I have a feeling I'm going to be blogging a lot about Carbon in the
next few weeks, hence calling this "part 1". We are on the verge of
releasing the Carbon codebase - the team is just putting the final
touches to the download packs, and it seems a...
2 replies - 2944 views - 02/12/09 by Paul Fremantle in News
This week, WSO2 announced its “Carbon” technology, including a new
“business process server.” Some have suggested that we should welcome
another BPEL-based BPM server into the market as it demonstrates that
the market for standards-based business...
1 replies - 5440 views - 02/11/09 by Alex Neihaus in News
Ok, I know that we're all up to our ears with technical acronyms,
terms, buzzwords, etc. that all appear to have some marketing spin to
them in hope that they will eventually work their way into industry
acceptance. So, why should this be any different...just...
4 replies - 5960 views - 02/09/09 by Rod Biresch in News
Active Endpoints has announced something fun for these otherwise troubling economic times: a contest in which the winners will take home some very cool prizes. Our "BPM in a bottle" contest embodies several important ideas about ActiveVOS. First,...
1 replies - 4515 views - 02/03/09 by Alex Neihaus in Announcements
Business Process Analysis (BPA) offers matrices that help in drawing a
correspondence between business goals and high level services. BPA also
helps in prioritizing the business processes in terms of the most
pressing needs of an organization.
2 replies - 17076 views - 02/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
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 whether to use the ESB from Tibco, Cordys, IBM,
Oracle, or Microsoft, they thought the hard part was over....
0 replies - 7054 views - 01/25/09 by Linda Terlouw in News
Web services have made it possible to build services with fully
decoupled contracts that leverage industry standards to establish a
vendor-neutral communications framework. Though powerful and flexible,
this framework brings with it an on-going responsibility...
0 replies - 13543 views - 11/24/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
In This article Dain Hansen will unravel the mystery surrounding data
federation. What are the essential requirements for a data federation
solution? How is data federation considered a stepping stone to a
successful SOA? Why are both data quality and data...
0 replies - 17647 views - 11/10/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
Roy Fielding has weighed in
on the recent "buzzwordiness" (hey, if Colbert can make up
"truthiness", then I can make up "buzzwordiness") of calling everything
a "REST API", a tactic that has become more en vogue of...
16 replies - 18693 views - 11/07/08 by Ted Neward in Articles
In this article Dain Hansen unravels the mystery surrounding data federation.
What are the essential requirements for a data federation solution? How
is data federation considered a stepping stone to a successful SOA? Why
are both data quality and data...
0 replies - 12122 views - 09/22/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
Following my latest post on evolving the architecture Dru asked me for more details on our RESTful control channels. For one you can take a look at slide 25 of my presentation on REST which
talks about the Sessions resource. The session resource returns...
0 replies - 4908 views - 09/01/08 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in News
Projects are the lifeblood of an IT department. Almost
everything in IT is measured through a project lens. SOA, due to its
global-centric nature, is often viewed as incompatible with
project-based software delivery lifecycles. Thus, most companies...
0 replies - 14326 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.
0 replies - 11908 views - 08/18/08 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in News
This article represent an interview with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA, around his book subject and related areas. The book itself is an under development book and currently available as an early access release.
2 replies - 13247 views - 08/13/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and inspect the past, in order to adapt and improve the future.Agile
or not, our team does a retrospective...
1 replies - 7433 views - 08/13/08 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in News
