"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.

December 21, 2009

SOA wishlist for Santa Claus...(and food for thought for rest of us)

I know it’s not fair to pull Santa into the SOA groove but I decided to take a shot to post my top priority wish list for SOA to Santa…just in case if this works, I may solve the world hunger (in SOA context of course) someday….so those who want to have fun, most welcome to read this post, others can take it seriously (including Santa)..

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November 26, 2009

IBM SOA Stack – Scope for Simplification

by Rajat Bhatla

I had attended a workshop on understanding IBM SOA technologies at IBM South Bank London a few months ago.  At the time I was also on a project where we were defining an enterprise SOA based landscape.  So it was quite a good timing with live practical experience on one side and IBM on the other. It proved a rich learning experience, combined with interactions with SOA practitioners from different streams, hands on labs and highly experienced IBM staff. In this post I’ll just focus on the Websphere stack of tools that we were exposed to, and my takeaway feelings about the set of products that we did hands on with.

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November 15, 2009

The SOA Architectural Challenges in Practice

by Murteza Salemi

Reflecting on my recent engagement within educational sector I touched and felt the SOA architectural challenges again. Going to the workshops to understand the requirements and business processes it was quite evident that the challenges for an SOA architect do not stop with solving only the technical sides of the SOA architecture. The architect must also coordinate and guide the enterprise’s collaboration between business processes, people, information, and technology to ensure the focus remains on achieving enterprise’s goals rather than anything else.
 

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November 12, 2009

SOA Service Management (Part 1):  Viewpoints of Complexity

By Anuj Sethi

 I would like to begin by stating that the title above can be interpreted in multiple ways (yes it’s the word ‘Service’). Hopefully by the end of this blog you will be able to appreciate why I have stated so.
 
In most organisations the IT part has two sub-organisations: One responsible for design/develops the software (equivalent of a car manufacturing plant, at some level) and another which actually support the running software (equivalent of a car service station). The focus of this blog is on the latter.

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