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Introduction to BackgrounDRb
As the problem domain of your Rails applications expands, you may need to run computationally intensive or long running background tasks. How can you run these long background tasks without your web server timing out? And how do you display the progress to your users?
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The HandleExternalEvent Activity in Windows Workflow
Scott Allen walks through the implementation of a HandleExternal Event Activity in Windows Workflow Foundation that is used to handle events raised by the process that is hosting the workflow runtime.
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SOA anti-patterns
SOA Expert Steve Jones from CapGemini provides a hands on look at SOA Antipatterns and a list of ways your SOA project can go wrong. This list includes signs that these problems are cropping up as well as what to do when you see them happening.
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Real-World Rule Engines
For many developers, rule engines are buzzwords, or black boxes on an architectural diagram: something to be feared or admired from afar, but not understood. In this article, Geoffrey Wiseman shares his practical experience with rule engines and with Drools in particular to support in-market solutions for financial services.
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Evolutionary integration with ESBs
ESB Programming experts provide simple working examples and clearly communicated ideas and patterns using the open source Mule ESB tool set. These examples provide both working code as well as suggest a methodology of evolutionary integration which can be used to dramatically simplify and accelerate SOA integration.
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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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A History of Extended Transactions
ACID transactions don't work for long-lived use cases. This article documents historic approaches taken in the CORBA and J2EE communities toward extended transactions, how SOA is a more natural fit, and why WS-TX & WS-CAF may finally hold the answer.