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Interview and Book Excerpt: Nicolai Josuttis, "SOA in Practice"

Today, InfoQ publishes a sample chapter from Nicolai Josuttis' "SOA in Practice". On this occasion, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov had a chance to sit down with Nicolai to ask about his views on SOA, the main industry misconceptions about it, key success factors and a recommendation for how to approach it.

Stefan Tilkov
on Jan 15, 2008
Talking Rails 2.0 with David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails 2.0 is the next version of the premier web application framework for the Ruby language, after almost a full year in development. Rails 2.0 is full of great new features, bug fixes and lots of the polish expected from the team. InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with the creator of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, to learn what it's like to get this release out the door.

Robert Bazinet
on Dec 21, 2007
An Introduction to the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for JEE and Java applications. This introduction dives into it various features such as the report designer, chart wizards, and web viewer. Future articles will dive into practical applications of BIRT in JEE and desktop applications.

Jason Weathersby
on Dec 20, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Release It!

'Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software' by Michael Nygard, which is nominated for a 2008 Jolt Award, discusses what it takes to make production-ready software and explains how this differs from feature-complete software. InfoQ spoke with Nygard about the areas that the book covers and some questions around how the book's philosophy fits in with concepts such as Agile.

Ryan Slobojan
on Dec 20, 2007
Architecture & Design

A Brief Introduction to REST

In this article, Stefan Tilkov provides a pragmatic introduction to REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the architecture behind the World Wide Web, and covers the key principles: Identifiable resources, links and hypermedia, standard methods, multiple representations and stateless communication.

Stefan Tilkov
on Dec 10, 2007
The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution

After 8+ years of intense research, the promises of BPM have not materialized: we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions. Some argue that we need to re-engineer BPM standards. In this paper we explore a new architecture blueprint for BPMSs that offers a cleaner alignment between SOA and BPM.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Dec 04, 2007
Asynchronous, High-Performance Login for Web Farms

Often during my consulting engagements I run into people who say, "some things just can't be made asynchronous" even after they agree about the inherent scalability that asynchronous communications pattern bring. One often-cited example is user authentication - taking a username and password combo and authenticating it against some back-end store.

Udi Dahan
on Dec 03, 2007
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2007

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, Architecture Quality, How much REST do we need?, Java in Action, Architecting for Performance & Scalability, Java Emerging Technologies, Challenges in Agile, Bleeding Edge .NET, The Rise of Ruby.

Ryan Slobojan
on Nov 27, 2007
SOA Governance: Crucial Necessity or Waste of Time?

In this article, Gernot Starke introduces the concepts behind SOA Governance, how it relates to overall Corporate Governance and IT Governance, and how it should be applied both at design-time and at runtime. Gernot covers the key aspects that SOA Governance needs to address and explains the role governance tools.

Gernot Starke
on Nov 21, 2007
Using Hibernate to Support Custom Domain Object Fields

Hibernate is a widely used ORM tool for Java. Some applications of it are not always straight forward however. A new InfoQ article looks at using Hibernate to provide a commonly requested feature of custom fields for domain objects without requiring a restart of the system. The article will walk through the solution's implementation, testing, and future improvements.

Enterra Inc.
on Nov 05, 2007
Interview: IBM Architect Bertrand Portier on joining MDD and SOA

In the wake of the latest product announcement from IBM, InfoQ talked to Bertrand Portier about a RedBook that presents a Model-Driven-Development approach to service construction. The concepts are general enough to be applied to product stacks other than IBM.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Oct 29, 2007
Setting out for Service Component Architecture

Henning Blohm, Java EE Software Architect at SAP and Co-Chair of the SCA-J Technical Committee provides his perspective on Service Component Architecture as a cross-technology programming model integration. He argues that for vendors, SCA lowers the marginal costs of providing implementation or binding technology to its users and for users SCA reduces the marginal costs of making use of them.

Henning Blohm
on Oct 18, 2007

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