Developers Will Find C++ Applications Playing Surprisingly Strategic Role in 2008 With Multi-Core and SOA

“By 2008 single-core servers will be virtually unavailable,” said David Linthicum, an industry thought leader and partner at ZapThink. “It’s imperative that companies realize how important multi-core technology is and how valuable it’s going to be in the very near future. When utilized properly, multi-core can save companies a lot of time and money and can significantly improve application performance.”

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More heated debate on Service Component Architecture – is it vendor lock-in?

Another reader, Rtenhove, took issue with ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg’s assertions that SCA’s value is marginal to SOA. “At its core, SCA has some valuable concepts about how to design composite applications using SOA. Bloomberg’s assertions about SCA and JBI being of “marginal” help don’t stand up to inspection. As for JBI: Bloomberg attempts to cast it as in conflict with SCA. That is nonsense. JBI is about run-time; SCA is about design-time.”

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Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit

Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink also recently had some unkind words about SCA. He also uses the occasion to take a swipe a JBI (Java Business Integration), noting that both that SCA and JBI are mostly about vendor politics and hype and should be ignored by SOA architects and developers.

SCA is intended to provide a model for the assembly of composite application development, which forms the basis of most SOA deployments. These composite applications may be based on collections of individual services. SCA is designed to address the need for control over access and security, and simplify the development of business services and Service Data Objects (SDO) for accessing data residing in multiple locations and formats.

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ZapThink: SCA and JBI bring nothing to the SOA table

Despite being positioned by vendors at standards for service-oriented architecture, Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration (JBI) will have little or nothing to add to SOA development, argues Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC. In this Q&A, he explains the ZapThink view that SCA and JBI are mostly about vendor politics and hype and can pretty much be ignored by architects and developers working on SOA implementations.

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High Performance SOA

In the world of information technology, the concept of abstractions are particularly handy. Take, for example, the Services abstraction at the heart of SOA, which masks the complexity of the underlying technology implementation while presenting composable business Services to internal and external users. But every abstraction comes at a price, …

Rogue Wave Software Announces General Availability of Rogue Wave Hydra Suite Version 3.0

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Rogue Wave Hydra empowers IT architects and professional developers to achieve order-of-magnitude performance and throughput improvements for critical software applications. Rogue Wave Hydra is based on Rogue Wave Software’s pioneering “Pipelines” technology and associated methodology, which focuses on achieving efficiency and scalability through parallel processing. Pipelines allow for efficient execution and distribution of software components or services for simultaneous processing on available resources. This peer-to-peer architecture minimizes bottlenecks and allows businesses to achieve new levels of throughput and performance. According to research firm ZapThink, 50 percent of the total services-oriented software market will have high-performance requirements by 2010.

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Rogue Wave Software Unveils Revolutionary “Pipeline” Approach to SOA Application Performance and Scalability

“The growing size and quantity of messages in SOA environments is a ticking-time bomb for businesses in a wide range of industries with high data and transaction requirements,” said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst, ZapThink, LLC. “The increasing burden on existing infrastructure caused by the large size and volume of messages will hinder scalability and performance unless companies actively look to take advantage of all options, from hardware to parallel processing, to allow for continued performance improvements and to ensure continued scalability of service-oriented and metadata intensive applications.”

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ZapForum Webcast — Practical Approaches for Optimizing SOA Performance

“Practical Approaches To Optimizing SOA Performance”

Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products, Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave Software

Topics:

• Understand where the performance bottlenecks are
• What are the tricks and techniques for surmounting efficiency problems?
• Learn about software, hardware, and other means for optimizing performance …
  

Expert Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director – XML Products at Tarari, Inc. Joins ZapThink Webcast Forum on SOA Performance

Michael Leventhal, Senior Director – XML Products, at Tarari,
Inc., will explain how SOA-aware network appliances can
offload common functionality from the application server in
order to reduce XML processing complexity and make the network
more manageable, as well as utilize specialized network
devices to do XML processing tasks much better and faster than
multiple application servers duplicating that functionality.

WHAT: ZapThink ZapForum webcast: “Practical Approaches To Optimizing
SOA Performance”

Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products,
Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave
Software

Read more at: Tarari Press Release

Rogue Wave Executive to Share Software Optimization Expertise in ZapThink Webcast on SOA Performance

Tim Triemstra, vice president, product strategy, Rogue Wave
Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) will
discuss the increasing need of companies, particularly in
transaction-intensive industries such as financial services,
for increased levels of performance in their applications. Tim
will explore practical techniques to accomplish this goal,
including parallel processing, access to XML and non-XML data
and how to encapsulate any software component as a service.

Key takeaways from Tim’s discussion will include:

— Practical approaches for increasing performance from your
SOA applications by restructuring your software
architecture to address processing bottlenecks

— Strategies to meet the business requirement challenges to
successfully implement parallel application logic

Read more at: RogueWave Press Release