As I wrote about in the beginning of this year is SOA dead as many pundits proclaim?  Or are there new targeted approaches to Service Delivery that are mature, practical, economical, and better positioned for success? We have assembled a panel of Gartner & Burton Group analysts, customers, and events to showcase how service orientation can be a practical transformation agent for key business and IT initiatives. We call it: “Practical Approaches to Service Delivery”, which will be delivered as a webinar series.

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Practical Recommendations for Delivering Software Services

Service governance is a topic I find myself engaged in often now.  The discussions take many forms such as:  “What is governance?”, “How do I apply it to my service architecture”?, “What vendors are relevant?”, “What standards are relevant?”, “What features and capabilites matter most in practical deployments?” I think this is an important topic given the state of service architectures and associated deployments.  Most organizations have many services in their environment and/or product architectures.  The number of applications and associated infrastructure which deploy software services as functional building blocks and / or APIs is increasing all the time.  Also, with the rise of cloud computing and SaaS, the vision of services being sourced from anywhere is an established practical reality.

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Governing Services … What does it take?

Hospitals and IDNs are increasingly looking for new ways to stay connected with their affiliated physicians to enable sharing of health information, streamline the referrals process, and provide seamless access to hospital, lab, PBMs and payer networks. Both hospitals and their affiliated physicians really get excited about the idea of having a consolidated view of patient information and a more integrated workflow, as it is an enabler for increased efficiency, reduced errors and improved outcomes.

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Enabling hospitals and their affiliated physicians to stay connected

Happy New Year to all of you .  As each year passes and a new one begins I often find myself thinking about where to focus or re-focus my time and energy. Recently I have been forwarded or have come upon a number of articles, webinars, research reports, and blogs with a common theme: SOA has failed.  SOA doesn’t work.  SOA is dead.  Maybe it is just me being more sensitive due to my annual ritual of re-evaluation, or maybe there is a real trend underway here.

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It’s 2009 … Are we still talking about SOA?

The W3C social networks workshop is already a blast and it hasn’t happened yet! We received a record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key players. Have a look at the impressive list (papers and submitters) and you would certainly agree with me that this workshop is likely going to have an important impact on how the users (you and I, and kids the world over) are doing and will be doing in the social Web space

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Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!

Sony and Intel are teaming together to provide better COLLADA export/import for Max and Maya. The German company Netallied  has been working on a brand new implementation, and the result of this work is now available in Beta on sourceforge Previous version of the exporters and importers were using a temporary storage mechanism. First the Maya/Max internal structure was browsed to create a COLLADA in-memory snapshot, and then this snapshot was exported in XML.

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Breaking speed record in COLLADA import/export

The blog link below is an interesting example of why Intel should be supporting COLLADA (which we do btw). This user wants to enhance the quality of her photoshop work by using 3D objects with shaders applied, and use (and interchange) different DCC tools to achieve her best model effect. Unfortunately due to weak exporters (FBX or COLLADA), shaders are not exported as well as they could be, thus there is no easy way for end users to use the high end shaders they create in a DCC tool (and supported on their good quality graphics cards)

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Why 3D interchange tools help market hardware

I meet with a lot of our users in my role at Rogue Wave, and one of the things that I’ve heard from a few people lately is the term “Java envy”.  When I ask what they mean by that, they’re not referring to the language itself.  C++ developers like the control they have over memory usage and predictable performance.  What they’re talking about are the multitude of developer tools that are available for Java development. Rogue Wave has always strived to be the leader in providing C++ products and tools to make developers more productive.  One of our products, HydraEnterprise, continues that goal.  HydraEnterprise provides the ability to create, orchestrate and deploy services to a runtime.  It can create web services, as well as native C++ and Java services, BPEL, data access and others.  It also comes with some developer tools that make doing all those tasks much easier.  The tools are Eclipse plug-ins that allow you to create services within an easy to use GUI, taking advantage of the editors within Eclipse.  You can create WSDL files, generate service wrappers, orchestrate the workflow between services and deploy to the runtime very quickly.  If you would like to see this demonstrated, we have an online tutorial series where one of our sales engineers will create and deploy a C++ service in under 30 minutes.  Send an email to tutorial@roguewave.com indicating your desire and you will receive an email with the details for the next demonstration.

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Java Envy

Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11 . (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this release for Semantic Web users is that Amaya “understands” RDFa . What this means is that, when using the RDFa DTD (which is one of the DTD-s that Amaya offers for any new document), Amaya knows about all the RDFa attributes (i.e., @about , @resource , etc), i.e., one can use the usual user interface features of Amaya to add and edit them.

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Amaya Also for RDFa

Next week I will be participating in a Dr Dobbs webinar on SaaS.  The specific topic is about how SaaS platforms are evolving and what are emerging key architectural models for secure, reliable and interoperable SaaS APIs. The webinar is scheduled for: Broadcast date: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Broadcast Time: 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT / 18 GMT The registration page is available here at this link . I look forward to hearing from you at the webinar.  However, if you miss the live event you can access the webinar replay on demand through the registration page link listed above.

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SaaS Architecture and API Trends Webinar