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This Week
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A newsletter from TechTarget
May 29, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
> From the Editor: SOA's newest product category, ESB hardware
> Ask the Experts: Automate regression testing
> Learning Center: BPEL Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: SOA development best practices; Apache Mini-Guide
> More From SearchWebServices.com: SOA management and composite apps
key for IBM Tivoli
FROM THE EDITOR
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SOA's newest product category, ESB hardware
[Michael Meehan, Site Editor]
One of the great mysteries of the modern world is what constitutes an
enterprise service bus. We tackled the subject last fall in our ESB
market report:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499668/6276287
But there's a new consideration in the mix. Last week during IBM's
Impact 2007 conference, WebSphere general manager Tom Rosamilia used
a fascinating term when describing the IBM DataPower integration
appliance, he called it an ESB. That's right, he called a piece of
networking hardware an ESB:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499669/6276287
Now it's not a new notion that hardware could be used in place of
middleware:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499670/6276287
But now IBM is applying the ESB term to its DataPower XI50 device. If
you read through its product sheet it's always pitched ESB-like
integration functionality, but it's never applied the ESB label. We
always knew this was coming. Now it's here:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499671/6276287
While it would be nice if marketing and technology didn't intersect,
the reality is they do. Also, IBM's really good at marketing. If it's
going to start talking about its ESB hardware you can expect
Cisco/Reactivity and Layer 7 to follow suit. They aren't going to
want to get left in the dust. Love it or hate it, ESB is a powerful
term in the SOA market, something that resonates with users.
Will app dev shops cotton to the notion of an ESB in a different form
factor? Is hardware truly ready to compete against middleware in the
ESB arena? What are the ramifications of choosing hardware instead of
middleware to act as your primary message bus? When does f5 jump into
the fray? All of that has yet to shake out, but the ESB conversation
looks like it's about to change.
The biggest, most aggressive SOA vendor out there is talking about
ESB hardware, fallout is inevitable.
SearchWebServices.com this week will dive deeper with Rosamilia on
the subject of ESB hardware. For those who are interested in how the
network and transport can be brought to bear in SOA, make sure to
check out our recent column on transport-level optimization:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499672/6276287
ASK THE EXPERT
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Automate regression testing
[Rami Jaamour]
Rami Jaamour discusses the components and aspects that you would need
to consider in automate regression testing.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499673/6276287
LEARNING CENTER
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BPEL Learning Guide
To help you learn all there is to know about business process
execution language for Web services (BPEL4WS), the
SearchWebServices.com team has put together a learning guide. In this
BPEL learning guide, you'll find articles, tips, expert advice, white
papers and more that will explain how BPEL fits into the world of Web
services.
> More on this:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499674/6276287
SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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SOA Development Best Practices
Everybody talks about SOA best practices, but does anyone have a
solid methodology in place? Read this article to learn about the
suggestions made by the Burton Group. Find out who should be
responsible for putting best practices in place and what key areas
need to be addressed, including governance, methodologies, security
and more.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499675/6276287
Apache Web Services Mini-Guide
A lot of SOAP activity these days revolves around REST and Axis2, the
latest Apache Web services engine. Brent Sheets has compiled a slew
of valuable resources about this modular architecture supporting
plug-in modules for easier implementation of existing, and future,
Web services specifications.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499676/6276287
MORE FROM SEARCHWEBSERVICES.COM
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SOA management and composite apps key for IBM Tivoli
At IBM's Impact 2007 conference this week, Al Zollar, general manager
of IBM Tivoli, stressed the need to automate management to make sure
Web services work in an SOA environment.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499677/6276287
HP SOA strategy leans toward runtime governance
HP announced an SOA strategy for governance, quality and management
that integrates the technology it acquired from Mercury/Systinet last
summer with its own OpenView product and plays to its strength in
platform agnostic consulting, analysts say.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499678/6276287
IBM views SOA as "business-driven computing"
While Big Blue announced plenty of new products during its Impact
2007 conference, IBM's boldest move was to assert that SOA will be
central to its software and consulting business for "decades to
come."
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499679/6276287
Accelerating SOA performance via transport optimization
High performance SOA is an emerging field and two promising, but
lesser known techniques in this arena are transport-level
optimization and optimized XML processing.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499680/6276287
Migrating to XSLT 2.0
Many will find the extensions they built off of XSLT 1.0 aren't
compatible with XSLT 2.0. Ed Tittel recommends dropping the homegrown
code in favor of sticking with the ongoing standard.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499681/6276287
Mashing the phone
Jason Bloomberg discusses how service-oriented best practices will
impact every aspect of business, from consumer to management.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/1499682/6276287
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