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WebSphere Technology Zone: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Service Oriented Archiecture (SOA) helps create greater alignment between IT and line of business while generating more flexibility - IT flexibility to support greater business flexibility. Your business processes are changing faster and faster and global competition requires the flexibility that SOA can provide. SOA can help you get better reuse out of your existing IT investments as well as the new services you're developing today. SOA makes integration of your IT investments easier by making use of well-defined interfaces between services. SOA also provides an architectural model for integrating business partners', customers' and suppliers' services into an enterprise's business processes. This reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction. Finally, SOA reduces business risk and exposure by helping you comply with legislation and regulations, such as (in the United States) Sarbanes-Oxley, the US Patriot Act, etc.
SOA views everything as a 'service' that is packaged to be flexible and reusable by being abstracted from underlying technology changes. Services can range from component pieces of code at the programming model level, applications that need to be integrated or to business processes that can orchestrate your assets for competitive advantage.
There are many ways to get started with SOA, with the IBM SOA Foundation - an integrated, open-standards-based set of software, best practices and patterns for Service Oriented Architecture. IBM SOA Foundation helps to extend the value of the applications and business processes that currently run your business, not replace them. IBM SOA Foundation is interoperable and fully modular - allowing you to select components on a build-as-you-go basis by adding components as new requirements need to be addressed. And because IBM SOA Foundation is scalable, you can start small and grow as fast as the business requires. IBM SOA Foundation also provides extensive support for business and IT standards to facilitate greater interoperability and portability between applications.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
IBM SOA Reference Architecture
News and Announcements
- FREE TUTORIAL: Introducing "Project Zero" - IBM's incubator project
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is neither a technology nor a standard; it's an architectural style for exposing resources over the Web. These resources can then be mixed and matched to build new applications, often called mashups.
In this first installment in the Project Zero series, you are introduced to the community-driven Project Zero and its conventions for creating, assembling, and executing RESTful Web services. Using a step-by-step example, you'll set up the environment, create a Zero project, build a RESTful service to expose data, test your application, and import a sample application to consume the RESTful services.
- Free The eyes and ears of SOA and WebSphere: IBM WebSphere TV
Your online connection to the IBM visionaries and resources making the promise of Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA, a reality for businesses around the world. This is your chance to hear not just from your IBM representative but from other customers and business partners like you, reaping the value of SOA.
WebSphere TV is not just a video collection; it's online TV for the 21st century!
Take advantage of the interactive screen and remote...
- TV News: Watch the latest news from IBM and IT market visionaries on SOA plus weekly imbedded animated "offertisements" help you stay "in tune" with the top WebSphere resources available such as upcoming webcasts, whitepapers, web kits, etc...
- Related resources: Learn more through related materials available next to each video or animation
- Email this video: Share a specific video or animation with your team or manager for your next innovation-related discussion
- XML RSS feed: Keep up with the latest programming via live bookmarking
See what's playing this week on WebSphere TV: http://www.ibm.com/software/info/television/websphere
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Sites of Interest
- Couldn't make it to the WebSphere Live for SOA or SOA Executive Summit? Watch the video here:
- If you are uncertain about your readiness to progress to SOA, we invite you to take our free SOA readiness assessmentService Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- SOA is about flexibility. Start at a point that addresses your immediate need with one of 5 Entry points for SOA.
- Here are some frequently asked questions (FAQs) to help you understand more about SOA.
- WebSphere Business Process Management Tech Zone
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Learn about IBM's comprehensive SOA capabilities; products, services, partners, education and upcoming events.
- developerWorks
- alphaWorks SOA and Web Services
- Communities
- Rational Software Global User Group Community - Collaborate with Rational users.
- Tivoli Software Global User Group Community - Collaborate with Tivoli software users.
- GWC WebSphere Technology Zone: Business Integration - Learn about WebSphere Business Integration solutions
- WebSphere SOA Business Partner Community - Adopting SOA represents a tremendous opportunity for IBM Business Partners to significantly improve flexibility, raise client satisfaction, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and increase ease of integration and sales opportunities.
- Web Services Interoperability Organization - WS-I delivers practical guidance, best practices and resources for developing interoperable Web services solutions.
- IT Governance Institute - The IT Governance Institute (ITGI) exists to assist enterprise leaders in their responsibility to ensure that IT is aligned with the business and delivers value, its performance is measured, its resources properly allocated and its risks mitigated.
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) - a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards.
- Object Management Group (OMG) - an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications.
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Business and Technical Library
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Events
- Check out the upcoming SOA related events on the GWC Events page.
These events include:
- IBM SOA Executive Summits
- SOA Architecture Summits
- WebSphere Live for SOA seminars
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Discussion Forum
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