Tibco takes pop at SOA complexity
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ActiveMatrix reloaded Tibco last week announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix for service-oriented architectures (SOA). This is the industry's first âservice virtualization platformâ for the deployment and governance of composite applications based on distributed, standards-based services".â¦
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Service Component Architecture as a way to build SOA How many times lately have you come across a column on Service Oriented Architecture (or SOA)? Or an article telling you that SOA is the next big thing? Or that SOA is the way we should all be building systems?â¦
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(Source: Symantec) This white paper demonstrates how the Symantec APM solution helps organizations keep SOA applications running at peak performance to improve interactions and enhance business agility, flexibility and productivity.
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SOA Express offers a way to move to SOA by  converting code from existing services.
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A new, independent research report named IBM (NYSE: IBM) as a strong performer in service oriented architecture (SOA). The Forrester Wave(TM): North American SOA Integration, Q3 2006, September 2006 examined IBM Global Services' current SOA offerings, SOA strategy and market presence.
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Tibco Software is shipping its ActiveMatrix 2.0 platform Monday for managing SOA, featuring an Eclipse-based development environment and an enterprise service bus.The platform offers expanded capabilities for integration, composite application development, and governance, Tibco said. Users can build and manage SOA applications, supporting technologies such as Java, .Net, and service mediation. Applications can be built that combine services developed with disparate technologies and manage them via a single infrastructure, Tibco said."This is a comprehensive platform for companies wanting to roll out enterprise-scale and enterprise-grade SOA," said Matt Quinn, vice president of product management and strategy at Tibco.The platform features several components, including ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, for integration, and ActiveMatrix Service Grid, for assembling services. New to the platform is ActiveMatrix Service Bus, for on-ramping services and implementing content or context-based routing.A common environment based on the Eclipse platform is provided for business analysts, architects, and developers for development and management.ActiveMatrix covers a spectrum of capabilities ranging from service virtualization, with developers able to build services in a tool of their choice, to governance and integration. With ActiveMatrix 2.0, Tibco seeks to help users manage large-scale SOA rollouts with a single platform. Much of the technical coding involved in service creation and deployment is replaced with configuration.Governance and management capabilities enable administrators to deploy applications and apply policies from a single console.Also featured is expanded support of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification to improve interoperability in deploying SOA.In version 2.0, BusinessWorks is available in a standalone mode or as a container hosted in the ActiveMatrix infrastructure. An integrated service view in version 2.0 delivers a view of service performance and dependencies.Products in ActivMatrix can be purchased separately or as part of three packages, with these being Tibco's SOA Starter Bundle, for small projects; Integration Bundle, for integration projects, and Composite Application Bundle, for delivering new applications assembled from services.ActiveMatrix 2.0 is available now, with licensing based on a per-CPU format.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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(InfoWorld) - BEA Systems will enter the event-driven architecture space Monday with a product geared for SOA in Java environments. This unveiling of BEA WebLogic Event Server will be coupled with an upgrade to the company's real-time server. Together, they can be used as part of a solution for high-speed, high-volume transaction environments or XTP (extreme transaction processing). Event Server is a Java application server for handling large volumes of streaming data. It meets needs for predictable response times and complex event processing, the company said. High volumes of events are handled with the speed expected in C and C++ environments but with the lower total cost of ownership enabled by Java, according to BEA. With Event Server, information is aggregated from distributed systems in real time. Rules are applied to discern patterns and trends, giving users the ability to respond to opportunities and threats posed by seemingly unrelated events. "What people are trying to do is drive data to knowledge," said Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic Products at BEA. "As we come out of the gate, we're going to provide 50,000 complex events per second," putting the product on par with C and C++ offerings, he said. The product serves as an infrastructure for SOA aspects by enabling high-performance computing without modification of current or planned SOA infrastructure, BEA said. When used with BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition and the new BEA WebLogic Realtime Time 2.0 product, Event Server can work in XTP environments. Part of the company's microService Architecture for SOA, Event Server supports simple Java programming, or "plain old Java objects," and the Spring Framework as well as event processing language. A public beta for WebLogic Event Server begins on May 29 with general availability planned for this summer. BEA's entrance into the event-processing market is another sign that the market is going mainstream, said analyst Roy Schulte, vice president of Application Strategy and Governance at Gartner. "Oracle and Tibco are also already active in this market, and IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are expected to expand their event-processing offerings during the next 18 months," Schulte said. "The product is potentially applicable anywhere there are high-volume event streams and a need to detect threats or opportunities quickly [with sub-second latency]," Schulte said. "Until recently, this kind of scenario was only found in niche applications, such as financial trading, telco, and network management. During the past several years, however, many new types of stream processing applications have emerged in such areas as customer experience management, credit card security and fraud detection, transportation operations, and compliance." BEA also is announcing WebLogic Real Time 2.0, which provides guaranteed microsecond pause times for standard Java applications. Guaranteed worst-case pause times of 10 milliseconds are offered with average pause times in the sub-millisecond range. Previously, the product offered a 30-millisecond worst case. "The neat thing about WebLogic Real Time is it gives real-time, predictable behavior to an application without having to rewrite the application, so it's automatically inherited," Churchward said. Real Time 2.0 features a latency analyzer tool providing developers with the ability to analyze sources of latency in applications. General availability for Real Time 2.0 is slated for this summer.
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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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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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Graham Charters writes, in this new post on the IBM developerWorks PHP blog today, that the first release of their Service Component Architecture (v 0.1.0) has been released.    We've just made the first release of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) for PHP prototype available. SCA allows you to turn PHP classes into Web services by adding a few simple phpDocumentor-style annotations. SCA will automatically generate WSDL for these services when required.    SCA also uses the same annotations technique to allow PHP classes to declare dependencies on other Web services or PHP classes. At runtime it will then 'inject' proxies for these dependencies, which can then be used to call the Web services or classes    You can check out documentation for the project and some examples of how it works over on this page and a whitepaper here will give you the full scoop. If you're interested, be sure to check out the Google Group for the project too.
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Work hard for the money IBM today rolled out 23 updated product and 11 professional services offerings for service oriented architectures (SOAs). Some use technology from recent and recent-ish acquisitions, Webify, BuildForge and Bowstreet.â¦
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Storage tiers tend to align neatly with the product offerings of an incumbent vendor with the assumption of a cheaper total cost of ownership will result. But when complexity is factored into a TCO model, the cost savings rational may be significantly reduced if not eliminated.
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IBM released SOA productsÂ for integrating software applications and improving business processes, and said more customers are starting to understand the SOA concept.
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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) - BEA Systems on Wednesday continued to promote SOA 360, its newly announced SOA platform, at the BEAWorld 2006 San Francisco conference. The company is making SOA, in which applications are offered as componentized services and combined for new applications, its focal point. BEA officials touted SOA 360, announced Tuesday and featuring BEA AquaLogic, WebLogic, and Tuxedo product lines, as well as a collaborative tooling environment called WorkSpace 360. Also critical to SOA 360 is BEA's microService Architecture (mSA), featuring the concept of a service network and notification services for publishing and discovering modular components. "BEA is taking SOA to its very core," said Paul Patrick, chief architect for BEA AquaLogic. "We're taking SOA into the heart of what we do [on] a day-to-day basis in the way we build products." "Over 1,000 of our customers have SOA solutions in production," said Mark Carges, executive vice president of BEA's Business Interaction Division. BEA views business process management as a business driver for SOA, he said. BEA's Bruce Graham, vice president of World Wide Professional Services at BEA, cited six initiatives crucial to SOA: * Defining and capturing benefits. * Establishing an enterprise architecture. * Making services engineering a discipline. * Aligning the organization for shareholder value. * Building a stream of connected projects. * Connecting the business to the capability. "If your company is going to be successful, we believe that these are things that youâre going to have to take on," Graham said. BEA in November plans to offer a series of service offerings providing guidance on service engineering, he said. Even an attendee at the conference who is not currently using SOA was sold on the concept. "I think we're headed in that direction," said Louis Leon, manager of Web services at a nonprofit organization, the name of which Leon preferred to keep anonymous. "It's an architectural strategy at this point." SOA offers a more scalable alternative to point-to-point interfaces, Leon said. Part of BEA's mSA plan involves modularizing BEA products, including its WebLogic Server Java application server. Functions of the application server such as its security apparatus could be separated from the core product and offered in a modular fashion, said Blake Connell, director of product marketing for WebLogic Server. Asked when BEA would be announcing formal plans for modularizing the application server, Connell said, "Stay tuned." BEA, meanwhile, is in discussions with a car company to service-enable cars with an in-vehicle application server for high-level automotive services, said Larry Cable, BEA chief architect for WebLogic. Possible applications emanating from this arrangement could include a system that generates e-mail notifications when a car's oil needs to be changed or an application notifying drivers of available parking spaces nearby, Cable said. Also at the conference, Connell lauded an upcoming Evans Data survey that says WebLogic Server is the top choice for developers.
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Deepening its commitment to help corporate users create SOAs (service-oriented architectures) through the use of Web services, IBM's Global Services unit on Thursday announced the formation of an SOA Management Practice.