<<BEA Systems is to release a set of software tools on 9 June that promises to help enterprises manage and maintain service oriented architectures (SOAs).
The company will reveal the first two products as part of its Free Flow project, which will eventually comprise about 50 software titles, BEA's chief marketing officer Marge Breya said in a presentation at the company's headquarters. Free Flow provides an infrastructure to manage and deploy services in a web services environment both within an organisation and between partners. "It's about putting together a services infrastructure that can scale," Breya said. SOA is an architecture to build and maintain applications in an enterprise. Rather than designing applications from the ground up, SOA allows developers to reuse code between departments and combine resources from all over the company. Using XML and standards from the world of web services, SOA will support both Java and .Net, as well as any of the standards-based integration platforms from companies like Oracle and SAP. If one department has developed a module to convert foreign currencies in a transaction system, for example, the same code can be redeployed for the company's human resources department. Services will pull data from various legacy and industry-standard enterprise applications, and present it in a customised portal tailored to the needs of the end user. Although services look much like applications, Breya argued they should be treated differently. Services are harder to manage because they are not confined to the limits of a physical server. Developers also require metadata about the service before they can use it for new applications, such as data about the level of security that a service provides.>> You can find this at: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2135579/bea-unfolds-soa-initiative Gervas Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
