I have just come across an article on some ESB patterns which might interest you: <<According to Angel Diaz, director of on-demand software development for IBM...
<<Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner, says that a metadata repository is a key enabling technology for SOA, and no long-term...
Hi all, interesting link. For the first time, I see in the link below a functional approach for SOA definition. I have seem mostly discussions about if...
As I've said before, SOA is more about philosophy than it is technology. The WS-Vertigo specs are just tools that help make the architecture work. SOA is an...
It's a common misconception that a UDDI registry provides a repository for WSDL documents, but in fact, the UDDI spec has no direct knowledge of WSDL. UDDI...
" Big issues include proper granularity of services and degree of interface/implementation abstraction (e.g., loose coupling)." Agreed but I do see some great...
<<Industry cooperation around security in a Web services world has taken several steps forward recently with the announcement that three more specifications in...
<<Still, enterprise architects who implement an SOA often realize that a key ingredient is missing: business service visibility and, therefore, control. If...
"The solution to this loss of control is a platform-neutral, standards-based method for publishing and discovering services. Using a standards-based Business...
All superplatforms (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, SAP) include a UDDI-compliant registry, although the functionality available with these registries varies...
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Dear group members, I recently discovered and joined the group and wanted to share the announcement of our royalty-free open source ebXML Registry 3.0 ...
<<Heffner made a case that applications are perceptual in nature. "What does your user think is the application? That's the key," he said. Key to all of this...
For some comic relief, here's what Hugh Heffner would say about SOA: * Loose coupling: "There nothing more significant than being able to connect and...
... Indeed it is. Unfortunately, SOA/WS doesn't fully embrace that belief. What it does embrace might be likened to agreeing to use 120 volts, but without...
<<The 3rd International Conference of Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'05) follows on the success of two previous editions in New York City, USA (2004) and...
<< Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service...
OASIS today announced the formation of the new SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee (TC). The goal of the TC will be to define real world requirements...
<<There is no doubt about it - the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is rapidly emerging as the template for future integration solutions. There are good...
The author team of the upcoming book: Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/140203704X/) seek final feedback...
You may remember some months ago we had a thread about the definition of a SOA at about the same time that the Web Services section of techtarget.com published...
Very difficult question, since SOA is very broad, lots of people doing things called SOA =) I'd say the initial key ingredient is Services, very hard to have ...
<<Having inked a $10-year SOA contract with IBM (valued between $94M and $157M), the company is expecting a return on its investment in excess of $200M beyond...