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Contracts as an organizational approach to alignment
Ronald Schmelzer discusses how and why to make sure your technologists and business people are aligned for best management practices.
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Erlang and concurrency in service-orientated architectu
Daniel Rubio discusses how the scripting language Erlang has been proven to be able to deal with concurrency issues in service-oriented architectures.
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Service semiotics and the SOA illusion
Jason Bloomberg discusses why a visual understanding of service-oriented architecture is key to successful implementation.
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On the road to Web services interoperability
Companies may choose different Web services standards and practices. Once selected, these must become part of an enforceable governance policy.
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The business analyst vs. the enterprise architect
Ronald Schmelzer discusses the role of the business analyst in an organization and the relationship they have to the enterprise architect.
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SPARQL shines as RDF's query language
This tip delves into SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language, SPARQL, a language used to express queries across diverse data sources.
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The great SOA consultant squeeze
Jason Bloomberg discusses what to focus on when hiring a professional services firm to help plan phases of what promises to be a full-blown enterprise SOA implementation.
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The best SOA pilots don't get the services right
Ronald Schmelzer discusses that because SOA is constantly changing, a business' development and architecture is bound to fail in order to eventually succeed.
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Testing Web services: Unit testing and monitoring
This tip looks at server side Web service testing, including unit testing, back end testing, monitoring, Java memory use and SOAP testing.
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The Buckaroo Banzai effect: location independence, serv
Jason Bloomberg discusses the elements that will make up the "next best thing" and potential successor to SOA.
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A Methodology for Service Modeling and Design
This chapter, excerpted from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect, focuses on service modeling and design methodology resources.
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SOA principles drive content practices
SOA has long focused on structured data, but the door is also open to incorporate unstructured document-based data.
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Web services for Windows CE
Microsoft offers to ways to develop Web services for Windows CE embedded, one using .NET, the other using COM and a SOAP toolkit.
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Microsoft's business-driven service-oriented architectu
As Microsoft celebrates the tenth anniversary of the XML 1.0 specification, they also elaborate on the "Real world SOA" approach that has caused much speculation.
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Zaptake: The inadequacy of Microsoft's SOA message
Today, ZapThink sat on a briefing on Microsoft's SOA messaging, and we're astounded by the inadequacy, inaccuracy, and tone deafness on their SOA message.
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Designing services
This chapter, excerpted from "An Implementor's Guide to Service Oriented Architecture: Getting It Right" discusses topics like designing for reuse and error handling.
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Testing Web services and RIAs
The component nature of Web services and RIAs can lead to testing headaches. This tip shows how Firefox, Apache and soapUI testing tools can be brought into the QA process.
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The problem with IT project management
Ronald Schmelzer discusses how to go about addressing a discrete problem or set of problems in an enterprise rather than addressing a range of interconnected issues.
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SOA engineering misconceptions
This is the first of a two articles that intend to offer some insights into evaluating and adjusting the technical direction of an SOA investment with an eye toward technical excellence and endurin...
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Web services with Open and Microsoft Office
Spreadsheet programs like Excel and Calc inside Office suites can import Web services using Macros.
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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.