IBM Systems Journal articles from December 2005

IBM Systems Journal archives from December 2005

Preface.(service-oriented thinking)
December 1, 2005... Service-oriented thinking, which is becoming popular in both the business and the information technology (IT) communities, is based on the concept of service as a well-defined, self-contained function that does not depend on the context or...

Impact of service orientation at the business level.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The business environment is undergoing a dramatic change. Competition from traditional and nontraditional players, emergence of a multitude of delivery channels, a plethora of regulatory and governmental compliance...

Analysis and simulation of business solutions in a service-oriented architecture.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have been proposed as a mechanism to address pressures of IT organizations to support alignment with business requirements that are changing at an increasing rate (1) and to...

Impact of service-oriented architecture on enterprise systems, organizational structures, and individuals.
December 1, 2005... In the fast-paced global economy, a corporation must be flexible and agile to meet the shifting needs of operating in an on demand environment. Aligning information technology (IT) systems using service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide...

Management of the service-oriented-architecture life cycle.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The traditional solution life cycle, including requirements analysis, modeling, and architectural design, followed by detailed design and construction in an IDE (integrated development environment) for deployment to a...

Realizing service-oriented solutions with the IBM Rational Software Development Platform.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Building enterprise-scale software solutions has never been easy. The difficulties of understanding highly complex business domains are typically compounded with all the challenges of managing a development effort involving...

Service-oriented architecture: programming model and product architecture.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION This paper provides an overview of IBM's programming model and product architecture in support of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The profound implications of SOA and Web services for IBM products and programmers who...

The enterprise service bus: making service-oriented architecture real.
December 1, 2005... The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is the infrastructure which underpins a fully integrated and flexible end-to-end service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper details the essential meta-data and capabilities of the ESB. It presents a...

Colombo: lightweight middleware for service-oriented computing.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Middleware and applications supporting Web Services specifications and standards are now being offered by every major software vendor. Solutions utilizing these technologies can be found throughout the Information Technology...

Web services navigator: visualizing the execution of Web Services.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Significant portions of the productivity gains enjoyed by businesses over the past decades are attributable to the adoption of new information technology (IT). At some point the economic balance shifts; businesses start...

Business-driven application security: from modeling to managing secure applications.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Enterprises must continually adapt to changes that occur due to business, political, or technological challenges. These on demand businesses require integration of people, information, and processes in order to conduct...

Events and service-oriented architecture: The OASIS Web Services Notification specifications.
December 1, 2005... The OASIS Web Services Notification (WSN) family of specifications defines a standard interoperable protocol through which Web services can disseminate events. We present here a summary of three WSN specification documents that are currently...

Models for semantic interoperability in service-oriented architectures.
December 1, 2005... Although service-oriented architectures go a long way toward providing interoperability in distributed, heterogeneous environments, managing semantic differences in such environments remains a challenge. We give an overview of the issue of...