The need of an SOA infrastructure
June 21, 2005 Companies moving to SOA (service-oriented architectures) are increasingly finding that they need a reliable infrastructure for SOA management, along with vendors that can move quickly to tap into this growing market. For example, BEA Systems Inc., whose history is anchored in the application infrastructure business, earlier this month unveiled technology designed to provide the infrastructure for enterprises to build and manage SOAs. And this week, Systinet Corp. and Iona Technologies Inc. are also releasing SOA tools. BEA's AquaLogic family of new and rebranded products will provide messaging, Web services management and security to ease the flow of services, executives said. The tools are targeted at architects and application specialists rather than at developers. San Jose-based BEA and the other vendors are maneuvering to gain ground in an expanding Web services software market, which research firm IDC predicts will grow from $2.3 billion in 2004 to almost $15 billion by 2009. The new BEA product line is designed for users such as Verizon Communications Inc., which logs about 2.5 million Web services per day that are anchored by a mostly homegrown SOA that supports the design, deployment and management of Web services. Mehul Shah, project manager for the telecommunications services provider's SOA, which it calls IT Workbench, said he's interested in seeing how the BEA products can help Verizon bring its systems together to provide a comprehensive SOA platform. "It is always good to see that companies like BEA are rolling out things that we started asking for two to three years ago before we even wrote the first line of code [for our SOA]," said Shah. Verizon must find ways to include technologies from BEA, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others in its SOA "and still provide service management, security [and] business-activity monitoring across the board," Shah said. Accredited Home Lenders Inc. in San Francisco has been using an SOA since the beginning of the year to help transform its business model from traditional mortgage lending to a self-service model where brokers can submit applications, get pricing and receive approval online, said CIO Jim Pathman. The company is a beta user of the AquaLogic Data Services Platform and enterprise service bus (ESB) products. With the platform, Pathman can extract data from a legacy application at runtime and use that data in other applications without having to make the legacy application a Web service. The service bus allows the company to integrate Web services without having to write code in the header of each service to tie them together, Pathman said. "If we made a change on any of the legacy systems ... we'd have to go back to the header and recode," he added. Shawn Willett, an analyst at Current Analysis Inc. in Sterling, Va., said BEA needs a "second act to restart growth" now that its core application server market has leveled. The new line must add capabilities to meet that need, he said. First and foremost, Willett said, the AquaLogic products must become stand-alone technologies that don't depend on other BEA offerings, especially the mainstay WebLogic application server. Burlington, Mass.-based Systinet is set to unveil the latest version of its SOA Business Service Registry and a new policy manager product designed to simplify the creation, management and enforcement of policies that can govern an SOA. Waltham, Mass.-based Iona Technologies this week will reveal plans to offer support for an open-source ESB called Celtix to be hosted by the ObjectWeb Consortium, an open-source community focused on developing distributed middleware. Source: Web Services.org USA & Canada, call toll free today at 1-800-547-4149 or just send us an email for additional information on any Web Services offered on this website. Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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