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.
Caseworkers for the State of Wisconsin needed to access their records, but it was hard to do with the state’s IT infrastructure. Wisconsin operates more than 30 agencies whose staff accesses applications and critical information on about 5.5 million Wisconsin residents that is housed on mainframes and servers.
Oracle recently proposed it will lead the Eclipse Foundation’s tooling project for Business Process Execution Language. BPEL helps simplify the development of service-oriented architecture applications, consequently helping to reduce cost, complexity and inflexibility of integration projects.
Doctors at the CareGroup Healthcare System were looking for a better way to
access patient information, so the Boston-area health service developed CareWeb,
an intranet system that gives physicians real-time access to patient records.
With a four-person development team spread around the world, the IT department of global medical charity organization Mercy Ships (www.mercyships.org) turned to Borland’s JBuilder 2005 and Together 2005 products to modernize its IT architecture and to take advantage of Web services and open-source systems.
The good thing about Web services is that they expose interfaces, streamline connections
and accelerate business processes. The bad thing about Web services is that they
expose interfaces, streamline connections and accelerate business processes.
Sun Microsystems has released an early developer beta of a repository/registry designed to help users locate and reuse Web services. The Sun Service Registry combines an integrated repository for storing the metadata accumulated around Web services with services lifecycle management capabilities.
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 Quick Start Guide for Architecting Course Grained Services
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.
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.
Asked to rate Web services standards according to how familiar they were, developers identified only a handful for which they had a working knowledge.
For years, Amazon.com has been the envy of Web site developers everywhere, offering up a monster search engine, a vast product catalog and buying services tailored to individual shoppers.
Tricky security requirements and a lack of clear-cut standards make exposing applications as Web services a high-wire act.