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SOA Interoperability not enough - Dark Reading

2007-05-12T22:46:00Z

SOA Interoperability not enough

"The lack of a standardized policy framework is a big hole, and needs to get standardized as quickly as possible. Today, there is no centralized way to configure Web services, which means Web services need to be configured individually."

SOA Interoperability not enough

SOURCE: Dark Reading

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Tackle WS-Security Specification Interoperability Challenges David Leigh, IBM developerWorks

2007-05-04T14:12:00Z

Tackle WS-Security Specification Interoperability Challenges David Leigh, IBM developerWorks

Web services are often promoted as the ideal solution to application interoperability, and they are effective at integrating applications regardless of platform, vendor, and programming language. But they're not immune from interoperability issues. As various WS-* Web services extensions evolve, vendors must choose which draft specifications to support, and developers occasionally need to cope with incompatibility issues between different specifications. The WS-Security standard provides mechanisms for applying authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to SOAP messages. These capabilities are often required for the adoption of Web services and Services-Oriented Architecture

(SOA) within the enterprise. Unfortunately, due to changes in the wire format of the WS-Security SOAP header specification, Web service consumer applications and target Web services that conform to the draft 13 specification can't interact with consumer applications and target services that conform to the version 1.0 specification. For example, a J2EE 1.3 Web service consumer application running in WebSphere Portal Server V5.1 can't use WS-Security to communicate with a J2EE 1.4 service provider application running in WebSphere Application Server V6.0. And the problem isn't limited to the IBM middleware software stack. For example, the Microsoft .NET Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0 is also based on a draft version of the WS-Security specification, and the same interoperability problems occur when trying to communicate between this stack and any other that's based on the WS-Security 1.0 specification. This article outlines the relative benefits and drawbacks of workarounds to help you to determine the best workaround approach for your situation:

(1) Upgrade Web service consumer applications to J2EE 1.4; (2) Use a middleware proxy; (3) Use an EJB proxy; (4) Add a new provider endpoint.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-securityspec/

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SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World

WS-I releases WS Basic Security Profile 1.0 Documents

2007-04-04T17:39:00Z

WS-I releases WS Basic Security Profile 1.0 Documents

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0, serving as a guide to enable secure, interoperable Web services.

"The profile addresses transport security, SOAP messaging security and other security considerations for WS-I Basic Profile 1.1, Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 and Attachments Profile 1.0. Featured is a focus on interoperability characteristics of HTTP over TLS (Transport Layer Security) and Web Services Security, and SOAP Message Security. "

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The Rise and Fall of WS-I?

2007-04-01T14:42:00Z

The Rise and Fall of WS-I

The value of standard organizations or in this case "interoperability organization" are questionable. Too often these organizations are a way of showing to the outside world that leading vendors are players and coming to the table.

Last year I made several attempts to contact a representative of the Web Services Interoperablity Organization to inteview them for my blog. After several attempts I frankly gave up. At this time I could see the start of the demise of this organization. If it is alive and kicking someone please let me know.

Standards and Coalition Organizations are only as good as the vendors driving them and the value they are deriving from them. I often use the following chart to characterize what vendors attitudes are when they go into these organizations - "What's in it for me!" is what drives their participation. It is actually a matter of value or "Reward" that a vendor can get out of these organizations. So you can see why there is a lot of "positioning" going on to maximun ones' own value. Don't get me wrong a lot of good comes out of many organizations such as OASIS, W3C, etc., but it does explain why it often takes so long to see any results. Also it explains why dominate vendors provide "lip service" to open standards, when these standards may threaten their dominance - however that is for another blog.

Proprietary vs. Open Standards

WS-I was organized to provide guidance and standards groupings in the form of "profiles" to assist in Web Services and SOA Interoperability. Initially they made some good headway with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and more recently WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0. However it seems their momentum has hit the wall.

Erik Johnson in his blog outlines the current state of affairs with the WS-I Organization and makes recommendations on what can be done to correct matters:

WS-I and Transparency: WTF?

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Microsoft joins OpenAjax party

2007-03-21T18:51:00Z

Microsoft joins OpenAjax party

Microsoft today threw in its lot with the OpenAjax Alliance to push interoperability in Web 2.0.
The group now counts more than 70 members, up from 15 in February 2006.

SOURCE: Registry

Microsoft joins OpenAjax party

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Sun Announces the Beta Release of GlassFish V2 Application Server ...

2007-03-19T18:37:00Z

Sun Announces the Beta Release of GlassFish V2 Application Server and the New Sun Web Developer Pack

Supports Open Source Scripting Technologies for Creation of Rich Next Generation Web Applications

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and the GlassFish(TM) community, today announced the beta release of the GlassFish V2, the next major version of the open source Java(TM) EE 5 application server and the release of the Sun(TM) Web Developer Pack, a toolkit designed for simplifying and enabling advanced rich Internet applications for the Java platform. These releases
help enterprises build and deploy SOA and Web 2.0 applications and services leveraging next generation web technologies such as Ajax, Scripting and REST that simplifies development and deployment of scalable, interactive
applications.

The GlassFish V2 Beta adds all the enterprise features from Sun's Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition, such as clustering, administration, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and load
balancing to support highly scalable, volume enterprise deployments for SOA and Web 2.0 applications. A few of these features include:

    -- WSIT integration -- allowing applications to interoperate between Web
       services hosted on Java and Windows environments.

    -- Java Business Integration (JBI) -- providing native SOA support.

    -- NetBeans(TM) IDE integration -- enabling developers to deploy SOA
       applications by designing BPEL business processes as well as building
       and testing composite applications with the NetBeans(TM) Enterprise
       Pack.

The GlassFish V2 Beta (http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/ea/) is available now via download.

"The flexibility of open source technologies, along with the unmatched security, stability, ease-of management and scalability of Solaris 10 and the GlassFish application server will enable us to grow our business and
our community to meet the growing demand," said Cyril Bouteille, chief technology officer, Peerflix, Inc.
"The release of GlassFish V2 Beta further demonstrates Sun's commitment and leading contributions to the open source community," said Karen Tegan Padir, vice president, Enterprise Java Platforms, Sun. "GlassFish continues
to proffer widely adopted open source based solutions that provide developers with industry leading enterprise scalability and ease of deployment on Web 2.0 and SOA applications."

The Sun Web Developer Pack (http://developers.sun.com/web/swdp) simplifies access to multiple open source technologies for creating rich Internet-based applications, REST Web services and RSS feeds more rapidly.
The availability of the Web 2.0 toolkit reinforces Sun's commitment to provide the developer community with next-generation Java technologies such as Project jMaki, Project Phobos, Dynamic Faces, WADL, ROME, and Atom.

A prominent Java community member, Ben Galbraith, co-founder of Ajaxian.com, has worked extensively with one of the technologies which is now being supported and made available through the Sun Web Developer Pack.
"jMaki offers a compelling model for creating rich component-oriented Ajax interfaces in Java," said Galbraith. "It standardizes Ajax component interfaces, smoothly integrates multiple Ajax frameworks such as Dojo and
YUI!, provides a powerful declarative event handling mechanism, and makes it easy to do mash-ups with its built-in and easily configurable proxy server. Before you start down the path of integrating some of the popular
Ajax frameworks into your application, learn jMaki first."

The pack will be bundled into the Sun Java Application Platform SDK Suite update 3 preview which includes the GlassFish V2 Beta, available for download today. Available with a NetBeans plug-in, the Web Developer Pack
enables developers to easily and rapidly deploy Web 2.0 applications and lightweight, dynamic code development. Check out the Sun Web Developer Pack at http://developers.sun.com/web/swdp.

Sun is also announcing the creation of a Java Specification Request (JSR) 311 focused on providing support for RESTful Web Services in the Java Platform working with other vendors such as BEA, Apache, Google, Jboss, TmaxSoft and Jerome Louvel (author of the Restlet project). This JSR will help further promote standardization around the next generation web technologies and will aim to provide easy-to-use API for developers for
Java EE or Java SE platforms.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc

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is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Net at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, GlassFish, NetBeans and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Contact:

    Terri Molini
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    408-404-4976
    terri.molini@sun.com

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SOA Research - Gartner's 2007 SOA Predictions:

2007-03-13T01:06:00Z

SOA Research - Gartner's 2007 SOA Predictions:

· Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used in part in more than 50% of new, mission-critical applications and business processes designed in 2007, and in more than 80% by 2010 (0.7 probability).

· More than 80% of current (2006) production-deployed applications will be partly or fully re-engineered by 2011 to participate in the then-prevailing SOA-style business-driven application composition (0.8 probability).

· By 2011, more than 65% of packaged applications' users will adopt "SOA enabled" versions of their core business application products (0.8 probability).

· By 2010, more than 40% of SOA projects will use a centrally managed extended service registry, up from less than 5% in 2006 (0.7 probability).

· By 2010, SOA services administration at more than 60% of enterprises deploying SOA-style services will be managed by designated Service Registry Administrators (SRAs); 0.8 probability).

· By 2011, more than 80% of large organizations will implement multiple SOA backplane infrastructures (0.8 probability).

· By 2010, more than 80% of all software infrastructure products will embed enterprise service bus (ESB) technology or require ESB technology as a prerequisite (0.7 probability).

For the complete findings of the Report:

Gartner - Predicts 2007: SOA Advances
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SOA Research - Gartner's 2007 SOA Predictions FREE from BEA. Download now!

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WSIT (nee Project Tango) Milestone 3 is Now Available

2007-03-11T14:22:00Z

WSIT (nee Project Tango) Milestone 3 is Now Available

The WSIT group in the GlassFish community recently released Milestone 3 of WSIT (nee Tango). WSIT builds on the core JAX-WS RI implementation and you can Download and Install them manually, but you can also wait until Monday for GF v2 beta, which will include these technologies directly. Relevant blogs from the team include:

• Harold provides the Announcement.
• Fabian with an overview of WS-Policy.
• Marek on WS-Policy: what is it? and how does it work?.
• Harsha covers WS-Trust, including samples.
• Ashutosh summarizes the many changes in WS-Security
• Venu focuses on the Performance Improvements in Security.
• Mike covers Reliable Messaging.

GlassFish: The Aquarium

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SOA Interoperability in a Connected World

2007-03-10T18:01:00Z

SOA Interoperability in a Connected World

Until we have a ubiqutous world of web services - a Global SOA, we will actually see islands of SOA.  It is my belief that SOA will evolve through three major phases - Enterprise SOA -> B2B SOA -> Global SOA.   Enterprise SOA is well entrenched in a majority of enterprises and now many more organizations are expanding their "sphere of influence" to include their extended enterprise and their most trusted trading partners.  While Web Services are well defined and in theory can operate across a network, SOAs are still somewhat proprietary in nature and security, identity and middleware messaging are different between SOA environments. So in the short term and until we get to this "Global SOA", it is likely we will be build islands of SOA that we need to interconnect. Therefore mediation and interoperability will start to become more important as our sights are set on building out our SOAs.

The SOA Network Architect www.soanetworkarchitect.com focuses primarily on building out network infrastructure to support SOA - "SOA in a Connected World", and WCF Architect www.wcfarchitect.net will focus on "SOA in a .net Connected World".   My new blog SOA Interoperability www.soainteroperability.com - (SOA Interoperability in a Connected World) will focus on connecting and interoperability between different SOA environments. These blogs are essentially based on my interest and research, and as I come across articles and research of interest I will post. If the blog draws a lot of hits, I tend to feed it more. If there is no interest I will drop them. Today this blog reaches up to a 1,000 page views per day.

The root blog will be The SOA Network www.soanetwork.net - The SOA Resource Network, which I will turn into a web site when I get time and funding. So if you are interested in sponsoring the main site or advertising on this site please let me know.

Thanks for your support and appreciate any content that you would like to contribute.

And remember if you are interested in seaching for my latest blog posting - search Google Blogs under "SOA Network" or "SOA Networks"

The SOA Network - The SOA Resource Network

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WCF Architect - SOA in a .net Connected World

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Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability

2007-02-23T14:37:00Z

Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability

"Interoperability is an important factor in the success of solutions that are based on Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), along with other key factors such as contracts, loose coupling, and reuse. Interoperability is generally accomplished by developing your Web Services using the well-established guidelines for implementing Web Services and by following industry standards such as XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. However, just following Web Services standards and guidelines during the development phase of a project isn't sufficient to achieve interoperability."

SOURCE: JDJ

Web Services Specifications and SOA Interoperability

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