 | Level: Introductory Phil Fritz (pfritz@us.ibm.com), Senior Product Manager, IBM
21 Dec 2005 Listen to this informative interview with one of the IBM® experts in service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation. Eighth in the WebSphere® Technical Podcast series on developerWorks, this 21-minute podcast covers what you need to consider when managing and monitoring your SOA environment. It discusses characteristics of Web services, such as performance, quality of service, availability, and briefly, security.
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This podcast covers what you need to know about managing your SOA operating environment: - One of visions of SOA is to be able to reuse and extend assets. This is where federated identity management allows organizations to keep their own identity credentials, but yet federate them.
- To manage your services relationships layer, you need to manage the underlying infrastructure that supports those services and the transactions that bind the business process to the Web services. You also need to secure and manage compliance with corporate security policies across different layers.
- Managing services is much more along the lines of managing those services characteristics such as performance, quality of service, availability, and security.
- The goal of monitoring transaction performance or response-time tracking is to identify performance bottlenecks in the IT infrastructure.
- Applying security across end-to-end SOA in a consistent manner requires management of security policies and configurations across different platforms.
- IBM software products that can help manage your SOA include WebSphere Business Modeler, Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA, Tivoli IT Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere, and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.
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Duration
21 minutes
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Resources Learn
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Readiness Assessment provides a set of targeted recommendations, based on your answers to a short set of questions, to help you take the next steps in SOA adoption.
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Check out IBM developerWorks Software Evaluation Kit: Developing SOA applications for information on using the IBM Rational® WebSphere, and other Software Evaluation Kit (SEK) tools to develop Web services.
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On-Demand Event: Getting Started: A Guided Walk-Through of the IBM SOA Self-Assessment guides you through IBM's SOA self-assessment tool, recently released with new features. This recent event discusses the importance of establishing a direction for SOA benefits.
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Check out Specifications: Service Component Architecture and Service Data Objects for help building systems that use an SOA.
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Best Practices for Web services, Part 11 covers WS-Security features, the relationship between business participants, and the mechanics of how WS-Security capabilities are implemented.
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SOA Development Survival Guide contains helpful resources, such as webcasts, whitepapers, and evaluation software, for project managers and architects.
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SOA programming model for implementing Web services, Part 7 describes well-defined trust models based on acceptable
forms of proof, as well as reliance on policies, Web services security, and security engineering best practices.
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A Methodology for Service Architectures explains how a service architecture is created, how this in turn drives service orientation in broader enterprise and solution architectures, and how this impacts all aspects of IT delivery from business process to standard code development.
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New to WebSphere Business Integration contains resources for those getting started with WebSphere Business Integration.
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Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services provides an overview for the set of Web service specifications that addresses the needs of security, reliability, and transactability.
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Check out IBM Tivoli software products.
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The developerWorks Tivoli zone provides technical resources for Tivoli software and security products.
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The developerWorks SOA and Web services zone provides technical information about SOA and Web services.
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Service-Oriented Architecture Compass, co-authored by developerWorks' Rawn Shah, focuses on how to take an architectural planning approach to designing or migrating to an SOA.
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Check out the developerWorks Technical events and webcasts for software briefings for technical developers and business leaders.
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Peruse all developerWorks podcasts.
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Podcast credits | | |
Phil Fritz is a senior product manager in the Tivoli division in IBM's Software Group. He works with clients to define solutions, drive product strategy, and bring key technologies to the marketplace. He has focused on the area of SOA management since 2002, helping define and drive the management capabilities in IBM's SOA foundation, in particular IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA. He is a frequent speaker at trade, analyst, and customer events. |
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