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- Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture
- Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- ActiveVOS (zip)
- ActiveVOS makes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications easy. By delivering the best of open standards like the Business Process Execution Language BPEL, BPEL4People and WS-Human Task in a comprehensive, all-in-one environment, developers working in a services-oriented architecture environment can deliver applications flexibly, freeing their processes...
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- Whoa, WOA: Are acronyms clouding up the cloud?
- ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points to Michael Meehan's recent post on the Web Oriented Architecture WOA -- Mike spoke with some industry practitioners who apparently didn't think too much of the "WOA" moniker, striking them "as redundant and nothing particularly new, an empty suit if you will." Just another fancy...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOAIt's all quite insane[i]so ramp up on that registry/repository, BPEL engine, scalable middleware beyond EAI, SOAP and XML appliances, additional performance management tier, ESB, federated ESB, data services tier (and another 15 acronyms there), SCA/SDO...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- 'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA
- Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture WOA, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset
- Forget QA as you knew it -- as it seems to do with everything else, SOA upsets the apple cart. Quality assurance assures more trust in SOA -- and SOAs need trust SOA has a lot of moving parts, so more traditional QA processes...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Another view: SOA opening up 'can of worms' in organizations
- SOA is a journey. A long journey. Bring several changes of clothes. Are organizations really ready to throw out manual processes and standardize? Back in December, reported here in this blogsite, Oracle's Larry Ellison admitted as much, saying it will probably be 10-20 years...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- SOA, Enterprise Architecture, BPM all the same underneath
- SOA, Enterprise Architecture, BPM all the same underneathThere never was a lineI recall jumping on to the SOA Yahoo group months ago, hoping to more fully understand the prevailing definition and practice of what is referred to as SOA. I came to the conclusion that SOA as stand-alone entity never...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Surprise! Oracle buys BEA Systems
- Surprise! Oracle buys BEA SystemsNo surprise at all...was inevitable, only question was priceClearly, the price was much negotiated.If you look at BEA's financials, you would see BEA has actually been going sideways for many years now. License revenues are going down, services subscriptions are the lions share of total revenue....
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Oracle plans 27 security fixes for Jan. 15
- Updated below: Oracle said Thursday that its latest batch of patches will fix 27 security fixes "across hundreds of Oracle products," including eight for the company's database, seven for its e-business suite and six for its application server. In its advisory, Oracle outlines a laundry list of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Five great unsolved mysteries of SOA
- Five great unsolved mysteries of SOAPlease define SOAwhat is it? the only reason theirs mystery behind it, is because theres really not a good definition for it. right? I havent seen anyone explain it with the "nutshell" approach yet, that makes sense to me anyways. please...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Seguros Bolivar Accelerates Decision Making and Improves Response Times in Its Business Processes
- Seguros Bolivar wanted to implement an IT infrastructure to automate the exchange of critical information and speed up decision making throughout the organization and enable access to critical information in real time so that clients, agents, providers, and employees can take rapid and effective action. The challenge was to improve...
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- SIGFE Gains Insight Into Finances With Integrated IT Architecture and Business Intelligence Tool
- SIGFE wanted to implement a robust, reliable, and highly available business intelligence solution capable of consolidating budget execution information from all Chilean government agencies and offer high availability of budget information to the various hierarchical levels of the Chilean government. The company worked with Infochile and Oracle Consulting to integrate...
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Simplifying Web Services Development With the Decorator Pattern
- Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a multitude of options for building Web services: Java, BPEL, ESB, PHP, and more. Even the database is getting into the act with Database Native Web Services. Furthermore, most organizations have heterogeneous IT infrastructures. Thus, the Service-Oriented Architecture SOA will probably comprise services from a variety...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- A Services-Oriented Approach to Business Rules Development
- Many organizations are moving from an object-oriented paradigm for managing business processes toward a service-oriented approach; indeed, services are becoming the fundamental elements of application development. At the same time, Business Process Execution Language BPEL has become the de facto standard for orchestrating these services and managing flawless execution of...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Building a Web Services Network With BPEL
- The ESA has built its entire collaborative network with agility in mind. Interface relationships have been flexibly defined to facilitate easier adoption and rapid evolution. Its use of BPEL domains to offer an independent workspace offers massive flexibility to the service providers; providers can modify their business processes without affecting...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Making BPEL Processes Dynamic
- In most basic process designs, partner links are static; they refer to a single external process selected by the developer at design time. This approach is appropriate for highly targeted or constrained systems. However, in larger systems business processes are more complex. They interact with multiple external services and define...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Testing BPEL in the Real World
- This paper describes how to test a BPEL process by using the Oracle BPEL Test Framework. This framework, part of Oracle BPEL Process Manager, provides a way to create and execute a set of repeatable tests on a BPEL process. In addition, this paper also offers some best practices borrowed...
- White papers 2007-11-01
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