I'm on my way to STARwest in Disneyland, CA today, and since it's been a
little while since my last software quality-focused conference, I'm
particularly interested to see how these testing experts and vendors are
addressing the needs of a more distributed computing environment. Our own
expert Rajeev Gupta is coming in to present "Building the SOA Quality Center
of Excellence".
Joe McKendrick recently posted, CTO Predicts SOA Will Fade into SaaS. He
quoted Ron Huxter, CTO of the provincial government of Ontario, “Over the
last ten years, we’ve got most of the common business practices identified.
The issues that we’re coming into now are sourcing the actual services --
in two to three years, SOA will fade into yet another sales banner like
everything else has and it wi... (more)
Jason English's Blog
With multiple ESB platforms, you are still providing a very good way to bring
underlying business applications and transaction systems to bear with an
integration and messaging framework, sometimes with business process
management as well. Yes they are different systems, but they can be pulled
together effectively as long as the validation is there, and as long as the ... (more)
Joe McKendrick recently wondered if there is too much "whining" and not
enough action on SOA? in a ZDNet post. He was responding to post by Nicholas
Petreley of CIO.com on Less SOA QQ and More SOA Pew Pew.
Let me translate: QQ means whining and Pew Pew means action. To be more
specific the urban dictionary offers some definitions of Pew Pew: Sound made
by lasers, usually related to star w... (more)
I have now written a six part series on software community blogs. This has
included some of our larger partners such as Oracle, TIBCO, and Software AG
who maintain multiple blogs with a community. I also covered the Agile
Commons blog by our partner, Rally. We have some other partners who have
excellent individual blogs, or in the case of Infosys, a great collection of
blogs. A list can ... (more)
I’ve been asked a number of times recently by industry peers and
technology journalists about “virtualization” as it relates to
SOA.
Well, there are in fact at least 3 distinct ways that you can use
virtualization concepts in SOA, so I think that it would be good for me to
give you a definition of those three, and then in the next few days I will
blog on each one of the... (more)