2007-01-05: Infoworld Best of 2007
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[edit] Infoworld 2007 Awards: Technologies
[edit] Infoworld Technology of the Year Awards: SAO
Consolidation. Focus on Governance. SOA solution: service dev platform, registry/repository (diectory & metadata management), services manager, ESB , orchestrator, maybe BisProcMan. No single vendor..ESB out? XML, IP in
The new focus on governance is a healthy trend. Keeping service end points robust, after all, is what governance is all about. And the fact that many organizations are already thinking hard about service metadata -- how to use it to monitor, manage, and refine an SOA -- is a good indication that things have moved beyond the beginning phases.
[edit] Infoworld Technology of the Year Awards: Soft. Development
Move to simlicity - Most evident was the widespread adoption of SOA (services-oriented architecture), which has become the technology of choice for integrating systems of all kinds -- between departments, across stovepipe applications, and in B2B and B2C
Web services are withthe popular of REST ..does away with SOAP wrappers and other overhead, bringing Web services down to the simplest possible implementation: an XML file sent over the wire via HTTP. Four basic commands CRUD, combined with resource files, make all actions simple to implement. REST is likely to replace much of socket-based communication and a good portion of SOAP-based services as well, especially in straightforward applications where solutions need to be cobbled together quickly.
Web services are the back end to Web 2.0 UIs reliing on AJAX toolkits that push JavaScript snippets and XML data to the client to perform GUI operations locally, rather than driving them by a remote server. The greater responsiveness of this approach, which was popularized by Google’s Gmail, Google Earth ..Sites that see in Web 2.0 the possibility of migrating client software to strictly browser-based interfaces have an increasing number of tools upon which to draw, both commercial and open source.AJAX tools
Light languages Ruby and Groovy.. and frameworks like Ruby on Rail
The rise of lightweight frameworks, the continued popularity of scripting languages, and the success of SOA show that IT sites and developers are increasingly relying on simpler technologies. And this trend is made possible by fact that these simpler tools are delivering increasingly sophisticated results. Technologies that deliver this productive ease of use will continue to thrive for years to come.
[edit] Infoworld Technology of the Year Awards: Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 technologies ease collaboration and break down information silos, whether they’re individual Web sites, portals, or business intelligence systems.
- Enterprise RSS gained significant ground in 2006 as a better way to aggregate and publish this information; social networking also made significant inroads within organizations.
- Enterprise search, transformed the way all this content is organized and categorized.
Six Apart scaled up blogging with Movable Type Enterprise. Yet the real action this year happened in socializing business interactions. By homogenizing wikis and blogs, applications such as Atlassian Confluence, Near-Time, Socialtext, and Traction TeamPage let workers organize and share knowledge and form interactive discussions.
For a clearer picture where these extensible platforms are headed, look at Social Platform Enterprise 1.2. It’s a great way for businesses quickly to build vigorous social networks that scale up to tens of millions of users. Standard wiki and message functions abound, as do unusual community-building functions such as ratings and reward points. Further, traditional enterprise portal vendors are beginning to tap Web 2.0 technologies. Both BEA Systems and Microsoft have incorporated wikis into their platforms, and BEA is also implementing del.icio.us-style user tagging.
Adopting and ESB or not - Infoworld. Alternative to the ESB approach is to use XML appliances — also called gateways — to route messages, handle transformation and mapping, and proxy services so they can be governed and secured effectively
JotSpot provide Structure to wikispace.
Categories: DevEvents | WebServices | Atomic | SOA | Web2.0 | Collaboration
