-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Content International Journal of Web Portals 1(3) Datum: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:16:48 -0400 Von: Jana Polgar jana.polgar@gmail.com Antwort an: Jana Polgar jana.polgar@gmail.com An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 1, Issue 3, July-September 2009

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1938-0194 EISSN: 1938-0208

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijwp

Editors-in-Chief:

Jana Polgar, NextDigital, Melbourne, Australia

Greg Adamson, University of Melbourne, Australia

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

�Driving into the Cloud�: Reflections on Importance of a Blended Learning Approach

Paul Cooper, SMS, Australia

Matthew Hodgson, SMS, Australia

The authors view that a blended learning approach can be helpful whenever new systems are required to be deployed, an

approach called �operational learning and change�. The essence is to take a benefits realization approach to systems usage,

taking into account how each group of users, whether internal or external, is expected to use the system, and then design

the most effective learning tools and process change paths to maximize system effectiveness. Ultimately, while there is a

crave standardization within the enterprise for simplicity of management processes and practices, a one-size-fits-all

approach does not �fit all�. Learning approaches, therefore, must reflect the variety of the environment, the needs of

staff, and the richness and unique customization of the systems and tools themselves. The diversity of the Web environment

must be taken into account as well. In the end, the ultimate challenge is to mirror the diversity of the deployed

environment with appropriate learning tools to help simplify access to and manipulation of the Web resources.

To read this guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of IJWP in your library

INTRODUCTION

Welcome From the Editors

Jana Polgar, Editor-in-Chief, IJWP

Greg Adamson, Editor-in-Chief, IJWP

The fields of Web portals and service-oriented architecture generally today face two challenges: the impact of the

international economic situation on enterprise appetite for new technology investment and the debate on whether SOA will

meet its promise or has been oversold by its advocates. Contributions in this and our previous two issues have already begun

to address these issues. With the third issue of the International Journal of Web Portals, readers can begin to form an

opinion on these questions.

To read this introduction, please consult this issue of IJWP in your library

PAPER ONE

Service Oriented Architecture Conceptual Landscape PART I

Ed Young, Victoria University, Australia

Contemporary architectural approach is for an orchestrated, agnostic, federated enterprise through the adoption of

loosely-coupled open service interfaces. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm unifies disparate, heterogeneous

technologies. It resurrects legacy technology silos with a service �face-lift� while maintaining their autonomy. Somewhat in

its infancy as standards and methodologies are evaluated and adopted, the differences between theory and praxis of SOA

remain to be fully determined, predominately due to the size and complexity of the conundrum it addresses.

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PAPER TWO

Service Oriented Architecture Conceptual Landscape PART II

Ed Young, Victoria University, Australia

This article draws extensively on published research in the past two years and supporting sources germane to current SOA

issues in collation to describe a conceptual landscape of current, prominent SOA concerns. Part I addressed how SOA is

defined, its characteristics, evolution, motivation, and approach (Young, 2009). Part II concentrates on the technology of

SOA particularly, semantics, representational state transfer (REST), object orientation (OO) and, operations and quality

aspects.

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PAPER THREE

WebSphere Portal 6.1: An Agile Development Approach

Thomas Stober, IBM Germany Research and Development, Germany

Uwe Hansmann, IBM Germany Research and Development, Germany

IBM�s Portal technology continues to evolve as a powerful infrastructure for integrating the IT landscape by presenting it

as a consolidated view to the user community. The new capabilities of WebSphere Portal 6.1 are the outcome of a world-wide

development team, which focused on this release for the past 2 years. During that time, major architectural enhancements

have been introduced and a significant amount of code was written. In this article, the authors describe how developers and

testers have adopted agile principles to collaborate across the globe. This article discusses in detail aspects like an

iterative approach, test driven development, budget-based prioritization, and cross-organization teaming. The authors will

also cover how �tiger teams� interact with customers by making early code drops available and responding to feedback.

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PAPER FOUR

Conceptual Business Service: An Architectural Approach for Building a Business Service Portfolio

Ben Clohesy, SystemicLogic Research Institute, Australia

Alan Frye, ANZ Enterprise Integration Strategy Planning & Architecture, Australia

Robert Redpath, SystemicLogic Research Institute, Australia

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is gaining acceptance, offering advantages including closer alignment of IT systems with

business. Ideally, within large enterprises, capabilities would be used by solutions from a number of business units while

matching the detailed requirements of each; this level of interoperability is difficult to achieve. While much of the

current activity focuses on technical interoperability, the authors propose that the focus shift to business

interoperability as the key consideration to bring clarity to the engineering aspects of technical interoperability. This

article presents a model-driven architectural approach that views an organization�s business processes as structured assets

requiring formalization. In addition, the authors also offers a new concept, the conceptual business service (CBS), which

provides abstraction through modeling and promotes building a portfolio of navigable business services at the appropriate

level of abstraction and granularity. Lastly, a method for specifying a CBS is outlined using reference domain meta-data

allowing easier service solution recognition among other benefits.

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PAPER FIVE

Case Study: SOA Implementation Challenges for Medium Sized Corporations

Brenton Worley, Intunity Pty Ltd., Australia

Greg Adamson, University of Melbourne, Australia

In the commercial world, SOA implementation practitioners are finding a gulf between tools, whether vendor-based or open

source. Future-facing tool developers are addressing problems of orchestration to achieve the SOA promise. Most

corporations, however, have not yet established either the services to be abstracted or the governance requirements around

exposing those services, such as the right level of service granularity. This case study is based on recent experience in

the utility and retail sectors. The drivers for each are compelling: a business-driven need for IT flexibility. The authors

provide examples to show that customers in both sectors need to develop their architecture and governance before attempting

to choose the right tools and examine the challenge of agile approach for SOA development.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=34166

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Mission of IJWP:

The International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) focuses on enterprise integration strategy that deals with the exchange of

messages as the basic component of the solution architecture enabling the integration of people, information, applications

and business processes. Portals are expected to care more about the infrastructure services they consume, which is a key

architectural difference between the past and the future generations of portals and represent the paradigm shift in

enterprise integration strategy. This paradigm shift focuses on identifying core integration components, assets, enterprise

portals and encourages the reuse and refinement of these assets for integration projects. However, these topics are rarely

discussed among the practitioners or in the international journals without primarily encouraging use of the solutions from

particular vendors. It is important to establish a sounding board (international journal) which provides readers with an

independent view of models for enterprise integration strategies, vendor independent tool sets, and the experience with the

development of strategic solutions carried out within the context and rules of the enterprise's integration architecture.

The readers are expected to benefit from having access to the latest practical solutions, as well as research papers in the

field of integration approaches, the review of tools which can effectively and proactively support integration objectives

across the enterprise.

Coverage of IJWP:

The journal seeks papers relevant to (but not limited to) the following topics:

Business process integration and management using SOA and portals

Case studies for using portals with content management systems

Composite Web service in portal frameworks (creation and enabling infrastructure)

Customization and portal user interface issues, multilingual portals

E-commerce applications based on portals and SOA

Evolution of B2E & B2B portals as windows into the enterprise, on demand services in portals

Frameworks for building portal applications, development tooling, and development environments (e.g Portlet Factory, NetBean

portal plug-in, and other tools)

Frameworks for designing SOA solution with portal platforms, models, and modeling tools usage, efficiency, and usability

Grid portals

Managing development of portals & SOA solutions

Mobile portals, mobile portal platform, and content management systems applied to mobile portals

Portal architecture, research, and practical issues in portals, including mobile portal initiatives

Portal security issues and single sigh-on

Resource management in portals, performance issues, and administration issues

Semantic Web services & federated portal architectures

Web services for remote portlets (WSRP), performance, security, standards, WSRP extensions, and enhancements in UDDI

WSRP role in business integration

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijwp. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editors-in-Chief: Jana Polgar at Jana.polgar@nextdigital.com and Greg Adamson at gadamson@unimelb.edu.au

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