Interoperability

Net-Centricity: SOA in Battle

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:45:00 EDT

As the DoD and their contractors hammered out the details of Net-Centricity, it became increasingly clear that Net-Centricity required a broad, architectural approach to achieving agile information sharing in the context of a complex, siloed organization. At that point, SOA entered the Net-Centricity picture, providing essential best practices for sharing information resources to support business process needs. In the military context, such business processes are operational processes, where the operation at hand might be fueling airplanes or deploying ground troops or spying on suspected terrorists with a satellite. When battlefield commanders say that they want the warfighting resources at their disposal to be available as needed to achieve their mission objectives, they are essentially requiring a Service-Oriented approach to Net-Centricity.

IBM Moving to PaaS

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:45:00 EDT

Stacey Higgenbottom over at the GigaOM blogs had a chat with IBM's chief cloud wrangler Erich Clementi and came away saying that IBM's going to built a general-purpose WebSphere platform-as-a-service offering along the lines of Microsoft's Azure and Rackspace's Mosso - and to a lesser extent Google's App Engine and Salesforce's Force.com - not to mention whatever VMware will build now that it's buying SpringSource.

Cloud Services Interest Erupts in Groundswell

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:30:00 EDT

The anticipated benefits from adopting managed cloud services have reached the executives suites of many corporations. Proactive CEOs and CFOs are pushing their IT leadership team to seek out actionable information and guidance. There's also a constant stream of service providers announcing new offerings -- and the momentum is becoming a global phenomenon. As a result, Forrester Research has witnessed an expanding number of client inquiries around cloud computing. The acceleration in market development has been building for some time now. Forrester analysts responded to more than 264 client inquiries about cloud computing between January 2008 and April 1, 2009 from companies of all sizes and industries.

Efficient SOA: Get Out of This Mess with CEP

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

You may view CEP as just another acronym. But bear with me, complex-event processing is the way to wring efficiency out of your SOA. CEP optimizes things and provides a way to get out of this economic mess we're in.

Integrating an ASP.NET Application with J2EE PART 2

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:00:00 EDT

In Part 1 of this two-part article I discussed interoperability between .NET and Weblogic 8.1 and issues that arise when transferring data between Web serivces. In Part 2 I will cover some advanced issues: SOAP exception handling, uploading binary information via Web services, and application navigation and workflow.