http://soa.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from WS Process Copyright 2008 SOA WORLD MAGAZINE Tue, 13 May 2008 11:08:00 GMT SOA WORLD MAGAZINE 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://soa.sys-con.com/read/275099.htmhttp://soa.sys-con.com/read/275099.htm Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:30:00 GMT To ensure the success of your mainframe SOA initiatives, it's important to be able to support both bottom-up and contract-first design approaches. With the former, businesses may see an opportunity to jumpstart the SOA, quickly packaging bite-sized chunks of mainframe code as Web Services, and pushing them out to the rest of the organization to do with them what they will. But experience shows that the contract-first approach - basically, Web Service design informed by business processes - is a 'best practice' that will yield optimal results. http://soa.sys-con.com/read/219055.htmhttp://soa.sys-con.com/read/219055.htm Mon, 22 May 2006 11:45:00 GMT The W3C released WSDL 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation on January 6, 2006. The Web Services Description Group, part of the Web Services Activity, made three main documents publicly available for review: Part 0: Primer - Intended to be a less-technical introduction to the main concepts described in the Core Language. Part 1: Core Language - Describes the elements for the abstract concepts and the constructs for binding concrete implementations found in the Adjuncts document. Part 2: Adjuncts - Defines the predefined extension points and mechanisms for pairing WSDL with its most likely partners SOAP and HTTP. http://soa.sys-con.com/read/104916.htmhttp://soa.sys-con.com/read/104916.htm Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:00:00 GMT Over the last decade, supply chains have evolved to keep pace with changing business dynamics. This is especially true in high-tech electronics, where companies depend on an extended value chain of component suppliers, outsourced manufacturers, and logistics partners - not to mention B2B-integrated customers - to coordinate vital inter-company design and manufacturing processes. Adding to this complexity, business decisions are more centralized, while outsourced supply networks are increasingly distributed and global.