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Layer 7 Technologies Announces Support for Solaris(TM) 10 on SPARC

Leading XML Security and Networking Vendor Adds Support for SPARC Platforms to Family of Products to Help Secure, Simply and Scale XML and SOA Deployments

Fast and Flexible Security Solutions for Cross-Domain Web Services Integrations

This paper presents general, benefit, and architectural information about the SecureSpan™ family of products.

A Practical Guide to Policy Authoring for SOA Governance

This Webcast, presented by Layer 7 CTO and WS-Policy co-editor, Dr. Toufic Boubez, will cover how to declaratively *define SOA Policy for SOA Governance applications.* Consistent, standards based policy definition is the first step in implementing an SOA Governance framework.

ZapForum Podcast: Understanding Identity & SOA

Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA, understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy. Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

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Theme: Software Standardization, Web Services, Transactions, and Mobility
Personal Weblog
Title: CTO of IONA

In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as IONA's product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design.

Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in the standardization activities around Web services, and was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is currently editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author and editor of the recently published Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) set of specifications submitted to OASIS.

A frequent speaker at industry and company events and contributor to popular journals and Web sites, Mr. Newcomer is the author of the best-selling Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman). His new book, Web Services Integration, is due in 2004 from Addison-Wesley.

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Web Services Transactions

Whether or not transactions are a good fit for Web services entirely depends upon what you're trying to do.

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