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XML : Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development

May 5, 2010 by BPELforum

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This work analyzes Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Web technology that promises to become as commonplace as Java or hypertext markup language (HTML). XML simplifies its predecessor, standard generalized markup language (SGML), and vastly expands Web page functionality. In contrast to HTML – a more specific markup language that uses tags to indicate how a browser should display text and other elements – XML manages the content and context of data. This report categorizes the uses of SGML, HTML and XML and compares their benefits and drawbacks. Because the XML data format is independent of platform, application or language, applications that can process XML documents can also exchange data. Applications process XML documents using XML parsers, which extract and tag data from the document and present it in a usable format. “XML: Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development” discusses how an XML parser reads the document type definition (DTD) of an XML document and verifies that the document is well formed and valid. The report also explains the two common methods for processing XML documents: simple application programme interface for XML (SAX) and document object model (DOM). The complexity of a browser is related to its functions, options and the intricacies of the underlying parser. Because XML documents are written according to strict rules, a well-formed XML document can be processed by a simple parser and sent to a simple browser, streamlining and speeding task facilitation throughout the network. “XML: Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development” demonstrates how XML elevates browser technology to reach the next level of flexibility, incorporating new capabilities that will depart from today’s arbitrary vendor-driven path. As XML matures, organizations will need to decide not when or if to use the technology but how to use it and where to implement it. “XML: Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development” is a useful tool for organizations that want to learn the scope of XML’s unique capabilities and apply them for competitive business advantage.

XML : Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development

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A Competitive Analysis of Major Service Vendors and Their SOA Service Capabilities: Part I

May 2, 2010 by BPELforum

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This study examines the SOA competitive landscape from a services perspective by profiling and then comparing eight major service vendors on IDC’s Leadership Grid. “Each service provider has been on its own SOA journey for many years and has developed an increasingly sophisticated response to the changing market needs around SOA. The service vendors have matured significantly in their ability to provide SOA services since IDC evaluated them a few years ago, yet this maturation has not happened in the same way or at the same pace. There is still a great deal of variability among the various vendors which makes it an especially intriguing and interesting industry to watch,” states Marianne Hedin, research manager, IDC Worldwide Services Research Program.

A Competitive Analysis of Major Service Vendors and Their SOA Service Capabilities: Part I

Filed Under: SOA Books Tagged With: Analysis, Capabilities, Competitive, Competitive Analysis, Idc, Journey, Landscape, Leadership Grid, Major, Maturation, Pace, Part, Perspective, Product Description, Service, Service Capabilities, Service Provider, Service Vendors, Their, Variability, Vendors, Worldwide Services

Service-Oriented Modeling : Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

April 28, 2010 by BPELforum

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Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions

How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.

Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling

Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

“Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more-an essential bible for the next generation of enterprise IT.”
-Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software

“Michael Bell’s insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services.”
-Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services

“This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today’s software development industry.”
-Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI

“‘Innovative’ and ‘groundbreaking’ are words that best describe Michael Bell’s Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners.”
-Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation

“As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future.”
-Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media

“This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline-clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions.”
-Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS

Service-Oriented Modeling : Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

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Test and Analysis of Web Services

April 28, 2010 by BPELforum

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The service-oriented approach has become more and more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to support Web-based and enterprise-level integration.

The highly dynamic characteristics of service-oriented applications means their validation is a continuous process that often runs in parallel with execution. It is not possible to clearly distinguish between the predeployment validation of a system and its use, nor is it possible to guarantee that the checks passed at a certain time will be passed at a later time and in the actual execution environment as well.

Baresi and Di Nitto have put together the first reference on all aspects of testing and validating service-oriented architectures, taking into account these inherent intricacies. The contributions by leading academic and industrial research groups are structured into four parts on: static analysis to acquire insight into how the system is supposed to work; testing techniques to sample its actual behavior; monitoring to probe its operational performance; and nonfunctional requirements like reliability and trust.

This monograph is an initial source of knowledge for researchers in both academia and industry in the field of service-oriented architecture validation and verification approaches. They will find a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art approaches as well as techniques and tools to improve the quality of service-oriented applications.

Test and Analysis of Web Services

Filed Under: BPEL Books Tagged With: Analysis, Applications Web, Architecture Validation, Baresi, Dynamic Characteristics, Execution Environment, Heterogeneous Applications, Industrial Research Groups, Initial Source, Intricacies, Level Integration, Middleware Technologies, Natural Evolution, Nonfunctional Requirements, Operational Performance, Oriented Applications, Oriented Approach, Service Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architectures, services, Static Analysis, Test, Verification Approaches

SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis

April 28, 2010 by BPELforum

ISBN13: 9780470481974
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Learn the essential tools for developing a sound service-oriented architecture

SOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis introduces a universal, easy-to-use, and nimble SOA modeling language to facilitate the service identification and examination life cycle stage. This business and technological vocabulary will benefit your service development endeavors and foster organizational software asset reuse and consolidation, and reduction of expenditure.

Whether you are a developer, business architect, technical architect, modeler, business analyst, team leader, or manager, this essential guide-introducing an elaborate set of more than 100 patterns and anti-patterns-will help you successfully discover and analyze services, and model a superior solution for your project,.

Explores how to discover services
Explains how to analyze services for construction and production
How to assess service feasibility for deployment
How to employ the SOA modeling language during the service identification and examination process
How to utilize the SOA modeling patterns and anti-patterns for service discovery and analysis

Focusing on the Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis Life Cycle Stage, this book will help you acquire a broad SOA Modeling knowledge base and leverage that to increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace.

SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis

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