Nth Penguin Releases WebWidgetry Data Services
"The first step to making SOA based RIA development a no brainer" - Nth Penguin, LLC has released WW.DataServices to the public and is available for immediate download at: www.nthpenguin.com
Orchestration vs. Choreography: Debate Over Definitions
.."With increasing attention given to SOA, it becomes more and more important to standardize (give precise meaning) the terminology used. An interesting discussion illuminates that point.The discussion was started by Michael Poulin who was asking the question about the difference between "orchestration" and "choreography" hoping to be pointed to the place where the difference "had been clearly articulated". Instead of a simple answer, his question caused a flurry of replies, each giving a slightly different meaning to the terms and interpreting them differently.."...
ActiveVOS Selected to Help Develop FBI’s Next Generation Identification System
Active Endpoints announced that ActiveVOS has been selected to orchestrate the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system as part of a 10-year, US$1 billion contract awarded to Lockheed Martin.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expands Certified Configurations, Adds More Mainframe & Java SE 6 Support
"We are pleased to announce that the latest Cumulative Patch for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 and v4.3 has expanded its number of Certified Configurations and has added support for more mainframes and Java SE 6."...
SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
..."perhaps the adoption numbers are lower because there is greater clarity about SOA. General understanding of what SOA is — and isn’t — has matured since 2006. Companies may have a better sense of where they stand on the continuum between JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) and SOA enablement."...
iTKO LISA and dynaTrace Partner for Federated SOA Testing, Validation and Performance Solution
Joint Solution to be Demonstrated at LandWarNet 2008, Leading SOA Testing & Virtualization Platform Combines with Leading SOA Performance Diagnostics Solution
Intermediating ESBs for SOA: The Final Webinar?
...."All of this started with an innocent little interview John did for SearchSOA - where the topic of Intermediating multiple ESBs came up. This article created a tornado of posts from some heavy hitters on SOA topics over the last month.Given all of that, we decided to have our own little webinar on the topic Monday - and we were glad to find dozens of you Chief Architects and senior IT & Dev Managers attending - and asking some great questions about how to rationalize ESBs with their existing technologies, and enable your SOA initiatives going forward."...
Survey says: Aligning IT operations with business goals increases agility, cuts costs
"Aligning IT with business goals — and the benefits that brings to a business — have long been a recurrent theme of the podcasts and discussions we’ve done over the last few years. So it’s gratifying to see a worldwide study showing that businesses are not only pursuing this strategy, but are reaping significant benefits from it."...
Attention US developers: Active Endpoints has a wake-up call for you
"Copied below is the text of an email we sent today to more than 30,000 developers in the US. We are in a unique position to see what the rate of adoption of modern development tools is. And what we’ve seen is so strong a trend, we simply had to go public with what we’ve learned...."
SOA centres of excellence can cut costs
"Despite high initial start-up costs, service-oriented architecture (SOA) centres of excellence can save organisations a significant amount of money in the longer term and are crucial to ensure service quality, consistency and reuse...."