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whitepaper Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 5: Using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository2007-08-14 IBM
  As the adoption of SOA in an enterprise grows, so does the complexity around managing a multitude of both new and old services in the SOA environment. Companies develop new services in house, outsource, or buy service implementation from ISVs (or partners). The number of services and the variety of service metadata, such as response time, transaction charges and other SLA information, make finding the right service for a task a difficult problem. To help with the problem, the service descriptions need to be associated with metadata that can capture arbitrary information about the services (for example, name of the department or line of business responsible for the service, version number for the service or its release date, etc.).

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Web Site for Greek Elections Attracts Over 150 Million Hits0000-00-00 Microsoft
  The Ministry of Interior in Athens wanted to improve its results service for voters in the 2002 municipal and prefectural elections. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Delta Singular provided not only results via the Internet but also via SMS messages and hand held computers. The reporting system is one of the most advanced in Europe with the Web site attracting more than 150 million hits from the public.

Tags: .NET		   
whitepaper Insight and Outlook, Part 10: Cutting Through the Hype About SOA2007-05-22 IBM
  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may be a bit of an exception; most people will not try to convince the user that it is really easy to design or build an SOA. However, the author imagines one has heard more than once that SOA is the solution to all the IT problems. (OK - maybe all the IT problems except the one where the management keeps buying into "Easy-to-use" solutions from major platform vendors.) Still, it can sound like all one has to do is adopt SOA and suddenly the IT systems will not only work really well, but they will be easy to maintain and upgrade. And they will completely align with business needs and save or make the company lots of money.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Build Mashups With the Service Component Architecture and Apache Tuscany2007-05-22 IBM
  Service Component Architecture provides a flexibility of composition, reuse, and technology and deployment choice that makes it an ideal environment in which to build and run mashup applications. This paper describes the Alert Aggregator sample, a mashup style application with a Web 2.0 interface, which has been recently developed for the Apache Tuscany SCA Native runtime.   
whitepaper Let Semantics Bring Sophistication to Your Applications2007-05-17 Jupitermedia
  The Semantic Web aims to extend the information on the web in a form that can be consumed more usefully by people and computer programs. This approach generally involves extending today's web of unstructured data with a more meaningful representation of knowledge. This paper explains how to leverage semantic technology and the W3C's Web Ontology Language standard to spice up a query-based application. The paper explains some of the building blocks of semantic technology and builds a simple application to exercise these components.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Explore the Role of Service Repositories and Registries in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Understanding the Definition of Each and When to Use Them2007-05-15 IBM
  Many recent publications [Longworth, Clement, Seeley] define registry/repository functionality as a lynchpin of any Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. The enterprise-wide nature of SOA [Lublinsky] requires a significant amount of collaboration between design and implementation teams. Analysts designing business processes need to find services providing functionality required by these processes. Finding a service best suited for solving a particular business problem is critical for successful process implementation. However, functionality alone doesn't guarantee service applicability. Questions about nonfunctional requirements, for example, Service-Level Agreements (SLA) or security requirements, help potential service users assess whether a set of services picked for a given solution will work together. Finally, services dependencies have to be addressed.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Rachel Reinitz: Developing Skills for the SOA World - An Expert Who's Been There Tells All2007-05-09 IBM
  The scope of Service Oriented Architecture can be intimidating to anyone trying to develop SOA skills. But simply knowing the role, and understanding the breadth, depth, and experience one needs to have can get the user well on the way to mapping out the success with SOA. There are some general ways to approach developing and deepening the skills. The author does a lot of mentoring, have designed much of the internal SOA training, and of course have the personal experience of continuously updating my own skills. Each of them have their own personal preferences regarding how one likes to learn.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 2: Using Dynamic Service Mediation in WebSphere Business Services Fabric2007-05-08 IBM
  Explore options for building Points Of Variability (POV) in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) composite business services in this series. A common requirement for POVs is to be able to easily change the behavior of a service, despite differences in client organization, processes, technology, or business relationships. IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric (WBSF) lets the user adapt service behavior based on the content of a service request, policies, service definition, and semantics.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Sample Design Patterns for Consuming and Exposing Web Services From an Orchestration2007-05-01 Microsoft
  This white paper addresses how to fully integrate BizTalk Server into applications using Web services, which is an area that is often neglected. BizTalk developers often forget their consumers when building Web services. This white paper contains orchestration templates for consuming and exposing Web services. The designs allow BizTalk Server to adhere to the SOAP protocol, instead of just using it as a conduit for messages.   
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, Part 1: A Framework for Understanding How SOA and Enterprise Architecture Work Together2007-04-26 IBM
  Close examination of SOA and EA and their corresponding governance reveal a great deal of overlap in their concepts, activities, processes, and outcomes. For example, both require input based on business objectives and produce outcomes that are tied to and measured against these objectives. Furthermore, both aim to address issues on the enterprise level (strategy and planning, reference architecture, and so on), and at the same time their governance models are similar. An enterprise that's adopting SOA while developing EA and its governances may encounter problems if the similarities and overlaps between EA and SOA are not recognized and accounted for.

Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture