January 2009
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January 30, 2009
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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
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January 29, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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January 27, 2009
27
Jan'09
Microservices Matters
The SOA blog with observations and commentary for software architects, developers and application development managers. Continue Reading
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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
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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
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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
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January 23, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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January 16, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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