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SOA: Shades of SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Last May at JavaOne, Oracle and Gartner outlined a vision of something that they called SOA 2.0.  They defined SOA 2.0 as a move away from ‘traditional SOA’ and Web Services based on a client-server model with services being treated

Enterprise 2.0: Grassroots Mashups + SOA = Managed Mashups ?

By Dick Weisinger

SOA has met with success and acceptance because of its ability to meld together so many disparate systems, uniting data by tunneling between isolated information silos.  But Web 2.0’s mashup combinations using technologies like RSS, REST and AJAX is achieving the same kind

Web Technology: Is AJAX due for a Shake-Up?

By Dick Weisinger

One component often associated with Web2.0 is AJAX.  AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) has been a lead technology in enabling browser-based applications to become more dynamic and interactive, trying to rival the experience of native applications. Many of the ‘2.0 initiatives’, like Content