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- Is security the SOA showstopper?
- A new report in InformationWeek by Andy Dornan calls SOA security "one treacherous journey."Vendors and committees have thrown a bewildering plethora of immature or incompatible security specs and solutions at usTreacherous indeed. SOA increasingly addresses services on both sides of the firewall, and therefore opens up the most critical business...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Service Component Architecture explained
- David Chappell has just posted a good primer explaining exactly what Service Component Architecture SCA is and why we should care about it.In the paper, David explores the properties of components, SCA's Java Component Model, composites, policies, and implementing SCA.David acknowledges in in his conclusion that vendors have had...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Time to drive a wedge between SOA and Web services?
- SOA is about more than interoperability. SOA is about more than integration.SOA is more than Web services, but Web services still offers the least path of resistance to SOANo argument there. SOA ultimately is about business agility and flexibility. But, for now, the main thrust of most reported SOA efforts...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- More debate on Service Component Architecture -- is it vendor lock-in?
- There was an interesting and passionate thread of follow-up commentary to my post from earlier this month, "Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit." Consultant David Chappell initially raised questions about the positioning of SCA as a part of SOA, but Oracle's Dave Chappell responded that SCA has plenty...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Some ringing endorsements for REST
- Is REST the future of SOA?Some analysts think so.The battle between SOAP/WS-* and REST proponents has been going on for some time now. In fact, a little over a year ago, Gartner's Darryl Plummer pointed out in an oft-discussed article that the Web services world had actually split into two...
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit
- Service component architecture SCA is a good thing, right? Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, complexities, and latency issues?Well, some analysts out there have professed that SCA has, well, issues. David Chappell, for one,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- SOA-Web 2.0: a lot in common, but two centers of gravity
- "We’re continuing to see more clearly that Web 2.0 and SOA really are largely (but not 100%) the same concepts that merely lay on different â€" if fairly different â€" parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Moving beyond UDDI: is it time to consider ebXML?
- A reader, Farrukhnajmi, saw my recent post on IBMs bypass of the Universal Discovery, Description and Integration spec UDDI and posited this question: If we need a new registry spec, why not look to ebXML?"I agree with IBMs assessment that UDDI is inadequate for a SOA Registry and Repository. Most...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Analyst: IBM bypasses UDDI standard
- An industry standard is a great idea -- every vendor should have one of its own. The industry has made some progress in getting vendors to line up behind standards, but vendors being vendors, they still alway insists on releasing their own flavor of standards in products. IBM, which proclaims...
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Microsoft applies BPEL to Windows Workflow; analysts scratch their heads
- Microsofts Paul Andrew made it official on his blog: Microsoft will be supporting BPEL, Business Process Execution Language, as early as this month. According to Andrew, "in March 2007, Microsoft plans to release a CTP [Community Technology Preview] of a set of BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation WF. This...
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurity
- Okay, UDDI, you can come out now. In a newly published interview, Burton Groups Anne Thomas Manes says the time may finally be ripe for the hapless UDDI spec (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) to emerge from the shadows of obscurity.Manes also had some disparaging words about a competing...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Will new architecture association help drive SOA skillsets?
- In a post last week -- and other times on this blogsite -- I have discussed the impending skills shortages that may slow SOA development in the years to come. Part of this situation demands a class of "enlightened architects" who understand the advantages of SOA, and can sell SOA...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Seven areas of opportunity around SOA, circa 2007
- SOA is a challenge, but abounds with opportunities -- not only to streamline a process, but to change the way a business is managed. Technology -- along with SOA evangelization --may be the catalyst that could bring an organization out of its creaky, hidebound corporate culture and begin to seize...
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- ESBs, acquisitions, and Java EE topped SOA news in 2006
- ZDNet Blogging colleague Dana Gardner just surfaced Michael Meehans top eight picks for SOA and Web services stories of 2006.Mike does a great job of spotting the most important news shaping the SOA world, starting with number eight here and wrapping up the top four here. In ascending order,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Is there hope for SOAP?
- Pete Lacey of the Burton Group recently created a buzz in SOA and Web services circles with his "history lesson," circa 2000, about the meaning of SOAP. In Laceys post, entitled "The S Stands for Simple," a "SOAP Guy" explains how SOAP works to a developer, who end up...
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- The good, the bad, and the ugly: WS-splat standards rated
- How have the bewildering array of WS-* specs been faring as of late? Does anybody care?Steve Jones cares a lot, and didnt mince any words in his latest critique of the WS-splats, separating the good from the bad and ugly.Steve said that some basic fundamentals, such as WSDL, WS-Addressing, and...
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later
- Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
Additional Resources
- Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance
- What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Logitech Harmony 700
- When Logitech released the Harmony One in early 2008, it instantly became one of our favorite universal remotes to date. But at $250, it wasn't exactly an impulse buy for the average consumer. With the Harmony 700, however, Logitech has delivered a model that offers the bulk of the...
- Product reviews 2009-11-18
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