As enterprises evolve toward SOA, many underestimate the impact a proper testing strategy has on the enterprise agility and successful realization of the SOA ROI. In fact, the distributed nature of SOA demands a new paradigm on how reusable services are developed, tested, and evolved a...

It's time to get busy. With WS-BPEL 2.0, the SOA community now has a robust, pervasive orchestration standard. Using BPEL, it's fast and easy to integrate service endpoints and deliver high-powered composite applications. Learn how organizations are putting BPEL to work to drive real v...

In the mid-1990s, just before the dot-com boom and the growth of the Internet as a platform, virtually all software used by companies and individual consumers was packaged and commercially licensed. In the meantime, we have seen the dot-com boom and subsequent bust, consolidation of pa...

The Web was a 20-year setback for user experience. Only now are technologies and products emerging that can bring us the interactivity we traded away for access to distributed information when the Web took over. This session will present the possibilities for a highly interactive user ...

The information overload on SOA largely describes the merits and principles of SOA and the variety of products intended to address SOA needs. There is, however, an acute dearth of information on bridging the gap between wanting to get started and actually deploying an SOA implementatio...

Enterprises continue to look for return on investment of their service-orientated architectures, and it is Enterprise Web 2.0 that makes this possible by connecting the last mile of SOA to end-users. This is a win-win-win solution for the enterprise; where not only IT, and end-users be...

As organizations introduce service orientation as a computing theme formally supported through enterprise architecture, they are encountering several obstacles. Service orientation promotes the sharing of capabilities across traditional enterprise system, information, and application b...

The two most powerful forces shaping enterprise software today are software as a service (SaaS) and open source software (OSS). Previously separate, they are now converging into a powerful 'SaaS + OSS' model destined to become the dominant business model for enterprise software. Using ...

According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, sees SOA as a technology that will extend the value of existing legac...

When an enterprise starts moving in a SOA direction, probably the most important question is how to get buy-in from your business users, who most likely don't know what SOA is and could care less what technology IT uses to get them the data: just get the things done. Unless you work in...

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org) is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. It was ...

To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work. BRMS (Business Rules Management System) helps companies meet the SOA promises of reuse and agility with T...

This session will explore the vastly different cost models of SOA and traditional point-to-point architecture and present a simple but powerful ROI model that can be used by anyone to justify SOA expenditures and even guide implementation. This exciting model unearths the dark secret o...

Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to the latest enterprise business applications, virtualized deployme...

The adoption of Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms to perform more critical online transactions has resulted in the urgent need to audit and assess these applications for security vulnerabilities. Many enterprises are currently developing new Web Services an...

Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy to reduce costs and streamline operations, and is often seen as a relatively simple way to reduce personnel requirements, save money on software licenses, and increase reliability. In reality, however, virtualization ...

Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and far between. In most cases, organizations are w...

The releases of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together with the evolution of the J2EE Web services platforms are some of the factors that have significantly increased the software architect's options for Web services interoperability scenarios. Although interoperab...

The reason for much of the chatter about mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) arises from the fact that mashups, and Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena: the 'B' in 'SOBA' indicates t...

Service-oriented architecture concepts have been around for a while and all of the benefits and promises it offers look good on paper. The complexity of implementing and deploying SOA in large enterprises is, however, often overlooked. The problems get further exacerbated when trying t...

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank u...

You wouldn't know it, but virtualization has been around for quite some time. Virtually everything in the IT space has some notion of virtualization associated with it from microprocessors, to networks, to storage, and, finally, to servers. But, have you noticed that many of these are ...

Hal Stern lays out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity.

The two biggest trends affecting IT today are SOA and open source. Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source. Because both SOA and open source offer long-term reductions in cost coupled with an increase in flexibility and innovation, ...

With SOA, companies are deploying a new class of increasingly complex, mission-critical applications. SOA allows quick changes and reactions to business needs. But this flexibility comes with a cost - the inability to effectively manage production application performance. Companies nee...

Lost in the hype around Web 2.0 and AJAX is the fact that your visually attractive Web 2.0 application actually needs to do something useful. In this session we'll illustrate an AJAX application generated from XML-based models. Given that standards-based starting point, we'll illustrat...

A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any...

Two trends in applications architecture AJAX RIA (Rich Internet Applications) on the client side and service-orientation on the server side are enabling powerful enterprise solutions that can be leveraged in diverse business environments. This session will present best practices for de...

I just came back from SOA World 2007 in the beautiful city of San Francisco. What a nice city, I always love visiting this charming town. But anyway, the reason for my trip was to attend SOA World 2007, so I had no time to enjoy this lovely place. I see some really important shifts in ...

The convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture - a.k.a. the Enterprise Mashup - can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and 'situational' applications. These applications can be creat...

Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availability and predictable scalabili...

Is SOA just another layer on the IT infrastructure? If not, are there unique characteristics of SOA that change the game? What are they? Can't I just forget about 'legacy' architectures/infrastructure and 'do SOA'? Why not? Paul Lipton, Principal Architect at CA, asked this series of ...

BEA's Deputy CTO Theo Beack, who joined the San Jose, CA-based company in May to do 'all the cool stuff,' according to an exclusive interview with SYS-CON at the time, shared with delegates at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco today his current thinking about Web 2.0, S...

In his opening keynote address yesterday at SOA World Conference & Expo, Software AG Deputy CTO Miko Matsumura challenged the audience to make service-oriented architecture (SOA) core to their enterprise operations over the coming year. Citing the transformational success of earlier ad...

NextAxiom's service-oriented innovation unifies integration and application component development into a single paradigm. This unified approach enables 'inside-out' integration without the need to replicate data reducing the integration cost by 80%. The NextAxiom Service Virtual Machin...

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo, that it has significantly extended the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support the heterogeneous, enterprise-scale demands of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The WSO2 ESB 1.5 adds the ability t...

Kyle Gabhart, a subject matter expert specializing in Service-Oriented technologies and currently serving as the Director of SOA Technology for Web Age Solutions, gave a highly entertaining and informative session this morning at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco, where...

Miko Matsumura, world renowned technology advisor, speaker and entrepreneur, and currently Deputy CTO at webMethods Inc., gave the Opening Keynote today at the 12th International SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West, at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. Inspired by hundreds of real-wo...

BEA Systems is a leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA Enterprise 360 is the industry's most advanced approach for building a Liquid Enterprise. This comprehensive offering combines our product technologies, people, best practices, and broad network of partners to deliver m...

WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. They deliver a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built on Apache Axis2. WSO2's ...