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December 29, 2012  7:23 PM

SOA best practice: prepare for unknown futures



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architecture, SOA

A recent piece by Stephanie Mann looks at SOA design issues today. After over ten years of SOA, some best practices are still emerging. Among the notables Mann spoke with is Robert Daigneau. With stints heading development at both Fidelity Investments and Monster.com – he now heads the...

November 28, 2012  2:37 AM

SOA influences modern data integration



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture, SOA

SOA is far from being the new technology kid on the block. But once it was. Now it is an older kid, and a practical approach to fielding a host of other new technologies. It should not be overstated, but, especially in the SOA services form known as “REST,” SOA is a foundational element of...


November 1, 2012  8:50 PM

Decoupled design of the Web API kind



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
.NET, Microsoft, SOA

When WCF started, the focus was on decoupling. That was a basic SOA tenet, and Microsoft, though it was not that big a singer in the SOA choir, took those principles to heart in formulating .NET design patterns. Of course, the REST dialect of SOA has gained traction. REST can’t exactly be called...


September 20, 2012  6:03 PM

Goodbye to three-tier computing?



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
API, data architecture, Java, RIA, SOA

Software in the original mainframe days was all glommed together. Why not? Who was looking? Sometimes, reluctantly, some structure came about. Even in the early mid-range days, code was built up into classes, objects and components that were often loosely strung together. With standard Java and...


September 5, 2012  11:08 PM

Thomas Erl discusses upcoming SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
REST, SOA

Later this month, experts and authors from around the globe will gather in London for the fifth annual SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium. This year’s conference agenda reflects aspects of the progress of SOA - both subtle and profound. In reviewing this year’s submissions, some...


May 2, 2012  2:48 AM

IBM Impact 2012: Is this the age of SOA 3.0?



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
IBM, REST, SOA

SOA has been used for application transformation for several years - now SOA itself is undergoing a transformation. At IBM Impact 2012, IBM Application and Integration Middleware General Manager Marie Wieck went so far as to dub the transformation “SOA 3.0.” She was not alone among IBM leaders...


April 25, 2012  6:42 PM

Business processes benefit from SOA at The Open Group’s Cannes event



Posted by: JDenman
Conferences, Enterprise architecture, SOA

This week in Cannes, France, IT leaders gathered sea-side to discuss the current state—and future— of enterprise transformation. At The Open Group Conference, industry experts and entrepreneurs addressed the roles of enterprise architecture (EA) and IT in

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December 14, 2011  4:26 PM

Bhatt to head Progress



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Complex Event Processing (CEP), SOA, XML

Last week, Jay Bhatt took the reins at Progress Software Corp., the company announced. Bhatt will serve as president and CEO. Progress, which markets to both resellers and enterprise end-users, is...


October 4, 2011  9:27 PM

What do you think about business architecture?



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
business capabilities, Enterprise architecture, SOA

When we spoke not long ago with Enterprise Architect Ramsay Millar, the discussion centered on the types of tools that you might utilize when pursuing a framework for SOA. Now we are...


August 17, 2011  4:53 PM

Random notes – Services boundaries, SOA certification, ESBs



Posted by: Jack Vaughan
business capabilities, ESB, SOA

A lot of the news in Service-Oriented Architecture now surfaces via blogs and Twitter. Long years after its inception, SOA still seems to generate controversy, although most people would agree that the controversy should not be overblown. Today we take a random look at a few notes afloat in the...