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• Build your SOA Governance transition plan

  This article highlights how to be effective in delivering the benefits of SOA, SOA Governance needs to be in place from the beginning of the initial SOA implementation.

• Getting started with Business Process Management: Find the best entry point

  A recent IBM survey of global business and IT executives found that some organizations are significantly outperforming in their industry. These top performers are much more focused on growth than their peers. They are becoming more agile by adopting smarter work practices and transforming their business processes to be more dynamic, collaborative, and connected.

• SOA eBook - Patterns, Mashups, Governance, Service Modeling, and More

  Our free SOA eBook: Patterns, Mashups, Governance, Service Modeling, and More offers chapters from eight popular books by industry leaders, including Thomas Erl, Michael Ogrinz, and Sandy Carter.

• REST, Web services, REST-ful services

  REST-based Web services are increasingly being preferred for integration with backend enterprise services compared to SOAP due to their simplicity. This article proposes a simple extensible framework for exposing Java business services as REST-like services. It also helps to describe the design in detail and explores various extensibility approaches.

• Java Web services: WS-SecureConversation performance

  WS-SecureConversation lets you secure ongoing Web service message exchanges with less processing overhead than plain WS-Security. In this article, you'll learn how to configure and use WS-SecureConversation with the three main open source Java Web services stacks: Apache Axis2, Metro, and Apache CXF. You'll also see how the three stacks compare on WS-SecureConversation performance.

• Build RESTful web services using Spring 3

  Learn how to use Spring APIs and annotations to build RESTful web services, and see how Spring integrates this new feature seamlessly into its original framework.

• A CBM-SOMA based approach to Resource and Capacity Management (RCM) Center Modernization

  This article discusses the business operations and processes of Resource and Capacity Management (RCM) that helps to be transform IT systems.