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Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps: Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JackBe, SOA, mashup; Discussion threads 2008-05-27
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
More moves in the SOA-mashup mashup space: Web 2.-SOA convergence is taking place on a bunch of levels. At one level, Web 2.0 collaborative tools are helping teams involved in building SOA. Enterprise mashups represent another move into the joint Web 2.0-SOA frontier. Mashups, for all intents and purposes, are composite applications...; Tags: SOA, Mashup, Web 2.-SOA Convergence, JackBe, Nexaweb, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-09-03
Situational Software Platforms Begin to Emerge: Situational Software Platforms Begin to EmergeI've heard this tune beforeAnd it always is out of tune, has no rythym, and no one wants to listen to it. Yeah, OK, let's have yet another attempt to write something that lets users write software on their own with no programmers involved. Sure....; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, JackBe; Discussion threads 2006-10-17
Situational Software Platforms Begin to Emerge: Over the lifetime of this blog Ive often written about using the latest Web-based software and tools to accomplish things on a completely different timescale than has been possible previously. Things like Ruby on Rails, mashups, syndication, and other lightweight software and service models seem to be changing the...; Tags: JackBes Presto, Web; Blog posts 2006-10-16

Software is not dead, development is going mainstream: Some of us have been chatting this up for a while, but the vision of AJAX front ends to SOA composite applications is being heralded with new vigor at this week's JavaOne conference. Tony Baer at CBR registration required has a nice rundown, including: JackBe, one of...; Tags: JackBe, Saas, SOA; Blog posts 2006-05-19

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Standards support for mashups emerge: The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...; Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-03-20
A plethora of PaaS options: A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...; Tags: IT System, PaaS, PaaS option, plethora, Phil; Discussion threads 2008-03-06
Time for a 'stimulus package' for SOA?: Time for a 'stimulus package' for SOA?Or, let it die a quiet death.Sorry, I see almost no value in it. Other than keeping IT employed.If all you have a is a hammer...As David Linthicum points out, you don't apply SOA to every problem, just because that's the tool du...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, stimulus; Discussion threads 2008-01-29
RSS feeds begin to bleed into enterprise applications: You've probably just gotten used to the idea of "mashups" for quickly bringing web services into applications and portals. Well, now get ready for making novel and powerful use of content via RSS feeds in a similar way. I don't call them mashups, though, I call them...; Tags: RSS Feed, Information Technology, RSS, Enterprise Application, IBM Corp., Mashup, Open Source World, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-04
A bumper crop of new mashup platforms: While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...; Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA: Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...; Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-05-14
My favorite Web 2.0 themes: SOA and business applications as advertising platforms: In my winding discovery tour at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week Im sniffing out two of my favorite themes these days. Im looking for how SOA and Web 2.0 relate, and Im listening for the rumblings of how innovative advertising will augment the subscription model for...; Tags: Web Services, SOA Governance, SOA, search, SaaS, Microsoft, IT Management, IT Service Management, Google, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2007-04-17
Bring on the SOA "mashware": Lately, Ive been hearing a lot of discussion around the similarities and differences between the "mashup" applications that are part and parcel of the Web2.0/Enterprise 2.0 scene, and "composite" applications that are part and parcel of the SOA scene. Are they actually one in the same? Twins separated at birth?...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, RSS, SOA, mashware, stock; Blog posts 2007-03-15
Is SOA Software as a Service, delivered internally?: Is SOA essentially "Software as a Service" contained within the enterprise walls? The analogy makes a great elevator speech, especially if one is hard-pressed to describe the philosophy of SOA to end-user customers. Rather than building, maintaining, or delivering their own services, business units subscribe to SOA-based services from...; Tags: General, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps: In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value functionality and information that resides on the Web today. Companies are...; Tags: Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Right To Remix, RSS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, SOAP, The Long Tail, Two-Way Web, Web 2.0, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-25
Consulting and SI 2.0: Mining the Sea Change in Software: Fellow blogger Phil Wainewright attended the SIIA Software Industry Information Assocation conference this month. Phil writes:Speaking on a panel at todays SIIA OnDemand Summit in San Jose, Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the proportion of CIOs considering adopting SaaS...; Tags: consulting, Saas, Bluewolf Consulting, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2006-11-30
Assembling great software: A round-up of eight mashup tools: There is a frequently recurring piece of software development lore that plays on the fact that good programmers are supposed to be lazy. In these stories, a good programmer will take a frequently recurring, monotonous task like testing and instead of doing it by hand, will instead...; Tags: tool, mashup; Blog posts 2006-09-02
Misconceptions about Rich Internet Applications and the enterprise: Misconceptions about Rich Internet Applications and the enterpriseMaybe ...... you will have to coin the term Operating System Enhanced RIA or OSERIA, to distinguish the types of RIAs you are talking about from AJAX and similar browser based technologies.There is a difference: One has an "E" the other an "I"I...; Tags: rich Internet application, Web browser; Discussion threads 2006-08-24
Misconceptions about Rich Internet Applications and the enterprise: I caught a post over at JackBe that I think illustrates some of the misunderstandings about Rich Internet Applications and how they fit into the world. I realize that I'm not going to be the one to define RIAs, or make the distinction between whether or not Ajax is included,...; Tags: RIA; Blog posts 2006-08-24