December 20, 2010 4:50 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architecture,
SOA developmentThere was a time when EAI was the anti-thesis of SOA, but Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is making a bit of a comeback within the SOA firmament. The fact is that it never...
December 16, 2010 6:15 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Ajax,
SOA performance management,
User storyThe growth of Web-connected systems tapping into back-ends has led to a proliferation of services. The proliferation can lead to increased systems' loads. That expansion has led development shops to place more emphasis than ever on test and performance tools.
Such an apparent case of ''if you...
December 16, 2010 2:49 PM
Posted by: JDenman
OSGi,
SOA infrastructureOSGi is poised to provide a service platform extensive enough to provide ubiquitous modularity – but effectively creating OSGi bundles is still difficult. The Nimble Distribution seeks to address this and related issues. Paremus, an OSGi based private cloud computing provider, and Makewave, the...
December 15, 2010 2:57 PM
Posted by: Kkriz
Enterprise architectureBy Kathleen Kriz
Modern modeling languages are constantly developing and changing – this includes the most prominent, the Unified Modeling Language (UML). A 2.3 update to UML is supported by training and new tools from vendor No Magic, Inc.
Gary Duncanson, President and CEO of No Magic,...
December 7, 2010 4:12 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Ajax,
web applications,
XMLAs Doug Crockford created JSON it became something of an antidote to XML. This was bound to happen, because the issues developers had with XML were so plentiful. JSON, of course, with an API that fit on a business card, was more than a counter-statement. It was a big success in the making. Twitter...
December 6, 2010 9:54 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
deployment,
middlewareWhen you wrap up increasingly sophisticated components to run in specific environments, the complicated hand-crafted scripting can become a burden. With this in mind, Netherlands-based XebiaLabs has created what it calls 'deployment automation' tools aimed at handling Java and related...
December 2, 2010 5:00 PM
Posted by: JDenman
Cloud Services,
Data integrationDun & Bradstreet (D&B) has been providing credible credit information since the 1930's. Many businesses and financial institutions rely on information from D&B to make credit decisions, guide their marketing efforts, and supplement their supply chain management. These organizations may...
