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)

Adding Reliability to Occasionally Connected Computing in Mobile Devices

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)

Semantic Interoperability in SOAs

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)

XML Binding Frameworks in the Context of Service-Oriented Architecture

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)

SOA-Based Inter-Organizational Architectural Framework For B2B Marketplaces

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)