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COM This Week :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: A newsletter from TechTarget June 11, 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: > From the Editor: Eclipse and SOA infrastructure > Ask the Experts: Open source ESBs > Learning Center: Eclipse Learning Guide > Site Highlights: Expert Q&A: Alistair Cockburn on what's agile, what's not > White Papers: The Productivity Paradigm-Shift: Enabling Business Efficiency through Collaborative BPM > More From SearchWebServices.com: Eclipse Europa, part 1: Modeling project supports SOA

FROM THE EDITOR :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Eclipse and SOA infrastructure [Michael Meehan] One of the more daunting aspects of planning out an SOA project is figuring out what technology you'll be needing to do it. There's a lot of supposed magic bullets out there. Some might help you with a single Web services project, but is it something you want at the heart of your service-oriented architecture? Is this a foundational piece of technology? That's no small choice to make. It's kind of like figuring out if you should marry a person before the first date. Though there is the consistent, radical suggestion that SOA is not something you buy, it's something you do. All right, you might say, how do I "do" it if I don't buy anything that enables me to do it? First off, paying attention to your architecture and re-orienting the way you build applications is free. You don't have to pay to think and you might find you can undertake SOA projects using tools you've already got on hand. It's what ING Card did in building out an international credit card service. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567072/5197619 Second, you could try to download some open source SOA tools. Emerging as an ever more important player in this arena is Eclipse. Their tools work with a wide variety of different platforms, making them well-suited foundational elements. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567073/5197619 Last we ran the first of a four-part series on the SOA hooks inside the upcoming Eclipse Europa release, focusing on the Eclipse Modeling Project. We'll be following it this Thursday with a deeper look at the Eclipse SOA Tools Project. Data integration tools will be on the docket next week. Freely available modeling, service creation and data integration tools might be all you need for some projects. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567074/5197619 http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567075/5197619 Caveat emptor applies even if you're not spending money, perhaps caveat licensor would be the proper term. For instance, the Eclipse

SOA Tools Project uses the Service Component Architecture assembly model and there is some criticism that SCA isn't central to service creation. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567076/5197619 Infrastructure decisions are never easy, but Eclipse is making a slew of potential SOA functionality as easy to acquire as hitting the "download" button. MORE > http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567077/5197619 ASK THE EXPERT :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Open source ESBs [David Lithicum] David Lithicum discusses the best available open source ESB options currently on the market. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567078/5197619 LEARNING CENTER :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Eclipse Learning Guide Want to learn more about Eclipse? Check out the language-neutral Eclipse development platform featuring an extensible plug-in based framework. This learning guide is brimming with helpful pointers to get you started quickly. > More on this: http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567079/5197619 SITE HIGHLIGHTS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Expert Q&A: Alistair Cockburn on what's agile, what's not Cockburn, a signatory on The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, spoke to sister site SearchSoftwareQuality.com about key ways perception and acceptance of agile methodologies have changed since the manifesto was first published. You'll also get a Top 10 list of how to know you're not really doing agile and an overview of how Crystal differs from Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567080/5197619 FEATURED WHITE PAPERS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Productivity Paradigm-Shift: Enabling Business Efficiency through Collaborative BPM Published by: BEA Systems, Inc. 01 Apr 2007 http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567081/5197619 View All White Papers at: http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567082/5197619 MORE FROM SEARCHWEBSERVICES.COM :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Eclipse Europa, part 1: Modeling project supports SOA The first of a four part series on the Eclipse Foundation's major Europa release at the end of this month previews the latest version of the Eclipse Modeling Framework that supports service-oriented

architecture (SOA) and other Eclipse tools. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567083/5197619 Microsoft, Liberty join for Web services identity interop Liberty Alliance, Microsoft and VeriSign join Concordia Project in effort to bring interoperability to competing identity management technologies. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567084/5197619 SOA means business says IBM exec What does service-oriented architecture (SOA) mean to business people with little knowledge or interest in the technological side of Web services? Michael Liebow, who heads IBM's Business Consulting Services for SOA, discusses the good, the bad and the hopeful. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567085/5197619 The governance, quality, management trifecta: Making loose coupling work Ronald Schmelzer discusses the connections between SOA governance, quality and management in making the illusion of loose coupling a reality. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567086/5197619 Ruby on Rails - preparing for an enterprise invasion Ruby on Rails has been popular with developers, but now management tools and IDEs are for RoR are emerging, which could propel the framework deeper into the enterprise. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567087/5197619 CAM: A Swiss Army knife for XML structures Dealing with the performance bottleneck of constantly shifting XML validation and requirements inside your SOA? Then Content Assembly Mechanism might be for you. http://go.techtarget.com/r/1567088/5197619 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CONTACT US: Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: mailto:bmcgovern@techtarget.com Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: mailto:mmeehan@techtarget.com

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