BEA Seeks To Make SOA Development Easier
05/26/2004
BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS), the application infrastructure software company, introduced technologies and resources designed to help developers more easily and affordably build service-based applications and service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
BEA gave these details:
The new tools and portals are designed to help developers reduce development costs and save time as they build SOAs that lay the foundation for Liquid Computing-BEA's vision for aligning every business interaction with real-time business goals to help companies become service-driven enterprises and ultimately achieve enterprise compatibility, active adaptability and breakthrough productivity. Specifically, BEA is unveiling three key initiatives: an SOA Technology Center, the SOA Blueprints Initiative (SOABI) in conjunction with The Middleware Company, and BEA dev2devLive. BEA also announced the availability of new controls, which are reusable components designed for use with well-known platforms like Amazon and eBay, to further drive developer productivity (see separate release).
SOAs are a set of principles and practices for sharing, reusing and orchestrating business logic represented as services or components. After implementing SOAs, companies can experience greater re-use of IT assets, faster delivery of value to the business and greater adaptability to support ongoing change. While the concept of an SOA may have existed previously, adoption has been hindered by a lack of technologies and resources. BEA is working to fill that void with a series of products and services announced at eWorld (see separate release), as well as new developer-oriented tools and resources.
"Liquid Computing lays out the way SOAs can deliver productivity and business agility through innovations BEA and its partners are providing. To deliver these benefits, developers need to know where to begin. These new programs are designed to provide best practices and standards for effectively implementing SOAs," said Cornelius Willis, vice president, developer marketing, BEA Systems. "Like other innovations such as BEA WebLogic Workshop(TM), our developer tools target a varied technical audience that includes novice and expert developers, architects, administrators, project managers and IT managers. The resources we provide with our partners can help foster an interactive, educational environment where developers can share information and best practices for the good of the overall community."
SOA Technology Center
Located on BEA dev2dev, BEA's online resource for the developer community, the new SOA Technology Center offers developers a wealth of resources to help them efficiently build SOAs. Specifically, the SOA Technology Center includes best practices, guidelines, patterns, white papers, code samples, Webinars, interviews and demos that provide practical knowledge and application for implementing SOA-based applications using J2EE, open source and BEA innovations.
SOA Blueprints
In conjunction with The Middleware Company, one of the world's leading knowledge networks for middleware professionals, BEA Systems has created a set of blueprints for developing and implementing SOA-based applications. The initiative contains an open specification, third-party expert validation and implementations. The SOA Blueprints specification includes multiple real-world use cases, described in detail at both a functional and a behavioral level, designed to demonstrate how SOA can be applied to solving real-world issues.
"The Middleware Company and BEA are aligned in our goals to deliver the industry's best practices and resources for implementing business-altering IT trends like SOAs," said Tyler Jewell, chief operating officer, The Middleware Company. "Rather than creating a set of disconnected examples, as is the case in many discussions of service orientation, the use cases we crafted with BEA are more representative of complete business environments."
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