SOA

Understanding WS-Policy Part I: Policy Structure and Composite Policies

Web service contracts can be extended with policies that express additional constraints, requirements, and qualities that typically relate to the behaviors of...

0 replies - 1448 views - 03/23/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Service Development Lifecycle Controls for Creating a Service Factory

The concept of a software factory describes a practical work-product approach to governing an efficient service factory - a software engineering-based approach...

0 replies - 934 views - 03/19/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Use Hyperic HQ to monitor ServiceMix 4

Recently I've been helping out Tom Purcell (co-worker) with a presentation for our Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference being held in...

0 replies - 2041 views - 03/12/09 by rbiresch in News

Principles and Patterns at the U.S. Department of Defense

"The Department of Defense (DoD) is perhaps the largest and most complex organization in the world. It manages more than twice the budget of the world's...

0 replies - 1256 views - 03/02/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Introducing WSO2 Carbon, Part I

I have a feeling I'm going to be blogging a lot about Carbon in the next few weeks, hence calling this "part 1". We are on the verge of releasing the...

2 replies - 1529 views - 02/12/09 by PaulFremantle in News

Top 10 reasons WSO2 Carbon BPM isn’t a product

This week, WSO2 announced its “Carbon” technology, including a new “business process server.” Some have suggested that we should welcome another...

1 replies - 2222 views - 02/11/09 by ActiveAlex in News

Building a “SOApp” with Mule (Open Source ESB)

Ok, I know that we're all up to our ears with technical acronyms, terms, buzzwords, etc. that all appear to have some marketing spin to them in hope that they...

4 replies - 2460 views - 02/09/09 by rbiresch in News

Active Endpoints launches "BPM in a Bottle" contest

Active Endpoints has announced something fun for these otherwise troubling economic times: a contest in which the winners will take home some very cool prizes....

1 replies - 1826 views - 02/03/09 by ActiveAlex in Announcements

Business Process Analysis with SOA: A Case Study

Business Process Analysis (BPA) offers matrices that help in drawing a correspondence between business goals and high level services. BPA also helps in...

2 replies - 5915 views - 02/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

The Case for Single-Purpose Services: Understanding the Non-Agnostic Context and a Strategy for Implementation

Justifying the extra investment for developing a single-purpose service – a service expected to solve only one large business problem - instead of putting...

1 replies - 2575 views - 01/29/09 by herbjorn in Articles

Making a Service Catalog Work: 3 Do’s and Don'ts

A couple of years ago many organizations were taking their first steps into the world of SOA. Their main concern was which ESB to choose. After deciding...

0 replies - 2072 views - 01/25/09 by terlouw in News

RESTEasy 1.0 GA Released

I am pleased to announce the first GA release of JBoss RESTEasy. All documentation and download links are available at RESTEasy's JBoss.org project...

1 replies - 6213 views - 01/22/09 by Bill Burke in Articles

Active Endpoints Announces New Learning Tool

Active Endpoints has announced its "Vintage Old Stock" demonstration application.

0 replies - 474 views - 01/07/09 by ActiveAlex in Announcements

SOA Patterns Refcard Available - Download Now

SOA patterns describe common architectures, implementations, and their areas of application to help in the planning, implementation, deployment, operation, and...

1 replies - 4992 views - 01/04/09 by Jill Tomich in Articles

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part I: Versioning and Compatibility

Web services have made it possible to build services with fully decoupled contracts that leverage industry standards to establish a vendor-neutral...

0 replies - 5277 views - 11/24/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles