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Monday, November 5, 2007

This week: Contest: SOA the Hard Way

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SEARCHSOA.COM This Week - November 05, 2007
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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> From the Editor: Contest: SOA the Hard Way
> Ask the Experts: Business process policies
> Learning Center: Ajax Learning Guide
> Site Highlights: Microsoft's SOA vision: 'The model is the
application'
> More From SearchSOA: IBM looks at how to get beyond SOA pilots

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FROM THE EDITOR
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Contest: SOA the Hard Way
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516598/6276287
[Michael Meehan]

Often in the IT world you learn by doing or, to be more exact, you
learn from your mistakes. Well, how about giving others a chance to
learn from your mistakes as well?

At SearchSOA.com we've found some of our most consistently popular
content is SOA worst practices stories. Readers get deluged with best
practices stories, but what they crave are useful warning signs to
help them steer clear of avoidable mistakes, particular in an arena
as new as service-oriented architecture. Obviously nobody likes to
brag about their mistakes, but we're all adults here and we assume
that part of the tale will include the recognition of the mistake and
the fix that was applied.

In order to be eligible for the contest, a writer from SearchSOA.com
needs to be able to interview you and use your name. We're not
engaging in "gotcha" journalism, we just want to write a solid story
about a hard lesson learned without cluttering it with vagaries. The
story is only of so much use if the details are muddled. Entrants
must also be a technology end user, not a vendor or channel partner.

Things we're looking for:

Not understanding the proper way to deploy new technology or not
understanding the interrelationships between different pieces of
technology
Unexpected security or QA problems
Architectural and development pitfalls
Management and versioning issues
Data dysfunction
Governance and organizational blind spots
Good ideas gone wrong


Things we're not looking for:

Vendor critiques
Personal issues with colleagues
Complaints without some sort of lesson learned


We will review each and every submission. If we use your story you
will win a free copy of the new book SOA: Principles of Service
Design by SOA guru and SearchSOA.com site expert Thomas Erl, which
hopefully will help steer you clear of a few potential mistakes in
the future. Please send all submissions to mmeehan@techtarget.com
with "Contest: SOA the Hard Way" in the subject line.

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ASK THE EXPERT
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Business process policies
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516599/6276287
[Sri Nagabhirava]

Sri Nagabhirava discusses two distinct policies and how they can
affect change in business processes.

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LEARNING CENTER
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Ajax Learning Guide
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516600/6276287

Are you a Web developer? The time has come to rethink your entire
approach to developing Web applications. This new SearchSOA.com
learning guide introduces you to the Ajax approach (Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML) and how Web developers using Ajax are enriching
the user experience with a more responsive interface.

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SITE HIGHLIGHTS
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Microsoft's SOA vision: 'The model is the application'
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516601/6276287
Microsoft recently unveiled a futuristic vision of technology for SOA
development where "the model is the application." A preview of the
next generation of Visual Studio tools for model-driven design and
deployment of composite applications was part of the keynote at
Microsoft's SOA & BPM Conference. Read this article for an insider's
look at Microsoft's plans for Visual Studio 10, BizTalk Server 6 and
System Center, its policy and management product, which will all
share a common metadata repository as part of the .NET framework.

SOA prompts changes in quality assurance
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516602/6276287
The times are changing for QA engineers and testers -- or at least
they should be if their organizations are developing service-oriented
applications. According to a recent Aberdeen Group report,
significant change is afoot in quality assurance, with the focus
turning to quality throughout the end-to-end business transaction.
Read this article from SearchSoftwareQuality.com for a detailed
exploration of why SOA testing is getting more complex, how to deal
with the top challenges for SOA testing, and tips on beating the SOA
testing curve.

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MORE FROM SEARCHSOA
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IBM looks at how to get beyond SOA pilots
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516603/6276287
A successful SOA pilot does not always scale. IBM's Marie Wieck
offers insights into how organizations can bridge the gap between
pilot projects and enterprise SOA.

Ajax-based wiki gets down to business
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516604/6276287
Startup delivers Ajax-based wiki collaboration applications to small
and medium size businesses via Web services.

Microsoft's SOA vision: 'The model is the application'
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516605/6276287
Microsoft is unveiling Oslo, its SOA product roadmap, which includes
model-driven development tools in Visual Studio to allow users to
design and deploy composite applications without coding.

SOA as a corporate responsibility
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516606/6276287
David Linthicum discusses how corporations are experiencing
inefficiencies with enterprise architectures and the benefits of
implementing SOA.

Avoiding pitfalls of SOA application performance management
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516607/6276287
Building composite applications inside an SOA creates a new set of
performance issues, requiring a deep understanding of service
interdependencies and how this changes application management and
monitoring.

RIA with your SOA? Watch your business rules
http://go.techtarget.com/r/2516608/6276287
Michael Meehan discusses a presentation he witnessed at the Ajax
Experience last week about RIA and Ajax interfaces.

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