Ross Altman is CTO, Business Integration Platforms at Sun, where he is focused on the direction, development and communication of Sun's Business Integration Division's vision and strategy. He came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to SeeBeyond, he was Director of Integration Technologies at EDS. Ross has authored over 150 articles on application development and integration and has delivered more than 80 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.
We’ve come pretty far with SOA. Gartner reports that “SOA”
is the most widely used search term on their Website. On Google, a search for
“SOA” turns up 6,750,000 matches. And all of us in IT probably
have to wade through some discussion related to SOA on a daily basis.
That’s a pretty impressive level of awareness and mind share.
Let’s not consider this a “mission accomplished” situation
though; there’s still a lot to do to mature our current approach to
SOA. For example, we need to improve the clarity and completeness of the
various Web services standards and, when they become available, we have to
ensure that this more complete, mature, coherent set of standards is broadly
adopted.
Consider the issues of build... (more)
Like pretty much everything that gets caught up in the IT hype cycle, the
enterprise service bus (ESB) has taken on mythic capabilities. And, like
pretty much everything that becomes the focus of myth, there's a kernel of
truth embedded within all those super powers.
To begin the process of separating fact from fiction, let's start with a
workable definition of an ESB. "An enterprise serv... (more)
Ross Altman is CTO, Business Integration Platforms at Sun, where he is focused on the direction, development and communication of Sun's Business Integration Division's vision and strategy. He came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to SeeBeyond, he was Director of Integration Technologies at EDS. Ross has authored over 150 articles on application development and integration and has delivered more than 80 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.
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