Top Stories by Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
SOA initiatives have gathered momentum in the past year with more enterprises
either implementing SOA or considering implementing in the near future. The
implementations we studied reveal that one of the critical challenges in SOA
is designing an effective governance mechanism. A good understanding of
governance concepts is essential to implementing and operating a successful
SOA. Reliable governance for SOA leads to a manifold increase in an
enterprise's ability to achieve the goal of business agility through SOA.
Defining IT Governance
The IT Governance Institute defines IT governance as "a structure of
relationships and processes to control the enterprise in order to achieve the
enterprise's goals by adding value while balancing risk versus return over IT
and its proc... (more)
Mobile devices use wireless networks that have limited range. Therefore, they
may not always be connected to a network. This kind of intermittent
connectivity in mobile devices has been one of the factors inhibiting
enterprise-level adoption of pervasive mobile applications. Occasionally
Connected Computing (OCC) deals with this problem. The challenge that mobile
application developers f... (more)
In a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) it becomes imperative for the
providers and requestors to communicate meaningfully with each other
notwithstanding the heterogeneous nature of the underlying information
structures, business artifacts, and other documents. This requirement is
termed as semantic interoperability.
Often technology is made out to be the biggest impediment to effective... (more)
This article critically evaluates the role of XML binding frameworks play in
the context of service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms, and it also
provides an objective evaluation of the popular XML binding frameworks in a
J2EE environment.
XML binding refers to the mapping of XML documents to/from any suitable
internal representation (e.g., object-based representation) that is
unde... (more)
B2B marketplaces facilitate efficient search and transactions by offering
services such as buyer/supplier and product/services searches and
transactions such as procurement and asset disposal.
Besides their market making functions, marketplaces also offer integration
services such as supply chain and ERP integration and have allied with
various firms to offer value-added services such as ... (more)