New Release of Leading Transaction Management Software Makes SOA Transactions Safer and More Reliable

MECHELEN, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - May 11, 2009) - Atomikos, a leading provider of transaction management software for SOA, XTP and Open Source environments, announced today the latest release of its commercial software product, Atomikos ExtremeTransactions®. Version 3.6 of Atomikos ExtremeTransactions® introduces new and advanced web services support aimed at making transaction management in SOA environments faster, safer, and more reliable.

Strategic SOA-based business services are becoming a dominant element in business transformation, allowing businesses to flexibly respond and react quickly to changing business conditions. SOA-based transactions are defined as tasks that are composed of one or more operations or related interactions that may need to be cancelled or "rolled back" after the point of execution.

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Packt have recently released Service Oriented Architecture with Java, a new book which teaches the concepts and the implementation of using SOA with web services to design a sound architecture for business solutions.

Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes.

Through this book, users will learn when SOA is the best choice for their web services-based applications and also to design and implement a sound architecture for successful implementation of any business solution.

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Mollom is a new initiative launched by Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and Benjamin Schrauwen, to provide a complete solution to prevent spam and helps improve overall content quality. Mollom provide a set of features including :

• Accurate spam filtering
• Eliminate your moderation queue
• Detailed statistics
• Image and audio CAPTCHA challenges
• Content quality assessment
• and more ...

Tijs Verkoyen have written a PHP5 class to communicate with mollom's open API. Very simple and easy to use. You can find solutions for your languages also available including Java, Ruby, Python, .NET, in addition to a drupal module to integrate Mollom in your community's CMS.

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book "SOA Approach To Integration" which shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

This book focuses on the SOA approach to integration of existing (legacy) applications and newly developed solutions, using modern technologies, particularly web services, XML, ESB, and BPEL. The book shows how to define SOA for integration, what integration patterns to use, which technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

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Facebook launched a new API for its web application platform called Data Store API which aims to help developers store data on Facebook's servers. Now not only you can develop applications for Facebook, but you can even store data on their servers. An interesting move, but not sure how profitable this could be for Facebook. The API still in closed beta, member interested can leave their application name and ID on discussion board.

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Amazon have some interesting services for Storage, bandwidth, computing... but many don't even consider it because they find the way to calculate fees complicated. I heard many feedbacks from developers and companies who launched their service with S3, EC2 or SQS, and all of them positive feedbacks. Now if you have a service and wanted to use one of these services, it's more easier to estimate fees with the new AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.

Whatever you are looking for Storage, computing, or just a queue service, all services are in-demand and can help you start your business and make it grow slowly without any changes. If your website don't use much storage and bandwidth you will find yourself paying very small fees in the beginning, and the time you need more, you won't have to change anything in your service. Best of all you can use this tool to estimates your monthly bill in the best or worst cases, if you get Dugg, Slashdotted or other.

Pictogame is a service which recently launched and using S3. In three weeks and after several Dugg, the site served 75GB, and 1 million of widgets. The total bill was less than $20 for both storage and bandwidth. The service use PHP, Flash and XML coupled with Amazon S3. Now best feature of the service, is that S3 will take care of Scaling the service, no more post-production headaches. Anyone else had an experience with S3, good or bad ?

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