SOA

Building Architecture For SOA Policy Management

ITworld staff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:12:09 -0400

Even though certain products have "policy management" in their names, getting your infrastructure set for SOA policy should start not by evaluating products, but rather by understanding the major functions required for effective policy management and how they work together.

SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization

ITworld staff — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:47:53 -0400

The Policy Centralization pattern advocates that we keep a reusable policy in a single definition and have service contracts to which the policy applies, link to and share this definition.

Research: SOA governance duplicates costs for IT companies

ITworld staff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:31:47 -0400

The treatment of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) as a special case confined to elite architects and developers duplicates costs for IT companies, new research data from consulting firm Ovum reveals.

Oracle set to release long-awaited Fusion Middleware 11g

ITworld staff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:33:03 -0400

Oracle is planning to finally release its long-simmering Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio during a July 1 launch event in Washington, D.C.

Con-way adopts agile development, aided by SOA

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:55:02 -0400

In 2008, Jacquelyn Barretta led the adoption of agile development practices across the IT organization at transportation firm Con-way to bring IT development closer to the business and to better understand the voice of the customer.

MuleSource decides to bypass a 'check box' feature in its next-gen product

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:38:06 -0400

One of the biggest decisions MuleSource CTO Ross Mason faced in 2008 was whether to include UDDI support in the initial releases of its Mule Galaxy SOA registry. Although Mason remained confident that the world was moving away from UDDI, it is often a "check box feature" in the RFPs of organizations looking to adopt an SOA governance tool. So he gambled and instead chose to make a stand that this software category required a new, simpler architecture (namely, REST)

The next wave of SaaS

ITworld staff — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:51:44 -0400

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has gone from a curiosity to the mainstream in just a few years as businesses turn to the technology to take advantage of the inherent economies of scale. Yet that's only the beginning.

SaaS vendors need to get a clue about APIs

ITworld staff — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:02:19 -0400

One big obstacle to SaaS vendors getting their applications adopted more widely is that so many of them don't offer open APIs.

SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema

ITworld staff — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:26:39 -0400

Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that spark as much debate.

SOA Security: How Irish Luck Went a Long Way

ITworld staff — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:53:42 -0400

The EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largest financial services companies, wanted SOA for its ability to quickly model (and change) business processes. And it was IT Head David Yeates' responsibility to secure the resulting architecture. Here, he explains the process his company took to achieve secure SOA.