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