Articles by Scott Simmons

IBM WebSphere SOA Framework and Java J2EE Web Services

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:15:00 EST

The WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture rigorously recognizes the need for a comprehensive software development platform as core. It's important that the development platform encompasses the entire lifecycle of software development, including requirements analysis, modeling and design, component development, testing, and code maintenance. The tooling must be compatible with the concepts of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and support the use of the best practices emerging via Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) and Service Oriented Development of Applications (SODA) methodologies. These characteristics are incumbent on the IBM software development platform.

SOA Web Services Journal – WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:30:00 EDT

The emergence of service-oriented frameworks results from the evolution of software development and implementation over the last 20 years. Our industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard-to-manage client/server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of applications, speeds development of new solutions, and addresses the requirements of business stakeholders better.

Community Integration with WebSphere Business Integration Connect

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. In the past, traditional B2B solutions have fallen short of market expectations for community integration due to scalability issues, lack of transaction visibility across the trading community, and minimal partner participation in community management.

Community Integration and XML

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. XML-based document exchanges between companies impose new challenges on organizations building a B2B community integration solution.