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The hype is still not over about Web Services. So much have been written about Web Services technology and their usage. But, what impact the Web Services will make on the CRM industry? Are they going to revolutionize the way CRM applications work? What percentage the CRM industry owns of...

Yahoo! is opening up to developers using Web services. The services enable developers to access Yahoo! properties as diverse as Web search, maps, Flickr, comparison shopping, and many more - and are making more available all the time. The viewer of this webcast will learn how he or she can...

The objective of this session is to introduce Web developers to the advanced features of Microsoft ASP.NET Web Services. The key topics discussed in this session include Web Services Architecture, XML Web Services and SOAP WSDL, Calling Web Services Asynchronously, SOAP Headers, SOAP Exceptions and Error Handling, SOAP Extensions, XML...

Web services are tightly integrated into Microsoft .NET. The latest release, Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0, introduces several key advantages for building interoperable Web services. This webcast describes how to build Web services that are compliant with the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.0 specification, and highlights the important...

If you've been following me on Twitter, or through my other blogs, you already know that I made it to the SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, which was collocated with Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. I did the keynote on Wednesday and then stayed around for some of the sessions and some networking. Overall, SOA World was well attended and the expo hall was full of SOA vendors.

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A dealer in Holland that Microsoft sued in May for copyright infringement has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft charges anywhere from 30%–50% more for its software in Europe than in does in the U.S. – except for Vista, which is only 15% more. It claims it's an antitrust violation in violation of articles 81 (anti-competitive behavior) and 82 (abuse of dominance) of the European Treaty.

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Active Endpoints has announced the general availability of ActiveVOS 6.0.2, in response to ever increasing demands for improved process performance and efficiencies. ActiveVOS is an all-in-one, 100% standards-based orchestration and business process management system (BPM) that permits developers, business analysts and enterprises to develop and manage true services-oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications.

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"This is the premier social graph fully integrating with the premier enterprise cloud computing company - this is the true power of Internet," gushed Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, as he today launched a new offering called Force.com for Facebook – designed to foster a global development community for Facebook’s 120 million users and salesforce.com’s 100,000 developers.

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Have you ever created a domain model and related JPA queries in your favorite IDE, just to find that you can't refactor them ? <b>LIQUidFORM</b> draws its inspiration from LINQ and brings type safety and content-assist goodness when writing queries inside your favorite IDE, whether it is JPA aware or not.<br><br>Learn more at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/liquidform" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/liquidform</a>

EmForge is trac-like project management software with full-feature workflow engine (jBPM) in background. In new version were added support Mercurial repositories browsing, Oracle support and support for working in clustered environment.

How does SOA work, how can it be used? And what is WOA? With the use of a real-world example,this article describes why a properly planned and implemented Service Oriented Architecture can create a flexible way of aligning business and IT.

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Last week, the final judgment was issued in the SCO v. Novell lawsuit. Later in the week SCO filed notice of intent to appeal. We thought it might be a good time to check in with the chronicler of all things SCO, Pamela Jones of Groklaw, and see just where things stand.

Hi Folks<br><br>I'm researching the incompatibility side effects of refactoring on web services. I'm a correspondence student an thus quite isolated.

Just because the web has been open so far doesn't mean that it will stay that way. Flash and Silverlight, arguably the two market-leading technology toolkits for rich media applications are not open. Make no mistake - Microsoft and Adobe aim to have their proprietary plug-ins, aka pseudo-browsers, become the rendering engines for the next generation of the Web.

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The new specification for Servlets 3.0 is coming, and Roy van Rijn takes a good look at it. He sees some good things, but also something that makes him want to stand up and make an alternative proposal. Here it is.

SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 22-24, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. Topics proposed include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies. Financial analysts estimate that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising. Help plant your company's flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking proposal today!

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Have you ever seen a reporting tool which has a more suitable interface to design static reports than Excel?<br>I believe that those who have made or

This is the fifth of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle. Here we will at look at IT and SOA Governance. With the introduction of agile, spiral, and scrum development methodologies, the traditional waterfall development approach of testing a near-finished app at the end of many Agile development cycles won't be agile at all, as the elements of the application are constantly changing. Traditional models of IT governance will also not work.

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While being a Test Driven Development coach, Paulo Caroli is always asked about testing private methods. He finally decided to write about his experience on testing private methods.

Cloud computing has the power to revolutionize non-information "soft" product sectors. We haven’t seen too much clear synergistic benefits between mobile apps PLUS cloud computing/SaaS yet, but I sense that we can expect to see more good things out of the intersection of these two. I’ll be tracking the landscape closely.

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