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The Rules of SOA - A Road to a Successful SOA Implementation by TheServerSide.com
the key characteristics of successful SOA projects. He covers some of the patterns, and anti-patterns, tool sets, and strategies that he himself learned the hard way - through his own trial and error experiences as an architect. You have been handed the keys and a blank slate to...
SOA and BPM: A Process Centric Approach - Part 1 Background and Basic by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes - discussed here as Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) as a way of gaining a better...
eGuide: SOA Implementation by Oracle Corporation
Service-Oriented architecture (SOA) allows organizations to quickly and efficiently respond to changes in the business environment and to leverage such change for competitive advantage. This eGuide features expert insight into the key areas critical to the...
The Oracle SOA Governance Solution by Oracle Corporation
adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA) as an IT strategy does not in of itself guarantee business results. Effective SOA governance is essential to achieving measurable, sustainable business value. This data sheet showcases key features and benefits of Oracle's SOA...
Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle Service Registry for SOA Governance by Oracle Corporation
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an entirely new approach to IT that connects people, process, and technology in a dynamic, distributed environment; however, it also increases system complexity. Read this data sheet to learn how together, Oracle Enterprise...
Understanding the Business Benefits of an Open Source SOA Platform by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
provides insight into the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform. Open source has been proven particularly effective when implementing SOA. Using open source reduces the cost of tools while providing a range of options from different providers. Having access to the source code also...
SOA and BPM: A Process Centric Approach - Part 1 Background and Basics - PODCAST by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes. Discussed here as Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) as a way of gaining a better...
SOA and BPM: A Process Centric Approach - Part 1 Background and Basics by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes - discussed here as Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) as a way of gaining a better...
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation by Oracle Corporation
of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have...
Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance by Oracle Corporation
the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value...
Using an Open Source SOA in an Enterprise Deployment: Reducing Costs, Lowering Risks, and Increasing Flexibility by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun's modular, opensource approach to an SOA. This White Paper will focus on:

  • General benefits to open source
  • Sun's approach to open source
  • Business drivers for Open-Source SOA
  • Modular, Open-Source SOA
With Sun's extensive partner and services network, customers benefit from...
Presentation Transcript: The Practical Implementation of BPM & SOA, Part II by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes. Discussed here is methodology, best practices and experiences. In a process...
SOA Security: Oracle Web Services Manager by Oracle Corporation
service-oriented architectures (SOA), both in intranet and extranet environments. While SOA offers many advantages over current alternatives, deploying networks of web services still presents key challenges...this paper showcases how Oracle's Web Services...
Sun Microsystems Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Resource Center by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
resources to learn how Sun's modular, open-source SOA platform can deliver freedom, flexibility, and reduced costs. Sun business integration offers a completely integrated software suite to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and composite applications for increasing...
SOA and BPM: A Process Centric Approach - Part 2, A Look at a Methodology - PODCAST by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes. Discussed here is methodology, best practices and experiences. In a process...
SOA and BPM: A Process Centric Approach - Part 2, A Look at a Methodology by Oracle Corporation
In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes. Discussed here is methodology, best practices and experiences. In a process...
Oracle SOA Suite by Oracle Corporation
adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a means of dealing with changing markets, competitive pressures, and evolving customer needs. This data sheet provides a brief overview of the Oracle SOA Suite and highlights key benefits. Leading companies are adopting...
Software Testing e-Zine - Testing Strategies for Complex Environments: Agile, SOA by SearchSoftwareQuality.com
ll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology. In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing...
Oracle SOA Resource Center by Oracle Corporation
SOA has sparked an IT revolution and enabled leading companies to gain operational efficiencies and business agility through scalable, high performing and reliable solutions. This resource center will introduce you to Oracle's...
3 Things Business Decision-Makers Need to Know about SOA by IFS
of service-oriented architecture (SOA), this white paper cuts through the marketing hype surrounding SOA and focuses on the three most important facts you need to know about this groundbreaking technology. This white paper cuts through the marketing hype...
Oracle IT Modernization Series Modernization: The Path to SOA by Oracle Corporation
of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Read this white paper to learn about more about SOA and it's benefits. As many organizations recognize that legacy application design and implementation have led to applications that are costly to operate and maintain, hard to...
Realizing the promise of SOA and BPM: An Ovum Research Report by Informatica
data integration can help to enrich and quicken SOA business services and BPM processes. Ensuring success with process-driven data integration and data services

Data is the lifeblood of any organization for driving business processes, such as products and services; customer...
Oracle Grid Computing Achieved: Service-oriented HP Adaptive Infrastructure offerings for Oracle Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by Hewlett-Packard Company
of a service oriented architecture (SOA), in which services can be easily assembled into new, composite applications. SOA may be viewed as a consolidation response to the software redundancies often created by silo applications. Fundamentally, SOA changes the...
A Business Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage by Lombardi Software
have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities. Leading IT groups are recognizing that they need to deploy Business Process Management (BPM) technology and practices to enable process improvement. They recognize that enabling...
SOA Articles
its core software offerings as the "Carbon," which uses the OSGi component model to achieve a more modular service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. At the same time, the company rolled out a BEPL-based business process server (BPS) that runs on Carbon. WS02 and its principals have been long-time contributors to the... More...
Feb 18, 2009

Using the jargon of SOA with business executives is not the way to get SOA done, says Manny Montejano, CTO for Cars.com, the online automobile buying and selling website visited by "10 million car shoppers... More...

Apr 24, 2008
SOA News
Microsoft's Oslo project, which puts modeling at the center of service-oriented architecture (SOA) development, is being labeled a "tectonic shift" in application development by Randy Heffner, Forrester research analyst. In a new report, Heffner writes... More...
Dec 11, 2007
If rising oil prices and a faltering real estate industry bring the economy to a standstill, what will it mean for service-oriented architecture (SOA)? SOA could go small in a recession or continue to be a big project if the economy recovers quickly, speculates Joe McKendrick, analyst with Evans Data Corp., as... More...
Nov 15, 2007
Microsoft Windows developers working with Vista's XAML or ASP.NET AJAX may find they have performance problems with service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications, according to this article. It offers tips for unclogging networks and avoiding what the author terms "network-oriented angst (NOA... More...
Sep 17, 2007
The Software as a Service (SaaS) model for service-oriented architecture (SOA) gained credibility this week as Salesforce.com reported that it added a record number of customers and beat consensus estimates of total revenues and... More...
Aug 16, 2007
ZapThink LLC., the consulting and analyst firm specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Mindreef Inc., the SOA software vendor, are partnering to provide educational services and products to organizations developing SOA implementations... More...
Apr 3, 2007
Expert SOA Advice
What are chief criteria for analyzing "enterprise mashups"? Especially in relation to a "mainframe wrappering" project? By Jason Bloomberg
What are chief criteria for analyzing "enterprise mashups"? Especially in relation to a "mainframe wrappering" project?

Our definition of an enterprise mashup is a managed, governed composition of SOA-based services within a rich, Internet-based environment. The two features that distinguish enterprise mashups from... More...

Jun 16, 2009
What divides main-frame level transaction processing from Java or .NET server level transaction processing? By Eric Newcomer
resource transaction to automatically be promoted to a distributed transaction whenever the application accesses a second resource.

Today we are seeing a real trend toward asynchronous communication protocols and loosely-coupled SOA and REST/HTTP based environments, so the mainframe style TP environments that the early .NET and Java TP environments... More...

Jun 10, 2009
Jason Bloomberg on ESB usage By Jason Bloomberg

Yes, using an ESB can introduce a single point of failure, but that's like saying a circular saw can cut off your finger. Any powerful tool can be used improperly, but that's not necessarily the fault of the tool. The trick to using an ESB as part of a SOA initiative is to make sure the architecture drives the technology. It's more about knowing how to use the ESB -- and how not... More...

Mar 18, 2009
Featured SOA Tips
SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): By Thomas Erl, SOASchool.com and Herbjörn Wilhelmsen, Objectware



For more about authoring and versioning WS-Policy definitions, see the book "Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA", ISBN: 013613517X, Prentice Hall, www.soabooks.com.




The SOA Pattern of the Week series is comprised of original content and More...

Jun 22, 2009
On the road to SOA – Part 1, Boubez on early insights By Jack Vaughan

Toufic Boubez has been involved with SOA since its beginning. While at IBM he co-authored the original UDDI specification. He later co-founded Layer 7 More...

Jun 17, 2009
On the road to SOA – Part 2, Governance is fundamental By Jack Vaughan

Toufic Boubez has been involved with SOA since its beginning. While at IBM he co-authored the original UDDI specification. He later co-founded Layer 7 More...

Jun 17, 2009
Java White Papers
Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development by Instantiations
integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches. How do you know when the quality of your Java software needs...
Best Practices and State of the Art Tools for Modern GUI Creation by Instantiations
to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run...
SOA Definitions
cloud computing
and how the concept moves beyond what has been traditionally identified as grid computing. Grid applications and SOA infrastructures This expert answer details how the on-demand concept of grid computing dovetails with the creation of a service-oriented... More...
Dec 28, 2007