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.
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.
This site is trying to become the online hub for Web Services and SOA activity.
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 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.
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Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
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.
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.
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.
As technical jobs move offshore, developers should seek out those projects most closely bound to business processes.
Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.
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.
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."