SOA Upends Development Traditions
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Users have learned the biggest obstacle to service-oriented architecture is to break down old development paradigms and to educate people on the new methodology.
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Mashups and SOA are part of the same continuum that links the new Web 2.0 components with business information and services.  Mashups provide a quick and easy way to solve many of today's simple business problems.
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InfoWorld - Hoping to speed acceptance of its service-oriented architecture initiative, IBM at last has rolled out a new service to help corporate users shape their projects to better fit their business goals.
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BEA Systems with its upcoming Diamond application deployment platform envisions an IT person taking on the new role of âapplication configuratorâ in SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
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InfoWorld - In recent months, the&#160;acquisition of SOA player webMethods&#160;has been the dominant news coming out of Software AG, but the middleware company also continues to hone its mainframe software and strategy.
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Company's infrastructure software will be optimized to promote services-oriented architectures.
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Learn about the two crucial technologies -- missing from most SOA platforms -- needed for successful SOA implementations.
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Scoffing at reports alleging the adoption of SOA is slowing, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said this week that moving to SOA is a slow process but one that presents an opportunity for Oracle.Speaking on Oracle's earnings conference call Wednesday, Ellison said he had read news articles about the slowing adoption of SOA. But he stressed that SOA requires a change in architecture, which takes time to implement."While I've read [these articles], people have to understand when you have a fundamentally new computer software architecture, SOA, it takes a long time for adoption," Ellison said. Moving to SOA is not as easy as flipping a switch, he said."It takes about 10 to 20 years before [you can] rewrite all of your applications," he said. But Oracle sees this process accelerating in its middleware business."We think it's a long-term growth story, it's a very rapid growth story," said Ellison. "It takes a long time for our customers to have a majority of their applications modernized and we think this is a growth story for a decade for us," he said.For the quarter ending November 30, Oracle reported revenues of $5.3 billion, a 28 percent increase over the $4.16 billion reported for the same quarter last year. Net income was $1.3 billion, a 35 percent increase over the $967 million reported for the same time period in 2006.
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InfoWorld - IBM's global services organization is adding "health check" services to its repertoire of technical services for SOA deployments, looking to assist users dealing with issues resulting from poor planning or partnerships with inexperienced or so-called proprietary IT vendors.
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InfoWorld - The Eclipse Foundation with its Swordfish project is developing an open source SOA framework intended for applications ranging from enterprise environments to embedded systems.
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Survey says business just doesn't 'get' it Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the subject de jour with IT vendors, who have been using the term as if the concept has been totally understood by the buying audience and is well along the way to general implementation.â¦
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IBM&#39;s Global Services division has created a practice to help customers with Web services management tools scale to larger service-oriented architectures (SOA).
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With the flexibility to keep IT and business in close alignment, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the foundation of an agile IT infrastructure. How does the SOA vision make tactical change easier? What are your options for deploying an enterprise SOA now? Who has succeeded and what was achieved? Join this 3-Part webinar series to learn about SOA, understand the requirements for an enterprise service bus (ESB), and understand how customers are benefiting from operational SOAs today.
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Mainframe systems are playing a key role in many SOA (service-oriented architecture) projects, according to a study released this week by IBM user group SHARE.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems and global management consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture are expanding their existing relationship to cover joint development work around identity-enabling, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and composite applications. The two companies announced Wednesday at Sun's product launch in New York that the first fruit of this collaboration will be the establishment of an Accenture Innovation Center for Sun Solutions. The center will employ engineers from both companies to develop identity-enabled SOA offerings based on Sun's infrastructure software and its Solaris operating system. Joint teams of Sun and Accenture developers will focus on coming up with custom services for individual customers as well as work on repeatable offerings suitable for all of the vendors' users. Over recent years, Sun has been placing greater stress on its identity management offerings. On Monday, at the Digital ID World conference in Santa Clara, California, Sun unveiled its Java System Identity Manager 7.0 software suite, due to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, which will combine user provisioning with identity auditing. User provisioning is the process to set up, update and remove user access across systems and applications, while identity auditing analyzes IT systems for any identity control violations and alerts compliance officers of the violations. Accenture in July committed to a three-year, $450 million SOA initiative, which will include building a new research laboratory and developing SOA applications for specific industries. The Accenture Technology Lab for SOA Innovation will initially concentrate on meeting the SOA needs of health-care companies as regards an electronic prescription project. Sun and Accenture plan to work together on enabling technologies and offerings for particular markets. They're developing on how best to provide secure access to a company's IT system for a wide range of users including a firm's employees, its partners and customers. The two vendors will also collaborate on ways to simplify and speed the delivery of SOA-focused secure, composite applications built on Sun technologies to users. Sun and Accenture have also created an executive team to look at what other potential areas the two companies might work together on in future.
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(InfoWorld) - BEA jumped ahead of the pack last week, announcing the industryâs first native SOA platform, SOA 360. But the company left enough unanswered questions about the new platform to prompt one analyst to say thereâs still much explaining to do. SOA 360 spans three BEA product families: Tuxedo, WebLogic, and AquaLogic and providesÂ  a âunifying methodologyâ for modeling, creating, developing, and deploying an SOA application using all of BEAâs SOA products, said Rob Levy, executive vice president and CTO of BEA. SOA 360 features a collaborative tooling environment, called WorkSpace 360, and a common software architecture, dubbed mSA (microServices Architecture), that is based on SOA and the concept of a services network. âI think the industry is looking for an approach to SOA that is different,âÂ  CEO Alfred Chuang said, noting that BEA wants to approach SOA with a process, not just a product. WorkSpace 360 allows users with different roles â such as business analyst, enterprise architect, and developer â to collaborate. mSA is an event-driven architecture that uses notification services to publish and discover modular components or âmicroServices.â mSA will use industry protocols and standards such as OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative), SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, WS-Security, and SAML and will deliver backplane components, application frameworks, as well as activity, presentation, and infrastructure services. BEA wants all its products to use mSA by the end of 2008. BEA revealed in March that it would make its WebLogic Server application server modular. The company now believes this approach can work for all its products, said Bill Roth, vice president of the BEA tools unit. âModularization will be a key design point for us, and ultimately [mSA] will have an effect across all of our products,â Roth said. But Shawn Willett, principal analyst at Current Analysis, found BEAâs presentations âvagueâ about details such as what makes something mSA-enabled.Â  âThereâs just too many unanswered questions right now,â Willett said.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Firm's new consulting service supports services-oriented architecture, an emerging software-development model.