Key Issues for SOA, EDA and WOA, 2008

The fundamental design of business applications is changing because of the growing use of service-oriented architecture and related concepts, including event-driven architecture and Web-oriented architecture. Each architectural variant involves different design patterns and technologies.

SOA Maturity Model

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as the most significant shift in how business applications are designed, developed and implemented in the last 10 years, eclipsing the shift to client-server. In fact, Gartner, Inc. predicts that by 2008, "SOA will provide the basis for 80 percent of new development projects."
While IT is quick to embrace the technical value of service-oriented design, development and implementation, IT executives face the very different challenge of accurately managing the investment in technology as it relates to business value. These IT managers and decision makers need help and guidance in communicating the business value of their SOA vision and to be able to benchmark their SOA adoption within the organization.
To address this challenge, Sonic Software and its partners jointly developed a New SOA Maturity Model (SOA MM). The model is designed to show the increasingly positive impact of SOA adoption from a business benefits perspective. It provides IT decision makers with simple framework for benchmarking the strategic value of their SOA implementation, and a model for visualizing future success.

This New SOA Maturity Model provides a framework for discussion between IT and business users about the applicability and benefits of SOA in an organization across five levels of adoption maturity. The goal of its authors is not only to provide a means for organizations to benchmark current implementations, but to offer a source of inspiration as IT leaders visualize a path to successfully advance the value of SOA for their organizations.

Leveraging Web Services in an SOA

ABSTRACT:

This white paper examines features of the EMC® Documentum® platform that enables its industry-leading enterprise content management capabilities to participate in a service oriented architecture (SOA) and communicate with other systems via web services. The primary enabling features, EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS), is examined in technical detail, and sample code fragments that illustrate how to use DFS are provided. The EMC Documentum Process Suite is also examined as a prototypical orchestrator of SOA services. After reading this paper, you should have a good understanding of how to access services in an SOA using Web services.

EMC

Working with Documentum 6 Web Services

ABSTRACT:

The EMC Documentum 6 enterprise content management platform provides a fundamentally new service-oriented interface, exposing enterprise content management capabilities as a comprehensive catalog of shared services and web services. These services enable content management functionality to fully participate in an SOA environment, with maximum efficiency and performance. This white paper will provide an introduction to EMC Documentum 6 Enterprise Content Services as well as an overview of the web services offerings of EMC Documentum Foundation Services.

EMC

Web Services Security: What's Required to Secure a Service-Oriented Architecture

ABSTRACT:

Organizations are often unable to fully support key security standards for SOA deployments, relying instead on the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol for protection. With this level of protection, the data remains unguarded when not "in transit", making the environment vulnerable to attacks in multi-step transactions. This creates a system which lacks the proper identity federation, identity propagation, and end-to-end security. This white paper details the standards essential for providing secure, manageable SOA environments. Learn how to attain a holistic approach for protecting SOA deployments by utilizing the proper identity management infrastructure, development and deployment tools, application development framework, and secure, runtime environment. Explore key standards, including:

• Content Security
• Message-Level Security
• Secure Message Delivery
• Metadata
• Trust Management
• Public Key Infrastructure

ORACLE

The Foundation of SOA Quality

ABSTRACT:

The adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) continues to move from early adopters to mainstream corporate initiatives. While most organizations are engaged in some form of SOA initiative, few, if any, are to the point of realizing a positive return on their investments. Without this return, businesses are finding it challenging to quickly achieve their intended goals of business agility and costs savings from service reuse.

This white paper discusses the steps necessary for achieving improved SOA quality. Explore how each role in an organization's design time, change time and runtime environments can apply a strategic approach to ensuring quality at the outset of an SOA initiative. Learn how to obtain the agility and reuse necessary from this loosely-coupled infrastructure to quickly yield significant ROI. Gain insight into the technologies that lay the foundation for optimal SOA quality.

Architecting High Performance SOA Applications

Application performance issues are often not addressed properly, being left unresolved until the testing and production stages of the development lifecycle. This often limits the success of these application development initiatives and can adversely affect the end-user experience. Discover how to attain optimal performance from your SOA and Web applications throughout the application development process.

Application performance is a critical issue that is often relegated to the testing and production stages of the development lifecycle. However, many performance issues can be avoided through proper architecture and better planning for non-functional requirements. Service-oriented architecture offers many benefits, but if care is not given you may not get the benefits you expected.

In this webcast Frank Cohen will look at the promises of modern application development and will point out things you should be aware of when creating services so you that your end result is a successful, high-performance architecture.

Speaker

Frank Cohen
Author of FastSOA