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A newsletter from TechTarget
September 17, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
> From the Editor: How difficult is SOA?
> Ask the Experts: Apache Tomcat
> Learning Center: SOA Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: The SOA Magazine
> White Papers: SOA and Web Services: The Performance Paradox
> More From SearchWebServices.com: When all else fails, try SOA best
practices
FROM THE EDITOR
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How difficult is SOA?
[Michael Meehan, Site Editor]
Granted, service-oriented architecture requires you to do a lot of
things. It takes no small amount of time to redesign your
architecture and re-orient your IT organization. The documentation
involved, the training, the trial and error ? it can eat up a good
chunk of your life.
Yet how hard is it? Yes, it's involved, but is it hard to do? There
is a qualitative difference between having a lot to coordinate and
needing a crew of supergeniuses to implement it. The answer, it would
seem, is that SOA doesn't require advanced mental gymnastics.
Not surprisingly, simplicity is what gets stressed in the analyst
community more often than not. Do an internal inventory, set a clear
roadmap, involve the necessary parties and start small are among the
usual recommendations. You could always pay attention to best
practices.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206154/6276287
You could look into an SOA implementation checklist. If you wanted
to go a little deeper, we have an SOA Lifecycle All-in-One Guide,
which covers SOA implementation from soup to nuts.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206155/6276287
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206156/6276287
The point is, SOA isn't some form of arcana. It's not shrouded in
mystery and no human sacrifices will be required to achieve it.
Perhaps above all commitment is the key ingredient. The resources are
out there for those who want to pursue service-oriented architecture.
Plenty of companies are already well on their way to implementing it
and it's not because they are possessed of a unique brilliance. They
made the commitment, learned the basics and laid out a sensible
roadmap. Chances are that some or your competitors are among them.
SOA may not be easy or quick, but it's also not rocket science. One
of the things that may be making it harder is that some companies
have approached it with a half-hearted commitment. SOA isn't for
dabblers. You don't pay attention to your architecture only when
you're in the proper mood. If you try to approach SOA in sort of
haphazard fashion then you'll be making it far more difficult than it
needs to be.
MORE >
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206157/6276287
ASK THE EXPERT
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Apache Tomcat
[David Linthicum]
David Linthicum explains how it is possible that Apache Tomcat is
both a Web server and an application server.
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LEARNING CENTER
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SOA Learning Guide
This SearchWebServices.com learning guide introduces you to
service-oriented architecture, or SOA. In this SOA learning guide,
you'll find all the information you need on adopting, implementing
and designing SOA, along with articles, tips and expert advice.
> More on this:
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SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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The SOA Magazine
The new issue of the SOA Magazine provides articles by David
Chappell, David Berry, Chris Madrid, and Carlo Innocenti. Topics
covered include grid-enabled SOA designs, service virtualization
techniques, and how XQuery can be leveraged in support of SOA. The
SOA Magazine is brought to you by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice
Hall/PearsonPTR and is associated with the "Prentice Hall
Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl"
(www.soabooks.com).
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206160/6276287
FEATURED WHITE PAPERS
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SOA and Web Services: The Performance Paradox
Published by: CA 01 Apr 2007
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206161/6276287
A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Up SaaS Operations
Published by: OpSource 01 Aug 2007
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206162/6276287
Free Online SOA Assessment
Published by: Oracle Corporation 02 Aug 2007
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206163/6276287
Troubleshoot Web Disruptions through Database with End User
Monitoring
Published by: Symphoniq Corporation 01 Aug 2007
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206164/6276287
View All White Papers at:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206165/6276287
MORE FROM SEARCHWEBSERVICES.COM
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When all else fails, try SOA best practices
For confused about SOA standards, tools and technologies, and not
sure where to begin an implementation, you are not alone, say three
analysts who specialize in SOA best practices.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206166/6276287
BEA seeks to create SOA business mashups with Genesis
In the beginning there was AquaLogic Registry and Repository and
around it forms BEA CEO Alfred Chuang's vision of Genesis, which is
designed to combine SOA, BPM and Web 2.0.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206167/6276287
SOA Software joins Microsoft BizTalk ESB effort
SOA Software announces a partnership with Microsoft to provide
customized governance for the soon to be released BizTalk Server ESB
Guidance toolkit.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206168/6276287
Defining business services: SOA from a corporate perspective
This is the first of two articles that document and explore
guidelines and principles for defining "business services" to help
clarify the confusion and arbitrariness surrounding "services" in
general. Services encapsulating business logic in particular are
explained as these tend to realize the greatest value when
positioning a service-oriented IT enterprise in support of and in
alignment with an organization's business.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206169/6276287
Efficient XML Interchange tackles data verbosity
Coming out of the work on Binary XML, Efficient XML Interchange
compresses the notoriously verbose data format on top of adding
processing efficiency.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206170/6276287
SOA Lifecycle
Starting with modeling then working through assembly, deployment and
management, the new SearchWebServices.com SOA Lifecycle All-in-Guide
has resources relevant to any SOA implementation.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2206171/6276287
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