SOA filling the Gaps

Seasonal Greetings to all of you. It is time to summarize 2009. As far is SOA is concerned, the most important developments in 2009 are: 1.  " SOA is dead Long Live Services" a post in Anne Thomas Mannes's blog. Anne Thomas Mannes is a Burton Group Vice President and Research Director majored in SOA. This post his blog post is important because it brought forward the mistakes in many SOA implementations and the misuse of the three letters S O A. It also catalyzed many responses of leading expert disagreeing with her opinions.  Most of the experts participated in ebizQ SOA forum agreed with me that "SOA is Dead" was important. You can read all the answers submitted to the question:  What Developments in SOA Are You Most Thankful For This Year? 2.     SOA is becomes the dominant paradigm SOA is real. The term Services is used very often. Most surveys show that at least 50% of the organizations are already implementing SOA. Most of the other en...

--> In previous post I compared Microsoft's Office 3.1 Word to Microsoft's Office 2003 Word. --> Many people would argue that the comparison is meaningless: IT is evolving and a version ten years younger is surely better. It includes enhancements based on experience and users requirements and bug fixes and evolution of the vendor's infrastructure and techniques. Let us ask another question: Which Microsoft Windows Operating System is better XP or Vista ? I am not sure that experts will agree that the newer Vista is better. I would suspect that even the vendor's experts opinions vary: some Microsoft 's experts probably will argue that XP is a better operating system. T he popularity of a downgrade option to XP is another indication that Vista may not always be better than XP. --> The speculations about Microsoft's intention to skip Vista 's evolution and release Windows 7 earlier than planned could sustain my thesis:...

A new SOA product VeN4 ServiceWare developed by Venotion Technologies was presented in the 20 th meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing on March 12 th . Venotion Technologies is an Israeli startup, presenting a unique approach to SOA implementation. The presenter was Ronen Yochpaz the company's CTO. The product is focused on the Finance sector especially the Banking and Insurance industry. Many Core Banking application systems and Insurance applications are legacy systems developed over more than 20-30 years ago on IBM Mainframes and z/OS operating system. Venotion's product aimed at using existing assets as part of a SOA implementation. Currently the product is in Beta. General Availability is expected on April 2008. Basic Concepts and product highlights The product composes automatically the Business Model by Reverse Business Engineering of existing User Interface and IT assets. Execution is in the Testing environment and no...

This post is the 5 th post in the "Web 2.0 for dummies" posts, based on my Web 2.0 presentation in a conference. After tasting Web 2.0 (part 2) and understanding what it is (part 4) we will drill down to more specific Web 2.0 principles and implementations. The origin of Mashups is in Music: Creating a new song by combining songs. In information technology Mashups are applications build by non-IT Professionals by combining together data or applications from different sources, which were not planned for integration together. The User assembles and links services to create an application The services could be data services or could include Business Logic functionality The user publishes the application in the Web so other users may use it or expand it as another Mashup . Technologies used for building a Mashup based on simple published API s include HTML , XML , simple Web Services and Representational State Transfer (REST). By using JavaScript or other scripting languag...