SOA
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services.
With the Smart SOA approach, you can find value at every stage of the SOA continuum, from departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives.
Services Oriented Architecture is an affordable, open solution that builds on services and applications already in place to integrate and automate traditionally manual actions. Repeatable business tasks can be identified, arranged, and choreographed into sophisticated processes. Existing applications can be connected and effortlessly reorganized to compliment evolving business strategies. With straightforward, building-block assembly SOA makes it easy to take advantage of highly integrated processes while retaining uncompromised flexibility for future innovation. SOA software is fully modular and defined in four phases: Model, Assemble, Deploy and Manage. In all phases governance is the key to a successful SOA implementation.
Glyphicâ??s SOA software and tooling includes: WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Adapters.
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The IBM advantage for SOA reference architecture standards
This article describes how the SOA reference architecture has been developed and used by IBM to help customers increase business flexibility as well as IT flexibility. The SOA RA reference architecture being used to help organizations achieve advanced levels of business agility and IT flexibility through service integration that are specifically in line with their unique SOA business objectives. IBM is also using an SOA reference architecture along with the Cloud reference architecture to help organizations define their cloud solutions. Full Story
USB-Like Universal Ports Type for Enterprise Service Bus, Part 3: Benefits of Universal Ports
In the first installment, part1 of this series, you learned about the basic functionalities of the currently available Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). In part 1, you also learned about some of the difficulties in the use of the currently available ESBs. In the second installment, Part 2 of this series, you learned about the new concept of the Universal Ports type for ESB and how to implement Universal Ports. Universal Ports provide solution to the many of the problems that the current users of the ESBs experience. A Universal Port works analogous to the USB port of a computer, which is to connect devices of varied kind to connect to the computer. In a similar manner a Universal Port can be used to connect any application to the ESB and, indirectly, to the other applications. These applications may employ disparate forms of services to expose some or all of their functionality and still use a single port type. In this installment, part 3 of this series you will learn about the many benefits of Universal Ports. Full Story
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a transformational technology used by enterprises to drive business advantages including agility, reduced cost, improved time to market and competitive advantage. This article highlights how standards are important for SOA solutions enhancing customer results and enabling interoperability. Full Story
Enforcing SOA message security policy with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere DataPower
This tutorial presents the reader with a concrete method for using a central repository in this example WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) to implement business policies governing SOA message flows, enforced by the WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances. The necessary configuraton steps for both the WSRR and the WebSphere DataPower appliance are detailed. Full Story
Creating virtual servers through VMControl REST APIs
Creating logical partitions on IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) can often be a time consuming task and of course requires a certain level of technical skills on PowerVM technology. By using remote command execution on HMC and VMControl Representation State Transfer (REST) web services calls, you will be able to programmatically create logical partitions assigning virtual resources and enabling a simplified virtualization management. Full Story
Configuring secured Web service calls from WebSphere Process Server V7 to a non-WebSphere server via SSL
This tutorial provides steps to configure an SSL for a Web service call from WebSphere Process Server to a non-WebSphere Web service. It covers generating client and sample server keys, importing certificates, configuring the SOAP UI for SSL, mocking up the Web service, and testing the SSL. Full Story
Building a sample application to showcase integration between WESB and WSRR V7
This article will be useful to developers who are starting out with WESB and WSRR, providing a reference point for building a simple solution using WID to showcase integration between the aforementioned products. Full Story
