Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)


BEA’s New "Liquid" Service Infrastructure Strategy

BEA Systems has unveiled a new line of products for the emerging service infrastructure market, and launched a rebranding campaign to freshen its image.

Gartner Advises IT to Focus on Five Areas

If you’re wondering what your organization should invest in, Gartner’s ideas may help you decide. Gartner is encouraging IT firms to make room in their programs and budgets for five key topic areas this year: open-source software, voice/data convergence, service-oriented architecture, IT utility and global sourcing.

App Servers’ Performance Play Key Role in SOA

Interest is reaching an all-time high for service-oriented architecture, and application and integration servers will play a pivotal role in SOAs, according to a recent study by The Yankee Group.

ASG Fires Starter Gun for SOA

Enterprises vying to take advantage of the capabilities in service-oriented architecture now have another product to choose from—Allen Systems Group recently released its SOA starter kit.

HP Takes Aim at SOA via OpenView

In an effort to help enterprises comply with government regulations and join the service-oriented architecture drive, Hewlett-Packard introduced new software to its OpenView line, targeting these areas.

Enterprise Modernization: New Life for Old Apps

Sprucing up legacy apps with a new look and feel using SOA or Web services, rather than replacing them, can provide value for years to come.

A Service is Course, of Course of Course

A Quick Start Guide for Architecting Course Grained Services

Sun's Pragmatic Path to SOA

The watchword of Sun Microsystems' new specialized service-oriented architecture practice is pragmatism.

Big Changes Coming for IT, Says Gartner Analyst

Technology and organizational changes are coming in every area of IT, and they are going to have a profound impact on virtually all of the 11 million IT professionals around the world—and eventually, everyone, everywhere.

Building the Well-intentioned SOA

Infravio has released a white paper with guideless for building what it describes as an “intentional SOA.” The papers describes architectural requirements and standards for building out an SOA, including SOA design-time and runtime components.

OASIS to Develop SOA Reference Model

A core reference model to guide the creation of specific SOAs is in the works, thanks to a new committee by international standards consortium OASIS. Driven by a need for continuity across the industry, the SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) Technical Committee will strive to deliver a normative SOA reference model by the end of the year.

IBM and Lawson Team to Market Solutions for SOAs in Vertical Markets

IBM and Lawson Software announced yesterday that Lawson will optimize and standardize its business apps portfolio on IBM WebSphere--a move intended to help clients move to a J2EE compliant SOA and mitigate application complexity by reducing the source coding required. Apps and Web services will share the same data repository as clients' existing Lawson applications, enabling clients to perform only an upgrade, not a migration or new implementation, to take advantage of them, Lawson says.

New XML Developer Tools from IBM’s alphaWorks

IBM today added three arrows to its Emerging Technology Toolkit (ETTK) quiver in the form of new software aimed at developers using emerging XML standards—such as XHTML, XForms and VoiceXML—to build Web applications that tie into service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

SOA Software and Oracle Hook Up for BPEL

SOA Software said today its SOA Software's Service Manager is now integrated with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and related products. SOA Software Service Manager enables enterprise to secure, monitor and manage XML and Web services applications and components across distributed enterprises and extranets.