It's sometimes funny to write about service-oriented architecture. One of the things I say often and believe is that you can't buy a service-oriented architecture. SOA is not just technology, it's philosophy, organizational change, and business transformation. There's no place to buy t

Software AG and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced the CentraSite Community, an initiative that brings both alliance partners and customers together to create a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA) ecosystem. Formed to help organizations successfully design, impleme

Nine of every 10 companies are adopting or have adopted service-oriented architectures and will exit 2006 with SOA planning, design, and programming experience, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report, 'Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware.'

Parasoft Corporation, a provider of Automated Error Prevention solutions for software development announced the release of WebKing 5.5. an automated testing suite that provides comprehensive testing and analysis of Web applications, ensuring they meet the content, reliability and perfo

Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project. The project, developed with partners, will create tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work is in response to government requests for

Putting support for XML processing in ColdFusion 6.0 was regarded as a major feature upgrade. With the switch to Java, ColdFusion could leverage the existing Java functions in Jakarta Commons and add support for things like Web Services (Axis). However, binding itself to Java also boun

Stylus Studio announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio 2006 Release 3 XML Enterprise Edition. The new release includes powerful new XML tools, enhancements to Stylus Studio XML Deployment Components, and support for many widely used data processing components for working w

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) refers to an architectural solution that creates an environment in which services, service consumers, and service producers co-exist yet have no dependence on each other. SOA enables an enterprise to increase the loose coupling and the reuse of frequ

Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is more than a simple syntax for Internet transport. It entails a new way of thinking about information. Different communities embrace the language for different reasons. Its platform and vendor neutrality make it a natural format for Service Oriente

OSS Nokalva announced the availability of the OSS XML Schema (XSD) Tools for Java. The OSS XSD Tools are now available for C/C+, and Java. The OSS XSD Tools for Java bind XSD schema to Java representations.

MajescoMastek, a leading software solutions andintegration service provider, today introduced the first ente rpriseservice-oriented architecture (SOA) platform for life and annuitycompanies.

Fiorano Software, Inc., a leading provider ofbusiness integration and enterprise messaging solutions, announced todaythat its Fiorano SOA(TM) 2006 Platform has been selected by the UB Group,the world's second largest distilled spirits company, to integrate itsvarious applications inclu

SAP AG today announced that Coldwater Creek , a leading specialty women's apparel retailer in the U.S., will adopt the SAP NetWeaver(R) platform as the strategic foundation to drive immediate cost savings by simplifying integration efforts and align around an enterprise service-orient

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that Rogue Wave Software will be one of the platinumsponsors of the SOA Web Services Edge Conference to take place June 5-6,2006, at the historical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

Cassatt(R) Corporation, an innovator in providing enterprise software and services to enable agile IT infrastructures, today announced general availability of the Cassatt Collage(TM) Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM). This product enables efficient and reliable server consolidation by

ActiveCampaign, announced the immediate availability of SupportTrio Version 2.6. Starting with version 2.6 a number of AJAX enabled features are implemented into the integrated PHP help desk solution. The new version's extensive list of added features and improvements include: Spell ch

So what's hot these days in the world of SOA? Governance, registries, orchestration...? Nope. As folks looking to implement SOA seek that first killer project the emphasis is on what to do, not what you use, and that's exactly the right way to think. As SOA becomes more of a reality am

This year's conference will feature a distinguished faculty, whose members are the world's top celebrity experts in their fields, presenting six simultaneous tracks and power panels in three distinct themes: SOA Web Services, Enterprise Open Source, and Real-World AJAX. http://www.soae

ECMA International, the Swiss body standardizing Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, says that Gartner doesn't know what it's talking about and is naïve about the standards process when it claims that Microsoft has little prayer of ISO standardizing Redmond's Open Office XML.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today furthered its support for the AJAX community by launching two new comprehensive online resources for AJAX application development as well as Project jMaki, an open source JavaScript Wrapper Framewor

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (along with the underlying XML protocol) promise to greatly simplify the implementation of distributed computing applications, both within the enterprise and between enterprises. The widespread acceptance of Web Services across opera

SOA initiatives have gathered momentum in the past year with more enterprises either implementing SOA or considering implementing in the near future. The implementations we studied reveal that one of the critical challenges in SOA is designing an effective governance mechanism. A good

There is a lot of talk about how SOA will significantly lower the need for developers, thus the savings of SOA. This will be accomplished through the promise of reuse that's driving many toward the SOA light. However, I'm not sure we'll see a reduction in development with the advent of

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that the opening keynote of its 10th international SOA WebServices Conference will be delivered by Cassatt (www.cassatt.com) founderand CEO Bill Coleman (William T. Coleman) on Monday, June 5, 2006, at 8:00am. This year's conferenc

The hype around Web services outpaced that of just about every technology we covered this year. SOA, XML, AJAX and Web 2.0 have not only created new ways for businesses to work together, but also new avenues for intruders to gain access to your data and systems. Forum XWall is one of t

Stylus Studio, the provider of XML tools and components for advanced data integration, announced the availability of a new XQuery tutorial entitled: Defining your own Functions in XQuery. This new tutorial provides numerous XQuery examples and valuable technical insight that is certain

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that Centric CRM will be one of the sponsors of the SOAEnterprise Open Source Conference to take place June 5-6, 2006, at thehistorical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

As XQuery applications became more complex, so does the need to document XQuery library modules and main modules. Furthermore, as the use of XQuery becomes increasingly popular, developers need example XQuery code and supporting documentation. The XQuery developer community can now use

With power comes responsibility. The promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers significant opportunity for service reuse and the realization of a fully integrated enterprise. But left unchecked, the flexibility enabled by an SOA will result in a Wild Wild West of enterprise

The creation and popularity of Web Services are growing rapidly in every industry. With this continued growth, more and more programmers find themselves writing code that, even if it's not currently packaged as a Web Service, will eventually be exposed as one.

Most organizations today have internal applications that span across different systems, networks, and technologies. These applications would provide more value to customers if only the data that they manage were exposed. In the past, this was often difficult due to the inability of sys

The Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series is the first enterprise application delivery solution specifically designed to accelerate and secure asynchronous Web 2.0 applications. With Stampede's expertise in building acceleration software solutions over a decade, the company has been able

TIBCO Software Inc. , today announced at TUCON 2006, the company's annual user conference, the general availability of TIBCO BusinessWorks(TM) 5.3, the latest release of the company's flagship integration solution designed to help customers easily unlock the true benefits offered by an

TIBCO Software Inc. , today announced at TUCON 2006, the company's annual user conference, the launch of TIBCO Business Studio(TM), the first software offering in a series of role-based design technology targeting the business user. TIBCO Business Studio represents a unified Eclipse-ba

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), one of the key technologies for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), has become the accepted mechanism for defining and executing business processes in a common vendor-neutral way. Companies ranging from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and BEA t

Mats Karlsson has announced the relase of TinyAjax, a Lightweight php5 AJAX library. Karlsson says, 'You don't have to write any javascript, but if you want you're free to do so and you can mix as you want, use TinyAjax automatically generated code and your own existing scripts. You ca

Coach Wei, Chairman, Founder and CTO of Nexaweb and the creator of the first commercial AJAX applications, has joined the 'Real-World AJAX' conference faculty. Wei will deliver his AJAX session entitled 'A New Approach to AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML' during the June 5-6, 2006, New Yo

Eric is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as its product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. He leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services s

'Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 exemplifies our continued focus on delivering the most innovative products for solving XML data integration challenges,' said Carlo Innocenti, Program Manager of DataDirect Technologies XML Product Group. 'The new XML development tools and utilities, as we

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced that Rogue Wave Software will be one of the platinum sponsors of the SOA Web Services Edge Conference to take place June 5-6, 2006, at the historical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Cory Isaacson, president, Rogue Wave Software, a div