How open source will fit in with SOA and Web services

In this short interview we can see a good approach to anwser the question: How Open source will fit in SOA and WebServices.

Data centers are planning the use of virtualization technology to support SOA and WebServices. The options that they have are: VMWare, Microsoft Virtual Server etc. What about open source options? This is what try to put on the table to discuss.

Oracle Certifies IBM WebSphere for Fusion

Oracle Certifies IBM WebSphere for Project Fusion— Oracle's Charles Phillips says, 'Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer focused projects underway at our company. We are highly committed to a successful outcome.' And IBM notes that the ecosystem surrounding all applications vendors, be it Oracle, Microsoft or any other vendor, can be up to ten times larger than the application themselves.

Google Blog Search

Another step of Google towards the “world domination”: Blog Search. It’s boring, I agree, but sometimes it is quite useful. You should try, at least.

Blogs At DeveloperWorks

The Blogs@DeveloperWorks are one of my main sources of good Software Architecture articles. Besides, Elias Torres’s blog  has an unofficial list of these blogs at IBM.

Spring Framework (from IBM/DeveloperWorks)

Definition from its page at SourceForge: “Java/J2EE application framework based on [Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development] by Rod Johnson. Includes JavaBeans-based configuration, an AOP framework, declarative transaction management, JDBC and Hibernate support, and a web MVC framework.”

IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting series about this framework:

• The Spring series, Part 1: Introduction to the Spring framework

Start to build lightweight, robust J2EE applications using Spring technology, with this first installment in a three-part introduction to the Spring framework.

• The Spring series, Part 2: When Hibernate meets Spring

Naveen Balani continues his Spring series with a how-to guide to integrating Hibernate transactions with Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP). The result is a persistence framework you can count on.

• The Spring series, Part 3: Swing into Spring MVC

Learn how to develop MVC-based applications using the Spring framework, in this third installment of Naveen Balani's popular Spring series.