Webinar 9/17 w/ iTKO & Guest Accenture - Test and Develop Across Distributed Teams
iTKO and guest speaker Accenture are co-presenting a webinar Thursday, September 17, on achieving quality among distributed systems and teams. iTKO Chief Scientist, John Michelsen, and Accenture Partner, Jeff Wilkinson, will present and answer questions on the topic and related solutions.
What ever happened to the withering RIA market?
..."From a services oriented architecture (SOA) perspective, RIAs are simply the user interface to composite services. This is why we care about the RIA market: To the extent that organizations can abstract the presentation of their services from the composition of those services, and in turn from the implementation of the services, we can introduce greater flexibility into the sort of applications we deliver to the business without sacrificing functionality."...
The JBoss SOA Assessment Tool: Spend Less, Do More
"..SOA does not have to be overly complex or expensive. This white paper shows you how the JBoss SOA Assessment Tool can help you chart a course to a successful SOA implementation."...
Microsoft participating as a code contributor to an Apache project
"As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge incubator project."...
Seam 2.1.1.GA is out
"It looks like we can add to the Christmas cheer by announcing that Seam 2.1.1 is now out. Seam 2.1.1 is largely a bug-fix release, with a number of notable performance improvements, especially around hot deploy"....
SOA Could Rebound as Recession-Busting Strategy
"Adoption of the hard-to-explain technology is down, but it’s still possible to make a convincing business strategy case."....
Open Source Lets Developers Speed SOA Development Despite Economic Slowdown
"A new case study from WSO2, the open source SOA company, highlights how one customer has successfully implemented a SOA initiative to deliver consolidated reporting from enterprise applications distributed across multiple systems."....
The death of SOA has been highly exaggerated
"SOA is a good architectural approach and will always be a part of enterprise architecture, long after the SOA TLA has fallen off blog postings, articles, books, and conferences "....
Gartner: SOA growth projections shrinking
"Gartner finds for the first time in five years of surveying that fewer companies have plans to move forward with SOA"....
Nexaweb Adds Reusable Framework for Application Modernization to Flagship Enterprise Web Suite
"Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. today announced the Nexaweb Reference Framework, a new addition to its flagship Enterprise Web Suite. The Nexaweb Reference Framework is engineered to reduce the time, costs, and architectural decisions associated with modernizing business applications and bringing them to the Web. "...