Progress Software Announces Availability of Sonic ESB 7.6
New Sonic ESB Release Expands Functionality with Improved SOA Management and Enhanced BPEL Instrumentation
Parasoft Invests in Embedded Systems Quality Group
Parasoft launches new embedded division, Parasoft Embedded, to tackle quality in the embedded market with innovative solutions and services
Active Endpoints Announces the Java Advancement Kit
JAK to Allow Java Developers to Leverage Web Services, Reuse Existing Applications and Acquire New Skills
A look at .NET 3.5 - podcast
Not a lot of attention has focused yet on something brewing known as .NET 3.5. That is probably not a bad thing. The hyperbole surrounding .NET 3.0 was extensive but, in the view of many, misplaced. Like .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5 is evolutionary. Microsoft's Thom Robbins says new technology to highlight in NET 3.5 includes AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, as well as tooling enhancements intended to ease the task of building WPF, WF and WCF apps.
ThoughtWorks REST Podcast
A few weeks back a handful of ThoughtWorks' senior techies met for our quarterly CTO office meeting in fabulous San Francisco. Since this is one of those rare opportunities where we actually see one-another (normally we're spread across continents and clients), our media guru Michael got us together to lay down some podcasts on things we think are interesting and important.
Develop and execute WS-BPEL V2.0 business processes using the Eclipse BPEL plug-in
BPEL V2.0 is a powerful language intended to help in development of huge, complex applications consisting of a lot of other components and Web services. BPEL allows you to describe long-running workflows using graphical editors to present workflows on human-friendly diagrams. This article describes how to combine the Eclipse BPEL plug-in for development of processes and Apache ODE for their execution.
The best way to sell SOA? Try Web 2.0 techniques
There’s no question that SOA has been a tough sell in many organizations. Conversely, the response to Web 2.0 has been almost a cult-like following - many end users can’t get enough of these online tools.
SOA, Web 2.0's Boring Cousin
I've been waving my hands for years about the synergy between the emerging Web and SOA. No brainier if you ask me, considering the number of services that are now available on the Web, and the value of leveraging those services within the enterprise, using SOA approaches.
RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws
Regardless of whether you believe the Yaws comparison graphs or not, Yaws is a solid web server for serving dynamic content. Claes Wikström wrote Yaws - "Yet Another Web Server" - in Erlang, a programming language created specifically to support long-running, concurrent, highly reliable distributed systems.