Architecture

IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware

You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my vote) as you prefer....

0 replies - 421 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe in News

REST – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I recently got a request from Alik for my opinion on REST. I think  this might be interesting for a wider audience and decided to blog my answer here. Note:...

9 replies - 4318 views - 05/14/09 by arnonrgo in News

Software Architecture Cheatsheet Part 2 - Choosing the Right Paradigm

In the previous post in this series, I tried to enumerate the most frequent kinds of applications. The question I’m going to ask myself here is what are the...

1 replies - 3770 views - 05/07/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Software Architecture Cheatsheet, Part 1 - Application Types

What I really like about being a software artist is the richness of tools and techniques you have at your disposal. And the more tools you have, the harder it...

4 replies - 6457 views - 05/06/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles

Nobody is Talking About The Whiteboard Pattern - Does OSGi Violate "Separation of Concerns"

I have known OSGi since Version 2 and started using it since Version 3. What made me a believer was the Service Oriented Programming model and the positive...

2 replies - 4966 views - 05/01/09 by peterhuber in News

Enterprise OSGi - "Not List"

I spend a lot of time talking about what enterprise OSGi is, but I always get a lot of questions, particularly about distributed OSGi. I thought it might help...

0 replies - 1973 views - 04/14/09 by enewc in News

DSL Adoption with JetBrains MPS

DSLs, or Domain Specific Languages, have been known in software engineering for many years. Despite this fact, they aren't widely used today. In this article...

7 replies - 6615 views - 04/07/09 by solomatov in Articles

An Evolving Architecture?

Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks, recently wrote an article that is the first of a series related to architecturing and design called Evolutionary Architecture and...

0 replies - 1016 views - 03/25/09 by wmartinez in News

Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO on Language Oriented Programming and MPS

I recently had the chance to bounce a few questions off Sergey Dmitriev, founder and CEO of JetBrains.  Since he is an active promoter of language-oriented...

0 replies - 1656 views - 03/16/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Simple and Practical Model Driven Architecture (MDA)

One of the leading tenets of MDA is its help to easily understand systems thus lowering complexity. As I read over the literature about MDD and MDA over the...

0 replies - 552 views - 02/25/09 by Ibrahim in News

Domain-Driven Design and Deployment Challenges

 In this session, recorded by Skills Matter Gojko Adzic talks about strategies, challenges and common pitfalls of using Domain-Driven Design for...

0 replies - 3768 views - 02/04/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

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

Making a Service Catalog Work: 3 Do’s and Don'ts

A couple of years ago many organizations were taking their first steps into the world of SOA. Their main concern was which ESB to choose. After deciding...

0 replies - 2055 views - 01/25/09 by terlouw in News

So What Are Enterprise Portals All About?

There are many definitions for “Enterprise Portal”, this article aims at exposing a definition that is commonly shared in the Java EE world. People's...

8 replies - 19330 views - 01/20/09 by theute in Articles