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Book Excerpt and Interview: Open Source SOA

Boris Lublinsky interviews Jeff Davis as part of a review of Davis' new book, Open Source SOA. The book covers the selection and usage of the open source products for SOA implementation. The interview poses questions about SOA as "business problem" or technical distributed system; SOAP vs. REST; WSDL, and "adherence to standards" as an evaluation criteria, among other topics.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 23, 2009
Kernel Comparison of Three Widely Used OS

This article briefly examines and compares the kernels of the three most widely used quasi-Unix operating systems using three axes of comparison: efficiency, evolvement, and user friendliness. The operating systems compared (kernel only) are: OpenSolaris, Windows Vista, and Linux 2.6.

Dingze Zhu
on Jul 17, 2009
FlexMonkey brings unit testing to Flex user interface developers

This article explores how Gorilla Logic's new, open source Flex user interface automation testing tool, FlexMonkey, can enhance the productivity of both developers and QA testers. FlexMonkey allows developers to incorporate user interface testing into unit test suites and continuous integration environments, and allows QA testers to expand those tests into comprehensive quality tests.

Stuart Stern
on Jul 15, 2009
Orchestrating Long Running Activities with JBoss / JBPM

Orchestrating activities that extend over very long periods (hours, days, weeks) is a common design issue. Although technically BPM engines are specifically design to ideal with this issue, they do so with standalone processes with corresponding issues arising from callback mechanisms. This article we will show one of the approaches to use JBoss jBPM for solving this problem.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 01, 2009
Communication Flexibility Using Bindings

In this article, we will look at an important feature of SCA - its support for a wide variety of communication protocols and how to use SCA bindings on services and references to decouple your business code from communication protocols. Finally we'll take a look at the SCA domain to see how bindings operate in and outside the domain.

Raymond Feng Simon Laws Haleh Mahbod Simon Nash Anthony Elder
on Jun 30, 2009
Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)

IBM Rational and InfoQ published an eBook, Scaling Agile with C/ALM, "dedicated to all of the functional and dysfunctional organizations that are eager to break down the organizational and cultural silos, and become a finely tuned software delivery machine." The eBook explores the barriers to team integration and scaling and then shows, in detail, how to overcome these obstacles.

Carolyn Pampino John Wiegand Erich Gamma
on Jun 29, 2009
Concurrency and Immutability

This article explores the issue of immutability as a function of concurrency demands in modern software applications. The discussion occurs in the general context of dependency injection.

Dhanji Prasanna
on Jun 26, 2009
Architecture & Design

SOA Governance Maturity – an Architect’s View

This article presents a framework of SOA Governance processes, a maturity model, linked to the processes and a description of how architects should be involved in these processes. The authors provided some practical guidelines on how architects can lead or provide support at the various processes of the lifecycle and maturity levels.

Benedikt Kratz Tom Schepers
on Jun 23, 2009
Is PHP Ready for the Enterprise?

Although PHP boasts of being the most widely used environment for web application development, it has been traditionally considered as not suitable for the enterprise. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel regarding the evolution of the language/platform and its suitability in enterprise environments.

Dio Synodinos
on Jun 22, 2009
Tips for Effective Software Reuse

Vijay Narayananoffers 10 practival tips on succeeding with systematic reuse of software components, based on his experience with multiple projects. The collection of tips is not intended to be exhaustive but will help developers and team leaders to appreciate the variety of strategies that one has to undertake in order to succeed with systematic reuse.

Vijay Narayanan
on Jun 18, 2009
Routing Messages in Mule

Jackie Wheeler discusses the use of Mule as a message routing solution for SOA middleware. The article covers key concepts, selection of a message style; passing, filtering and splitting messages; and, calling external services. Examples of messaging implementation are included.

Jackie Wheeler
on Jun 10, 2009
Chunk Cloud Computing

In this article, Jimmy Nilsson describes an architectural style that he has observed slowly growing in popularity over the last few years, a style that he calls Chunk Cloud Computing.

Jimmy Nilsson
on Jun 01, 2009

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