SOA

In this article, Rohitha Fernando highlights important information about Mashups being a new and exciting aspect of Web 2.0 and the next major new software development model. Insight of mashups in the enterprise is just beginning as their benefits begin to be understood.

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In this article, Ruwan Janapriya discusses SOA requirement for Governance and using the WSO2 Registry to address it.

Most PHP systems deployed work in silos. They provide lots of useful functionality and contain lots of useful data. But it has always been a nightmare to integrate such systems with other enterprise applications. The WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/PHP) allows those systems to be integrated, seamlessly, with other applications.

Most companies have large datasets stored in relational database managers such as Oracle, DB2 and upcoming open source databases such as MySQL. As enterprises move into developing SOAs for their internal infrastructure, exposing this data has become a critical component of the architecture.

The most common practice today for sharing data, is batch loads and exports. But the emerging service oriented approach has some significant business benefits to offer such as -

Join Deepal Jayasinghe as he evaluates two of the popular registry products in the market.

Today, the data universe of Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing and Master Data Management (MDM) still lives largely outside the scope of SOA. But an enterprise view of Data Services may well bring these worlds together.

In this article, Adrien Louis discusses the pros and cons of two topologies for ESB-based SOAs: A single ESB for the company vs. a system of "departmental" ESBs that are connected to each other.