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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]

Building SOA Composite Business Services, Part 3: Build Consumable Web Services Using the REST Architectural Style in WebSphere

whitepaper This paper is the third in a series about developing composite applications to enable business services. The paper focuses on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. By using a facade component as a REST-style interface...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Create the Ideal SOA Team: Redefining the Roles of Traditional Software Development Teams

whitepaper The prevailing evolution in software development is moving from traditional software architecture to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In SOA, one thinks of a project as the delivery of integrated services - some new, some existing.

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 2: An Introduction to SOA Solution Scenarios

whitepaper The SOA scenarios represent a set of generic business scenarios in which SOA is being used in typical customer engagements. IBM's wealth of customer-engagement-based experience in SOA implementation has been consolidated into the SOA scenario...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change

whitepaper When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), most information technology (IT) professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction...

Tags: business strategies

[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]

Architecture in Practice, Part 7: Scenario 3: Business Process Management and SOA - Realize Flexible Service Connectivity With Different ESBs

whitepaper This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario, the third of the SOA scenarios. View Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) within a software-development life cycle context using the...

Tags: business management

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper In this paper, Matt Haynos provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 17: Build a Hello World SOA Application

whitepaper This 17th part in the series focuses on new products that lets one implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. In the model phase, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler (Modeler) is used to design and optimize the desired business...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

whitepaper One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented...

Tags: infrastructure management

[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]

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

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

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Defining SOA as an Architectural Style: Align Your Business Model With Technology

whitepaper There is a lot of talk about SOA, yet very little agreement on what this popular three-letter acronym actually means. There was little chance of selecting a single "Best" definition because SOA means different things to different people.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: An Overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment - Examining WebSphere XD as an Integrated Grid Platform for SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization Environments

whitepaper In this paper, one will get an overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment and how it can help the organization realize a dynamic, goals-driven grid infrastructure built on virtualization and which is ideal for SOA environments.

Tags: high performance computing

[16 May 2008]

Building SOA Solutions With the Service Component Architecture - Part 3: Integrating SCA Modules With Imports and Exports

whitepaper In Part 1 of this series, the paper introduced the Service Component Architecture (SCA) as a programming model for building and assembling integration solutions with an overview of what SCA is, and with definitions of some related terminology.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

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

whitepaper Service interface structure is of primary importance in SOA because poorly designed service interfaces can have a negative effect on all applications that need to use them. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 1: A Day in the Life of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in the SOA Life Cycle

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These are realized by separating service descriptions from their...

Tags: web services

[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]

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

whitepaper IBM Service-Oriented Architecture experts define an SOA reference architecture based on multiple projects in various industries over the past three years. One can use the reference architecture to organize one's own SOA design, development, and...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Asset Lifecycle Management for Service-Oriented Architectures

whitepaper This paper examines the use of asset lifecycle management practices, tools, and standards in the development of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Effective lifecycle management of services enables organizations to apply tools and...

Tags: asset management

[15 May 2008]

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