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Article: The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution
In a new InfoQ article, Jean-Jacques Dubray explores a new architecture blueprint for BPMSs that offers a cleaner alignment between SOA and BPM. Jean-Jacques argues that after more than eight years of intense research, we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions.
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Funding SOA
A quick search on the web shows that the question of Funding SOA seems to be almost taboo. Todd Biske provided us with a summary of the discussion that took place on this topic at the Gartner AADI Summit.
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Udi Dahan on increasing scalability by making things asynchronous
Making things asynchronous is a proven way to increase scalability, and yet, many things seem to be naturally synchronous. But does that mean that these problems can't be solved in an asynchrounous way, or does it mean that we're simply stuck in our thinking? Udi Dahan challenges this thinking in the article 'Asynchronous, High-Performance Login for Web Farms'.
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InfoQ Presentation: Eric Evans on DDD - Strategic Design
In this talk, Eric Evans introduces two broad principles for strategic design. 'Context mapping' addresses the fact that different groups model differently and 'Core domain' distills a shared vision of the system's core domain and provides a systematic guide to when good enough is good enough versus when to push for excellence.
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7 Degrees of SOA Coupling
In a recent posting, ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer tackles the belief that a system is either loosely-coupled, or it isn’t. Although the importance of loose-coupling has been known for some time, the dialogue around this post has garnered some interesting discussion.
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Tomcat used by 64% of Java Developers
According to a recent study conducted by BZ Research, Tomcat is used by almost two thirds of corporate Java developers. With its support for clustering & server monitoring, Tomcat has gained more popularity compared to other application servers. IBM WebSphere and RedHat JBoss came second and third in the research study.
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New File Storage Mechanism for SQL Server
SQL Server was never designed to act as a file system, but many developers use it that way nonetheless. Countless content management systems rely on either shoving large files into blobs or storing filenames. SQL Server 2008 seeks to correct this by introducing a filestream option that can be applied to a varbinary(max) column.
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QCon London March 12-14 Announced
QCon London 2008, taking place March 12-14 has been launched and is open for registration. QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering the range of topics also on InfoQ as well as a strong focus on architecture & design, real world case studies, and more. This is the 3rd QCon, don't miss it!
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The Architecture Journal Reader
Microsoft released The Architecture Journal Reader, which is a WPF reader application for The Architecture Journal.
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Visual Basic's Questionable Place in Microsoft's Roadmap
Since the beginning, Microsoft has publicly claimed that Visual Basic and C# would be equally supported on the .NET platform. The community, on the other hand, has constantly accused Microsoft of not supporting VB. So where does the truth lie?
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New SQL Server Data Type: HierarchyId
Tree-like hierarchies has always a problem in relational databases. Microsoft's first attempt at addressing this was in SQL Server 2005 with the implementation of Common Table Expressions. While CTEs work over existing schema, Microsoft has sought a way to treat hierarchies as first-class concepts. To this effect, they have introduced the HierarchId data type in SQL Server 2008.
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Microsoft Updates Software-as-a-Service Reference App LitwareHR with S+S
As more enterprises are looking at software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, Microsoft has augmented their LitwareHR reference application to include the Software + Services (S+S) model. Enabling the integration of local and "in the cloud" software, S+S allows for the disconnected and offline scenarios lacking in today's hosted solutions.
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Buzzword – RIA Word Processor: Built Using Adobe Flex / AIR
Adobe recently acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the creators of Buzzword - a web based word processor. InfoQ.com connected with David Coletta and Tad Staley of Adobe Systems to learn more about the product, the challenges and benefits of using Adobe Flex for its development, and what the future holds for the product.
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Parallel Processing Framework JPPF offers Load Balancing, Failover and J2EE Integration
Java Parallel Processing Framework (JPPF) project team recently announced the first Release Candidate (RC1) of Version 1.0 of the product. JPPF is an open source grid computing framework that can be used to run Java applications in parallel in a distributed execution environment. JPPF team is planning on Version 1.0 GA release next month.
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A Second WS-CDL Tool-Suite Is Born
Hongbing Wang and his team in China become the second group to release a WS-CDL based tool-suite. Several people have suggested that WS-CDL is the an often overlooked critical component in developing Web 2.0 and SOA applications, but until now (and for the past few years) there has been only one tool-suite.