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SearchSOA.com This Week - March 24, 2008
A newsletter from TechTarget
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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> From the Editor: The SOA-RIA intersection
> Ask the Experts: SCA and SDO standards
> Learning Center: Eclipse Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: SOA Talk: A SearchSOA.com blog
> Webcasts: Delivering Business Value Through an Open Platform based
on standards - Vendor Podcast
> More From SearchSOA.com: The business and IT roles inside SOA and
BPM
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FROM THE EDITOR
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The SOA-RIA intersection
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338026/6276287
by Michael Meehan - mmeehan@techtarget.
Recently we polled SearchSOA.com site members on their RIA and
composite application plans. What we discovered is there's a massive
overlap between the SOA and RIA audiences.
In all we received 395 responses and 44% said rich Internet
applications were part of their enterprise IT/business strategy.
Another 30% reported that RIA would become part of that strategy in
2008. 85% reported that RIA was an important to extremely important
piece of their SOA strategy. Only 2% said RIA wasn't important at all
to their SOA plans.
Most strikingly, 74% reported they expect the importance of RIA to
their IT/business goals to increase this year. In other words, for
3/4 of our survey respondents, RIA is a big deal that will be getting
bigger. Rich Web front ends were the most popular type of app being
built or planned (79%), with Ajax (81%) being the most popular
technology employed to build those apps. Yet 55% also reported they
are building/planning database composite applications and 35%
reported they have entered or will enter the fairly new space of
enterprise mashups. That's a fairly massive amount for a category
that would have been in the low single digits two years ago.
Oddly, mobile apps only drew a 29% response rate. That could be read
a few different ways. Our respondents were mostly senior folks in the
app dev or IT department. It's possible rich mobile development is
being done outside their auspices. Yet the fact that the more senior
people in the app dev arena aren't connected to it would also mean
that rich mobile development hasn't become a major enterprise
initiative. The other way to read it is that mobile devices have yet
to become a major business initiative. In fact, mashups using unified
communications might be the path that mobile devices take rather than
strict mobile app development.
The top two benefits sought by those building out rich/composite apps
were improving the user experience for customer facing apps/services
(65%) and providing expected levels of business functionality to end
users (61%). Lack of internal knowledge/resources ranked as the
number one obstacle to adopting Web 2.0 technologies (21%). It also
ranked high as a secondary issue (35%). Yet a whole host of issues
fell in the 27-38% range for secondary issues: techinical
readiness/back-end support, selecting the right technologies,
security, data/application integration issues and application
performance issues.
Finally, IT management ranked as the top evangelist (28%), technical
decision maker (34%) and financial decision maker (40%) when it comes
to Web 2.0 technologies. Yet an interesting person ranked second in
evangelism (27%) and technical decision making (26%) - the architect.
Maybe this has something to do with polling the membership of an SOA
site, but it speaks to how architecture is becoming a primary concern
in all applications work these days.
It should be remembered that for years analysts have been saying that
a primary benefit of pursuing SOA is to get ready for whatever comes
next, to be able to deploy new technologies on top of the existing IT
infrastructure in a way that makes sense. It would seem from our
survey that those predictions are now taking shape in reality. RIA is
happening parallel to and in conjunction with SOA and it looks like
many users will have interesting stories to tell later in the year.
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ASK THE EXPERT
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SCA and SDO standards
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338027/6276287
[David Linthicum]
David Linthicum defines Service Component Architecture (SCA) and
Service Data Objects (SDO) and explains how to best build these
components to enable a successful SOA.
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LEARNING CENTER
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Eclipse Learning Guide
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338028/6276287
Want to learn more about Eclipse? Check out the language-neutral
Eclipse development platform featuring an extensible plug-in based
framework. This learning guide is brimming with helpful pointers to
get you started quickly.
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SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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SOA Talk: A SearchSOA.com blog
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338029/6276287
The SOA blog with observations and commentary for architects and
developers about SOA, Web services, integration technologies (ESBs,
Grids, XML) and development platforms such as Java EE and .NET.
Ask the SOA Expert: WSDL and SOAP
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338030/6276287
Where does WDSL come into play and why? How do I parse WSDL files?
How do you use SOAP to communicate with WSDL? Expert Anne Thomas
Manes answers these and other SOA questions.
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PODCASTS & WEBCASTS
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Delivering Business Value Through an Open Platform based on standards
- Vendor Podcast
When: 21 Feb 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338031/6276287
Speaker: David Burdett Standards Architect
Sponsor: SAP Labs, http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338032/6276287
Modernizing C++ Applications - Vendor Webcast
When: Available On Demand
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338033/6276287
Speakers: Scott Lasica VP, Technical Services, Rogue Wave Software
Hugh Wayham Field Engineer, Rogue Wave Software
Sponsor: Rogue Wave Software, http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338034/6276287
View All Podcasts & Webcasts at:
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338035/6276287
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MORE FROM SEARCHSOA.COM
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The business and IT roles inside SOA and BPM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338036/6276287
Sandy Carter, vice president for SOA and WebSphere strategy at IBM,
outlines the various roles of business and IT personnel in making SOA
and BPM function.
SOA adoption rises on business value -- Forrester
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338037/6276287
SOA adoption continue to grow in North America, Europe and Asia
Pacific with business enablement as the driver, according to an
annual survey by Forrester Research Inc.
Eclipse, Sun and Oracle team up on persistence API
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338038/6276287
The surprise announcement from this week's EclipseCon, is Sun
Microsystems selecting the Oracle led EclipseLink project as the
reference implementation for the Java Persistence API 2.0.
Eclipse forms OSGi community
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338039/6276287
At EclipseCon this week, the Eclipse Foundation announced the
formation of a new open source community project "to develop and
promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a
lightweight OSGi-based runtime.
The "S" in "SOA" is services
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338040/6276287
David Linthicum discusses how the quality of services defines how
well SOA can be implemented and governed.
OpenID: Leveraging a widely accepted identity Web service
http://go.techtarget.com/r/3338041/6276287
Password management has become a nightmare for both application
providers and consumers. OpenID seeks to use Web services to simplify
the credential process.
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