Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


Whose Web service is it anyway?

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.

XML and Web Services: Are We Secure Yet?

From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure.

BEA launches SOA kick-start kit

BEA Systems is characterizing a new high-end version of its WebLogic Server -- the BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition -- as the convergence of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented application development.

Review: StrikeIron Web Services Business Network

This site is trying to become the online hub for Web Services and SOA activity.

At JavaOne: Project Kitty Hawk kicks off Sun SOA strategy

Sun Microsystems unveiled details of its plans to support Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) in its Java Enterprise System server software suite and Java Studio programming tools at last week's JavaOne conference. Enhancements to these products under "Project Kitty Hawk" will make it easier for developers to write "a new breed of enterprise software" around Java-based Web services, company officials said.

Oracle unveils native BPEL engine

Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa Inc., Oracle's new BPEL Process Manager features what the company claims is the first native BPEL "engine," or software that collects data from different applications to complete particular business processes.

Integration at the Edge

We can learn lessons from trading hubs and apply the data to IT integration. See how the ESB removes the distinction among internal and external networks for supply-chain apps.

Unifying Data, Documents and Processes

Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.

Is now the time to manage Web services?

The action is heating up, but it will take a couple of years for security and other management-related standards to gel and make their way into products.

You can't reboot the Internet, and other comments from Don Box

Don Box, one of the inventors of the XML SOAP standard, has been standing up in front of crowds of developers for years now -- educating, entertaining and even sometimes illuminating. We asked what message he wanted to carry forward to them these days. "The message is we have a new way of thinking about software that is called 'service-orientation,'" he said.

Automate Exception Logging

You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools.

Take your pick: Business processes or Bangalore

As technical jobs move offshore, developers should seek out those projects most closely bound to business processes.

User story: Raytheon on track

Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.

BEA, The Middleware Co. create SOA blueprints

BEA Systems and The Middleware Company (TMC) have jointly published a set of "blueprints" for developing and implementing applications that use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs.

At BEA eWorld: BEA's SOA vision: 'Liquid Computing'

BEA Systems' chief exec Alfred Chuang kicked off the ninth annual eWorld user conference in San Francisco this week by officially rolling out his company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, which is based on BEA's vision of a "fluid enterprise" enabled by a set of products and services collectively dubbed "Liquid Computing."