"We didn't start the fire ... it was always burning since the world's been turning ..." [Billy Joel 1989]. Is SOA the "Same Old Architecture?" or is it "Simply Over Ambitious?" Let's apply SOA's arsenal:: XML, BPM, Services, SOAP, Web Services - to the real world and find out. Let's put out some fires.

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August 10, 2008

Gaps in the IBM SOA Security Reference Architecture - Part III

Is it necessary to have an advanced and  mature SOA Stack in order to have centralized security policy creation and enforcement?  If a SOA Stack is not at a stage where Composite Applications are proliferating, is centralized security still required?

You need centralized security policy creation and enforcementet quite early in your SOA program. The first step in your SOA initiative will be to decide what level of granularity your services should be at. It is very easy to create webservices using built-in wizards found in many IDEs as well as wizards offered in products like databases and portals.

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January 30, 2008

SOA at The Open Group

SOA was one of the main themes at the ongoing Open Group Architecture Conference in San Francisco this week. Not only were the discussions in SOA taking more than 70% of the discussion topics, the debates that followed through in the Q&A and during breaks was adding enthusiasm to the conference.

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April 27, 2007

web 2.0 and SOA - where do they meet?

While web 2.0 is all about rich user interfaces, and participative architectures. SOA is all about standards based integration, and standards based IT interfaces? Where do they meet?

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