SOA

The Rise of Virtual Service Grids

The concept of virtualization and sharing of resources is not a new one. In fact, the idea of standardization has been around since the industrial revolution...

1 replies - 1071 views - 03/26/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Rubick's Cubicle (SOA & the Tarpit of Irrelevancy)

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts where I discuss what I see wrong with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the way that it's being sold by...

0 replies - 688 views - 03/25/09 by nealford in News

A Service Mythology

Through all these years, the service concept has been a confusing one. At the edge of Service Era, even before the service name was coined, services existed...

2 replies - 1208 views - 03/24/09 by wmartinez in News

The Triumph of Hope over Reason (SOA & The Tarpit of Irrelevancy)

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts where I discuss what I see wrong with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the way that it's being sold by...

0 replies - 772 views - 03/24/09 by nealford in News

Understanding WS-Policy Part I: Policy Structure and Composite Policies

Web service contracts can be extended with policies that express additional constraints, requirements, and qualities that typically relate to the behaviors of...

0 replies - 1441 views - 03/23/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Service Development Lifecycle Controls for Creating a Service Factory

The concept of a software factory describes a practical work-product approach to governing an efficient service factory - a software engineering-based approach...

0 replies - 929 views - 03/19/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Frank Kieviet on OpenESB - "Seeing Beyond JCAPS and GlassFish"

The OpenESB project was introduced in 2005 when Sun Microsystems released its initial source code under the CDDL license. While Sun Microsystems, the user...

0 replies - 7087 views - 03/17/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Top 50 New Software Development Books

It's been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still refer to it when I want to...

0 replies - 11663 views - 03/04/09 by jurgenappelo in News

Web Service Contract Versioning Fundamentals Part II: Version Identifiers and Versioning Strategies

There are different ways of versioning service contracts based on policies, priorities, and requirements. This, the second article in a two-part series from...

0 replies - 1237 views - 02/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Asynchronous Event Sourcing using Actors

Introduction There has been some discussions lately about Event Sourcing. For example, Greg Young recently discussed how they were using Event Sourcing and...

0 replies - 1552 views - 02/16/09 by Jonas Boner in News

Case Study – Scalable SOA for an Inmate Banking System

The vast majority of articles and case studies I have read over the years target the very large enterprise market.  While many of the ideas are sound, the...

0 replies - 6050 views - 02/09/09 by JavaJohnson in Articles

Cloud ontology: to boldly go where ITIL, Grid and SOA have gone before

I wasn’t at the recent Cloud interop meeting in Mountain View, but based on blog reports from those who were (Stu, James and Bob) a key takeaway is that we...

0 replies - 2073 views - 01/30/09 by vambenepe in Articles

Cloud Computing Conference Notes

Software AG’s Miko Matsumura hosted a meet-up of customers, vendors, and press interested in cloud computing this week in Santa Clara, California.

0 replies - 1286 views - 01/30/09 by Frank Cohen in Articles

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9353 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

The 2008 Top Ten - Looking ahead to 2009

So 2008 is nearly at an end and there's no better way than to look back on it so we can look forward to 2009.  We've put together a list of articles that...

0 replies - 2323 views - 12/22/08 by Aslam Khan in News