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Functionality in WSDL 2.0
Published by: SearchSOA.com | 25 Aug 2006
EXPERT RESPONSE - In this expert response, David Chappell discusses the quality of service functionality in WSDL 2.0
Distributed processing to boost performance at online book marketplace
Published by: SearchSOA.com | 18 Aug 2008
ARTICLE - AbeBooks.com recently purchased by Amazon.com, opted for Oracle Fusion Middleware to achieve complex transactions with near real-time performance.
Eclipse Ganymede Part 1: What's in it for SOA?
Published by: SearchSOA.com | 17 Jun 2008
ARTICLE - Eclipse's Mike Milinkovich offers a preview of new OSGi and SOA features included among the 24 projects and 18 million lines of code that will be part of the Ganymede release.
Web 2.0 at the old ballgame
Published by: SearchSOA.com | 21 Jul 2008
ARTICLE - Major League Baseball adopts Web 2.0 to authenticate home run balls for fans and provide umpires with the latest game time weather reports.
Eclipse Ganymede: Rich Ajax Platform focuses on users
Published by: SearchSOA.com | 24 Jun 2008
ARTICLE - The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform provides functionality to make end users' jobs easier by providing them with a consistent look-and-feel in a customizable user interface.

WEB SERVICES TESTING from SearchSOA.com
Podcast: SOA Performance Optimization and Management with Thomas Fredell
PODCAST - Changes in Web services' uses or behaviors can have unexpected influence on 'back end' components, Thomas Fredell says in a SearchSOA.com podcast.
Squish updated for Ajax testing
NEWS - Squish, the GUI testing tool, has been updated by froglogic GmbH. Squish 3.3 supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Ajax and Eclipse RPC, ...
Testing tips for SOA
NEWS - Testing the interactions of Web services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) application is a complex process that many organizations are still trying to figure out. This article offers tips for assuring SOA quality ...
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WEB SERVICES DEVELOPMENT from SearchSOA.com
SimpleDB shows promise
NEWS - Although still in beta, SimpleDB, a Web service for running queries on structured data in real time, shows promise although getting started with it takes some effort, according to this contributor. "After some serious hack ...
Yahoo says no deal
NEWS - Multiple news sources are reporting today that Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft bid to buy it. Microsoft wanted Yahoo as part of a strategy to create a new Web services environment that would challenge Google Inc.
Amazon links Web services to data
NEWS - EnterpriseDB Corp. announced this week that it has ported its Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL database to Amazon Inc.'s compute cloud. The database integrates with Amazon's Web services for hosted servers and storage, Elastic ...
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APPLICATION SERVERS AND WEB SERVICE PLATFORMS from SearchSOA.com
Former .NET Web developers ride Ruby and Rails application framework
ARTICLE - Light-weight software architectures gain use. Rails application framework provides architecture out-of-the-box for some Web development.
New Microsoft site for architects
NEWS - In an effort to explain its software-plus-services concept to enterprise architects, Microsoft has set up a new Website. It features a Webinar by Gianpaolo Carraro, director of SaaS architecture in the architecture strategy ...
Build vs. buy SOA?
NEWS - Analysts urge companies not to try to buy their way into service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation with the purchase of a single major vendor's packaged applications, usually marketed as "suites." However, Joe ...
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BEA WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
Oracle to put Fusion middleware in Amazon Compute Cloud
ARTICLE - What is in Cloud Computing? Now you can add Oracle Fusion middleware to the list. Plans to make Fusion available via the Amazon Cloud were part of the salvo at Oracle Open World.
Oracle buys performance specialist ClearApp
ARTICLE - For ClearApp the purchase means a powerful channel for innovative products. For Oracle it means another enhancement to its Web-and transaction-oriented management offering.
Oracle re-brands BEA WebLogic as its strategic server for SOA
ARTICLE - Oracle is moving quickly to assure BEA customers that the WebLogic Java application server has an important place in the Oracle portfolio.
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IBM WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
JBoss, CA Wily moves target SOA performance management
ARTICLE - Red Hat's JBoss, CA, and IBM update monitoring and management tools to deal with rising service-oriented architecture complexity.
IBM WebSphere grows to include better Business Event Processing
ARTICLE - BEP: IBM's Steve Mills says it's about high volumes of fast transactions. Mills purchased a group of companies and they are beginning to appear in the WebSphere middleware suite.
Quan on the Cloud part 2: IBM Autonomics director sees a service-oriented phenomenon
Q A INTERVIEW - In Part 2 of this interview, Dennis Quan discusses the relationship between Cloud computing and SOA and data centers supporting the Cloud.
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JBOSS WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
JBoss, CA Wily moves target SOA performance management
ARTICLE - Red Hat's JBoss, CA, and IBM update monitoring and management tools to deal with rising service-oriented architecture complexity.
JavaOne: JBoss on SOA middleware, Java EE and data services
Q A INTERVIEW - Is SOA middleware that different from traditional middleware? At JavaOne, Red Hat's Craig Muzilla ponders that and the future of Java EE and data services.
JBoss SOA platform offers modular options
ARTICLE - The new JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform offers a modular approach to open source tools and technology that allow developers to pick which pieces they need.
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ORACLE WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
Oracle Coherence for XTP
ARTICLE - Oracle shares details on the latest version of the Coherence grid technology it acquired along with Tangosol, which provides XTP capabilities that integrate with the BPM platform.
BPM platform updated by Oracle adding new dashboard options
ARTICLE - BPM and SOA may have found common ground in the executive dashboard, where business users are able to get architecture and development information faster.
Oracle Application Integration Architecture targets telcos
ARTICLE - Vendors like Oracle seek to ease vertical application integration with schemes like the Oracle Application Integration Architecture. When is out of the box out of the box?
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SAP WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
SOA Skills: Hiring trends for SAP jobs - NetWeaver talent emphasized
ARTICLE - With the growing demand for service-oriented architects, businesses have come to acknowledge that certain qualifications are resume boosters, specifically SAP NetWeaver skills.
SAP sees upside in downturn
NEWS - SAP AG executives predict a continuing rise in software sales with the added benefit of having acquired Business Objects. Neither SAP nor Business Objects are dependent on sales to the U.S. financial institutions suffering ...
SAP unveils new BI
NEWS - With the completion of SAP AG's $6.7 billion purchase Business Objects, SAP unveiled new business intelligence and business optimization software packages this week. The new tooled developed jointly by SAP and Business ...
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
Open source software requires governance, Burton warns
ARTICLE - Harried developers are making use of open source components for SOA and proprietary applications, but management doesn't even know it is there, a Burton Group analyst warns.
Eclipse, Sun and Oracle team up on persistence API
ARTICLE - The surprise announcement from EclipseCon, is Sun Microsystems. selecting the Oracle led EclipseLink project as the reference implementation for the Java Persistence API 2.0.
Sun shops for more open source
NEWS - Having completed its acquisition of MySQL's open source database, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s president and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, announced that the company is shopping for more open source vendors to beef up its ...
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LAMP WEB SERVICES (LINUX, APACHE, MYSQL & PHP) from SearchSOA.com
WSO2 supports PHP during 'growth spurt' driven by SOA
ARTICLE - At the Zend/PHP Conference, WSO2 announced the availability of the Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 2.0. One analyst's conclusion: more wind filling the sails of PHP.
Hadoop
WORD - Hadoop is a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation... ...
LAMP coders go hybrid route
NEWS - Developers working with the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack tend to use a hybrid mix of open source and vendor technology, according to the second annual Open Source Barometer survey of 35,000 coders. "People try ...
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MOBILE WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
From mainframes to iPhones and beyond: IBM preps mobile SOA connection
ARTICLE - IBM is going mobile with SOA based on WebSphere. That means mainframe apps, among others, will be coming to the business user's RIM Blackberry, Apple iPhone and Google Android.
Web 2.0 at the old ballgame
ARTICLE - Major League Baseball adopts Web 2.0 to authenticate home run balls for fans and provide umpires with the latest game time weather reports.
SOA hot in Asia Pacific, survey finds
NEWS - Developers in the Asia Pacific region are young – only 3 percent are over 50 – and focused on the newest technologies and paradigms including service-oriented architecture (SOA) as well as mobile applications and ...
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OPEN SOURCE WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
FUSE ESB brings Apache ServiceMix 4.0 to market
ARTICLE - The FUSE enterprise service bus (ESB) seeks to mix the goodness of open source with the goodness of commercial software.
Sun shops for more open source
NEWS - Having completed its acquisition of MySQL's open source database, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s president and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, announced that the company is shopping for more open source vendors to beef up its ...
BPEL4People added to server
NEWS - Active Endpoints, Inc., has announced the availability of Milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server. ActiveBPEL 5.0 is an open-source implementation of both BPEL4People and WS-Human Task, which allows human ...
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APACHE WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
SOA for pets uses REST and SOAP
ARTICLE - SOA e-commerce application provides pet owners Ajax-based online ordering service for home delivery of veterinary medicines.
More coders feeling Groovy
NEWS - Groovy is what Java would be if it had been created in the 21st century, says one programmer. Although it still ranks below Java, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, and even Fortran, Groovy has been quickly moving up the charts ...
SpringSource buys Covalent
NEWS - In a deal that brings a market leader in Apache technology support into the Spring framework fold, SpringSource Inc. today announced that it is buying Covalent Technologies Inc., an open-source services provider specializing ...
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ECLIPSE WEB SERVICES from SearchSOA.com
Faster SOA testing drives iTKO Eclipse release
ARTICLE - SOA testing begins earlier in the development lifecycle, says iTKO Inc., the software testing vendor specializing in SOA. That means developers take the lead in quality assurance.
Sun previews GlassFish V3 ahead of Java EE6 release
ARTICLE - It's a 'prelude' allowing developers to get their hands on the future GlassFish OSGi-based lightweight server. V3 supports JRuby and Comet server data push formats.
Microsoft Azure Platform moves Windows to Compute Cloud
ARTICLE - At its Professional Developer Conference (PDC), company technology strategist Ray Ozzie said Azure will support SQL Server and the .NET Framework.
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RUBY ON RAILS from SearchSOA.com
Sun previews GlassFish V3 ahead of Java EE6 release
ARTICLE - It's a 'prelude' allowing developers to get their hands on the future GlassFish OSGi-based lightweight server. V3 supports JRuby and Comet server data push formats.
Learn about Ruby on Rails programming
ARTICLE - Rails, as the combination of the Ruby language and the Rails developer framework is called by its coder legions, is easier to work with than Java.
SOA ends era of big apps, opens door for Ruby on Rails
ARTICLE - SOA is no longer just an alternative to traditional monolithic application development, for modern business there is no real alternative to SOA, argues Engine Yard's Tom Mornini.
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