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SOA: Secure Interoperability for Web Services

By Dick Weisinger

Progess on standards from the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) have been slow in coming.  But in early April the WS-I published a set of guidelines for secure Web Service interoperability. WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP) 1.0 was approved after…

SaaS: A new Generation of ISVs

By Dick Weisinger

The emergence of SOA and SaaS technologies has created a new breed of ISV on the IT landscape.  ISVs that can create composite applications consisting of aggregated services.  ISVs that can publish niche services and utilities for consumption by others. …

SOA: IBM Bypasses Standards with new WSRR Release

By Dick Weisinger

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integraion) has been a long neglected component of the SOA stack.  Its was designed as a registry for all Web Services information.  It is a catalog of metadata about and descriptions of Web Service interfaces.  UDDI is a tool for…

SOA: Open Source SOA Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

  Despite early resistence, Open Source is spreading quickly throughout the enterprise.  Iona’s recent acquistion of LogicBlaze is further proof of the trend. In mid-2005 Dublin, Ireland-based Iona Technologies initiated the Open Source Java-based Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) project called Celtix. …

SaaS: Commercial Vendors Pressured by SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

New results from InformationWeek echo a number of similar surveys with findings that SaaS is a serious contender against traditional commerical software.  Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are all moving to the defense. The IW survey asked 250 IT professionals questions…