http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchSOA.com blog Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SOA Software Inc. says its acquisition of LogicLibrary Inc., announced today, creates "a dominant Integrated SOA governance automation company." The two companies were both rated as leaders in respective governance areas by two major analyst firms, said Roberto Medrano, SOA Software's executive vice president, in making the argument that the new whole ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/soa-software-seeks-governance-dominance/ Pro wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper immortalized the words "Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions." Now we at SearchSOA.com are asking you to do the same thing, sort of. It won't involve wearing a kilt or smashing a coconut over anyone's skull. We just want ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/soa-experts-weve-got-em/ Java EE 6, now in the development stage, needs to embrace the service component architecture (SCA) specification, argues Sanjay Patil, standards architect at SAP AG. The Java Community Process Web page for Java EE 6 indicates that SCA is being considered for the next version of the enterprise platform. So in ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/09/java-ee-6-needs-sca-sap-architect-says/ In front of a packed room of a few hundred developers at the 2008 JavaOne conference yesterday, IBM's Jean-Sebastien Delfino gave a presentation of the Apache Tuscany project, an open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard. SCA is designed to facilitate a standard method of constructing, assembling ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/08/javaone-report-apache-tuscany-can-soa-be-this-easy/ If serverside developers and enterprise architects were left feeling forgotten by last year's JavaOne conference, then they'll be feeling positively orphaned by this year's major keynote address. Sun Microsystems executive vice president for software Rich Green hammered away on how Java provides "a high performance virtual machine" capable of running all ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/06/javaone-sun-seeks-digital-life/ I'm heading out to the JavaOne conference this week and it struck me that Java has had a very quiet year. Two years ago Sun launched Java EE 5 and almost immediately analysts began to call it a heavyweight dinosaur not likely to survive in an SOA world. Sun and ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/04/whats-next-for-java-take-a-look-at-glassfish/ One of our sister sites, SearchNetworking.com, just published a story on how networking pros need to collaborate with people on the applications more often these days because service-oriented apps and Web 2.0 technologies put a greater and/or different strains on the network. The article comes out of an Interop 2008 session ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/01/soa-and-networking-the-conversation-that-never-seems-to-happen/ I've been having an extended conversation during this calendar year about SOA and the telecom industry, namely that the European telecoms are often the reference models for what a service-oriented business looks like while U.S. telecoms seem to be mired in the 1990s. Today we've got a curious development with the ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/28/telecom-industry-provides-soa-contrast/ In the early days of client/server adoption in the 1990s there were lots of articles lamenting the fact the client/server wasn't living up to its promise. It was just another theory that didn't really work all that well in practice. But after a few years client/server was just the way application ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/25/soa-versus-perfect-soa/ A lot of analysts I respect have been pushing the concept of Web-oriented architecture, or WOA, of late. For those unfamiliar with the term, Dion Hinchcliffe has covered it extensively and Dana Gardner has been singing its praises. To be honest, it looked like a term in search of a ... http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/21/does-woa-bring-anything-new-to-soa/