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Service Oriented Virtualization

SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners

iTKO LISA Combines SOA Monitoring with Advanced Test Execution Capabilities

Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.

For SOA, The Future of Quality is Federated

This paper will refer to government organizations as a case study on SOA Governance. However, architects and developers in the business computing arena can draw valuable lessons from the complex integration and quality challenges faced by federal agencies.

iTKO LISA 4 Release Revolutionizes SOA Quality with Virtualized Services and Business Process Testing Features

LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation

iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing and Validation. LISA expands upon iTKO's delivery of the Three C's of testing - complete, collaborative and continuous - by adding key functionalities that mitigate the business risk of ever-increasing change and complexity in enterprise IT.

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JBoss Application Server 5.0.0 GA released to the community

"We have been waiting for that day for a long time. Too long certainly. But here we are, the community version of JBoss.org AS 5.0 just got released.Our foundations are now ready to absorb the changes the Java landscape will go through in the next 5 years. We have the strongest API-agnostic implementation of the core middleware services - our DNA (messaging, persistence, security, remoting, etc.). We have the most evolutive and flexible microcontainer on the market. Thanks to those two, we are able to morph our DNA to whatever API/programming model the market might move towards, and implement several of those simultaneously if needed. They are the (important) bells and whistles on top of our rock-solid and non-monolithic engine."....


Understanding WS-Federation

WS-Security, WS-Trust, and WS-SecurityPolicy provide a basic model for federation between Identity Providers and Relying Parties.

Proposed Charter: OASIS Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical Committee

OASIS has acknowledged receipt of a draft TC charter proposal to establish a new Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical Committee.

Sun's Identity-Enabled B2B Integration SOA Offering

As companies tackle larger B2B integration projects, these corporations are challenged with developing a B2B platform that can be re-used across multiple projects and which can provide a single point of entry into the company's firewalls.

BEA and CA Announce Strategic Partnership for Identity and Access Management

Companies to help customers reduce IT costs, improve performance by combining Web Single Sign-On, user management and SOA infrastructure.

Extending Identity Management Solutions into a SOA

Managing and applying policies and controls to Service Oriented Architectures.

WS-Federation version 1.1 is out, 3 years after...

Microsoft, IBM & al. have decided to release a new version of WS-Federation, more than 3 years after their first version.

CA Announces New Release of eTrust SiteMinder With Enhanced Identity Federation Capabilities

Support for Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services and new partner-enabling “End Point” eases creation of secure business partnerships.

SAML 2.0 Meets Web 2.0

SAML 2.0, a protocol for federated single sign on, needs to lighten up for the Web 2.0 world of agile development.

Liberty Alliance Releases Final Version of ID-WSF 2.0 Web Services Standards

Liberty Alliance announced the release of the final version of ID-WSF 2.0, a framework for building and managing privacy-respecting, secure and interoperable Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs).

Secure Sharing of Digital Identity Information

This article provides a short introduction to SAML and its use within WebLogic Server 9.

Identity Based XML Firewalling Solution Brief

This papers describes how to provide security to a SOA, by providing architects a centralized integration and enforcement point for identity based SOA security operations like client authentication, service level authorization, message privacy and transaction integrity.

Federated Web Services Solution Brief

This papers illustrates how to manage the process of trust enablement and identity bridging between client applications and Web services without coding. Must read!

Sun Microsystems Publishes Non-Assertion Covenant for SAML Implementations

Sun Microsystems has issued a 'SAML Non-Assertion Covenant' in connection with OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specifications being created by the OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC.

F5 Teams with Oracle to Deliver Extended Identity Management

F5 BIG-IP® and FirePass® products now integrate with Oracle® Identity Management.