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Model Driven Development Misperceptions and Challenges

MDD provides many benefits by improving communication, business-alignment, quality, and productivity. The authors argue that as the tooling support has vastly matured in the past few years, it might be a good time to take a fresh look it. The article reviews 10 common misconceptions.

Lee Ackerman Bertrand Portier
on Jan 21, 2009
Getting Started With Spring Integration

In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.

Joshua Long
on Jan 20, 2009
Schema for Web Services – Part I: Basic Datatypes

Most web service developers rely on a data binding conversion layer within a web service to work directly with data structures in their programming language of choice - but this causes a number of problems. In the first of a series of articles that look at these problems, Dennis Sosnoski starts at the most basic level, looking at simple data types and the issues that arise from mapping them.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Jan 15, 2009
Book Excerpt and Interview: Rails for .NET Developers

Ruby on Rails has seen spectacular growth over the recent years with many PHP and Java programmers learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails to help create faster solutions to business problems. This leaves out group of developers discovering Rails, ASP.NET developers. These are the developers writing C# and VB.NET ASP.NET applications for all those Microsoft shops around the world.

Robert Bazinet
on Jan 13, 2009
SOA Contract Maturity Model

This article shows how recommended contract versioning design policies relate to a SOA Maturity Model. The goal is to provide a roadmap for achieving the full feature set of versioning and composability as part of SOA Governance.

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi
on Jan 13, 2009
Performance Anti-Patterns in Database-Driven Applications

In this article, Alois Reitbauer, a Performance Architect for dynaTrace Software, specifies several architectural anti-patterns which can downgrade an application’s performance. Knowing those anti-patterns and proactively designing the application to avoid them will keep away certain snags that can impact application’s performance.

Alois Reitbauer
on Jan 05, 2009
Development Platforms for Mobile Applications: Status and Trends

In this IEEE article, authors Damianos Gavalas and Daphne Economou discuss four application platforms for mobile devices. The platforms discussed are Java Mobile Edition (Java ME), .NET Compact Framework (CF), Adobe Flash Lite, and Android. The article also includes a mobile-game case study to compare these platforms with respect to development effort and time as well as technical issues.

Damianos Gavalas Daphne Economou
on Jan 01, 2009
Workflow Orchestration Using Spring AOP and AspectJ

This article demonstrates how to build and orchestrate highly configurable and extensible yet light-weight embedded process flow using Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) techniques. The current examples are based on Spring AOP and Aspect J, however other AOP techniques could be used to accomplish the same results.

Oleg Zhurakousky
on Dec 29, 2008
BPMN 2.0 Virtual Roundtable Interview

In this interview we talk with representatives of the BPMN 2.0 standardization effort from Oracle, IBM and SAP. Here they discuss the evolution of BPMN as well as how it relates to other efforts such as XPDL, WS-BPEL and BPEL4People.

Mark Little
on Dec 25, 2008
Rapid Application Development using Naked Objects for .NET

Domain driven design will help you build the core of an application, but then you still have to develop the presentation layer, duplicating the validation logic as you go. For internal applications where functionality really is more important than form, Naked Objects can be the answer. With proper annotation, Naked Objects can automatically generate a matching presentation layer in Java or .NET.

Richard Pawson
on Dec 23, 2008
Will Cloud-based Multi-Enterprise Information Systems Replace Extranets?

After a brief introduction on Cloud Computing, Matthieu Hug, CEO of RunMyProcess.com provides his insight on a new class of information systems: Multi-Enterprise Information Systems. He argues that they are poised to replace inflexible partner extranets.

Matthieu Hug
on Dec 19, 2008
Application Integration Through Mail Servers

When performance and speed are not an issue, SMTP and POP3 can be used to integrate applications communicating to each other through a Mail Server. This article shows such an example using the Apache James Mail server plus Mule and ServiceMix.

Jos Dirksen Tijs Rademakers
on Dec 17, 2008

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