New Sonic ESB Release Expands Functionality with Improved SOA Management and Enhanced BPEL Instrumentation
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the framework to re-architect IT infrastructure, eliminate redundancy and accelerate project delivery. Many organizations struggle to identify, implement and build on their first SOA forays.
Alan Kotok is managing editor of Science's Next Wave (http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/), a weekly supplement on career development to Science magazine. Kotok is also editor of ebXML Forum (http://www.ebxmlforum.org/), published in conjunction with WebServices.Org. He is the author or co-author of three books on e-business, the most recent being Handbook of EDI, 2003 Edition ( http://www.riahome.com/estore/detail.asp ).
The recent (15-19 November 2004) XML 2004 conference in Washington, DC, IDEAlliance's annual showcase of everything one can put between angle brackets, gave the XML community a look at new XML and Web services standards, and helped participants understand what it takes to make the specifications work . For participants interested in Web services, several sessions discussed emerging standards, not only from what they can do, but also what they cannot and should not do.
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