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- SOA
- (1) Start Of Authority The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records.
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- Analysts: Cloud computing means new role for service registries
- Cloud computing may accelerate 'search' aspect of registries by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Registry, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Four SOA myths: Web services, technology, costs, and registry
- My colleague over at ebizQ, Gian Trotta, recently sat down with Randy Heffner of Forrester Research to talk about some of the misconceptions that are sabotaging efforts to build out service-oriented architectures these days. (Link to podcast interview and transcript here.) Some of the leading myths include...
- Tags: Registry, Web, Web Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- SOA registries and the Dilbert complex
- SOA registries and the Dilbert complextangible offering... and target buyersJoe,We'll probably have to disagree on the "measure of importance" of registries in moving us from JBOWS to SOA. I must admit, I'm certainly in the minority in placing lower importance on it than other measures. All good stuff.I would like...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JBOWS, SOA, registry
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- SOA registries and the Dilbert complex
- David Bressler takes me and others to task on observations that registries are a key part of the ingredients that separate SOA from JBOWS.In a new post, David asks: "What is it about registries that everyone thinks is a panacea for all things SOA?"'What is it about registries that everyone...
- Tags: Registry, SOA, David Bressler, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Explore the Role of Service Repositories and Registries in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Understanding the Definition of Each and When to Use Them
- Many recent publications [Longworth, Clement, Seeley] define registry/repository functionality as a lynchpin of any Service-Oriented Architecture SOA implementation. The enterprise-wide nature of SOA [Lublinsky] requires a significant amount of collaboration between design and implementation teams. Analysts designing business processes need to find services providing functionality required by these processes. Finding...
- Tags: Registry, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-05-15
- IBM disses UDDI; calls for a new SOA registry standard
- IBM spokespeople are stating that the UDDI standard for registries isnt cutting it, and the "time is now" for a new registry standard more focused on todays SOA realities.In a new report in ITWeek, IBM manager states that SOAs have stretched the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UDDI web services...
- Tags: General, Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Customizing the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository User Interface, Part 1: Learn Service Registry and Repository UI Concepts and Architecture - Understanding the Relationships Between the Component Parts of the UI
- IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6 hereafter referred to as Service Registry and Repository is an industrial-strength tool that helps one achieve more business value from the Service-Oriented Architecture SOA by enabling better management and governance of the services. One can use Service Registry and Repository to store information...
- Tags: Registry, IBM WebSphere, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-11-22
- The Cornerstones of SOA Governance: Policies, Registries and Repositories
- This paper describes two cornerstones of a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA governance solution: policy infrastructure and an integrated service registry and repository capability. This paper briefly describes what SOA governance is and why SOA governance is critical to the overall success of an organization's adoption of service orientation. The paper also...
- Tags: Registry, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 1: A Day in the Life of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in the SOA Life Cycle
- Service-Oriented Architecture SOA offers the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These are realized by separating service descriptions from their implementations, and using this descriptive metadata across the service life cycle. Standards-based service metadata artifacts, such as Web Service Definition Language...
- Tags: Registry, IBM WebSphere, Artifact, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-19
- So much metadata, so little time
- Registry and repository are hot commodities in SOA, but where is it all leading us? I few days back, I posted some observations about the evolving dynamics between registry and repository. Some other industry observers have also been examining the implications of registry/repository. Miko Matsumura Infravio says...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, registry, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- BEA: 'registry' shouldn't be joined at the hip to 'repository'
- Governance has risen to top of mind at many enterprises building out service-oriented architectures, and two words we hear frequently are "registry" and "repository" -- the two terms have been joined at the hip, and even used interchangeably. But they serve two different roles. This week, in the...
- Tags: registry, BEA Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Endless summer of SOA acquisitions
- Is this a great time to be an SOA vendor, or what? Some industry observers may have declared SOA DOA in recent months, but someone forgot to invite Flashline, Webify, MRO Software, and Mercury Interactive to the funeral. What do these smaller, specialized vendors have that makes the big vendors...
- Tags: SOA, BEA Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
- Need for SOA governance spurs another buy as BEA acquires Flashline
- BEA Systems today snatched up SOA governance provider Flashline in a move that in one part expands BEA's SOA capabilities but in another smacks of a quick reaction to HP's buy of Mercury/Systinet.BEA uses the Systinet UDDI registry within its AquaLogic-branded registry. But BEA must have seen the writing on...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., SOA
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
- IBM sprinkles 'holy water' on SOA governance concept
- A few years back, I spoke to the CEO of a small vendor that was competing directly with IBM with a client/server interface product. I asked him if he was worried about having the computer giant eat his lunch, to which he replied, no. This wasn't just marketing bravado;...
- Tags: IBM Corp., SOA
- Blog posts 2006-03-13
- Mercury catapults role of governance with Systinet acquisition
- With the just-announced pending purchase of Systinet, Mercury has begun joining traditional application development and deployment governance with the higher-abstraction SOA policy-based governance. This should lead to a powerful central-yet-flexible source for managing policy and governance information across an entire enterprise, something that has been sorely missing. ...
- Tags: Mercury, Systinet Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
- The Importance of a Registry for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- The purposes of this white paper are to outline the importance of a registry to a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA implementation, to identify some of the key attributes of such a registry, and to present some direction on what HP is doing to provide a solution to registry-related issues in an...
- Tags: Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Another SOA piece falls in place
- JBOWS, or Just a Bunch of Web Services, is far more prevalent than SOA, but vendors are taking the first steps toward helping companies' systems to become less spaghetti-like and more service oriented. Evidence of this is Oracle's latest announcement with Systinet, a vendor specializing in UDDI-based registries. The two...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Systinet Corp., SOA, UDDI
- Blog posts 2005-09-26
- Registry: every SOA needs one
- Some reactions to my post yesterday regarding Yankee Group's optimistic projections that 75%-95% of enterprises will have functioning SOAs in place in 2006:Jorwell cuts right to the chase, noting that if 2006 is the year of SOA, then "2007 will be a busy year, clearing up all the mess left...
- Tags: registry, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Registry is hot, hot, hot
- A few days ago, my blogmate Britton reported on Sun's new registry, which will be incorporated into the Java Enterprise System 4 server middleware stack, to be released this fall.Today, both SOA Software and Systinet announced new offerings employing UDDI, which is becoming the most commonly accepted registry standard. ...
- Tags: Systinet Corp., registry
- Blog posts 2005-06-21
- Sun rises in the SOA world
- Sun Microsystems has introduced a new registry offering for tracking and managing Web services -- a move that strengthens its position in the SOA marketplace. The registry-repository offering is designed to enhance SOA governance, facilitating control and policy management. The registry, which will be incorporated in the Java Enterprise System...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
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