Companies that decide to invest in SOA sometimes end up going to extremes -
too little or too much. Too little happens when some stakeholder latches onto
the buzzword and wants to get the benefits promised. However, the environment
may be too conservative to invest in the infrastructure and planning required
to service-orient existing applications. In this case, an analysis concludes
that business as usual is doing just fine, and that there's no need to
introduce fancy technologies and platforms. A few minor tweaks to the
existing infrastructure are considered sufficient to get on the SOA
bandwagon.
In the other case, stakeholders buy into the entire vision of SOA. The IT
department is looking desperately for a revamp to continue to survive and
prove value, and the com... (more)
I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself. I've been working with SYS-CON
for about eight years now, across different publications, so when Sean talked
to me about providing regular content for WSJ, I thought to myself, "Cool." I
am also the enterprise editor for JDJ - so you should see a lot of
cross-magazine content. Part of what I want to bring in as "International
Technical Edito... (more)
Last month I talked to a couple of vendors who are making new inroads in the
services arena through open source offerings. Open source support in Web
services is definitely very heartening. While the frameworks and utilities
for implementing Web services in enterprise applications have matured, the
standards of critical functions of promoting the "service bus" concept, which
decouples We... (more)
It never ceases to amaze me how ambiguity in the definition of simple terms
can lead to design choices that have a huge impact on the success of
projects. Recently I had a long discussion with a colleague at a client site,
where we are in the process of assessing the artifacts that have been created
for a Web services-based service-oriented architecture. While we are talking
about terms ... (more)
This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to
design and implement Business Rules Engine based projects to service-enable
your enterprise. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise
applications with multiple dependencies. Parallels between different
applications of BREs in typical scenarios will be covered and the leading
vendor offerings in the... (more)
Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences, JavaOne, and international conference. He has published more than 125 articles.
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