Best of this Week Summary 12 November - 18 November 2007

• Ten tools to manage your SOA in the area of governance, quality and management. For each of the tools it shortly describes what the tool does does, who's behind it and which companies are using it.
  


• Seven good tips and overview on how to make your Javascript unobtrusive.
  


• Jilles van Gurp (who works at Nokia) describes his initial impressions on Google's Android SDK, a platform aimed at mobile devices, released earlier this week. Main thing to note is that Google has built their own JVM Dalvik and it is another Java spin-off; it is not JME. Here's why this is not such a good thing. And here's some points why it should be better than JME. Note also that Nokia is not (yet?) part of the Open Handset Alliance.
  
  


• Here's a Javascript library that "solves" the same-origin-policy problem I mentioned in a previous post on OpenSocial by using _IG_FetchContent, which goes via a proxy server. Check also his other 2 posts (First and Second step), providing a higher level wrapper library (API) on top of OpenSocial.