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Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Specifications,
Language,
Business Process Management,
Customers & Requirements

Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example language is shown using Ruby.

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What can we expect from BPMN 2.0?

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Process Modeling,
Workflow / BPM

Although OMG is not scheduled to get to BPMN 2.0 until August/September timeframe, the initial announcements about its possible directions have caused a lot of activities on the Web.

Tom Baeyens on the Process Virtual Machine

Community
Architecture,
Java,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Process Modeling,
Orchestration,
Enterprise Architecture,
Workflow / BPM

JBoss is close to releasing version 1.0 of their "Process Virtual Machine", an ambitious project that seeks to provide a definition language agnostic process execution engine. InfoQ spoke with project lead Tom Baeyens about the project, and how the PVM changes the BPM landscape.

BPEL4People Virtual Roundtable Interview

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Web Services,
Business Process Management,
Workflow / BPM

In another one of our semi-regular Virtual Roundtables, InfoQ took the opportunity to talk to some of the main authors behind the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications and find out the driving forces behind it and what we can expect next.

IBM's Smart SOA Vision Explained at Impact

Community
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Methodologies,
Enterprise Architecture

At IBM's Impact event this week, IBM execs re-affirmed the view that the main innovation presented by SOA is business/IT alignment. They presented a business-process centric view of how SOA is an enabler for enterprises to change (agility), as well as their view of Smart SOA, a set of principles / maturity model for SOA based on numerous customer SOA deployments.

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Beyond SOA: A New Enterprise Architecture Framework for Dynamic Business Applications

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Enterprise Architecture

A successful outcome is never questioned when a plane with millions of interdependent parts is designed, especially when cost is not a factor. Why are the outcomes of complex software projects so unpredictable? In this two-part article, the authors analyze the causes of project failures and propose a new approach beyond SOA based on adaptive systems theory and a new information architecture.

Improving Performance of Healthcare Systems with Service Oriented Architecture

Community
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Enterprise Architecture,
Business

This article, based on a chapter from the book "Service Oriented Architecture Demystified", discusses the benefits of applying SOA to heterogenous environments in the healthcare domain. Focusing on a domain instead of technology perspective first provides an interesting view on the business motivation for SOA.

Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

Community
Architecture,
Java,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Process Modeling,
Workflow / BPM

Tom Baeyens, founder of JBoss jBPM gives his view of the state of the BPM / workflow market and introdces a new type of workflow technology called process component models.

Steve Sloan on BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
EAI,
Office Business Applications,
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
.NET Framework

InfoQ talked to Steve Sloan, Senior Product Manager, about the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in the context of SOA.

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Composite Software Construction

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
WS Standards,
Web Services,
ESB,
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Orchestration,
Modeling

Composite Software offers a new level of granularity when compared to SaaS (Software as a Service). Composite Software is about enabling "right-sourcing", i.e. move (or keep) arbitrary small or large elements of functionality wherever it is the most cost effective to operate them, not just entire systems. Economically, "right-sourcing" is far more efficient than "outsourcing" and SaaS. The goal of this book is start by understanding today’s software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.