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SOA Pattern of the Week (#2): Non-Agnostic Context

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the second SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 1941 views - 01/28/09 by herbjorn in News

The Hippocratic Oath for IT management systems

The first feature of any IT management application should be “primum non nocere”, or in English “first, do no harm”. Your IT management application...

0 replies - 1034 views - 01/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Latency is constant - not!

If you read this blog regularily you've probably heard/read about the 8 fallacies of distributed computing once or twice ...

0 replies - 1501 views - 01/26/09 by arnonrgo in News

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 - 2080 views - 01/25/09 by terlouw in News

Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For Planning

Don't use a spreadsheet program like MS Excel to track and plan your team's to-do items. Yes, it gets the job done. Yes, it's easy to sort and print, and yes,...

4 replies - 1700 views - 01/21/09 by olivstor in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#1): Service Façade

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the first SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

0 replies - 2331 views - 01/20/09 by herbjorn in News

Sagas and Workflows Same thing with different names or not?

In a post called "Rhino Service Bus: Saga and State" Ayende said

0 replies - 1336 views - 01/19/09 by arnonrgo in News

Deferring architectural decisions

When describing the "known exceptions" to the Knot anti-pattern, I wrote the following:Starting out on a large project, such as moving an enterprise...

2 replies - 1744 views - 01/14/09 by arnonrgo in News

A new SPIN on enriching a model with domain knowledge (constraints and inferences)

Back when I was at HP and we got involved with what turned into SML (now a W3C candidate recommendation), we tried to make a case for the specification to be...

1 replies - 1014 views - 01/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

0 replies - 441 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

SOA Anti-Pattern : The Knot

Everything starts oh so well. Embarking on a new SOA initiative the whole team feels as if it is pure green field development. We venture on - The first...

0 replies - 1997 views - 01/07/09 by arnonrgo in Articles

Design Pattern for Eventual Consistency

"Eventual Consistency" and "BASE" are the modern architectural approaches to achieve highly scalable web applications. Some of my previous...

0 replies - 1296 views - 01/06/09 by riho in News

The art of reconciling items in your IT management model

Whether you call it a CMDB or some other name, any repository of IT model elements has the problem of establishing whether two entities are the same or not....

0 replies - 1162 views - 01/06/09 by vambenepe in News

Message Auditing in Service-Oriented Architecture

In this article Kanu Tripathi explores the subject of message auditing in a typical service-oriented system implementation. A case is built for having a...

0 replies - 4080 views - 12/21/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Here comes WSTF, The Web Services Test Forum

A new Web services-related industry body has been announced today: WSTF (Web Services Test Forum). More details about it from Infoworld. My employer (Oracle)...

0 replies - 1559 views - 12/15/08 by vambenepe in News