Arjuna
JBoss Tackles Tough SOA Problem With Arjuna-HP Tech Acquisition
Schmelzer said the areas of transactions around SOA continues to be an unsolved problem and JBoss’ acquisition of Arjuna technologies means the company is planning to make SOA more consumable.
“The technology acquisition is notable. It’s not commodity stuff by any means,” Schmelzer said. “JBoss is clearly ahead of the curve. This, in conjunction with some other initiatives around SOA, may help show people the completeness of their platform.”
Read more at: TechNewsWorldJBoss adds Arjuna transactions to SOA stack
ZapThink LLC analyst Ron Schmelzer said two-phase commits and transaction processing requirements are a difficult migration going from the strictly controlled world of tightly coupled code to a loosely coupled SOA.
“One of the trickier things to accomplish is how do you make Web services reliable,” he said. “You definitely need to have the transaction process part down in order to achieve that.”
Read more at: SearchWebServicesGroup Presses For Immediate Action On Key Web Services Specification
“There are two different camps, and they are looking to come to an agreement,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Zapthink.
A bigger question is whether it makes sense for both W3C and OASIS to both be working on very similar specifications, said Zapthink’s Bloomberg. “There has been a general transition from the W3C over to OASIS for work on Web services standards,” he said. “WC3 hammered out SOAP and WDSL, but lately has been concentrating on semantic integration.” OASIS on the other hand, lets any three vendors to start a working group, and has a lot more “Darwinian” approach to standards. “They either evolve or die,” said Bloomberg.
Read more at: Web Services Pipeline (CMP)Service Orientation Market Trends
While Web Services have been getting the attention through 2003, in 2004 the IT computing story will be focused squarely on Service Orientation. Offering an evolutionary approach to distributed computing that provides greater business agility while enabling companies to use heterogeneous resources more efficiently, Service Orientation, based on established Web Services standards, is set to fundamentally change many different IT markets as enterprises transition to Service-Oriented Architectures.
In particular, the markets of application security, security appliances, system management, application integration, data integration, and business process management are six key markets that will become transformed as vendors in those markets Service-enable their products. Furthermore, there is a window of opportunity for new entrants in each of these markets to build Service-oriented offerings. Those windows will soon close, however, as the established, incumbent vendors in each space consolidate their respective markets.
These consolidation trends will continue through the rest of the decade, as large vendors round out their suites of software that support Service Orientation, resulting in a combined market consisting of vendors offering a full-function SOA Implementation Framework. These frameworks will offer enterprises all the functionality they need to build, run, and manage SOAs. The market for SOA Implementation Frameworks is still nascent as of 2004, but will dominate the distributed computing arena by 2010.
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