The iTKO SOA Testing & Validation Soapbox

WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?

In our previous post, we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services its not something you construct by hand

Posted: Mar. 24, 2008 10:07 AM

Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation

Weve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday

Posted: Mar. 20, 2008 09:19 PM

So you have a SOA Management dashboard. How do you drive it?

Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys?It seems we are encountering a disconnect betwe

Posted: Feb. 7, 2008 01:07 PM

The Continuous 'C'

Several weeks back I gave you a real life experience that typified why our test strategy we call the Three Cs has Complete as one of those Cs. This blog will give you a different real-life experience on why Continuous deserves C status.I was mee

Posted: Jan. 22, 2008 10:00 AM

Oracle buys BEA - Nice time to get a check-up

The biggest news in software may have already hit this year, but it's not like we didn't hear it coming for the past few months. Oracle finally makes good on its intent to buy BEA at $8.5B: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120048691486294361.htmlTo us

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 04:41 PM

European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?

I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA succes

Posted: Jan. 14, 2008 03:19 PM

Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?

One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data both positive and ne

Posted: Dec. 27, 2007 02:38 PM

IT Predictions for 2008 -- Are Some Too Late?

Yes, there are many pundits proffering predictions on the coming year, but these are ours. In fielding these over lunch at iTKO, we couldn't help but notice a few of them would have been last year's predictions as well... but, even in IT, not all cha

Posted: Dec. 14, 2007 03:05 PM

Service-Oriented Virtualization: Encore Webinar Dec. 13

Yesterday's webinar with analyst Theresa Lanowitz and our own John Michelsen on "Service-Oriented Virtualization" was well attended - so much so in fact, that our little event room reached capacity!So we are going to do one more live webinar on this

Posted: Dec. 7, 2007 03:55 PM

Webinar on Service Oriented Virtualization

We have been doing so much with Virtualization in this blog that I have wondered if you guys are getting tired of it, yet almost every comment I get in person and most of the press requests are around the virtualization concepts for SOA.And you know

Posted: Nov. 30, 2007 10:38 AM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	Managing Environment-Specific Properties By Jason Newman; Dave Jones Michael Frank wrote: The article asserts that most will want to use a classpath for locating their "external" properties files, but I've found that the easiest way to manage external properties is to use the local file system, but include the root directory for all files as a...
	Memory Caching in WAS By Pooja Gupta; Sherman Lee was5118 wrote: Authors do not mention the SampleCacheCommand class must implement com.ibm.we bsphere.command.Cacheable Command or extend com.ibm .websphere.command.Cachea bleCommandImpl, also source code is not provided for download. I would encourage readers to visit IBM Tech Journa...
	Examining the Programming Model Extensions By Roland Barcia Simon Birch wrote: Good article, but is the statement, "it is illegal to create your own threads in a J2EE container", 100% correct? I am not saying that it's not - I would just like to know the answer. I have heard many people say that J2EE applications should not spawn th...
	Verifying Web Site Accessibility By Arthur Hicken; Cynthia Dunlop Mayank Shah wrote: Can someone please suggest how to test all the accessibility guidelines manually.
	Creating a Framework - J2EE pattern frameworks provide template for flexible and modular architecture By Lloyd Hagemo Rahul wrote: Article was good. But the images are not loading except the author's one.