Level: Introductory Patrick Flanders (flanders@us.ibm.com), Editor, SOA & Web services zone, IBM developerWorks
03 Oct 2006 Recent announcements and developer resources to help you implement SOA, no matter how far you have progressed with SOA adoption.
SOA for architects and developers
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a reality. Architects and developers are designing SOA environments and delivering actual solutions that are helping organizations save money, leverage existing IT resources, and provide increased value. IBM developerWorks offers a variety of resources that address some of the main issues that are part of SOA development. We've outlined specific resources to help you understand SOA and deliver your own solutions, no matter how far you have progressed along the SOA adoption path. We've also highlighted products that are specifically related to creating SOA solutions.
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Information as a service
Information integration Web services: Tools and technology: The data federation pattern virtualizes data from multiple disparate information sources. The pattern creates an integrated view into distributed information without creating data redundancy while federating both structured and unstructured information. This article describes the federation of structured information with a focus on the SOA context. This pattern specification helps architects make informed decisions on data architecture and document decision guidelines.
Embracing SOA for the legacy world: SOA is becoming widely accepted, but there are gaps in the industry's approach, level of experience, and understanding of how to apply SOA to enterprise IT environments. Explore ways to stretch the return on IT investment of legacy platforms, such as mainframes, by using SOA-based technologies to expose critical business functions as business services.
New WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition cookbook: Learn how to configure the Content Edition crawler with a focus on accessing WebSphere Portal Document Manager.
Service creation and connectivity
New to WebSphere Business Integration page
New resource page: WebSphere Message Broker: Technical resources to help you use WebSphere Message Broker for connectivity, universal data transformation, and enterprise-level integration of disparate services, applications, and platforms to power your SOA.
New resource page: WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus: Technical resources to help you use WebSphere ESB as a flexible connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services to support an SOA.
Configuring WebSphere Application Server V6.1 to coexist with previous versions: Set up a single-system environment in which WebSphere Application Server V6.1 can coexist with multiple current or prior versions.
Publishing a "Hello world" Web application with WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and the Application Server Toolkit: Assemble, deploy, and manage EJB and Web modules as a J2EE application on WebSphere Application Server using the Application Server Toolkit.
Business Process Management
Exploring Business Process Management Systems and the impact of BPM on developers: Learn more about how business process management systems are changing the development process and the roles of the architect and developer.
Business Process Management for IT: Second in the 2006 WebSphere technical podcast series on developerWorks, this 29-minute podcast covers how IBM products can help you implement true "closed loop" business process management. And, we continue our discussion on improving your resource utilization with WebSphere Extended Deployment – this time focusing on its deployment on the mainframe. (Podcast)
SCA application development: An overview of Service Component Architecture: This first in a series of articles on Service Component Architecture (SCA) introduces SCA and shows how it can simplify the design and integration of business applications built using SOA. Subsequent installments of the series will discuss SCA architecture and its key concepts, including service implementations, service clients, and the assembly of various components.
WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer: WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer deliver a rich process-integration platform for enterprise services based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). This new resource page connects you to the latest how-to information.
Enhancing qualities of service for WebSphere applications: This podcast follows previous discussions on IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment and its value to customers when deployed on either distributed or mainframe platforms.(Podcast)
SOA Management
IBM SOA Foundation: An architectural introduction and overview: The primary goal of SOA is to align the business world with the world of IT to make both more effective. Moreover, SOA is about the business results that can be achieved from having better alignment between the business and IT. This paper explains the IBM SOA Foundation and the variety of resources available to developers and architects who are interested in designing and implementing SOA.
WSDM Management Whitepaper: In March 2006 HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft announced plans to address customers' concerns around competing management specifications. The roadmap provided a high-level overview of the strategy being used to achieve the goal of having a single set of specifications for resource access/manipulation, events, and management. This document highlights the work to date on the management reconciliation roadmap and presents its status and resolutions in several ways. With a diverse set of parties interested in the progress of this work, the Migration document presents the status of the reconciliation work in a variety of levels of technical detail – ranging from a very high-level overview all the way down to a developer’s guide for code migration.
Resource page for WebSphere MQ developers: Access to resources that can help design, develop, and deploy messaging middleware with WebSphere MQ to integrate applications, Web services, and transactions on almost any platform.
WebSphere Extended Deployment: Resources to help you use WebSphere Extended Deployment to optimize the resource utilization and management of your IT infrastructure, while enhancing quality of service for your business-critical applications.
Make SOA happen on z/OS: IBM System z mainframe computers can be a powerful hardware platform for SOA system deployment, especially for mission-critical applications demanding high performance. Learn some options for getting the most out of SOA applications by running them on z/OS.
SOA Governance
Introduction to SOA governance: Explore how IBM defines Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance -- learn what it is and why it's critical to the success of your SOA project.
A case for SOA governance: Help your enterprise and its IT organization benefit from understanding SOA governance. The author illustrates some key responsibilities of a governance body and shows you how you can effectively implement SOA governance.
Evolving Web services standards for managing system resources: In response to our customers asking us to resolve their concerns with competing management specifications, IBM, Microsoft, HP and Intel are planning to develop a common set of specifications for resources, events, and management that can be broadly supported across multiple platforms.
Introducing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 2: Architecture, API, and content: This article describes the architectural and technical details of the new WebSphere Service Registry and Repository product.
General SOA guidance
Bobby Woolf: WebSphere SOA and J2EE in Practice is IBM'er Bobby Woolf's blog on J2EE, SOA, and how to use IBM tools and products.
Sandy Carter goes "off the record": Sandy Carter is IBM's vice president, SOA and Websphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels, and in her blog, you'll get some insight into how the IBM community is using SOA and developing solutions.
New to SOA: Helps you get started with SOA.
Patterns: SOA Foundation Service Creation Scenario: This IBM Redbook provides an introduction to the IBM SOA Foundation, and includes a detailed example DEPICTING (for the) service creation implementation (scenario).
Patterns: SOA Foundation Service Connectivity Scenario: The IBM SOA Foundation is a reference architecture used to build new applications or extend the value of existing applications and business processes. The IBM SOA Foundation includes an integration architecture, best practices, patterns, and SOA scenarios to help simplify the packaging and use of IBM open standards-based software. This IBM Redbook focuses on Service Connectivity which describes architectural solutions using an ESB. It focuses on the integration of service consumers and service providers across multiple channels.
Patterns: SOA Foundation - Business Process Management Scenario: This IBM Redbook focuses on the Business Process Management Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) scenario of the IBM SOA Foundation. This book describes modeling, assembling, deploying, and monitoring business processes using IBM software. It highlights the core products for Business Process Management and provides a complete end-to-end Business Process Management scenario implementation.
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