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Improving Performance of Healthcare Systems with Service Oriented Architecture

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.

Joe Natoli Blake Dournaee Girish Juneja Steve Birkel
on Mar 07, 2008
Java Object Persistence: State of the Union

In this virtual panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.

Craig Russell Carl Rosenberger Mike Keith Ted Neward
on Mar 06, 2008
Architecture & Design

Architecture as Language: A story

Architecture is often described non-tangible in Word documents or entirely technology-driven. Both are bad, but what can be done? Markus Völter describes how to evolve a language around your architecture, a formal language that as a side effect ends up being a good base for generating important parts of the system.

Markus Voelter
on Feb 27, 2008
From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex

The Web 2.0 revolution has clearly descended upon the software industry, but many InfoQ.com readers still have to deal with volumes of Web 1.0 code. So, what is one to do with those old applications? In their article, Porting From Web 1.0 To Rich Internet Applications (RIA), James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface.

James Ward Shashank Tiwari
on Feb 10, 2008
Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services

Programmatic access to SharePoint is limited to .NET based languages unless a developer utilizes web services. Trent provides examples of how to extend the out of the box web services and how to consume them from both .NET and Java.

Trent Swanson
on Feb 06, 2008
Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta

A real world case study of a consultancy that distributed the load & increased scalability of its applications using Terracotta using the Master/Worker pattern.

Ben Teese James Heanly
on Feb 05, 2008
Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

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.

Tom Baeyens
on Feb 04, 2008
Hypermedia in RESTful applications

One of the constraints defined for the architectural style known as REST is "hypermedia as the engine of application state". Mark Baker, well-known for being one of the first who advocated the REST style instead of the mainstream web services approach, discusses that the hypermedia constraints means in practice and why it is essential to RESTful design.

Mark Baker
on Jan 28, 2008
"Can I call you back about that?" Building Asynchronous Services using Service Component Architecture

This article discusses the need for asynchronous services when you build an application using a service-oriented architecture. Building asynchronous services can get complicated, but is made straightforward using Service Component Architecture (SCA). The steps involved in using SCA to create an asynchronous service and asynchronous service client are described in this article.

Mark Edwards
on Jan 23, 2008
Implementing a Service Registry for .NET Web Services

In this article, Boris Lublinsky explains the design and implementation of a service registry that decouples service consumers and providers in a .NET-based SOA environment. The registry endpoint addresses and binding types, and additional configuration parameters, for example send/receive timeouts, message sizes, at runtime.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jan 23, 2008
Introduction to NetKernel

NetKernel is a software system that combines properties of REST and Unix into an abstraction called resource oriented computing (ROC). The core of resource oriented computing is the separation of logical requests for information (resources) from the physical mechanism (code) which delivers it. This article provides an introduction to the NetKernel framework.

Randolph Kahle
on Jan 22, 2008
Interview: Didier Girard, are GWT and Volta GCC for the Web?

Microsoft released a preview of Volta last month. Many people have commented on this new technology and the concept of Architecture Factoring. Some have compared Volta with GWT. InfoQ interviewed Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR, who has lead the development of several GWT projects and reviewed Volta recently.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Jan 21, 2008

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