http://architects.dzone.com/articles/current en http://architects.dzone.com/articles/bpel-a-source-application-mana Let’s put aside for now all the discussions about whether BPEL is an appropriate tool to capture a “true” business process, i.e. to implement the business logic understood by a business analyst (a topic http://architects.dzone.com/articles/bpel-a-source-application-mana#comments BPEL bpm Business process Modeling SOA http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4762 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:04:23 -0400 26 0 vambenepe http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-303460.jpg Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:04:23 -0400 vambenepe 4762 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software.Stories http://architects.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development#comments agile development lean development process Project Mgmt. Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4715 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 1862 0 jaycfields http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246163.jpg Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 jaycfields 4715 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/articles/reverse-engineer-source-code-u I have been on several teams where we studiously designed UML diagrams at the beginning of the project. As the project progressed, and deadlines approached, the UML diagrams were left somewhere behind, not to be updated in months. When a new developer joined the team, we showcased the old UML diagrams, and kept telling "Oh, we never had time to update them, please see the source code to get... http://architects.dzone.com/articles/reverse-engineer-source-code-u#comments ant Hudson java UML http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4650 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:37:28 -0400 3479 30 meera http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-8.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:37:28 -0400 meera 4650 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/incremental-migration Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the wrong moment. One of these is data migration.Most new software projects involve data that's lived somewhere else and now needs to be moved into the new system once it's live. A system replacement might have to move all the old data, new ... http://architects.dzone.com/news/incremental-migration#comments agile Data migration Deployment Opinions Build Automation Agile http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4658 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 145 0 martinfowler http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-323432.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:00 -0400 martinfowler 4658 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/a-theory-everything-software-d If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are so many points of view in our industry, it makes the Rocky Mountains look like a tennis court. http://architects.dzone.com/news/a-theory-everything-software-d#comments agile development holistic overview lean development Trends Opinions http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4586 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:53:15 -0400 212 0 jurgenappelo http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-284687.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:53:15 -0400 jurgenappelo 4586 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/qi4j-fixing-dependency-injecti There was a blog post about how "Dependency Injection is Broken". The issues pointed out in the post are dealt with in Qi4j, and I'd like to briefly outline how it works. First issue: http://architects.dzone.com/news/qi4j-fixing-dependency-injecti#comments Java Blueprints Patterns http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4641 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:43:38 -0400 1496 3 rickardoberg http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-258212.jpg Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:43:38 -0400 rickardoberg 4641 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/availability-enlightenment The air in the room was still and slightly cool, some might complain too cool. Sitting near the window, providing light filtered by vertical shades partially drawn was a man. Hair streaked with glints of gray that indicated either age or stress. Yet the hair was somewhat betrayed by the bright Hawaiian shirt that fit loosely over his shoulders. The room had sufficient shadows to cause the glow... http://architects.dzone.com/news/availability-enlightenment#comments Architecture Infrastructure SOA Deployment Performance Reliability http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4630 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:40:00 -0400 114 0 driveawedge http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-326832.jpg Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:40:00 -0400 driveawedge 4630 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/announcements/irise-ships-smartview%E2%84%A2-visuali iRise® announced the immediate availability of iRise 7, the latest version of its market leading software visualization authoring and collaboration solution. http://architects.dzone.com/announcements/irise-ships-smartview%E2%84%A2-visuali#comments business analyst Developer visualization http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4627 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:24 -0400 294 0 Mitch Bishop http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-326570.jpg Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:24 -0400 Mitch Bishop 4627 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/cloud-oriented-architecture-co With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtable, you can feel it coming. Soon vendors will be peddling COA (Cloud-Oriented Architecture) solutions, probably combining them with their SOA solution and somehow probably getting their ESB solution into the mix as well. This past weekend at the Enterprise Architecture BOF Architecture Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:51 -0400 618 0 scottleber http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-170076.jpg Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:51 -0400 scottleber 4601 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/the-legacy-inheritance Is inheritance really useful or is it a feature that causes more problems than it solves? Certainly I can't think of a case where I've been really grateful that I've been able to inherit from a superclass but I can think of several instances where it has caused friction and where the extension mechanism of inheritance tended to lead the programmer the wrong way.Consider the following code (public... http://architects.dzone.com/news/the-legacy-inheritance#comments Java Architecture http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4588 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:09:56 -0400 106 1 tobe http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-57385.jpg Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:09:56 -0400 tobe 4588 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/im-thinking-using-agile-softwa This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the relationship between lean and agile. So first I need to go into some history to help explain that relationship. http://architects.dzone.com/news/im-thinking-using-agile-softwa#comments agile development choice of approach lean development Industry Opinions http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4585 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:13:53 -0400 444 0 martinfowler http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-323432.jpg Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:13:53 -0400 martinfowler 4585 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/factories-builders-and-fluent- Last week I started working on very short proof of concept with a team that I am currently coaching at a short term insurance company. We hit a very common design decision: when do we use a factory pattern and when do we use a builder pattern. http://architects.dzone.com/news/factories-builders-and-fluent-#comments Java Architecture Patterns http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4584 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:58:18 -0400 2604 13 aslamkhn http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-276360.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:58:18 -0400 aslamkhn 4584 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/practical-concurrency-patterns Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern.  What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access and to incur the minimal performance cost while doing so?  Making it read-only! http://architects.dzone.com/news/practical-concurrency-patterns#comments .NET & Windows Architecture C-Sharp Patterns http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4583 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:09 -0400 458 0 sashag http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-295327.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:09 -0400 sashag 4583 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/curry-dummies Introduction Functional programming concepts aren’t that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to demystify the concept of currying, or - in simple words – partial function application. If you wonder where the name “curry” comes from, it’s named after Haskell Curry, one of the creative minds behind functional programming, and indeed as the name implies it adds... http://architects.dzone.com/news/curry-dummies#comments Architecture Blueprints C-Sharp Languages http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4582 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:08:33 -0400 183 0 bdesmet http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-301284.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:08:33 -0400 bdesmet 4582 at http://architects.dzone.com http://architects.dzone.com/news/my-number-1-java-python-gotcha Fredrik Lundh is almost certainly a benevolent alien in disguise, sent to Earth to help the pitiful human race drag itself up out of the muck.In a recent post, he touched on something that burned me BAD when I first started slinging pythion: using mutables as default parameters.My particular run-in was a cousin of what Fredik describes, using a mutable as a default class attribute. I had a class... http://architects.dzone.com/news/my-number-1-java-python-gotcha#comments Java Architecture Tools & Methods Languages http://architects.dzone.com/crss/node/4581 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:38:32 -0400 1959 4 olivstor http://architects.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-294553.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:38:32 -0400 olivstor 4581 at http://architects.dzone.com