This article is the second part of a two-part series covering best practices for building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The following are the seven key steps for effective SOA adoption:

Oct. 25, 2006 Reads: 23,524

The Missing 'Discovery' Link to Successful Business Process Management

Every organization is under pressure to deliver tangible business benefit through its IT projects. This point is illustrated by the fact that almost all IT projects are justified based on the ROI they will deliver. However, very few organizations follow up and review all projects based...

Oct. 24, 2006 Reads: 10,383

The Optimization Appliance

An efficient Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation distributes as much processing as possible to trusted appliances in the nearer tiers, where intelligent content-based routing decisions made by highly efficient processors can also perform caching, transformations, and oth...

Oct. 21, 2006 Reads: 20,682

SOA Web Services Editorial — Development Blues

Nothing is more enlightening for a technologist than to observe development in progress. We're faced constantly with a bewildering array of choices and tools. We see specifications on paper that then become something completely different when we actually get to see them implemented in ...

Oct. 19, 2006 Reads: 17,675

SOA Access Control Policy Management

When SOAP-based Web Services solutions began appearing five years ago, one of the major challenges was securely propagating end-user identity in Web Service chaining scenarios. Certainly a user could authenticate to a portal, and that portal could talk to a Web Service that talks to an...

Oct. 19, 2006 Reads: 14,056 Replies: 1

Did You Know There's a "C" in SOA?

When designing your SOA and services, keeping the service consumer in mind will make the job easier. Consumers must conform to the interfaces of each service they use and invoke them with the right data in the right format. The more similarity there is among services, the less coding a...

Oct. 19, 2006 Reads: 15,682

ChoicePay: Rising above the SOA Testing Challenge

ChoicePay has embarked on a strategic Web Services-based SOA initiative as part of its ongoing effort to improve customer and partner service. To meet its service improvement objectives, ChoicePay builds reliable and robust Web Services. It continues to enhance its service objectives w...

Oct. 19, 2006 Reads: 15,144

Build Management Is Critical to Developing an SOA Enterprise

Developing under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is different from traditional development. A large set of business changes will now be funneled through a relatively small number of enterprise services. An inefficient or bad build system can impact a greater number of business ch...

Oct. 16, 2006 Reads: 11,898

The Challenges of SOA

'Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn't go through the proper and complete approval process.' Famous last words uttered by far too many enterprise architects. Some of them actually believe it's true - others think that by hoping it's true, maybe, just ...