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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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- 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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Case Studies
- 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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- 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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- 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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- 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,...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General
- 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 — if fairly different — parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- 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...
- Tags: General, Standards Watch, Web Services
- 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...
- Tags: General, Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, 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...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, Web Services, General
- 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...
- Tags: Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, General
- 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...
- Tags: General, Standards Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, UDDI
- 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...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, 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...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, Business ROI, General, SOA
- 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,...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General, SOA
- 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...
- Tags: SOAP, Web services, Simple Object Access Protocol
- 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...
- Tags: WS-splat, Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- 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...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...
- Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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