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SearchSOA.com This Week - March 03, 2008
A newsletter from TechTarget
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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> From the Editor: Highlights from the "Pragmatic SOA Governance"
seminar
> Ask the Experts: Advanced business application programming/4
> Learning Center: XML Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: Using Resource-Oriented Computing to solve
integration issues
> More From SearchSOA.com: Composite services next step for mainframe
SOA?
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FROM THE EDITOR
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Highlights from the "Pragmatic SOA Governance" seminar
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181159/6276287
[Michael Meehan]
We at SearchSOA.com have just finished up with the maiden run of our
"Pragmatic SOA Governance" seminar. The first two shows were in
suburban Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and I'm pleased to report
they went swimmingly.
Here's a few of the high points from the show:
Anne Thomas Manes, VP and research director at Burton Group, noted
that a lot of users want to standardize on a single enterprise
service bus, neglecting the reality that most every company will need
to support multiple ESBs. She also suggested not thinking of the ESB
as a "bus" because it implies that there's something in the middle of
your services. Instead she suggested the term enterprise service
network.
Miko Matsumura, deputy CTO at Software AG, used the image of a crack
pipe to illustrate a point during his presentation, namely that bad
development habits can be hard to kick.
Daud Santosa, CTO at the National Business Center inside the U.S.
Department of the Interior, made a great point about choosing
foundational pieces of technology -- if the technology in question
requires consistent and costly upkeep, then it shouldn't be a
foundational piece of technology. "This is hard enough," he said,
pointing to the detailed reference architecture he's trying to
implement at NBC. "Look for technology that makes your life easier."
Dan Foody, VP of Actional products at Progress Software, made a great
observation in response to a question on how can you sell your
business on the merits of SOA: take a sales course. His reasoning was
you need to describe what service orientation means to your business
and outside IT fiefdoms and that will require real professional sales
skills.
Many attendees bemoaned the communications difficulties that plague
IT projects, but Matsumura offered that there is a common language
everyone speaks: money. The line drew a hearty laugh from the Reston
attendees, but later one person from the audience mentioned to me
that the "money" line helped crystallize what he needs to do to get
executive buy-in.
John Woolbright, CTO at Synovus Financial Corp., noted that many
real-time systems are undone due to a lack of data quality. He
suggested defining systems of record for data. "If you want your SOA
to be successful you need to know where that data is and how to
access it."
Foody stressed creating visibility not only into the IT
infrastructure, but to the business process itself. Failure to
provide that visibility can lead you down the path of applications
that don't deliver as promised for the business, he noted.
Manes continually stressed the importance of getting a handle on the
producer/consumer relationship inside SOA as a key element for
governance. Apparently too many users are running into problems
caused by unchecked service consumption.
Most of all, a hearty thanks to our attendees. Rarely do you see
audiences that are anywhere near that engaged during the
presentations. It served as reminder that the practical
implementation of SOA governance has become a pressing concern for
app dev and IT shops.
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ASK THE EXPERT
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Advanced business application programming/4
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181160/6276287
[David Linthicum]
David Linthicum explains what advanced business application
programming (ABAP)/4 means.
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LEARNING CENTER
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XML Learning Guide
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181161/6276287
Want to learn more about XML? This guide explains what XML is, how
it's used, and where it fits into the world of Web services. You'll
find XML articles, tutorials, examples, tips, tools, white papers,
expert advice and more to pump up your XML know-how quickly.
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SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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Using Resource-Oriented Computing to solve integration issues
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181162/6276287
In a session titled 'Son of SOA,' Eugene Ciurana will explore
enterprise integration issues and Resource-Oriented Computing.
Resource-Oriented Computing solves system and application integration
issues by leveraging ESB, domain-specific languages, and shared
memory mechanisms for integrating coupling points, not the
applications themselves, by promoting event-driven interactions
between system components, and by creating logical mappings of
resources such as data or computations that are abstracted from the
physical manifestation of the system deployment. TheServerSide Java
Symposium has an entire track devoted to SOA and an entire track on
Architecture. Learn more about this session and others at TSSJS here:
IT Knowledge Exchange - Get answers from your peers
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181163/6276287
As a SOA professional, the challenges you face each day require
difficult decisions. Wouldn't it be great to tap into the distilled
knowledge of your peers and colleagues who have tackled similar SOA
problems? IT Knowledge Exchange gives you instant access to thousands
of questions and answers created by your peers. Find the real-world
information you need and share your own knowledge, as well.
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MORE FROM SEARCHSOA.COM
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Composite services next step for mainframe SOA?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181165/6276287
Composite services, which include mainframe transactions, data,
application logic, as well as outside Web services, can make
mainframers players in the SOA world, says a SHARE speaker.
Burton says Mule ESB needs more SOA capability
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181166/6276287
MuleSource offers a basic open source ESB and has potential to be a
major player, but currently is not ready for prime time SOA
implementations, according to a new Burton Group report.
Is open source remaking the ESB market?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181167/6276287
The acquisition of Cape Clear this month and the announcement that
Iona is up for sale, raises questions about where the ESB market is
moving and the impact of open source vendors such as WSO2 and
MuleSource.
Podcast: Common pitfalls of data integration
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181168/6276287
This podcast with Marcia Kaufman, partner with Hurwitz & Associates
and co-author of Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, delves
into some of the all-too-frequent data mistakes being made by users.
Comet: Reverse Ajax for streaming data from the server
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181169/6276287
The reverse Ajax, or Ajax Push, technique of streaming data
asynchronously from server to browser, aka Comet, holds a lot promise
for those looking to build real-time, event-based services.
Business empowerment: The underappreciated SOA business benefit
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3181170/6276287
Jason Bloomberg discusses how SOA allows for user empowerment which
leads to a more successful empowerment of business.
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