Latest News from Chris Harding

SOA Security Gets Cloudy

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EDT

I’m with the SOA Work Group at The Open Group conference in Toronto this week (see http://www.opengroup.org/toronto2009-apc). The Work Group has been busy recently, completing its Governance Framework, helping to complete The Open Group’s Service Integration Maturity Model, and working with members of OASIS and the OMG to finish the joint paper “Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture,” which explains how the architecture-focused SOA standards of these bodies relate to each other.

The Evolution of SOA Hinges on an Open Marketplace for Services

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST

We can't foresee the full potential of Service Oriented Architecture any more than Henry Ford could have foreseen the scale of today's automotive industry when the first Model T rolled off the production line nearly a hundred years ago. But there are signs that it will be equally far-reaching. If so, this will because of the same force that made Ford rich: the open market.

Testing SOA Solutions

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:15:00 EST

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in their production environments. SOA introduces new technical complexities and challenges and makes testing a critical component of the development lifecycle.

Learning from SOA Mistakes

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:30:00 EDT

Today, global businesses are increasingly turning to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for their information technology infrastructure and applications. SOA is becoming an increasingly practiced approach to building software solutions as it can support integration and consolidation of activities in complex enterprise systems.