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Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 3: Gathering Requirements for Ongoing SOA Services Usage

whitepaper When the enterprise has a collection of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services, the requirements-gathering process can be challenging. The first paper in this series discusses the technical requirements for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 9: The Defining Element of SOA - A Different Look at Governance

whitepaper One has probably been hearing a lot about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM and others in the IT industry: about its inevitability as an enterprise software architectural style of choice; about how, if one has anything to do with...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted, but there are gaps in the industry's approach, level of experience, and understanding of how to apply SOA to enterprise IT environments.

Tags: mainframes

[16 May 2008]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in SOA Adoption: Tips to Help You Reap the Benefits of an SOA Implementation

whitepaper A relatively new subdiscipline in architecture that has gained significant prominence is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA, frequently touted as the elixir to an enterprise's problem of application inflexibility and high maintenance cost...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Beyond the Obvious Web Services

whitepaper This paper examines the technology evolution from COM to Web Services and how Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can make a big difference to existing enterprise architecture. Basically they are the physical binary implementations of the business...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise: PeopleTools 8.48 64-Bit on the IBM System p Platform

whitepaper PeopleTools 8.48 provides customers with an expanded ability to adopt a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and also allows customers to create and natively support Web services and integrate legacy or custom applications with PeopleSoft...

Tags: unix

[16 May 2008]

Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture: Support and Optimize SOA and Web 2.0 Applications

whitepaper The growing challenge for enterprise IT architects, however, is that because these composite applications are highly distributed, interactions between components may require several traversals across various areas of the network - each increasing...

Tags: web development and design

[16 May 2008]

Information Architecture 101: A Crash Course for the Enterprise Architect - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AlfIA), an Information Architecture (IA) industry body of practitioners, states that IA is ".the design of shared information environments," especially as it relates to Web sites, intranets...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Design an SOA Solution Using a Reference Architecture: Improve Your Development Process Using the SOA Solution Stack

whitepaper The reference architecture, also referred to as the SOA solution stack, defines the layers, architectural building blocks, architectural and design decisions, patterns, options, and the separation of concerns that can help the enterprise better...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make the SOA solution more responsive to business needs.

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Building a Powerful, Reliable SOA With JMS and WebSphere ESB - Part 1: Combining WebSphere ESB V6.0.1 and JMS

whitepaper The recently released IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product offers functionality that is at the core of any environment based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This is the first of three papers that together will describe how...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

SOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services, Part 1: Introduction to the IBM SOA Programming Model

whitepaper The IBM programming model for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables non-programmers to create and reuse IT assets without mastering IT skills. This is the first in a series of papers about the IBM SOA programming model and what is required to...

Tags: programming languages

[15 May 2008]

Architecture in Practice, Part 1: Realizing Service-Oriented Architecture - IBM Tools and Products for Implementing SOA Systems

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) means different things to different people. To an IT architect, SOA is an architectural style and paradigm that enables the creation of modular and loosely coupled services that can be composed and choreographed...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Bobby Woolf: A Quick Intro to WebSphere Business Process Management

whitepaper IBM WebSphere Business Process Management is a solution for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing applications that embody a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and are integrated using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

SOA Governance for Developers and Architects: Find Out How It Affects You and Your Job Today

whitepaper Enterprise IT groups and CIOs are creating new governance policies around SOA, enterprise architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and more. SOA governance is becoming a big issue. Learn about governance from a developer's perspective...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 1: Choosing the Right Implementation

whitepaper Explore options for building Points Of Variability (POV) in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) composite business services in this series. Topics include business rules and selectors; mediation using an Enterprise Service Bus; dynamic routing...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[15 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 13: Integrate BPEL With Enterprise Service Bus in WebSphere Application Server V6

whitepaper Building on Part 11 in the series, this paper helps one use BPEL and the ESB together to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In Part 2, WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker implemented the ESB patterns for the customer...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Introducing the WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture: A Service-Based Foundation for Enterprise-Level Business Integration

whitepaper The industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard to manage client-server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of...

Tags: web services

[14 May 2008]

Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Discover How an ESB Can Help You Meet the Requirements for Your SOA Solution

whitepaper This paper is first in a series that describes and defines the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) pattern called the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). In this series, discover how the ESB fits within the IBM SOA Foundation and how other parts of the...

Tags: web services

[14 May 2008]

Simplify Integration Architectures With an Enterprise Service Bus

whitepaper With the growing emphasis on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the growing complexity in the family of Web services specifications, there is understandably confusion about such big-sounding terms as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Tags: web services

[14 May 2008]

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