Articles by Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni

Building Blocks of SOA Governance

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EDT

SOA initiatives have gathered momentum in the past year with more enterprises either implementing SOA or considering implementing in the near future. The implementations we studied reveal that one of the critical challenges in SOA is designing an effective governance mechanism. A good understanding of governance concepts is essential to implementing and operating a successful SOA. Reliable governance for SOA leads to a manifold increase in an enterprise's ability to achieve the goal of business agility through SOA.

WSDL 2.0: A Pragmatic Analysis and an Interoperation Framework

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:30:00 EDT

Web Service Description Language (WSDL) represents an IDL describing the contract between the service requestor and the service provider in much the same way that a Java interface represents a contract between client code and an actual Java object. The crucial difference is that WSDL is platform- and language-independent and used primarily (although not exclusively) to describe SOAP services.

SOA-Based Inter-Organizational Architectural Framework For B2B Marketplaces

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:45:00 EST

B2B marketplaces facilitate efficient search and transactions by offering services such as buyer/supplier and product/services searches and transactions such as procurement and asset disposal.

XML Compression and Its Role in SOA Performance

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:00:00 EDT

Looking at the uncertainty and volatility of market conditions today, enterprises are depending on new cutting-edge technology to have an edge over their fierce competitors. At the same time, they try extracting more value from their existing IT investments. Adding to these disparate applications and technologies are the acquisitions and mergers that inherently bring in different sets of applications.

Adding Reliability to Occasionally Connected Computing in Mobile Devices

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:30:00 EDT

Mobile devices use wireless networks that have limited range. Therefore, they may not always be connected to a network. This kind of intermittent connectivity in mobile devices has been one of the factors inhibiting enterprise-level adoption of pervasive mobile applications. Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) deals with this problem. The challenge that mobile application developers face today is to develop applications that will let users interact uniformly with the application regardless of the connection status.

XML Binding Frameworks in the Context of Service-Oriented Architecture

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDT

This article critically evaluates the role of XML binding frameworks play in the context of service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms, and it also provides an objective evaluation of the popular XML binding frameworks in a J2EE environment.

Semantic Interoperability in SOAs

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:00 EDT

Often technology is made out to be the biggest impediment to effective collaboration and integration between requestors and providers; however it is usually the problem of semantic interoperability which is the root cause.

SOA Enables B2B Marketplace Creation

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:00:00 EDT

A B2B marketplace must be able to offer a single-point source for inter-organizational commerce in a flexible manner. SOA enabled with Web services shows promise in enabling inter-organizational commerce at reduced cost by leveraging existing investment in legacy systems and increased efficiency for these enterprises.