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  • Top 8 SOA Adoption Pitfalls

    Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author. He has written two books on SOA. Understanding the pitfalls others have fallen victim to will help you chart a safer route down your own SOA roadmap. To this end Thomas has collected the eight most common SOA adoption pitfalls of last year.

    Thomas Erl
    on Jul 20, 2006

  • ESB Roundup Part two: ESB Use Cases

    This is the second part of InfoQ's ESB series, an exploration of Enterprise Service Bus, or ESB technologies. The focus is use cases required by companies deploying this technology, such as protocol bridging, security intermediation and service virtualization. The article references analyst commentary, survey research results and comments on part one of the ESB roundup.

    Miko Matsumura
    on Jul 12, 2006

  • Will the Enterprise change Ruby, or will Ruby change the Enterprise?

    Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. Are we missing something fundamental for widescale adoption of Ruby in the enterprise?

    Francis Cianfrocca
    on Jul 11, 2006

  • ESB Roundup Part One: Defining the ESB

    A healthy debate has arisen in the SOA community around the Enterprise Service Bus. Is an ESB needed? What is the best definition of an ESB? When should an ESB be deployed? What is its role in SOA? In the first part of a series, InfoQ explores this vital topic.

    Miko Matsumura
    on Jul 05, 2006

  • Secure and Reliable Web Services

    Web Services can become the single standard for all exchange of structured data. After waiting over 5 years, 2 important Web Services specifications have finally been endorsed: WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. Will these specifications allow the adoption of web services as a standard for all communication within and between organizations?

    Guy Crets
    on Jul 03, 2006

  • Delivering Java Apps on Fedora Core

    Fedora Core 4 was the first release to include a a lot of code written in Java. gcj aims to implement a complete system, compatible with Java, centered around an ahead-of-time compiler. It has a cleanroom class library based on GNU Classpath, and a built-in interpreter. The compiler can compile Java source files, class files, or even entire jar files to object code.

    Tom Tromey
    on Jun 26, 2006

  • The HandleExternalEvent Activity in Windows Workflow

    Scott Allen walks through the implementation of a HandleExternal Event Activity in Windows Workflow Foundation that is used to handle events raised by the process that is hosting the workflow runtime.

    Scott Allen
    on Jun 22, 2006

  • SOA anti-patterns

    SOA Expert Steve Jones from CapGemini provides a hands on look at SOA Antipatterns and a list of ways your SOA project can go wrong. This list includes signs that these problems are cropping up as well as what to do when you see them happening.

    Steve Jones
    on Jun 19, 2006

  • Real-World Rule Engines

    For many developers, rule engines are buzzwords, or black boxes on an architectural diagram: something to be feared or admired from afar, but not understood. In this article, Geoffrey Wiseman shares his practical experience with rule engines and with Drools in particular to support in-market solutions for financial services.

    Geoffrey Wiseman
    on Jun 19, 2006

  • A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails

    Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.

    Stefan Kaes
    on Jun 13, 2006

  • Evolutionary integration with ESBs

    ESB Programming experts provide simple working examples and clearly communicated ideas and patterns using the open source Mule ESB tool set. These examples provide both working code as well as suggest a methodology of evolutionary integration which can be used to dramatically simplify and accelerate SOA integration.

    Kjetil Paulsen Rune Schumann
    on Jun 01, 2006

  • Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability

    .NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.

    ThoughtWorks Inc Paul Hammant Ian Cartwright
    on May 12, 2006
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