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Take ''T-I-M-E'' to understand legacy applications
A review of old apps may lead you to Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate them. How do you decide? A Gartner analyst gives some guides.
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Top 5 service-oriented cloud computing articles in 2011
Cloud computing has gained momentum as a force in enterprise architecture throughout 2011. Here is a look back at the top 5 stories on service-oriented cloud computing.
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Who develops your business architecture for SOA?
Where do we find the analysts required to develop business architecture and transform business models needed develop aligned SOA solutions? Ramsay Millar discusses his research.
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OAuth gains for securing Web services authorization
OAuth (Open Authorization) allows Web application users to move from site to site without an additional login. It has gained exceptional attention of late in the world of services and security.
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What are the steps to sound cloud computing?
See why The Open Group's release of Cloud Computing for Business may be helpful to organizations interested in adopting the cloud.
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Monolithic apps present monumental app dev challenges
Monolithic applications can provide huge throughput, but they may be too tightly coupled with mainframe hardware for iterative modernization projects.
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Thoughts on communicating enterprise architecture
SOA may have reached a tipping point. But, to move forward, you must effectively speak the language of business architecture.
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Gartner takes on cloud identity management
Issues 'on the ground' resurface on the cloud when identity management comes into play. While there is no one winning formula, identity and access strategies are emerging.
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Forming a strategy for mobile application services
The path to mobile development requires a look at native platforms, HTML5, application integration middleware and variations thereof.
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Learning about business architecture the hard way
Big system expenditures can go unmeasured, unmonitored or unreported over time. This is just one aspect of learning about business architecture the hard way.
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Three tips for meeting mobile application expectations
As user expectations for mobile applications get more strict, development teams must package up their services more deftly. Gomez experts clue you in.
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Chunking services makes mobile apps manageable
"Chunking" SOA services is a useful technique when recreating enterprise applications as mobile apps for business.
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Look to OVF for managing cloud computing workloads
Standards for cloud computing are slowly evolving. Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is one such standard that software architects may tap into.
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What are tools of the SOA trade today?
As it matures, SOA is increasingly about articulating business needs, according to software architect Ramsay Millar. A mix of modeling tools helps architects meet these needs, he told SearchSOA.com.
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Book on Force.com provides view into key PaaS
Salesforce.com's Force.com was an early platform as a service. Central is Apex, a general language with some DSL-like traits. In an interview, author Jason Ouellette explains.
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Linthicum on: Cloud computing - what can go wrong
SOA in Action recap: David Linthicum on where cloud computing implementations fail to contribute to the greater enterprise architecture.
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A look at XQuery today
XQuery arose in the early days of XML Web services. Where is it now? It is a useful tool for data integration, says one expert. But there are caveats.
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What can go wrong in cloud computing?
Cloud computing and SOA strategist Melvin Greer discusses security and data issues in moving to the cloud platform in this excerpt from our recent ''SOA in Action'' VTS.
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Lean integration
So-called Lean integration has emerged from the factory floor to offer a new approach to middleware architecture. Does it run counter to SOA?
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Cloud integration security best practices emerge
The Open Group views scenario modeling as a means to achieve useful risk analysis as SOA services go to cloud integrations.
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Skills, ESBs and ROI: Pictures from the SOA journey
Barriers to immediate and wider use of SOA may include limited skill sets and the time it takes to build-out supporting SOA infrastructure. These and other issues were discussed at IBM Impact 2012.
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ESB performance depends on service design
ESBs have found increased use among SOA infrastructure tools - but they may not provide greater services reusability, if configured incorrectly.
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Best practices for OSGi in enterprise integration
From EclipseCon 2012, OSGi expert Timothy Ward explains how to tame the wilder side of OSGi development for enterprise Java applications.
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SOA growth reveals benefits and lessons
Service-oriented architecture is a way of including roles (customers, suppliers, engineers, etc.) and viewing everything as a service.