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

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in their production environments. SOA introduces new technical comple...

Widely discussed in IT circles are the limitations of traditional application management products in enabling organizations to achieve maximum return on their SOA investments - often thanks to the higher level of complexity for applications running in this environment. Application Perf...

Complex Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based SOA environments pose a whole new level of management challenges. In this session Albert Mavashev will explore the nature of those challenges by illustrating the need for a Complex Event Processor (CEP) to proactively manage your Enterprise Se...

The original goal of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept was to build flexible, loosely coupled systems. But any two components in a system that communicate with each other are coupled to a certain extent. As architects, our aim in deploying real world SOAs is to lessen tha...

For enterprises looking to create mission-critical applications, the benefits of transitioning to an SOA environment are many. However, the number of legacy applications and systems with proprietary protocols that do not support a Web services interface, and therefore cannot connect di...

As companies embrace SOA and begin breaking apart monolithic applications, the question of how to control and secure access becomes mission-critical. How do you take advantage of the flexibility inherent in a SOA while ensuring that component services are properly secured and managed t...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals into the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and, hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a distributed computing ...

The Enterprise Service Bus provides event-driven and standards-based message services that are fundamental to large and complex enterprise infrastructures. Traditionally the ESB has focused on message delivery between different disparate server-side systems. With the use of modern Web ...

SOA 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 to migrate from existing mo...

Four years in the making, WS-BPEL 2.0 has emerged as the definitive standard to define stateful, complex, and robust service orchestrations. But why does WS-BPEL exist, what role does WS-BPEL play in a service-oriented architecture, and where is WS-BPEL being used? This session will in...

Many organizations make the assumption that SOA is a panacea that can and should be applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recouped and in some cases service ori...

Many large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. The solution is to implement se...

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will consider how the many unique and highly-regarded architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature, and success of many important aspects of SOA, especia...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals in to the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a distributed computing ...

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...

'We are proud to offer our customers a virtualization solution that, along with non-disruptive deployment and comprehensive reporting of existing storage environments, can take proactive action to avoid problems before they occur and preserve customer investments,' said Daniel Liddle, ...

Web Age Solutions is a leading provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Our 'Preferred Vendor' status with these global leaders is a result of our highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction. While many of ...

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, announced that it was the recent recipient of eleven 2007 SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. Winners were recognized in twenty categories by SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media and events compan...

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...

One of the business benefits organizations strive to achieve by implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture, or utilizing Web Services, says Parasoft's Rami Jaamour, is the opportunity to reuse business components. 'Asset reuse is one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web Service ROI ...

Paul Lipton, a Senior Architect in the CA Intellectual Property and Standards Group, likes to remind audiences wherever he speaks that popular assumptions can often be dangerous: the many unique and highly-regarded architectural characteristics of SOA, for example (such as loose-coupli...

SOA is all about reuse and leveraging existing investments, according to Ian Thain, senior technical evangelist / software engineer in the Worldwide Marketing Organization of Sybase, Inc. In Thain's view, 'model-driven SOA' allows for an intersection between requirements established a...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA...

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr...

Panelists included SOA World Magazine editor-in-chief Sean Rhody (CSC), Open Source Specialist and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Debbie Moynihan (IONA), Nexaweb's founder and CTO and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Coach Wei, ColdFusion Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Simon Horwith (AboutW...

Ruby on Gears is a content plus framework built in 100% Ruby on top of the popular Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Gears provides a turn-key user & administration environment suitable for CRM, Project Management, Document Management, Corporate Intranets, Expert Systems, Vertical Search Engines,...

Securent, Inc., the award-winning leader in the Entitlement Management market, today announced that Co-Founder and CTO Sekhar Sarukkai has been selected to present in multiple stand-alone sessions at the annual SOA World Conference and Expo 2007, to be held June 25 - 27 in New York. Th...

Oracle chief SOA technologist Dave Chappell will present a session entitled 'SOA Reality Check' at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East, which will take place June 24-27, 2007, in New York City. The landscape of Web Services, and the shape of the SOA Infrastructure is...

Leading technologists--from Layer 7, Oracle, Thinstall, Nastel, Solstice Software, and iTKO--joined SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff in a discussion on SYS-CON.TV about the state of SOA among enterprise customers, the challenges they face in solving their customer needs, and...

TenFold Corporation, provider of the EnterpriseTenFold SOA applications development environment and applications engine for building and implementing enterprise applications and services, is pleased to announce Jeffrey Walker's participation as a SOA thought leader in the upcoming SOA ...

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers and pa...

Generally, in order to enable performance reporting, fault management, usage metering and SLA management in their SOA environments, companies had to either install agents on the application servers or deploy intermediaries as proxies. The agents become part of the handler chain in J2EE...

Kevin Epstein, vice president of Scalent Systems, will host an interactive presentation on 'The Adaptive Infrastructure -- Dead Bare Metal to Live Connected Servers in Five Minutes or Less' at the 2007 Virtualization Conference & Expo, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, June 27, 2007, fro...

Ubuntu is the darling of the Linux desktop space. Voted #16 in PC World's Top 100 Products for 2007, millions of users and now coming as an option for Dell users straight out of the box, this Linux distribution is increasingly being deployed on corporate networks. With a free server ed...

As enterprise organizations continue to embrace SOA throughout their environments, they also must face new challenges in regards to securing applications that live outside the traditional confines of a secure network. How do you effectively administer and enforce application entitlemen...

We expect a lot from SOA. We want business agility to support growth, attention to customers and efficient, collaborative operations. But you can?t expect what you don't inspect. Composite applications that are constantly changing call for a new testing paradigm to assure that business...

The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software.

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...