Tag Archives: SOA

LAUNCH – The Movie!

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On October 3rd IBM will be launching a number of SOA announcements. To create a lot of buzz around the whole SOA thing a very interesting trailer to an upcoming movie has been released.

So check out the awesome trailer to the upcoming movie called LAUNCH!

According to comments to the trailer on YouTube the short film will be released on October 9th.

Was that Morgan Freeman appearing in the trailer?

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Tutorial: Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect

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A new tutorial called “Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is part 1 of a series and “you will learn about the relationship between a set of tools in the IBM® Rational® Software Development Platform that you will use as you design an SOA-based service using Model-Driven Development (MDD). You’ll see how to access requirements from different sources, use a customized software development process, and then start to model a design for the required service”.

The SOA Magazine

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A new online magazine on Service Oriented Architecture has just launched: The SOA Magazine.

From the “About this magazine”:

The SOA Magazine is a bi-monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the “Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl.”

The SOA Magazine is dedicated to publishing specialized SOA articles, case studies, and papers by industry experts. The common criteria for contributions is that each explore a distinct aspect of service-oriented computing.

[Via Architects Linkblog]

I have recently blogged about two online architecture journals that might be of interest to you also.

Free "SOA for Dummies" book!

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IBM is was giving away a free copy of “SOA for Dummies“. Go ahead and order your copy.

Aug. 9 update from Bobby Woolf: “The IBM offering is not the full book, it’s a subset aimed at businesspeople. The full book is 384 pages; the free IBM version is 66 pages, focusing on the business aspects and fundamentals of the architecture but not the technology details”

Sept. 21 update: The offer has expired. Due to the overwhelming success of the ordering of the free SOA for Dummies books, IBM has run out of supply. IBM has shipped 10,000 books around the world.

[Via Bobby Woolf]

PHP for SOA and the free Websphere Application Server

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IBM has announced “a simple way for customers to use PHP technology to develop and execute applications in a service oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM’s open source-based application server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition.”

Go ahead and download the free WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the PHP Integration Kit for WAS CE.

[Via Jean-Francois Arseneault]

Mainframe for new purposes?

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According to The New York Times IBM will later today be “introducing software tools, academic programs and support for outside developers that IBM says are intended to bring new business and new programmers to the mainframe. IBM is trying to position the mainframe for corporate customers as a ‘hub of Internet-based computing.’”

Also according to the article: “The software tools IBM is introducing will enable traditional mainframe programmers and programmers skilled in modern computer languages, like Java, to write software programs tailored for the mainframe but including Internet technology. This Web services technology makes programs more flexible as individual building blocks of code will be able to communicate with others automatically.”

Update: The Mercury News also has an article on the upcoming announcement.

Update 2: This has now been officially announced by IBM in a press release entitled “IBM Unveils Software and ISV Initiatives to Handle Surge in Mainframe Transactions“. Focus is on using the mainframe as a hub for SOA.