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Using ITIL V3 as a Foundation for SOA Governance

Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. Based on their perspective, they would be correct since V2 focused more heavily on operational processes rather than service lifecycle. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted toward what can only be accurately described as service-orientation.

JP Morgenthal
on Feb 05, 2010
Agile and SOA, Hand in Glove?

Agile is the hand that works in the glove. SOA is the glove, the scope is enterprise wide. Most principles of SOA and Agile are not in conflict. When they are, they keep each other sane. Agile development without a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the company is futile. SOA without a clear vision how to make it real using agile development principles is a waste of time and money.

Mary Beijleveld
on Feb 02, 2010
Resource-Oriented Architecture: Resource Metadata

In this second article in the Resource-Oriented Architecture series, Brian Sletten discusses the benefits of REST, what constitutes a resource, associating metadata with a resource, the pitfalls of common models of resource metadata, SPARQL, RDF, expressing RDF facts, RDF triples, querying RDF, and sample RDF queries.

Brian Sletten
on Jan 22, 2010
mySOA: Agile, Governed and Sustainable

William El Kaim, Lead Architect at Carlson Wagonlit, provides a rare glimpse at all the choices, and the rationale behind them, he and his colleagues have made while building their organization's Service Oriented Architecture. How does your SOA compare? What will be the major evolutions in the next few years? How will the Cloud impact current SOAs?

William El Kaim
on Jan 18, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility

Boris Lublinsky interviews Marc Fiammante as part of a review of Marc' new book, Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility. The book is based on many years of practical experience obtained during dozens of enterprise SOA implementations and covers major steps of such implementations

Boris Lublinsky
on Dec 21, 2009
SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility

The chapter presented in this article, Governing the Service Factory, of the book "SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility" offers practical advice on governing such a Service Factory including a case study and guidelines for defining, developing, testing, deploying and operating services and business processes.

Robert G. Laird Clive Gee William A. Brown Tilak Mitra
on Dec 17, 2009
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2009

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Turotials, Keynotes, Agility as a Craft, Architecture for the Architect, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Cool Stuff with Java, DSL in Practice, Emerging Languages, The Cloud: Platform or Utility, The Many Facets of Ruby, and many more!

Abel Avram
on Dec 15, 2009
Decoupling REST URLs from Code using NetKernel Grammars

In this article, Randolph Kahle explores the challenge of combining the potentially fluid world of URLs with the more static world of deployed code. Examples of how incoming URLS are parsed and outgoing URLs are generated using NetKernel grammars are given, and the NetKernel grammar system is explored in detail.

Randolph Kahle
on Dec 15, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Eben Hewitt's Java SOA Cookbook

Java SOA Cookbook, by Eben Hewitt, covers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) from a Java implementation stand-point. In the book, Eben discusses SOA model basics, tools and best practices. SOA Governance and Enterprise Service Bus are also discussed.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 07, 2009
Extreme Transaction Processing Patterns: Write-behind Caching

Lan Vuong shows how to optimize the performance of an application by leveraging the write-behind caching pattern which sends batch updates to the back-end database asynchronously within a user configurable interval of time, instead of doing sychronous write-through updates typical in web apps.

Lan Vuong
on Dec 07, 2009
MicroORM - A Dynamically Typed ORM for VB and C# in about 160 Lines

Using the new DLR features in VB 10 and C# 4 you can build a configuration-free ORM that works well with legacy stored procedures. Though accessed using normal object-dot-property syntax, all the data objects are built at runtime based solely on the information returned by the database. And this is done with no interfaces to define, classes to implement, or data mapping definitions to write.

Jonathan Allen
on Dec 05, 2009
Resource-Oriented Architecture: The Rest of REST

In this first article in the Resource-Oriented Architecture series, Brian Sletten discusses the REST architecture style, the history of SOA, SOAP and WS-*, the Semantic Web, URLs as identifiers, URIs and URNs, freedom of form, logically-connected late-binding systems, HATEOAS, and the impact of the Semantic Web upon software systems.

Brian Sletten
on Dec 03, 2009

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