Service Infrastructure

November 04, 2004

XML Standards to lookout

Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), officials from the Emergency Interoperability Consortium (EIC) contend, will enable alerts and other important information to be shared across geographic regions, regardless of a user's technology and applications.

November 03, 2004

all new terminologies on this front

emerging protocols that promise to help facilitate, orchestrate and secure interaction across an SOA. This includes XPath and XQuery for data management; WS-Discovery for finding services; WS-Distributed Management; WS-Addressing for messaging; WS-Business Process Execution Language for process workflow; a litany of reliability specifications including WS-Reliability, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Notifications, WS-Eventing and WS-ResourceFramework; and transaction specifications including WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity

Is ESB the same old food dressed up new ???

MOM, enterprise application integration, business process management, integration brokers, orchestration, data transformation, publish and subscribe, event notification, content-based routing, transactions - they're all ESB

Enterprise IT professionals need integration products that are easy to install, configure, administer and manage. They need middleware that supports robust, standards-based, any-to-any integration. They need to address new integration requirements inexpensively and quickly, rather than in multi-year, high-risk, budget-busting megaprojects.

Can today's ESB products deliver all that?

October 26, 2004

Transaction Across Enterprise boundaries

Current middleware technologies like

  1. CICS (mainframe) - the key integration piece is going to be Java & J2EE

  2. IBM Websphere (MQ)

  3. Tibco's Rendezvous

  4. Sonic Software SonicMQ

October 14, 2004

Links

Web Services Standards

  1. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Web Services Links

  1. http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/webservices.html
  2. http://webservices.xml.com/
  3. http://www.sys-con.com/webservices/

XML Links

  1. http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
  2. http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/xml.html

Basics of SOA and Web Services

Links that provide basics of SOA and Web Services:

Good Starters

  1. http://www.service-architecture.com/web-services/articles/web_services_explained.html

Other Links

  1. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/09/30/soa.html

SOA Infrastructure

The next wave of change is going to be in applications as the infrastructure for communications is up and running now. Is SOA going to change the world of enterprises in the way they are going to communicate and do business ? Does it require a new breed of infrastructure components ? The answer looks seemingly 'Yes', as all the heavy weights trying to project and influence this space.