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Sample Design Patterns for Consuming and Exposing Web Services From an Orchestration 2007-05-01 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.

Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, Part 1: A Framework for Understanding How SOA and Enterprise Architecture Work Together 2007-04-26 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

Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Discover How an ESB Can Help You Meet the Requirements for Your SOA Solution 2007-04-18 IBM

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 foundation relate to the ESB, as well as the core principles of the ESB. Without describing a specific product or ESB implementation, this series also provides a common basis for understanding and evaluating how an ESB can help address the requirements of the service-oriented solution.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services 2007-03-20 IBM

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. 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. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make the SOA solution more responsive to business needs. This paper is the first in a series that focuses on best practices for service interface design, including high-level aspects of development approaches, service granularity, and operation signatures. Subsequent papers in this series examine best practices for structuring Web Services Description Language (WSDL) documents and fault handling.

Tags: Best Practices, Service-Oriented Architecture

Building SOA Composite Business Services, Part 3: Build Consumable Web Services Using the REST Architectural Style in WebSphere 2007-02-12 IBM

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, existing SOAP-style Web services can support customizable URLs, multiple resource format representations, browser response caching, streaming of large attachments, and use of HTTP methods to manipulate the resource.

Tags: Application Development, Service-Oriented Architecture

Employing Intelligent Agents to Automate SLA Creation 2007-01-31 University of Western Ontario

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are commonly prepared and signed agreements that form the contracts between a service provider and its customers, defining the obligations and liabilities of the parties. Naturally, SLAs should reflect the business needs of both customer and supplier. SLAs are usually formed through either the adoption of a boilerplate agreement from the provider, or through a mediation/negotiation process between the parties. With the increasing adoption of software supply being implemented as a network service, such schemes are rigid or slow and costly, This paper proposes a system that the parties can use to facilitate both fast and flexible agreements.

Tags: SLA

SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 2: An Introduction to SOA Solution Scenarios 2007-01-30 IBM

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 framework. The SOA scenarios are representative of common scenarios of use of IBM products and solutions that are used in SOA engagements to solve real-world problems. In this first paper of the series on SOA scenarios, one explores a broad overview of the eight scenarios, their relationships and their interdependencies. One also learns the process of how to apply the SOA scenarios in a real-world SOA engagement. This process will be referenced and actually executed in the following papers in this series.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture

MSDN Webcast: Introducing Windows Live Services on Mobile Devices (Part 4 of 4): Managing Connectivity and Offline Behavior (Level 200) 2007-01-25 Microsoft

This webcast discusses about creating quality Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications that incorporate Windows Live services. As with any Internet-based software or service, Windows Live requires that client computers and mobile devices have access to the Internet to interact with the provided software and services; however, by their portable nature, mobile devices are occasionally not connected to the Internet. The attendee will learn how to ensure that the LOB application provides a consistent and uninterrupted user experience, even when a temporary loss of connectivity prevents the application from accessing the Windows Live services. It provides techniques for detecting connectivity changes and explains effective ways for the application to respond to these changes.

MSDN Webcast: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (Part 2 of 2): Developing Web Services (Level 200) 2007-01-23 01:00:26 Microsoft

Beyond giving a person the ability to integrate portals with enterprise data and applications with minimal code, the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 also introduces several specific development opportunities. The presenter of this webcast shows the viewer how to create Web services that are fully optimized for the BDC. He also shows how to use BDC-registered metadata to create one's own automatically-generated custom user interfaces.

MSDN Webcast: Enabling a New Generation of Dynamic Applications Through Service-Oriented Architecture (Level 200) 2007-01-23 01:00:26 Microsoft

The presenters of this webcast discuss the Microsoft vision for service-oriented architecture and show how Microsoft supports this vision by way of an integrated platform. The presenters explain how one can use the existing systems, Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications, and data and expose them as services (using the .NET Framework and adapters). They then show how to use Windows Workflow Foundation and Microsoft BizTalk Server to compose those services into composite business processes and workflows, which one can then use to create new dynamic applications that consume the service-oriented infrastructure.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Sample Design Patterns for Consuming and Exposing Web Services From an Orchestration	2007-05-01	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.
Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, Part 1: A Framework for Understanding How SOA and Enterprise Architecture Work Together	2007-04-26	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
Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Discover How an ESB Can Help You Meet the Requirements for Your SOA Solution	2007-04-18	IBM
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 foundation relate to the ESB, as well as the core principles of the ESB. Without describing a specific product or ESB implementation, this series also provides a common basis for understanding and evaluating how an ESB can help address the requirements of the service-oriented solution. Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture
Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services	2007-03-20	IBM
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. 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. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make the SOA solution more responsive to business needs. This paper is the first in a series that focuses on best practices for service interface design, including high-level aspects of development approaches, service granularity, and operation signatures. Subsequent papers in this series examine best practices for structuring Web Services Description Language (WSDL) documents and fault handling. Tags: Best Practices, Service-Oriented Architecture
Building SOA Composite Business Services, Part 3: Build Consumable Web Services Using the REST Architectural Style in WebSphere	2007-02-12	IBM
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, existing SOAP-style Web services can support customizable URLs, multiple resource format representations, browser response caching, streaming of large attachments, and use of HTTP methods to manipulate the resource. Tags: Application Development, Service-Oriented Architecture
Employing Intelligent Agents to Automate SLA Creation	2007-01-31	University of Western Ontario
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are commonly prepared and signed agreements that form the contracts between a service provider and its customers, defining the obligations and liabilities of the parties. Naturally, SLAs should reflect the business needs of both customer and supplier. SLAs are usually formed through either the adoption of a boilerplate agreement from the provider, or through a mediation/negotiation process between the parties. With the increasing adoption of software supply being implemented as a network service, such schemes are rigid or slow and costly, This paper proposes a system that the parties can use to facilitate both fast and flexible agreements. Tags: SLA
SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 2: An Introduction to SOA Solution Scenarios	2007-01-30	IBM
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 framework. The SOA scenarios are representative of common scenarios of use of IBM products and solutions that are used in SOA engagements to solve real-world problems. In this first paper of the series on SOA scenarios, one explores a broad overview of the eight scenarios, their relationships and their interdependencies. One also learns the process of how to apply the SOA scenarios in a real-world SOA engagement. This process will be referenced and actually executed in the following papers in this series. Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture
MSDN Webcast: Introducing Windows Live Services on Mobile Devices (Part 4 of 4): Managing Connectivity and Offline Behavior (Level 200)	2007-01-25	Microsoft
This webcast discusses about creating quality Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications that incorporate Windows Live services. As with any Internet-based software or service, Windows Live requires that client computers and mobile devices have access to the Internet to interact with the provided software and services; however, by their portable nature, mobile devices are occasionally not connected to the Internet. The attendee will learn how to ensure that the LOB application provides a consistent and uninterrupted user experience, even when a temporary loss of connectivity prevents the application from accessing the Windows Live services. It provides techniques for detecting connectivity changes and explains effective ways for the application to respond to these changes.
MSDN Webcast: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (Part 2 of 2): Developing Web Services (Level 200)	2007-01-23 01:00:26	Microsoft
Beyond giving a person the ability to integrate portals with enterprise data and applications with minimal code, the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 also introduces several specific development opportunities. The presenter of this webcast shows the viewer how to create Web services that are fully optimized for the BDC. He also shows how to use BDC-registered metadata to create one's own automatically-generated custom user interfaces.
MSDN Webcast: Enabling a New Generation of Dynamic Applications Through Service-Oriented Architecture (Level 200)	2007-01-23 01:00:26	Microsoft
The presenters of this webcast discuss the Microsoft vision for service-oriented architecture and show how Microsoft supports this vision by way of an integrated platform. The presenters explain how one can use the existing systems, Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications, and data and expose them as services (using the .NET Framework and adapters). They then show how to use Windows Workflow Foundation and Microsoft BizTalk Server to compose those services into composite business processes and workflows, which one can then use to create new dynamic applications that consume the service-oriented infrastructure.