CTOEdge: Crosscheck Models Cloud Computing Performance

"One of the biggest problems with cloud computing is that IT organizations are hesitant to move an application into the cloud when they don’t know what to expect in terms of performance.  Crosscheck Networks intends to help IT organizations overcome that uncertainty with a new modeling tool for cloud computing called CloudPort. " Mike Vizard, CTOEdge
For complete article, see: http://www.ctoedge.com/content/crosscheck-models-cloud-computing-performance


 

Software Magazine: Crosscheck Networks SOAPSimulator adds JMS support

Service Simulation is and essential component for end-to-end SOA Testing.  Software Magazine recently published an article on SOAPSimulator, the only stand-alone service simulation product in the market for simulating Web services, XML, REST and SOAP.

A new version of SOAPSimulator from Crosscheck Networks, the company focused on products supporting reliable Web services, adds the ability to test large attachments via IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, WebLogic JMS and native Java Messaging Services adapters...read more>

Web Services Simulation

What should you do in your web services project when you're ready to start building your web services client, but your producer services is not ready? The answer is simple: Use Web Service Simulation. The obvious advantages of Service Simulation are as follows:

• Reduce Overall development time by making simulated services available before they are built.
• Tell the client whether it's sending the right messages to the service. For example, the service may be expecting a SAML token and the body of the message has to be signed. A service simulator can ensure that the client (consumer) is indeed following such requirements even before the producer services are built.

Here's a whitepaper that provides details on how to use service simulation to shorten your SOA projects while making your service invocations cleaner and more interoperable.

Accelerate your SOA Projects through Service Simulation

Service Simulation - Help Jumpstart SOA Testing

Here's a paper that the folks at Crosscheck Networks have authored on how Service Simulation can accelerate your SOA Testing, Client Side Development while saving you money by eliminating the need to build an expensive "SOA Reference System."

I have seen others talk about this concept in terms of virtualization and confuse everyone - I guess using hot marketing jargon helps get attention at the expense of adding confusion. The key aspects of Service Simulation are portability and ease-of-use, without which it adds more to the project timelines than what it promises to reduce.

Here's what Service Simulation is and how it helps:

"Reusable services are the cornerstone of a successful implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service simulation can mimic producer services before they are implemented, an alternative to an expensive reference environment. In this paper, we cover SOA Project Lifecycle issues and how best to address them through service simulation."

For complete article, see:

Accelerate your SOA Projects Through Service Simulation

http://www.softwaremag.com/pdfs/whitepapers/Crosscheck_WP4.pdf