SOA Widget

Your personal Smart SOA assistant just became SMARTER with version 2!!! With this widget running on your machine, you will receive up to the minute updates around customer case studies, presentations, analyst reports, SOA whitepapers, SOA newsletters, events, and more in one convenient location. It can enhance the learning curve of any CIO, CTO, System Architect, IT Director, and efficiency of a developer, or consultant who interacts with SOAs. Rest assured with the SOA widget you will have the latest IBM Smart SOA information at your fingertips.

Version 2 enhancements include:

• Streaming video
• Rollover abstracts
• Highlighting of newer items
• Font updates for better URL accessibility
• And more...

Download instructions
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Note: IBM employees should look on the IBM intranet for an internal version of the Smart SOA Widget.

1. Click here to download the widget (EXE).
2. Select the Save option to store the widget on your desktop.
3. Double-click on IBM-SOA-WidgetV2.exe to run the widget. Note: You may need to appropriately answer system security questions to enable the widget to connect to the internet.
4. For your first time running the widget, choose your preference regarding widget startup at launch. Note: If you do not launch at startup, you will need to run the widget shortcut on your desktop to utilize the widget.
5. Note: your widget will automatically refresh its content upon startup and every 1 hour thereafter.
6. Enjoy!!!

1. My widget seems to perform slowly?
   The widget incorporates a lot of user experience features. Some of these features require a good amount of processing to complete. Try updating your desktop's performance settings. In most cases, you can do so by visiting 'Control Panel->Power' and setting 'High Performance' there.
   
   
2. What platforms are supported by the Smart SOA Widget?
   The widget was designed to run on a desktop via the Flash mProjector program. This program is avaiable on most Windows and Mac desktops, but may not be available on other platforms at this time.
   
   
3. I ran and used the widget successfully after downloading, but I noticed the desktop shortcut is pointing to an incorrect location (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\4FG149MP\SOA.widget.exe). Now when I try to run the widget from the desktop shortcut, it fails to find the executable. How do I fix this problem?
   If your initial execution of the widget is done by selecting 'run' when downloading it, the desktop shortcut will point to the temporary location for files set within your browser. Once you close the widget, if this temporary location is cleaned up for any reason, your shortcut will fail to find the .exe file.
   
   If you have not saved the widget .exe to your local machine, do so from the link above on this page. Right-click on your widget desktop shortcut, select 'properties', and change the 'target' path to point to the widget .exe that is saved locally on your desktop machine.
   
   
4. Further questions?
   Contact us at widget@us.ibm.com.