SOA News Desk

The new Google program Sitemaps is now available free to web administrators and owners, no matter what the size of their websites. "This collaborative crawling system will allow our crawlers to optimize the usefulness of Google's index for users by improving its coverage and freshness," the company said. Sitemaps calls for Web administrators to place a Sitemaps-formatted file on their Web servers. This allows the Google crawlers to see which pages are present on a site and which have been changed. Web administrator create an XML file to use Sitemaps, and need to know how to run scripts. The Sitemap Generator requires Python 2.2 or higher. Google describes Sitemaps as "an experiment in web crawling." The company says that this program is intended to let Google expand its web coverage and "improve the time to inclusion in our index." The company said that the program ... (more)

Reducing Friction and Managing Organizational Change

As organizations introduce service orientation as a computing theme formally supported through enterprise architecture, they are encountering several obstacles. Service orientation promotes the sharing of capabilities across traditional enterprise system, information, and application boundaries. In this session we will review how we can reduce friction and manage the organizational change associated with the introduction of an enterprise SOA program and the common governance models that are emerging. We will also discuss how the discipline of enterprise architecture governance is... (more)

If Only Santa Had Listened to Those Web Services Experts…

(February 13, 2002) - It began last December when Tim Ewald, a principal scientist at component software think-tank DevelopMentor - and who specializes in the effective application of cutting-edge component technologies to the production of scalable distributed systems - teamed up with DevelopMentor colleague Martin Gudgin to write an open letter to Santa Claus. Their request? "Dear Santa," they wrote, "all we want for Christmas is a WSDL Working Group." Each to his own, you may say. But the request from Ewald and Gudgin was unusual, for both are members of the World Wide Web C... (more)

Sun's Schwartz Warns of MS Attempt to Monopolize Web Services

(April 10, 2002) - No one can predict the future accurately, far less the I-technology future. So it was perhaps a little surprising that U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly turned down a Microsoft Corporation objection this week to written testimony by Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz, their chief strategy officer. Schwartz stated in his testimony to Judge Kollar-Kotelly that Sun fears Microsoft is poised to leverage its Windows OS monopoly, via XML-based Web services and its .NET platform, into an MS monopoly of the Internet itself. Sun isn't entitled to speculate lik... (more)

VoiceXML 2.0 Is W3C Candidate Recommendation Cornerstone to the W3C Speech Interface Framework is Ready for Implementors

(February 11, 2003) - To bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published VoiceXML 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Advancement of a W3C Technical Report to Candidate Recommendation is an explicit, public call for implementation. Since 1999, W3C has been working on its Speech Interface Framework to expand access to the Web to allow people to interact via key pads, spoken commands, listening to prerecorded speech, synthetic speech, and music. With the number of tel... (more)