Three Reasons Why it is Inevitable
Inevitably IT will be more open by the end of 2010, contends Evan Powell, who cites these three reasons on why the momentum toward openness is certain:
Java Tech Article Looks at Designing It Using Servlets
In a java.net technical article, Adhir Mehta proposes using servlets to assist developers in maintaining their web service based assignments. He offers an algorithm to generate a file name using the input message, and then demonstrates how to use it in a configurable manner so there isn’t a need to write any java code.
How to Build and Implement Service-oriented Solutions
The book “SOA with Java” is a comprehensive tutorial that explains and demonstrates how to build and implement service-oriented solutions by combining established SOA principles, patterns, and practices with modern Java services technology. An entire chapter is devoted to OpenESB, a Java based open source enterprise service bus that can be used as a platform for both Enterprise Application Integration and SOA.
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.
Short Items of Interest on Sun Security
A High Price-Performance Carrier-Grade Platform Based on Open Industry Standards
Sun GlassFish Communications Server is a Java EE technology-based converged communications application server for developing IP-based multimedia applications. It combines enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services capabilities with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlets. Based on Project SailFin, the Sun GlassFish Communications Server provides an enterprise and carrier-ready platform for converged applications. It supports SIP Servlet specifics 1.0 and 1.1 and is compliant with JSR 116 and JSR 289.
Maintains Over 40 Million Users, a Million Logins per Day at a Peak of 4,000 Logins per Minute
What keeps Damodaram Bashyam, director of IT Verizon Wireless, up at night? Security and how to protect his company and its customers. In his presentation given at Gartner’s Identity & Access Management Conference in Orlando this past fall, Bashyam presents how Verizon simplified their identity management solution to improve security and the customer experience online by implementing OpenSSO Enterprise with Sun Access Manager 7.0 and Sun Federation Manager 6.2.
Latest Details Outline Release Schedule
The OpenSSO team has released a roadmap toward its next enterprise commercial release of the identity management software. Beginning this coming April with the anticipated Express 7 release, all the way through to the commercial release of OpenSSO Enterprise 8.1 expected in March of 2010, the roadmap offers details on upcoming features and progress.
Sun’s OpenSSO experts Daniel Raskin, senior product line manager, and Jamie Nelson, the director of engineering, will be discussing the current release of OpenSSO and how it pushes access management, federation, and secure Web services capabilities to a new level.
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager and Sun Federation Manager) is Sun’s open-sourced single solution for Web access management, federation, and Web services security.
Event: Webinar: Access Management, Federation, and Secure Web Services with OpenSSO Enterprise
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST
