Last week The Open Group announced two new standards for architects;
actually, more appro-priately, for service architects, SOA architects, and
cloud architects. These standards are intended to help organizations more
easily deploy service-based solutions rapidly and reliably especially in
multi-vendor environments.
These standards are the first product in a family of standards being
developed for architects by The Open Group’s SOA Work Group. Other
standards currently in development for SOA include the SOA Ontology, SOA
Reference Architecture, and Service Oriented Infrastructure.
Architecture standards are especially valuable for creating a common, shared
language and understanding between service integrators, vendors and customers
of all sizes. They provide a common foundation of understanding for the
industry. Considering the who’s who of integrators involved in th... (more)
The work being done in WSDM will lay a firm foundation for effective
distributed system management, both leveraging the unifying strengths of Web
services in the solution itself and addressing the specific requirements for
managing what are rapidly becoming the universal glue in enterprise system
design.
The OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee (WSDM TC)
was chartered in March 2003 to recommend standards to address a problem that
has been developing for many years. But with the widespread emergence of Web
services and service-oriented architecture implem... (more)
Web services is the latest trend in distributed computing. Based on sending
XML messages that are transported over the HTTP protocol, the initial work
has created a distributed computing model that is simple, easy, and
lightweight. Most importantly, it works over the Internet.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has brought interoperability between
disparate systems over the Internet, providing distributed computing based on
open Web standards. This complements existing approaches to interoperability,
for example CORBA or messaging standards. Web Services Description Language
(... (more)
Heather Kreger is IBM’s lead architect for SOA Standards in the IBM Software Group, with 15 years of standards experience. She has led the development of standards for Web services, Management and Java in numerous industry standards groups including W3C, OASIS, DMTF, and The Open Group. Heather is the author of numerous articles and specifications, as well as the book “Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems,” and most recently was co-editor of “Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture.”
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