Software AG unwraps SOA product suite (InfoWorld)

Crossvision suite aims to help enterprises move their IT systems to a SOA

SOA Spotlight (InfoWorld)

The SOA Spotlight is your one-stop source for news and analysis from InfoWorld in addition to valuable white papers and other valuable resources from key players in the SOA marketplace.

SOA Portal (InfoWorld)

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) NEWS

Software AG enters SOA fray (InfoWorld)

Registry and repository are key to company's integrated Crossvision suite

Key standards and specifications for web services (CBR)

Key standards and specifications for web services

XML: Extensible mark-up language
XML is an extensible language because it enables the definition of many classes of document. XML is designed to make it easy to define document types, author and manage documents, and transmit and share them in a distributed environment.

SOAP: Simple object access protocol
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of XML-based information in a distributed environment.

WS-Policy: Web Services Policy
A fledgling specification, this one aims to handle policies around SOAP-based web services, including but not limited to security policies.

WSDL: Web services description language
An XML-based syntax for describing web services.

BPEL: Business process execution language
XML-based language for the specification of business processes. Basically, it underpins business processes in an SOA.

UDDI: Universal description, discovery and integration
UDDI defines a registry architecture. A place to store, share and discover your web services.

WS-Security: Web Services Security
A specification - not yet a standard - for handling security in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

Web Services Standards Investigated (Computer Business Review)

Web services are only as reliable, secure and scalable as the standards that form their foundation. So have we reached sufficient maturity? Jason Stamper reports.

SAP's Risky Business (www.commentwire.com)

SAP has remodelled itself as an open company, promoting interoperability and a service oriented architecture. But is providing rivals with an entry to its customer base a good idea? Angela Eager reports.

DataSynapse and BEA Systems Integrate Technologies for Web and SOA Apps (br.sys-con.com)

DataSynapse's FabricServer is Built to Enable J2EE Applications to Run in a Shared Grid Environment.

MetaMatrix Introduces New SOA Web Service Product, Enhances MetaMatrix Enterprise (webservices.sys-con.com)

MetaMatrix announced MetaMatrix Dimension 5, a new product for data service design and execution, that helps application teams quickly make relational and file-based data available as XML schema-compliant Web services for service oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications. In addition, the company announced MetaMatrix Enterprise 5, an enhanced version of its flagship product that incorporates improved performance and ease of use. MetaMatrix 5 completes the company’s incorporation of Web service and XML capabilities which, added to MetaMatrix’ traditional strengths in relational data access and integration, provide project teams in corporations and government agencies with the diverse capabilities they need for comprehensive data service management for service-oriented architectures.

SOA for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) ZapFlash (ZapThink)

After spending so much time struggling with the complexities and convolutions of enterprise IT, it's important to remember that even small companies still have diverse IT needs. After all, just about every firm has desktop computers, networks, and miscellaneous internal hardware and software, in addition to a Web site and related external IT-related efforts. Even though the IT needs of both small and midsize firms span a wide-range of requirements, there are still significant differences between small companies (less than $50 million in annual sales or fewer than 100 employees) and those at the larger end of the small to midsized business (SMB) scale (up to $500 million in annual sales or up to 1000 employees).

BEA looks to create a portal into SOA (SearchWebservices)

Everyone pays lip service to the importance of business process management (BPM) and now BEA Systems Inc. believes it's a created a portal which actually might get people to use it.

The company has released what it calls the AquaLogic Interaction Process 1.5, a wordy designation for the upgraded version of the BPM capabilities inside the portal product it bought in last year's Plumtree Software Inc. acquisition. New is a BPM designer and execution engine along with collaboration tools.

BEA also sells the WebLogic Portal 8.1 product, but Christine Wan, director of product marketing for AquaLogic Interaction Process, explained that the WebLogic portal aims more at the hardcore Java developer while the AquaLogic portal aims at assembling a broad array of applications, including .NET applications, rather than developing them.

SOA Governance (Line56)

What is SOA governance? When should we implement governance? What is the best approach to governing the mounting number of services?

How Quickly Will Your Organization Adopt SOA? (InfoWorld)

Been checking out a lot of Blogs pertaining to how you get people within an organization to adopt SOA. The truth is, there is no one single approach, it's really dependent on the organization you're dealing with. There are a few organization patterns that I�m seeing when it comes to SOA adoption ...

SOA and Web 2.0 Convergence Continues...Thus I'm on Too Many Planes (InfoWorld)

SOA is hot, but now the Web 2.0 is hotter, and now both are coming together in some kind of technology cocktail.

IT Management in an SOA World (Line56)

BMC debuts Transaction Management products and strategy; the composite applications connection

Tibco Launches Staffware (Line56)

Delivering BPM in an SOA environment; plenty of business use cases

Financial Services Developers Implementing SOA with .NET, says Aite Group (Tekrati)

In the next three years, Aite Group anticipates service-oriented architectures (SOA) will encompass over 75 percent of all new development in the financial services IT market. The analyts say that as Service-Oriented Architectures become the predominant architecture in financial services development, .NET really becomes one of two choices in the underlying framework.

SOA Simple (Destination CRM)

CRM examines service-oriented architecture and its growing impact on the applications landscape.

BPO's Next Level (Destination CRM)

Capitalize on the unexpected opportunities in CRM business process outsourcing.

Enterprise SOA Apps Take Off on Lightweight Architecture (InfoWorld)

ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared is back with his thoughts on the advantages of lightweight architecture for SOA. Peter began this series with "Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! point enterprise developers towards "lightweight" architecture".
Enterprise SOA Apps Take Off on Lightweight ArchitectureAt the last InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, I asked the audience for a show of hands on the following question: "Who thinks it's easier to build an app that communicates to a web service than it is to write an app that communicates to a database?" Of this very sophisticated audience of senior IT architects and managers only two people raised their hands.