IBM SOA

A lot of activity and new products at IBM these days revolve around Service-Oriented Architecture, especially in the IBM Software Group, especially in WebSphere.

Check out the main IBM SOA site. Also very helpful is the Service-Oriented Architecture and WebSphere Process Server recommended reading list. Exploring IBM SOA Technology and Practice is a new e-book that explains the IBM SOA approach.

Our entire SOA approach is what we call the IBM SOA Foundation. Our main SOA conference in 2007 is IBM Impact. Many of the talks at WebSphere Technical Exchange 2006 were on SOA.

Some aspects of (IBM's take on) SOA include:

• IBM Business Process Management
• IBM SOA Governance
  • IBM SOA Quality Management
• SOA Entry Points
• Service Component Architecture
• Service Data Objects

Some products include:

• WebSphere Business Process Management
• WebSphere Business Services Fabric
  • IBM Business Services
• IBM ESB products
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

Some general info:

• T-Shaped Skills
• Back to Basics on SOA with Bobby Woolf
• SOA Announcements October 2006
• Evolution of SCA, WAS, and WPS
• Software's SOA buzz yielding dividends (July 2006)
• April IBM SOA Marketing Blitz (April 2006)
• Flurry of IBM SOA Announcements (September 2005)

Conferences:

• IBM Impact 2007
  • Impact Comes to You 2007

Books:

• The New Language of Business