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In the true spirit of SAP R/3-like product naming conventions, SAP has introduced the A1S on-demand platform. [What does SAP stand for? — Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte (Systems, Applications, Products).] But then Amazon’s names for EC2 and S3 services in the…
Monday’s blog described how culture and governance issues are showing up ever more frequently as barriers to successful SOA implementations. Another surprise in the SOA arena is that the touted SOA feature of reusability doesn’t always come for free. An…
There have been endless articles, surveys and reports that are all glowingly positive about SOA and its potential as the next-generation architecture. But as the number of adopters increase and the number of SOA deployments grow in size within organizations…
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…
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…