely killer feature: the ability to package and share a debugging session with any other user.
Web services spefications have proliferated like rabbits over the last couple of
years. Most developers should just ignore the whole mess for the time being.
Seeking to position itself at the top of the heap among vendors in the emerging market for SOA management software, Digital Evolution, announced this week that it has acquired Flamenco Networks.
Steve Garone, managing partner at The AlignIT Group LLC, said there are six requirements to keep in mind when evaluating WSM products.
The convergence of directory management and provisioning, and how organizations can leverage their directory management investments to meet their provisioning needs.
There’s no shame in expressing skepticism that SOA is nirvana, but our August Cover Story does find reasons for optimism that the technology could benefit IT development and integration projects.
Are you looking for something new to gain advantage over competitors? Application integration could be your vehicle for driving new and innovative information and business processes.
Firm’s CTO said he considered the more typical SOA Web-based front end but determined that HTML and the current state of Web services technology was not up to tracking jet flights in real-time.
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) journey is entering a new phase in corporate IT shops. Experts still expect SOA to finally give IT an adequate integration solution.
Lydian Trust is a mid-sized financial services company based in Palm Beach, Fla. Although it was only founded in 1999, its services, including private banking and wealth management, had expanded by mid-2002 to the point where it had outgrown its original IT systems built on Microsoft Windows .COM. John Studdard’s job was to move to the .NET platform with a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that would allow development teams to build Web services applications without having to worry about the basic XML-based standards or architecture.
At NxTrend Technology Inc., Web services allowed the company to continue to use its established transaction engine while putting on a most “modern” face for other systems, indicated Ross Elliott, vice president and chief strategy officer at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based supply distribution software house.
Integration brokers are increasingly becoming part of application platforms from the major vendors, including IBM, Microsoft and BEA, according to analysts at the Burton Group.
Never underestimate the power of a name -- or in this case, a category. Now that the enterprise service bus (ESB) has been officially identified by IT industry watchers, life is a little easier for companies like Cape Clear Software. "Our products have always been based on ESB," Cape Clear co-founder David Clark told eADT over lunch in Palo Alto recently, "but we've had to spend a lot of time explaining ourselves to our customers. Now that [industry analysts at] Gartner have put us in the ESB category, we've got something to hang our hat on."
If SOA is going to move from "academic" to practical application, developers will need better mechanisms for managing identity issues from single-sign-on to service-level agreements, says Ian Goldsmith, VP, product marketing at Digital Evolution.
From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure.