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Modernizing the Mainframe for SOA: Considerations for Transforming Mainframe Assets into Services
by Dan Finerty
In order to realize the core business imperatives of increasing agility and efficiency SOA demands that organizations reconsider the value of legacy technologies and examine ways to extend and enhance that value rather than taking a “toss the baby out with the bathwater” approach to modernization. This article discusses how to transform and modernize the mainframe into an active, industry-standard participant of SOA implementations. It provides step-by-step guidelines to ensuring that the mainframe’s strengths are leveraged, allowing it to become a full-fledged member of service-oriented solutions. Available technology approaches that enable the mainframe to both provide and consume Web services are also discussed...
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SOA and Composite Applications
by Robert Schneider
Composite applications (also known as “enterprise mashups”) deliver immediate, cross-system interactive value to users while showcasing the value of your investment in a service-oriented architecture. Today’s standards-based infrastructure and powerful development tools make these applications possible. Composite solution design is particularly compelling in an environment standardizing on SOA. This article explores the synergy between the concepts and principles associated with composite applications and the service-orientation design paradigm. Further aspects of composite design are discussed and explored, along with guidelines that address security, reliability, and performance considerations...
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Automated Modeling and Performance Management
for Service-Oriented Solutions
by Chris Farrell
The ability to effectively manage and monitor application performance is emerging as a new critical business imperative. With the mass adoption of SOA and the wide-spread deployment of enterprise service-oriented solutions, what steps must companies take to reduce application downtime? Traditional application performance management (APM) methods don’t adequately address the constantly-changing nature of distributed environments. They simply don’t take into account the layers of complexities that underlie multi-platform, multi-vendor, and even multi-company solutions. This article will examine the concept of “modeling” an application’s architecture in support of its eventual performance management. It will also explore how automating the APM process for service-oriented applications can reduce the risk and effort associated with the management of application performance...
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Issue XVIII, May 2008
Enterprise Mashups
Part I: Bringing SOA to the People
Shadow IT: Edge
Applications in a Service-Oriented Enterprise
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Issue XVII, April 2008
Relating Master Data Management to SOA
SOA in Healthcare (Part I)
A Program Management Methodology for SOA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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