Hub Vandervoort
CTO of SOA
Infrastructure
Progress Software
Progress Software Buys IONA, Mindreef: Expands Options for Business-Critical SOA, ESB
Progress Software’ Hub Vandervoort, CTO of SOA Infrastructure, shares insights into the purchase of two ‘companies to watch’ in the ESB and SOA sector – IONA Technologies and Mindreef Inc. Learn how the purchases will drive Progress toward 2 main goals for customers: (a) improve collaboration among designers, architects and even business managers; and (2) provide more options for getting started with (and building out) business-critical ESB/SOA projects.
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse’s Ganymede Highlights Integration, SOA In this podcast, Eclipse Foundation’s executive director Mike Milinkovich describes features of the 2008 Eclipse ‘release train’ update (Ganymede), which sports 23 new projects. We also highlight three (3) projects with a strong SOA focus -- SOA Policy Editor, SCA designer and BPMN editor. Milinkovich also shares broader insights into Eclipse’s growing focus on integration support.
Focus: SOA Policy Editor, SCA designer and BPMN editor.
Keith Swenson
VP of Research & Development
Fujitsu Computer Systems
Fujitsu Automates Business Process Discovery for SOA Fujitsu Computer Systems is offering a transformative service for firms who want to marry SOA with BPM. This podcast with Keith Swenson, Fujitsu’s V.P of R&D, explores the company’s Automated Business Process Discovery service, which creates visual ‘maps’ of customers’ extensive business processes – all without invasive software agents or spiders. The service builds on Fujitsu’s InterStage SOA platform, and quickly and efficiently lets users identify, automate, analyze, and update their business processes for SOA.
Focus: SOA, BPM, business process discovery, business re-engineering.
SOA Software Buys LogicLibrary --
Eyes ‘End-to-End SOA Governance Lifecycle’
In May, SOA Software extended its portfolio of integrated SOA Governance automation productions with the acquisition of LogicLibrary Inc., a leading SOA repository provider, In this podcast, Brent Carlson, SOA Software’s Senior VP of Technology (and formerly CTO and co-founder of LogicLibrary), explains how the two companies will together create new possibilities for a flexible end-to-end SOA Governance Lifecycle to better support federation of SOA assets and policies across all major platforms,
Focus: SOA Governance Lifecycle, SOA Governance patterns tools to align IT and business through design, test, deployment, reuse and updates.
SOA + Web 2.0 = More Competitive Businesses
HPO’s Kelly Emo probes how companies are blending SOA and Web 2.0 for a new approach to increase collaboration among workers and corporate partners. Emo describes how HP and key partners are working via HP’s Governance Interoperability Framework to create a powerful SOA framework, [supported with SOA Governance], to let customers pursue business advantages via innovative Web 2.0 data mashups and social networks projects.
IBM: Web 2.0 Offers Devs, Users New Opportunities
In this podcast from last month’s Web 2.0 Expo, Kathy explains how Web 2.0 has “really transformed the Web in the way we all do business.” She shares details about how Web 2.0 community and data mashups are changing things inside Big Blue, and launching a new ‘dynamic development’ approach where devs can more readily meet business needs with applications that are (1) simple to build, (2) quick to remix and (3) easy to extend.
Focus: Rational, Lotus, WebSphere and InfoSphere.
Tim Bray Director of Web Technologies, Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems
3 Top Web Technologies for Java Tim Bray takes a look at 3 top trends in how Java-based enterprises are putting a new wave of web-based technologies to use for a variety for critical needs -- internal integration, scalable systems, and meeting customer needs for effective commerce and communications.
Focus: REST, Web 2.0 and Open Source dynamic languages.
Kevin Schmidt,
Director, Product Management, SOA/Business Integration
Sun Microsystems
Mark Herring,
Vice President, Software Infrastructure Marketing
Java CAPS, Open ESB Drive Integration
Two top Sun integration executives discuss how Java devs and architects can play pivotal roles in the world of enterprise integration. In this podcast, Herring and Schmidt discuss how Open ESB and Java CAPS provide everything Java professionals need to develop, deploy, manage and monitor a mission-critical SOA project. Learn how these platforms provide an ‘open’ and ‘scalable’ approach to composite application design, test, deployment and upgrades.
Rich Sharples
Director, Product Marketing
JBoss, (division of Red Hat)
JBoss JON 2.0 Boosts Management, Visibility
In this podcast, Rich Sharples outlines new features in the JBoss Operations Network (JON). Discussion includes a look at how JON improves visibility and reliability to the JBoss Middleware product suite, thanks to added support for auto-discovery of resources, broader range of plug-in integration and interoperability, rollback and suiting and other design time and runtime improvements.
Java EE Benefits from SCA, SOA Standards
SAP’s Sanjay Patil draws a roadmap for how emerging SOA standards are providing a more well-defined roadmap for Java devs and architects to participate in SOA and BPM projects. Keys to this podcast are details about Java EE 6.0 and the multi-vendor Services Component Architecture (SCA) projects.
Bob Brewin
Chief Technology Officer
Sun Microsystems
JavaFX: Broadening the AJAX Conversation
Sun CTO Bob Brewin discusses the vision and technology details of the eye-popping JavaFX runtime environment in this podcast. Noting that JavaFX ‘broadens’ the conversation first begun with the desktop-driven AJAX technologies, Brewin discusses how JavaFX and JavaFX scripting sets the stage to easily allow today’s Java developers to take their client Java to cellphones and even TVs.
Patrick Curran
Chair, Java Community Process
Director, JCP Program (at Sun Microsystems)
JCP Continues to Embrace ‘Open’
Patrick Curran shares how the Java Community Process (JCP) continues to embrace ‘openness’ on a number of important fronts. In this revealing discussion, Curran shares how Open Source, Open standards and even a more ‘open’ membership model (to encourage JCP participation from start-ups, individual and even end user companies).
Raghu Thiagarajan,
Dir. Product Management and Strategy
TIBCO
Scott Vorthman,
Senior Architect
TIBCO
Putting SCA To Practical Use
Two top TIBCO integration executives discuss how Java devs and architects can use the SCA (Service Component Architecture) to speed modeling, designing, testing and deployment of robust SOA solutions. Thiagaranjan and Vorthman detail how upgrades to TIBCO’s ActiveMatrix Service Grid (and ActiveMatrix Service Bus) provide a robust platform for SOA and event-driven applications.
SpringSource App Server Marries Tomcat, OSGi
Rod Johnson describes thinking and architecture behind the SpringSource Application Platform, debuted at JavaOne 2008. In this podcast, Johnson describes how SpringSource’s new Dynamic Module Kernel (dm-kernel) provides Java devs and architects a module-based backbone for the server, which also harnesses the power of Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies. He also describes how the approach frees Java devs/architects from cumbersome legacy Java technologies.
SOA and Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups Learn about IBM’s wide-ranging Web 2.0 ‘mashup portfolio’ to improve how IT can deliver business-centric apps which mashup services, rules and data.
Focus: WebSphere sMash, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web 2.0, Project Zero and the IBM Mashup Center.
Beth Smith
Vice President, WebSphere BPM and Industry Solutions
SOA and BPM: Infrastructure To Events Hear about IBM’s new Business Process Management offerings for ESB/SOA from WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli and other units.
Focus: Learn how products support Business Events, Business Rules, Policies, Service selection, Active Content and Analytics.
Leif Davidsen
Worldwide Content Lead, IBM SOA Reuse and Connectivity Marketing
ESBs Drive SOA Agility, Integrity Learn how IBM designs ESB software and hardware offerings improve agility and response time to the business – while cutting complexity and expense.
Focus: WebSphere ESB, WebSphere MQ, DataPower, transaction and process integrity.
Kareem Yusuf, PhD
Director, Product Management – IBM WebSphere
SOA and Real-Time Adaptability Learn how ‘application infrastructure virtualization’ provides ESB/SOA scalability and real-time agility through a layered infrastructure.
Focus: WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere Business Events, WebSphere Extreme Scale.
SOA and Complex Event Processing Lean how event processing and SOA powered ActiveCare Network (ACN), into the largest integrated services network for U.S. healthcare clinicians.
