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Q&A: Mike Rosen on EA
SearchSOA.com asked expert Mike Rosen about trends in Enterprise Architecture.
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SOA Pattern of the Week (#6): Canonical Schema
Of all the patterns in the SOA design patterns catalog, there is perhaps no other as simple to understand yet as difficult to apply in practice as Canonical Schema. There are also few patterns that...
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SpringSource approach to adding enterprise class manage
Coding management tools to support Tomcat-based applications is addressed with an agent-based system.
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Nastel pursues Business Transaction Performance savings
Aimed at eliminating hidden costs in business processes and improving business transaction performance, Nastel Technologies has released the AutoPilot TransactionWorks software module.
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May Products
May 2009 saw releases and upgrades from some major players including Sparx Systems, MEGA and Microsoft.
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Servoy releases version 5.0
Servoy Platform as a Service Provider Version 5.0 offers a development and deployment environment for business applications to be on desktops and over the Internet
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Microsoft releases BizTalk Server 2009
Microsoft released the sixth version of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, an enterprise integration and connectivity server solution.
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Sparx Systems upgrades Enterprise Architect 7.5
Sparx Systems recently announced the release of three new editions and an upgrade of its Unified Modeling Language (UML) based modeling and design tool, Enterprise Architect 7.5. Enterprise Archite...
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MEGA upgrades Modeling Suite
MEGA recently announced the latest version of its MEGA Modeling Suite
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Neptuny Caplan Available as a SaaS
Neptuny Caplan is a capacity planning solution for large-data centers and networks, aligned to ITIL V3 best practices, and is now available as a SaaS.
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Open source tools fill in app lifecycle gaps for Spring
Managing apps continues to grow as a need in the Java space. With that in mind, SpringSource has acquired Hyperic, a performance management tool vendor.
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MapReduce in the browser helps collaborative supercompu
Recently a number of different developers have proposed techniques for running MapReduce directly in the browser to significantly lower the barrier for swarm computing.
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Legacy: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It
As time goes on, your faced with a double bind: keep the legacy app around, even though you'll need to pour more and more money into keeping it in line with changing business needs, or bite the bul...
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Review of protocols for cloud services - Part 1
A discussion of the wide range of protocols and architecture in grid/cloud/distributed computing is in order. Bill Brogden discusses some of them in order of increasing complexity.
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SOA and TOGAF: A Good Fit?
SOA is a style of architecture and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an architecture framework. The combination sounds promising, but do they play well together?
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Using atomicity to gain SOA granularity
SOA developers are often told to construct services of appropriate granularity. They are seldom told how to do so. Douglas Barry discusses this troublesome issue, and offers a path to services succ...
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Enterprise mashup patterns act as API enablers
In his book, Michael Orginz discusses Alerter, Leading Indicator, API Enabler, Infinite Monkeys and Time Series patterns, among others. Together these can be viewed as a set of Harvesting patterns.
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SOA Pattern of the Week (#5): Service Decomposition
A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. Read more from Thomas Erl's recent SOA patterns book.
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Who moved my legacy cheese?
Software tools can unveil legacy code patterns and speed application modernization, according to a cryptologist who worked to provide a visual assessment of years of spaghetti code.
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Use the soapUI software tool to tame WSDL
You can use the soapUI software tool to tame the WSDL tiger. It is a Java-based SOAP tool offered under GNU LGPL.
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Move to MBaaS fast-paced, but could be rocky
Adoption of cloud MBaaS is taking hold, but there are dangers of moving to the technology too fast.
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Using EA principles for SOA governance
Mapping is among the key actions that will ensure SOA governance gets off on the right foot.
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Emphasize user experience in business process design
Forrester Research Senior Analyst Clay Richardson describes three key steps for incorporating user experience into business process design.
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Enterprise architects find success with domain approach
Organizations are finding enterprise architects can achieve SOA success by adopting a domain-based approach.