September, 2009

In BPM complexity, Active Endpoints finds a middle road

Business process management systems (BPMSs) can be criticized for being either too business user-centric and lightweight, or overly technical and not user-friendly. The culture of SOA, however, is...

Android and SOA

Certainly the Web is the largest influencer of software architecture and technology innovation since the LAN. SOA was highly influenced by said Web architecture. In turn, services have driven the unique course of Web innovation in recent years. Take for example mobile development. Actually, take...

SPEC group targets SOA benchmark

A long standing standards body is taking a stab at measuring SOA performance. The SPEC benchmark group is interested in hearing from people on this topic. Current SPEC member companies committed to developing a new SOA application measurement standard include IBM, Oracle and VMware.

Distributed computing veteran ScaleOut preps for cloud computing

by Rob Barry and Jack Vaughan

What’s the future of XML?

by Jack Vaughan We should know that no technology fits all jobs over all times. But I will admit I thought XML might come close. The 'X' stands for 'eXtensible,' after all, so it seemed to have a natural mechanism for adaptation. The idea that it had data-centric, document-centric and...

Yahoo’s Heilmann talks standards and API connectedness at The Ajax Experience

Yahoo Technical Evangelist Christian Heilmann gave a talk at The Ajax Experience 2009 conference on...

MS Doloto tool said to speed large-scale Ajax applications

According to Microsoft’s Soma  Somasegar, the company released Doloto, a tool that analyzes Ajax application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large web applications.  The tool...

OSGi in the context of Java

IBM engineer Ian Robinson has a noteworthy blog post concerning OSGi. He points out areas of interest, questions to be answered.

On the other hand is the question of just how OSGi features in...