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Implementing Automated Governance for Coding Standards
Most development organizations of a significant size have some form of coding standards and best practices. Simply documenting these standards and keeping them up to date can be a significant challenge and enforcing them even harder. Our organization has found that enforcing coding standards and best practices in an automated fashion through our build process has been highly effective.
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Designing Collaborative Spaces for Productivity
The typical Agile team may work in a common "teamroom", but personal space is also needed. Teams find out fast enough that some of the creature comforts left behind in their former traditional spaces were there for good reasons. This article shares the collected wisdom of dozens of teams who created their own work spaces, as collected by several experienced Agile coaches.
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Roles in SOA Governance
To make sure SOA succeeds, many vendors, analysts, consultants and practitioners agree that Governance is a critical ingredient for a successful SOA initiative. This article explores a potential set of roles for successful SOA Governance, the roles of "SOA Domain Architect", "SOA Platform Architect", "Service Designer", "Business Service Owner", and "Technical Service Owner".
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Eric Newcomer on the future of OSGi
Eric Newcomer, co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise work group, talks about the evolution of OSGi and it's relationship to SOA and ESB. He discusses how he thinks OSGi will evolve over the coming years and whether or not it makes sense for Sun to adopt OSGi as the container model of choice."
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Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate
Gavin Terrill explores one of the lessor known facilities available to web developers, the humble "ETag Response Header", and how to integrate its use in a Spring and Hibernate based web app to improve application performance and scalability.
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Bridging the gap between BI & SOA
Business intelligence (BI) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have conflicting principles and needs. SOA promotes hiding the data inside the services while BI needs that very data if we want to get meaningful predictions and alerts. This article will show you how you can combine SOA with EDA to solve the BI/SOA conflict and maybe even enhance your SOA.
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Introduction to .NET 3.0 for Architects
Mohammad Akif provides an overview of the release the .NET Framework 3.0. While there are no changes in the CLR there are significant additions to framework itself in the form or a new language, XAML, and brand new libraries like WPF, WF and WCF. In order to unleash its full potential Architects need to understand the changes and possibilities of this latest release of .NET.
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Dynamic Routing Using Spring framework and AOP
Vigil Bose shows how a business transaction can trigger business events dynamically for subsystem processing. The examples shown in this article uses Spring framework 2.0 and Spring AOP effectively to decouple the business service from the subsystem processing functionality.
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Agile, Architecture and the 5am Production Problem
Can refactoring and unit testing really create robust “working software” that survives the real world? In this story adapted from his book Release It! Michael Nygard contends that "abstractions leak": we need to attend to architecture, even in Agile projects, to guard ourselves against the 5AM failures that occur when foundational abstractions misbehave.
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Aaron Erickson on LINQ and i4o
Aaron Erickson introduces his new LINQ extension Indexes for Objects (i4o). Indexes for Objects allows for fast lookup against in-memory collections while retaining the LINQ syntax and semantics. He also discusses how expression trees interact with LINQ and how they can be leveraged in other scenarios.
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Service Firewall Pattern
How can you protect a service against detect malicious incoming messages and prevent information disclosure on outgoing messages? In this sample chapter from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns, Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept incoming and outgoing messages and inspect them in a dedicated software component or hardware.
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Book Excerpt and Review: Groovy in Action
The Groovy language is bringing many of the features that have become popular in Ruby to Java and the JVM. Groovy in Action by Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge and Jon Skeet provides a guided tour to learning the language and places it can be put to use. . InfoQ is excited to present an excerpt of the book of along with a review by Grails team member Jason Rudolph.