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Web App Development for the SOA Age

Are you fed up with brittle, expensive, and support intensive Rich Internet Applications? This paper demonstrates the solution and the future.

12 UK Council Deployments of Front and Back Office Integration Adapters Using Lagan and Hyfinity Technology Within Weeks

Hyfinity is pleased to announce that 6 UK Local Authorities have deployed Lagan web-based Integration Adaptors linking their Lagan CRM and Case Management system to Northgate’s Sx3 Revenues and Benefits back office applications.

Automating Rich Internet Application Development for Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOA

Modern Rich Internet Applications for SOA have to cope with very complex, multi-layered peer-to-peer architectures and ever-increasing technologies, ranging from XHTML, AJAX, Java, XML, HTTP SOAP and all the transformations in-between different layers of the architecture

ZapThink on Hyfinity: Enabling Rich, Composite Web Applications

Web application development is becoming increasingly complex, time consuming, and brittle. For many organizations, the addition of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies like Ajax look promising, but...

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iTKO Announces Release of LISA 4.5 SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization Solution

Leading SOA Testing & Virtualization Platform Proven and Enhanced for Customer Needs, including new Service Virtualization Capabilities for High-Performance Implementations


Managed Methods

JaxView

JaxView from Managed Methods provides architects and IT operations teams with practical, cost-effective tools for monitoring and managing standards-based (SOAP) and REST Web services.

Fujitsu

Centrasite

CentraSite is the only standards-based SOA registry and repository in the market today. CentraSite offers a greater visibility and control of integrated SOA based applications, supports better decision-making, and increases productivity. It serves as a Web services and SOA asset management platform, holding all an enterprise's metadata assets (DNA of enterprise applications), and offering reports on usage.

It has been jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG.

 

CentraSite is available in two editions:

  • CentraSite Community Edition

  • CentraSite Enterprise Edition

Interstage Business Process Manager

Interstage Business Process Manager is a complete Business Process Management (BPM) suite designed to help improve the productivity and profitability of your businesses by maximizing the value of your existing IT infrastructure and optimizing the utilization of your workforce. Interstage Business Process Manager is cost effective, easily installs and quickly integrates into existing environments, ensuring a faster path to ROI.

iTKO

LISA SOA Testing

The iTKO LISA suite of products offer the world's most comprehensive testing solution for today's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. Unlike conventional UI- and code-oriented testing tools, LISA was built from the ground up to test the many heterogeneous components, and the workflows between them, that make up SOA software.

Active Endpoints

ActiveBPEL Open Source Engine

The ActiveBPEL™ engine is a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created for the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard.

ActiveBPEL Enterprise

ActiveBPEL™ Enterprise is the premier solution for deploying, running and managing BPEL-based applications. Designed from the ground up with a modular, extensible architecture, ActiveBPEL Enterprise servers integrate as easily into ISV solution stacks as they do into enterprise SOA frameworks.

ActiveBPEL™ Designer

ActiveBPEL™ Designer is the premier integrated development environment for rapidly building, testing and deploying BPEL-based applications. A native Eclipse Ready™ technology, ActiveBPEL Designer is used by thousands of SOA architects and developers to build loosely-coupled, composite application systems.

Hyfinity

Hyfinity's MVC - Codeless UI Builder for SOA

Hyfinity's MVC technology rapidly delivers XML-centric Web Applications and eForms that present, capture, process and report information from real-time transactional web services.

JBoss, a division of Red Hat

JBoss Enterprise Middleware

JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible and scalable suite of products for creating and deploying e-business applications, offering cutting-edge technology components which customers can mix-and-match and roll out into their line of business infrastructure - all at zero-cost software licenses.

F5 Networks

BIG-IPBIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager v9

The BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager is an application traffic management system that provides the most intelligent and adaptable solution to secure, optimize and deliver applications, enabling organizations to effectively and competitively run their business.

TrafficShield™ Application Firewall

TrafficShield is a Web Application Firewall that provides comprehensive, proactive, application-layer protection against both generalized and targeted attacks.

WANJet™

WANJet™ is an appliance-based solution that delivers LAN-like application performance over the WAN. WANJet accelerates file transfer, email, client server applications, data replication, and others, resulting in predictable, fast performance for all WAN users.

FirePass® SeriesFirePass Enterprise SSL VPN

F5's FirePass® SSL VPN appliance provides secure access to corporate applications and data using a standard web browser.

Layer 7 Technologies

SecureSpan™ XML Accelerator

The SecureSpan™ XML Accelerator offloads extremely processor-intensive XML parsing, validation and transformation operations from application servers, database servers and Enterprise Service Buses (ESB). The XML Accelerator appliance is specifically designed to accelerate XML message throughput and reduce the latency associated with processing all common XML message formats including POX, SOAP, REST and AJAX.

SecureSpan™ XML Data Screen

The SecureSpan™ XML Data Screen protects XML, Web services and Web 2.0 applications from damage, downtime or improper information. The XML Data Screen is the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) / Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) XML appliance specifically designed to cleanse XML data streams of threats, vulnerabilities and unauthorized content for all common XML message formats including POX, SOAP, REST and AJAX.

SecureSpan™ Manager

The SecureSpan™ Manager provides a graphical environment for administering SecureSpan appliances and gateway software, creating, and validating XML and Web services policies.

XML Firewall and VPN

The SecureSpan™ XML Firewall combines the capabilities of the SecureSpan XML Accelerator and Data Screen with advanced identity and message level security to address the broadest range of behind the firewall, portal and B2B SOA security challenges.

SecureSpan™ XML Networking Gateway

The SecureSpan™ XML Networking Gateway combines the capabilities of the SecureSpan XML Accelerator, XML Data Screen and XML Firewall and VPN with advanced message routing, mediation, virtualization and SLA features to address generalized Application Oriented Networking (AON) problems.

Parasoft

Parasoft GRS

Provides metrics and measurements to help you identify whether your projects are on-track to meet your schedule and quality targets—empowering you can make changes that increase your development team's productivity.

Parasoft WebKing®

Parasoft WebKing is an automated Web testing suite that provides comprehensive testing and analysis of Web sites and Web applications to ensure they meet the reliability, security, and performance goals necessary to effectively support business requirements.

Parasoft C++test™

A complete C/C++ developer's toolkit for code analysis, code review, automated unit and component testing, coverage analysis, and regression testing — on the desktop under leading IDEs and in batch processes.Now also available as a Wind River Workbench plugin.

Parasoft Insure++®

Insure++ enables fast, reliable detection and resolution of elusive runtime memory errors. Named best performing analysis tool by Iowa State University's High Performance Computing Group.

Parasoft JTest

Provides fast and easy ways to apply a comprehensive set of Java testing techniques. Helps “test early and often” so quality is built into the code, and bugs are exposed upon introduction.

Parasoft BPEL Maestro

Parasoft BPEL Maestro simplifies Web service orchestration and helps your company achieve the vision of SOA. Parasoft BPEL Maestro delivers a comprehensive BPEL engine and development toolkit that fully comply with Web Services and BPEL standards – enabling enterprises to develop, manage and orchestrate persistent, long-term Web Services oriented business processes with greater speed and increased cost-effectiveness.

Parasoft .TEST

Parasoft .TEST is an automated .NET unit testing and coding standard analysis product for improving reliability, functionality, security, performance, and maintainability. .TEST works with programming languages that target the Microsoft .NET Framework, including C#, VB.NET, and MC++ (Managed C++). It can test any file or assembly that has been built to take advantage of the .NET CLR.

Parasoft SOAtest

An automated Web services testing product that allows users to verify all aspects of a Web service, from WSDL validation, to unit and functional testing of the client and server, to performance testing. SOAtest addresses key Web services and SOA development issues such as interoperability, security, change management, and scalability.

Progress Sonic

Progress Sonic Workbench

Progress® Sonic Workbench™ is an Eclipse-based SOA toolset to model, configure, test and deploy processes and services using products in the Sonic ESB Product Family.

Adapters for Progress® Sonic ESB®

Adapters for Progress® Sonic ESB® mask the technical and semantic differences of various systems, creating a uniform view via dynamic and static transformations. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.

Progress® Sonic ESB® Product Family

The Progress® Sonic ESB® Product Family comprises Sonic ESB and a comprehensive set of compatible products that simplify application integration using a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Progress Sonic Database Service

Progress® Sonic Database Service™ simplifies access and reuse of relational data sources in a service-oriented architecture. Eliminating inflexible and costly custom coding, the Sonic Database Service makes it easy to configure and execute queries, updates and stored procedures as broadly-available services on Sonic ESB.

Progress Sonic XML Server

Progress® Sonic XML Server™ provides high-speed XML processing, storage and query services for management of Sonic ESB® operational data. Processing XML messages in their native XML format, the Sonic XML Server is fast without imposing restrictions on XML message schema.

Progress® Sonic™ BPEL Server™

Progress® Sonic™ BPEL Server™, a member of the Progress® Sonic ESB Product Family, adds standards-based service orchestration to the intelligent routing capabilities of Sonic ESB. It improves developer productivity by simplifying the building, testing and deploying of sophisticated service orchestration that integrates with heterogeneous end-points throughout the enterprise.

Progress® Sonic ESB®

Progress® Sonic ESB® is a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Mindreef

Mindreef Policy Rules Manager

Mindreef Policy Rules Manager provides the ability to establish SOA design standards by easily combining industry policy sets (e.g. WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Security) with customized organizational best practices.

Mindreef Load Check

Mindreef Load Check reduces the technical complexity and the costs associated with performance and load checking; it allows project teams - developers and QA testers - to perform comprehensive load testing on Web services early and often throughout the development lifecycle

Mindreef SOAPscope Server

Mindreef SOAPscope Server is the industry's leading solution for testing and verifying the quality of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). It is server-based with hosted tools to provide always-on access so that SOA team members can perform quality-related tasks or access quality-related artifacts at any time. And for those just beginning a transition to SOA, it is affordable and practical to deploy as you begin development of your first Web services.

Mindreef SOAPscope

Service reuse is one of the most sought-after objectives on any SOA implementation, giving your company more agility and the ability to better compete in today's competitive business environment. But without SOA quality, reuse is essentially unattainable. Mindreef SOAPscope makes service reuse a reality.

SOAPscope enables SOA Quality from the service provider lifecycle and the service consumer lifecycle.

StrikeIron, Inc.

StrikeIron Super Data Pack

Start working with Web services and live data instantly! The Super Data Pack brings together dozens of Web services into one easy-to-use “Super” Web service. With the Super Data Pack, developers and end-users can leverage multiple data sources for use within a diverse set of rich applications at no cost or with no commitment.

StrikeIron Marketplace API

Developers can start making money instantly by integrating their applications with multiple Web services from the StrikeIron Marketplace to be seamlessly integrated on-the-fly without ever having to leave their application.

OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft® Excel

StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft® Excel is the first, simple, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Web Services Analyzer for Windows

StrikeIron’s Web Services Analyzer for Windows allows anyone to quickly and easily discover, understand and utilize any XML-based Web service with a click of the mouse.

The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace

Online services and tools that make it easier to work with Web services

HP

HP Software’s Business Availability Center™ for SOA

HP Software’s Business Availability Center™ for SOA allows organizations to measure and manage critical business services to deliver intended business outcomes. HP’s solution for SOA management delivers value in three key areas as it:

  • Enables real-time visibility into SOA services so you can proactively manage service levels from a business perspective

  • Facilitates fast problem detection and notification so you can rapidly diagnose and resolve SOA performance issues

  • Allows organizations to quickly detect changes in SOA environments and assess the impact of changes in services on the end-user experienceenable service-oriented architectures.

SOA Management – HP SOA Manager and HP Business Availability Center for SOA

HP SW’s SOA Manager solution provides a purpose-built, single system view of the SOA runtime environment. SOA Manager enforces the policies defined through the governance processes. This brings control to the operational environment, delivering runtime management of the SOA to complement the design time governance of Systinet 2 to provide end-to-end governance and management of the SOA. It allows customers to handle:

  • policy enforcement

  • essential monitoring of services and

  • problem isolation based on the relationships between services

Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF)

The GIF meets customer demands for highly interoperable, multi-vendor solutions for enterprise SOA. In particular, enterprises are seeking interoperability between components of SOA — management, security, integration, composite applications, and business intelligence — and the Business Service Registry (BSR). The registry becomes the 'system-of-record', providing visibility into all aspects of a SOA and richly describing services. The GIF is designed to provide a standards-based approach to publishing and discovering business services information in a SOA across multiple vendor products. GIF dramatically improves SOA visibility, governance, and lifecycle management.

SOA Governance – HP SOA Systinet

HP’s SOA Systinet solution provides the foundation for SOA governance, making IT simpler, faster and standards-based. With its suite of award-winning and proven products, Systinet allows customers to:

  • Standardize an approach for SOA adoption

  • Publish and discover business services

  • Validate conformance of services to specific policies

  • Create and manage consumer/provider contracts

  • Manage full lifecycle of services and other SOA artifacts

  • Report on usage and understanding the impact of change and

  • Ensure interoperability with the broader infrastructure