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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.
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InfoQ Day: See the top 8 sessions Wednesday in SanFrancisco
If you're in SanFrancisco then you're invited to InfoQ Day on Wednesday. We have rented out the Thirsty Bear restaurant where we will host 8 presentations by some of the best speakers also attending Java One. The event is free to the public all day, and refreshments will be served. You're invited!
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on SOA in Practice
In an interview conducted by Jim Gray, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels provides background information on Amazon.com's service-oriented technology platform.
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Is the Feedback Loop Worth the Time?
John Brothers, on Indefinite Articles, blogged an interesting conversation last week between Mary Poppendieck and Robert Bogue. Drawn from the Agile Project Management newsgroup, it pointed out two different stances on the relative cost and value of "frequent feedback", a key component of Agile methodologies.
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Article: What is Agility, and Why Should You Care?
Business is moving faster than ever, there's no time for fads. But Agile has been around for decades, enabling businesses to be ever more responsive in these times of rapid change. This short article tells how it has helped two teams excel.
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1st Draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures Released
The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.
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Agile Unified Process v1.1 Released
The latest version of the Agile Unified Process (AUP) is available for download. This free, HTML-based product describes an agile instantiation of the Unified Process (UP).
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Using Agile Processes and Modeling To Build Enterprise Applications
The traditional approach of doing big requirements up front (BRUF) or big design up front (BDUF) results in significant wastage which can cause many software developments projects to be challenged and/or fail entirely. The article shows how to apply Agile Modeling (AM) practices when building enterprise Java applications.
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Improving Processes in Small Settings
The Software Engineering Institute is forming the IPSS Working Group, a three-year project to collaboratively explore the unique challenges of improving processes in small settings.
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Terracotta releases free 4 node Tomcat Session Clustering
JVM clustering vendor Terracotta has released for free use their Terracotta Sessions for Tomcat. The product is based on their distributed shared objects (DSO) product which uses a hub and spoke architecture and can synchronize changes across nodes at the field level (instead of serialization). The license allows projects with up to 4 nodes in their cluster to use it for free.
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WS-Addressing Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The WS-Addressing core and WS-Addressing SOAP binding specifications have reached full Recommendation status at W3C. WS-Addressing describes how to encode addressing information independently from the underlying transport protocol, enabling asynchronous communication across synchronous protocols such as HTTP.
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Feature Driven Development : Still Relevant?
First described in 1999, FDD was dismissed by some as "waterfallish". But it has developed into a complete methodology and is still in use. Is it truly Agile? Brad Appleton's recent article in CM Crossroads described it as different from other approaches, but still Agile and suitable for large projects and companies, especially those striving for CMM/CMMI certification.
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Article: 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.
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Article: Being Agile Without Going Overboard
Author Venkat Subramaniam speaks from experience in this exclusive InfoQ article, on how to incrementally introduce agility into a project which is in trouble and not currently agile.
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Article: Ruby and Rails: In your face... but out of your way
Ruby on Rails is in many ways a system in itself. But in many, many other ways, Rails exposes, explores, and exploits its connections to Ruby, rather than hiding or disguising them. David A. Black, author of the book Ruby for Rails from Manning, shares his thoughts on whether or not Rails developers should take the time to master Ruby.