January 2009

January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Fricke on BPM and rules engine roles in an economic downturn

By Jack Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief The global credit crunch is still just a few months old – the data says the U.S. economy has been in recession for about a year. Disheartening news of job losses ... Continue Reading
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Win SOA Design Patterns book

Answer this question about the origin of design patterns and win a copy of Thomas Erl's acclaimed book "SOA Design Patterns." Continue Reading
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Enterprise architecture must focus on business value

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) has grown in recent years, but practitioners still need to take care not to pursue purity of architecture to the detriment of business objectives. That is among the take-aways from a conversation with ... Continue Reading

January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
SOA: The A is for Architecture

Alex Bell advises against constantly debating what SOA is. Instead, let architects work to understand system needs, he writes. Continue Reading
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
Progress/Actional SOA diagnostic tool builds on Mindreef purchase

Progress Software announced the first major integration of Actional SOA performance and governance products and technology gained with last year's acquisition of SOAP-test pioneer Mindreef. Actional Diagnostics is a developer desktop product for ... Continue Reading
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Microservices Matters

The microservices-centric blog with observations and commentary for software architects, developers and application development managers. Continue Reading
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Cooking with APIs - Software AG SOA Link Cookbook out

Software AG has released an enhanced SOALink Cookbook, consisting of “recipes” that can be used for integration. In the spirit of the age of services, SOALink publishes APIs and info on extension ... Continue Reading
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Service Facade decouples contract, core logic: SOA Pattern (Week 1)

These intermediate abstraction layers are created by the application of Service Façade, a design pattern focused on intra-service design. Continue Reading
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
InterSystems Ensemble environment adds binary SOAP messaging

Software provider InterSystems has enhanced its Ensemble rapid development and deployment environment with several services-related capabilities. Better security and faster operation are parts of the agenda. Continue Reading
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
The business side has silos too

If the business side has silos too, what is an enterprise architect to do? Highly effective enterprise architect need to influence business stakeholders to see the overall benefit in a change in behavior, said SOA Consortium's Brenda Michelson. Continue Reading

January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
IT and business users to talk about EA

Is it good to discuss elements of EA with business users - for example should one let them know if the group is looking to apply TOGAF or other architecture frameworks to a product line? Continue Reading
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
SOA Software Portfolio Manager builds on Logic Library purchase

SOA Software earlier this month entered the world of SOA Governance planning with SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager. The objective is to help companies plan and prioritize services creation. This is ... Continue Reading
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Oracle dresses up its first Tuxedo transaction processor with SCA

When Oracle bought BEA it gained Tuxedo, a distributed-systems transaction processing monitor (TPM). Tuxedo can serve for mainframe integration and re-hosting; Tuxedo TPM in its first Oracle rev gains support for Service Component Architecture (SCA)... Continue Reading
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Take part in SearchSOA.com survey. Help define the state of SOA.

In this space we have discussed the ups and downs of SOA, the search for SOA definition, and the like. It is our objective to bring common sense to this quest, in order to better help application development and integration succeed in practice. All ... Continue Reading
January 18, 2009 18 Jan'09
SOA deployments on rise, with broad market adoption, CA survey says

Is SOA's demise overtouted? CA's Parbhjot Singh praises SOA, sees it going mainstream, but warns that operations performance issues must be addressed. Continue Reading
January 16, 2009 16 Jan'09
BPM Resource Guide

What's happening with Business Process Management? Find out with this resource guide that covers latest news on BPM tools, initiatives and platforms. Continue Reading
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
The rumors of SOA's demise...

SOA isn't dead, in fact, it isn't even sick. Thousands of organizations are showing real success with SOA around the world, and more are ramping up their SOA efforts every day. Even in today's economy, plenty of smart organizations realize the cost ... Continue Reading
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Whatever happened to ''X''?

In the spirit of typical New Years' articles on past events, this article is going to look into the fate of some Web related standards which were expected to have a big impact but which may have evolved in unexpected ways. Continue Reading
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns

Thomas Erl's long-awaited ''SOA Design Patterns'' has hit the book stores. It arrives after undergoing an interesting editing process in which patterns of SOA development were posted to a community Web site for comments and vetting. Continue Reading
January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09
Jeff Papows in at SOA governance house WebLayers

Industry veteran Jeff Papows will take the helm at WebLayers, the Cambridge, Mass.-based maker of SOA governance policy enforcement and automation software.The move comes at the same time the ... Continue Reading