When IBM announced its SOA Business Catalog, it took pains to highlight a SOA-friendly kit to help developers integrate PHP application front-ends with WebSphere, but the reality is that customers can and will tap the kit in a huge variety of different scenarios.
Your goal shouldn’t be to build an SOA, but to better the business in some way. Gartner analysts spell out where to begin the process.
IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition is designed to move PHP into the heart of IBM's core SOA infrastructure.
Eight best practices to keep the user experience front and center during IT migration projects.
Data management should stand on its own as an umbrella effort driving all of IT’s efforts, because the essential task of IT is data management.
SOA Software’s ESB Federation solution, launched this week, enables unrelated ESB platforms to deploy centrally-defined policies and interoperate in a reliable, secure and high-performing messaging environment, according to the company.
Service-oriented architecture has made great strides since its inception, but still has a way to go before its benefits can be fully realized. Experts at Gartner’s Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2006, which began Monday, discuss SOA’s stumbling blocks.
Learn how you can architect a structurally sound system that will grow over time and accommodate changing requirements.
Reduce maintenance costs from security logic that is interwoven with application logic. Apply a simple design that lets you plug in a role-based access control component.
A federal regulation forced a medical center to lock down privacy, which coincidentally increased savings.
IBM and Microsoft made significant data management-related announcements last week
Vista’s arrival will shake up the $3.6 billion Windows security market. Here are the implications for IT managers.
SOA Software and Parasoft are partnering to offer an integrated governance and testing suite for service-oriented architectures that will allow end users to combine Web services management and error refactoring for SOA and Web service-based apps.
Service-oriented architectures are expected to have a stronghold over future apps but those implementing the integration process today continue to encounter uncertainties from the corporate world.
Understand the five phases of the application lifecycle, and learn which tests to perform in each of them.