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A Unified Management Approach for SOA and Applications

Oracle’s SOA Governance solution strives to ease the transition of an organization to service-oriented architecture (SOA). The solution automates essential SOA governance processes, regardless of the status or progress of an SOA transformation. The most recent release is Oracle SOA Governance 11g, which Oracle states is the “most complete, unified approach for governing service oriented architecture and application integration projects.”

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Enables Clustering via GlassFish Enterprise Server

Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6.2 comes with some significant features, including clustering via GlassFish Enterprise Server to distribute processing across multiple servers. It also adds support for RESTful Web services, SWIFTReady 2009 certification and a number of platform-level enhancements. Java CAPS provides a standards-based, open, extensible platform for developing software infrastructures using a service-oriented architecture approach.

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Available Now, Download for a Free Evaluation

Sun GlassFish Communications Server is a Java EE technology-based converged application server combining enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services capabilities with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlets. Version 2.0 is the latest version, offering SIP session replication, diameter support, rolling upgrade, 64-bit JVM support, multihome support and overload protection.

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Five-part Article Series

This five-part series by Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic considers the virtue of using a standardized interface language in enterprise architecture in order to liberate the application that publishes a service from having to know anything at all about the calling application. The result of this practice makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) especially useful for both enterprise and inter-enterprise architectures, the authors contend in their introduction to the series.

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White Paper Covers SCA Capabilities Featured in Oracle SOA Suite 11g

This Oracle white paper introduces the Service Component Architecture standard (SCA) and its capabilities featured in Oracle SOA Suite 11g, which are aimed at reducing the complexity of developing, deploying, and managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. SCA is defined as a set of specifications which describe a model for building applications and systems using a SOA.

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Newly Integrated IT Architecture Gives Provider the Agility Needed to Handle Claim Load

The Canadian health insurer Mediavie Blue Cross solved the problem it was experiencing with disparate legacy architecture by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) comprising several Sun solutions. A first step in the migration involved deploying an enterprise-service bus (ESB) that integrates legacy applications to manage claims processing. In restructuring the company’s enterprise architecture, Mediavie IT personnel relied on Sun product managers, the open-source community, and Sun Educational Services for advice and training.

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