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• Developing a meet-in-the-middle service flow

  Using the IBM Rational Developer for System z environment, you will learn how to map an existing service interface to a CICS service flow so that you can create a Web service using a meet-in-the-middle approach.

• Build a pureXML and JSON application, Part 2: Create Universal Services for pureXML that expose JSON

  The pureXML Universal Services for JSON are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, exposed as Web services. Get started with configuring and testing JSON Universal Services in this article.

• SOA: The good, the bad and the ugly

  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is currently a hot topic and to be fair this style of architecture has some qualities that are very good. But with the good come some characteristics that are bad and even a few that are ugly.

• Comment lines by Bill Hines: Dawn of a new (DataPower) day

  The latest firmware update for IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, IBM’s most unusual and exciting product line, is chock full of important new features. DataPower appliances are poised to move into the next generation with Web 2.0 and many other enhanced capabilities.

• Java Web services: Introducing Metro

  The Metro Web service stack provides a comprehensive solution for accessing and implementing Web services. It's based on the reference implementations of the JAXB 2.x and JAX-WS 2.x Java standards, with added components to support WS-* SOAP extension technologies and actual Web service deployment.

• Using WSS4J/Axis2 API to send WS-Security Signature and Encryption Profiles to Axis2/Rampart Web Service

  This article discusses how WS-Security Profiles including UsernameToken, Timestamp, Signature and Encryption can be included in the SOAP Message headers to specify.

• Social Networks using Web 2.0

  n this article we highlight the pattern and behavior of different social networks and how they are implemented using Web 2.0.

• Webcast: Security and Policy Management in SOA Environments

  View this webcast to learn how policy driven processing is a key requirement in SOA environments, allowing business and technical decisions to be visible and quickly changeable.