Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


New Technologies Debut at PDC

Bill Gates led a keynote team that demonstrated new technologies in data access, Web development, and more.

Risk Management: From Adversity to Advantage

Many enterprises, and IT teams specifically, are implementing sophisticated risk-mitigation strategies that let them better understand and more effectively manage the risks they face.

SHARE: SOA Knocking on Exec Doors

Because service-oriented architecture is catching the eye of CEOs and other senior executives, mainframe pros should expect to have SOA plans ready to go.

SOA Software XML VPN Validated for IBM Tivoli

SOA Software said yesterday that IBM has validated SOA Software's XML VPN product as WS-Trust "Ready for IBM Tivoli Software." SOA Software XML VPN employs WS-Trust to integrate with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, allowing the enterprise to exchange secure B2B transactions sharing trusted, end-user identities, SOA says.

OASIS Working on SOA Blueprints

An OASIS committee has announced a project to create technical blueprints for businesses vying for a reliable way to develop applications for a service-oriented architecture.

JetBlue Adds SOA Management

JetBlue Airways plans to secure and monitor what the airline anticipates will be a growing number of Web services with the help of SOA Software’s Service Manager.

BEA Aims to Make Services a Liquid Asset

BEA Systems announced yesterday the general availability of BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0, which it says is a key component of its service infrastructure AquaLogic product family.

Cape Clear Adds More Messaging Punch to ESB

Cape Clear Software recently updated its enterprise service bus, bolstering its messaging support and adding new features to its orchestration engine.

IBM Patterns for SOA

IBM is billing the software development patterns just published on its developerWorks Web site as the first designed to assist in the creation of service-oriented architectures.

SOA Software’s “Service Virtualization”

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) takes the discrete business functions in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable services—which is one of the most effective ways to share and consume information with partners. But managing and exposing these services creates some big security risks; keeping the bad guys from connecting to those services is tricky.

BEA Tuxedo 9.0: A Platform for Extending Legacy Apps to SOA

It has been almost 22 years since AT&T’s Bell Laboratories spawned its first transaction processing monitor, technology that evolved into BEA’s Tuxedo system.

IBM’s SOA How-To Initiative for ISVs and SIs

Over the past 6 months, the number-one question IBM’s customers have asked about service-oriented architectures has shifted, says Sandy Carter, IBM’s VP of WebSphere strategy, channels and marketing, from “What is it?” to “How do I get started?”

Legacy Integration Tools Driven by SOA

In the face of Gartner figures that show the high cost of turning a Cobol programmer into an object-oriented developer, integration vendors offer a different solution. A better route, they say, is exposing the business processes in legacy applications, keeping the core of the application intact.

Rogue Rides SOA Wave

Rogue Wave Software recently introduced a new version of its LEIF framework that features app dev tools to incorporate business logic in different formats.

Registry + Repository = SOA Platform

There's a deafening buzz in service-oriented architecture around repositories, which appear to be emerging as a core component of SOA. What is actually emerging, says Miko Matsumura, is an integrated registry-repository model, which could serve as the core technology of what amounts to an SOA platform.