February 2010

• February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10

  SOA Books Library

  In the SOA Books Library, discover books to better understand and implement open source SOA, enterprise mashups, cloud-based applications, and more. Free excerpts are provided.  Continue Reading

• February 23, 2010 23 Feb'10

  Complex Event Processing with streaming databases

  Startup StreamBase Systems attacks the CEP space with a unique streaming database architecture that allows data records to be processed before they are stored. The company set up an exchange for ...  Continue Reading

• February 23, 2010 23 Feb'10

  Happy birthday, Ajax – son of SOA

  By Jack Vaughan XML-based Web services were the most direct antecedent for SOA. They also spawned Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. We often tend to focus on the server-side advances in ...  Continue Reading

• February 23, 2010 23 Feb'10

  Data integration issues challenge Cal power operation's move to SOA

  The California ISO implemented a SOA to connect vendors in the state's market-based wholesale power grid. They used a common information model to meet data integration challenges.  Continue Reading

• February 22, 2010 22 Feb'10

  SOA has not met expectation of joining business and IT says Open Group

  Chris Harding, head of the Open Group's SOA working group, says SOA has not joined business and IT as much as people had hoped. He suggests ways to meet this expectation in 2010.  Continue Reading

• February 18, 2010 18 Feb'10

  Happy birthday Ajax

  Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, more commonly called Ajax, turned five today. As SearchSOA.com reports, it was on Feb. 18, 2005 that user interface expert Jesse James Garrett first coined the ...  Continue Reading

• February 18, 2010 18 Feb'10

  Ajax Web application development celebrates fifth anniversary

  The term "Ajax" was first used five years ago in a blog entry by Jesse James Garret. We spoke with Garret and other Ajax pioneers and users about the importance of Ajax. Read their commentary about the early days of Ajax development, including how ...  Continue Reading

• February 16, 2010 16 Feb'10

  Data integration market adopting the App Store model

  Data integration is an area filled with too many types of implementations for a single vendor to cover all the bases. And vendors are starting to realize this. Both SnapLogic and Informatica are in ...  Continue Reading

• February 16, 2010 16 Feb'10

  Enterprise architects must look beyond project boundaries for better BPM

  The enterprise architect must ensure that individual projects are aware of and adherent to the goals of the enterprise. Allowing BPM to become siloed in a project will limit its effectiveness.  Continue Reading

• February 16, 2010 16 Feb'10

  Business rules engines make workflows more business-friendly but add complexity

  To avoid launching a small IT project every time a business rule needs changing, some companies deploy a business rule engine, which can be operated by business users. But rules engines can be very time-consuming to fully implement, and some users ...  Continue Reading

• February 15, 2010 15 Feb'10

  Oracle continues acquisition trail with telco service broker

  Oracle announced on Feb. 10 that it has agreed to buy Convergin, provider of a J2EE-based service broker for the telecommunications industry. Through this acquisition, Oracle said it hopes to offer ...  Continue Reading

• February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

  TestMaker offers scriptless testing for RIAs and SOA

  Testing can certainly be one of of the less glamorous responsibilities of an application developer. For teams looking for a shortcut, performance management company Apprenda offers a tool that it ...  Continue Reading

• February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

  Discover how to implement Service Component Architecture (SCA) in "Tuscany in Action"

  In "Tuscany in Action," read how to use Apache Tuscany to implement Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA lets a use describe and integrate services in a composite application.  Continue Reading

• February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

  What do enterprise mashups have in common with RAD from the 1990s?

  People see mashups as delivering faster development time. Is this similar or different from RAD (Rapid Application Development), as discussed in the 1990s? Our expert has the answer.  Continue Reading

• February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10

  Roles of the Enterprise Architect with Business Process Management (BPM)

  Both the enterprise architect and business process management (BPM) are often found between business and IT. In this three-part series, discover the different roles the enterprise architect can play when it comes to business process management.  Continue Reading

• February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10

  UK Publisher chooses lightweight application server to improve scalability

  Oracle's WebLogic turned out to be a bit heavy for the needs of UK newspaper publisher Associated Newspapers, who switched to SpringSource tc Server last summer. The switch has shaved off a big chunk of licensing costs as well as CPU usage.  Continue Reading

• February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

  Enterprise architecture methodology should start with broad vision

  An enterprise architect shouldunderstand the entire enterprise before depending on IT for solutions. Read how this methodology applies to BPM, and why BPM can't rely on technology alone.  Continue Reading

• February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

  Enterprise architects can use BPMN as common language for process modeling

  With BPMN, enterprise architects can create models with direct input from business users and those same models can be translated by developers into executable code.  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Quick bits: Jonathon Schwartz's goodbye tweet - Oracle buys AmberPoint

  Last week, in the wake of the Oracle-Sun merger, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz left. He tweeted on the way. This week Oracle was back buying, grabbing SOA governance software maker AmberPoint. Such ...  Continue Reading

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Oracle to buy AmberPoint

  Oracle announced Monday an agreement to buy AmberPoint, a vendor of SOA management and governance tools. An Oracle representative said the company's Fusion Middleware stack would benefit from AmberPoint's ability to diagnose issues in application ...  Continue Reading