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Interview: Jezz Santos about Software Factories

Community
.NET
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Methodologies

InfoQ had a chance to talk to Jezz Santos, a trusted expert advisor for the Web Service Software Factory and the creator of one of the world’s first implementations of a software factory (the EFx Factory), which demonstrates some of the advanced features of a future generation of software factories to come from Microsoft. We questioned him on his view of the Microsoft Software Factory Initiative.

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The Industrialization of Software Delivery

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Platforms,
Methodologies,
Enterprise Architecture

IT has consistently failed to deliver expected value time and time again. According to Ian Thomas, Industrialization (componentization, specialization) may be a solution for supporting software agility and reliability in the new business environment.

Oslo: Microsoft Gets it but Hurry !

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Architecture,
.NET,
SOA
Topics
SOA Platforms

There has been few comments on Microsoft's Oslo announcement. In general they are positive but people are worried about the timeline and complexity of the project. Very few people commented on the in-the-cloud services that complement Oslo.

Web Service Software Factory v3 now supports DSLs for designing Contracts

Community
.NET
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Web Services

Don Smith announces the first community drop of the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) v3. The factory supports a model-driven approach for designing and implementing web services. WCF service contracts and data contracts can now be modeled in a visual Domain-Specific Language (DSL).

Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools from a Developer's Perspective

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.NET
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Modeling

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are an architectural hotspot. Microsoft supports DSLs within the Software Factory Initiative and provides a means to incorporate them into the software development process via the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. Although there is quite some information available on the topic, for the most part, DSLs remain an abstract architectural concept.

Factories 201 Series - Building Software Factories

Community
.NET
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Design

Edward Bakker and Jezz Santos have been writing about Software Factories, providing a complete set of concise guidelines. The Microsoft Software Factories and DSL initiatives have caused many discussions. Today, Microsoft provides tools such as the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT), and the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools).