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The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes service oriented architecture (SOA) open source middleware such as JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to integrate applications, services, transactions, and business components into automated business processes.
OpenJDK and the IcedTea Project
"..This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone — the latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation - in keeping with the portability goal of the Java platform..."
Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
SOA Software Announces SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET Framework
"SOA Software announced that it has certified Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) within the Microsoft .NET Framework as Governed Service Platforms. This allows customers to confidently use the .NET Framework, which includes WCF, as part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial SOA platforms like SAP NetWeaver, IBM WebSphere, BEA, and Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source providers."...
Bill Gates shakes up SOA - Oslo embraces UML
"It hasn’t received much attention in SOA circles yet, but last week Bill Gates broke what might be the biggest news Microsoft has made in the SOA space since the debut of .NET...."
Apache CXF: What the future holds for Web services frameworks and dynamic languages
"More open source server components and frameworks continue to emerge from developer communities. One of the latest, Apache CXF, an open-source Web services framework, graduated from incubation recently to become a full Apache Foundation project..."
Progress Software Announces Availability of Sonic ESB 7.6
New Sonic ESB Release Expands Functionality with Improved SOA Management and Enhanced BPEL Instrumentation
Parasoft Invests in Embedded Systems Quality Group
Parasoft launches new embedded division, Parasoft Embedded, to tackle quality in the embedded market with innovative solutions and services
XML 2.0
Arguably the most important upgrade to Xml 2.0 is that it no longer need custom schema definitions. From now on all validations will be done through direct links to Xml.Com .
What is a Token?
In the WS-* security world, "Token" is really just a another name the security geniuses decided to use for "Handy package for all sorts of security stuff". The most popular type of token is the SAML (just say "samel") token. If the ladies and gentlemen designing and writing security platform infrastructure and frameworks are doing a good job you might want to know about the existence of such a thing, but otherwise be blissfully ignorant of all the gory details.