The SOA Magazine

Issue XVIII, May 2008


John Crupi Enterprise Mashups Part I:
Bringing SOA to the People

by John Crupi and Chris Warner

Can you define mashups? Can you describe the value of mashups to an SOA architect or even a business user? Can you outline the relationship between mashups and existing enterprise technology? Knowing the answers to these questions will advance you well down the road to embracing the concepts and techniques behind mashups in your organization. In this, the first part of a three-part article series, we'll help you get a head start by discussing the gritty details by defining a mashup in the context of the enterprise, contrasting it against other common data integration technologies, and outlining some of the more important architectural elements...
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Paulo Rosado Rodrigo Castelo Shadow IT: Edge Applications
in a Service-Oriented Enterprise

by Paulo Rosado and Rodrigo Castelo

The term "shadow IT" was coined for systems built without corporate approval inside business units, departments and whole subsidiaries. Born from the IT backlogs of every organization, shadow IT can drive innovation and effectiveness without hindering larger IT evolution. While organizations wrestle to centralize their applications, the reality is shadow IT is not going away. As such, it is most effective to ensure the sustainability of shadow IT instead of attempting to avoid it. To be sustainable, this innovation at the edge must take advantage of central SOA environments and, when the time comes, seamlessly scale into a service-oriented enterprise and become an active part of it. However, for this to be achievable, edge applications must have certain capabilities and satisfy certain conditions...
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The article "SOA, it's a Matter of Principle" originally published in the May, 2008 issue of the SOA Magazine is not available as part of the archive. To view the original paper from which this article was derived, visit: http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/6901

Issue XX, July 2008

Service-Orientation vs. Object-Orientation: Understanding the Impedance Mismatch

Data Management: The Missing Link in Your SOA Strategy

An SOA Vendor Evaluation Methodology


Issue XIX, June 2008

SOA in the DoD

The Benefits of a Data Abstraction Layer for SOA

SOA Engineering Focal Points


Issue XVIII, May 2008

Enterprise Mashups
Part I: Bringing SOA to the People

Shadow IT: Edge
Applications in a Service-Oriented Enterprise


Issue XVII, April 2008

Relating Master Data Management to SOA

SOA in Healthcare (Part I)

A Program Management Methodology for SOA


Issue XVI, March 2008

Working with SOA and RUP

SOA Engineering Misconceptions

Refactoring Considerations for Service-Enabling Applications

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part II: A Comparison of Design Principles


Issue XV, February 2008

SOA in Government: A Law Enforcement Use Case

Security in SOA - It's the Car, Not the Garage

Integration with Process-Centric Service Composition

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part I: A Comparison of Goals and Concepts


Issue XIV, January 2008

Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus

A Strategic Approach to SOA: Using Pilot Projects and Effective Disciplines to Ensure Successful Adoption and Governance

Defining Operational Services: How SOA Can Help Realize a Role-Based Organization


Issue XIII, December 2007

Ten Ways to Identify Services

Services as Web Services: Are We There Yet? How Web Service Technology Stacks Alone Cannot Fulfill the Goals of SOA

SOA Design Patterns: The International Community Review of SOA Patterns and Pattern Languages


Issue XII, November 2007

SOA Pioneers Interview Series: Intel Chief Architect Steve Birkel on SOA Practices and Intel's SOA Adoption

Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design

Processes as Services: Contract Design for Services that Encapsulate WS-BPEL Process Definitions


Issue XI, October 2007

Checking up on the Standards: Introducing the Big SOA Grid

Beyond IT: Exploring the Business Value of SOA

Software Pipelines Theory: Understanding and Applying Concurrent Processing


Issue X, September 2007

SOA - Ready for Primetime: The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture

SOA Realization through Service Virtualization

SOA and the Importance
of XQuery


Issue IX, Jul/Aug 2007

The Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) and SOA Data Service Layers

SaaS, Composite Applications, and SOA: Understanding their Differences and Making Them Work Together

The Convergence of Service-Orientation and Business Strategy

SOA Methodology: Mainstream Methodology for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design

SOA Glossary: Definitions for SOA and Service-Orientation

Issue VIII, June 2007

Defining Business Services: SOA from a Corporate Perspective

Watch Your SOA Blind Spots: A Checklist for Testing Web Services

Software Pipelines in the Real World: Two SOA Performance Case Studies

Issue VII, May 2007

Finding Services in the Mainframe

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence

SOA Principles: An Introduction to the Service-Orientation Paradigm

Issue VI, April 2007

Modernizing the Mainframe for SOA: Considerations for Transforming Mainframe Assets into Services

SOA and Composite Applications

Automated Modeling and Performance Management for Service-Oriented Solutions

Issue V, March 2007

High Performance SOA with Software Pipelines

Essential Components of an SOA Quality Foundation

SOA and the Core Competency Model: A Business Perspective for Realizing Competitive Advantages

Issue IV, February 2007

Service Elicitation:
Defining the Conceptual Service

SOA and EDA: Using
Events to Bridge Decoupled Service Boundaries

SOA and the Emergence
of Business Technology

Issue III, January 2007

AJAX: Bringing SOA
to the Front Lines

Commercializing Services: Web Services Distribution Channels and SOA

Implications of SOA on Business Strategy and Organizational Design

Issue II, Nov/Dec 2006

An SOA Case Study:
Agility in Practice

Business Rules in SOA:
Decision Services and the Centralization of Rules Management

Web Service-Enabling Relational Databases
for SOA


Issue I, Sep/Oct 2006

SOA in the Enterprise:
A Survey of the Technical Landscape

SOA Infrastructure:
Mediation and Orchestration

An SOA Practices Checklist
for Building Implementation Roadmaps

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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