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New SOA Governance Framework and Service Integration Maturity Model at the Open Group
The Open Group released last week two new industry standards: The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) and SOA Governance Framework.
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The Complex Event Processing Forrester Report
The complex event processing (CEP) space is on the rise. This market is going to grow very quickly and there's increasing interest in these platforms. A new "The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms Q3 2009" report evaluates and ranks most popular CEP platforms.
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Is MIME a problem for REST?
In a recent blog entry Benjamin Carlyle discusses how he believes the current approach to MIME type management is a problem for greater REST adoption. He proposes a few alternatives but mentions that they do have their own problems as well.
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Best and Worst Practices in BPM and SOA
In his new article, Peter Woodhull discusses best and worst practices in implementing SOA/BPM solutions. He notes that, although there is no silver bullet, when it comes to a BPM and SOA implementation, following best and avoiding the worst practices can help achieving a successful implementation.
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Patterns for Moving to the Cloud
A new Tech Ed presentation by Simon Guest defines a set of patterns for moving applications to the cloud and discusses implementation of these patterns using Windows Azure
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Is CRUD Bad for REST?
In his new post, Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz explains that REST is more than just a set of standards and APIs, and it requires following REST architectural principles for reaping its complete benefits.
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Role Of REST In IT And Cloud Management - A Comparison Of Cloud API's
In a recent article, William Vambenepe, compares four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see the practical value of REST in IT/Cloud management.
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Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture
Various members of the OMG, OASIS and Open Group efforts around SOA standardization have gotten together to produce a new white paper that attempts to steer you through the range of specifications and working groups. It is deliberately implementation agnostic, staying clear of Web Services, JBI and other approaches.
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Workflow Engine – To Build or Not to Build One?
A new post by Bernd Rücker discusses whether it makes sense to write your own workflow engine or time and money are best spent on learning and using a commercial or open source implementation.
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Is Service Reuse Over Used?
Is service reuse a valid metric for determining the success of SOA? Richard Watson from Burton believes that we are too fixated on reuse and could lose sight of the real benefit: service use.
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How Relevant Is Contract First Development Using Angle Brackets?
Christian Weyer of Thinktecture, announced the release of WSCF.blue a Visual Studio Add-in that enables contract first development of web services using WCF.
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Handling Asynchronous REST Operations
In his new post, Tim Bray discusses the case for asynchronous REST operations and some of the approaches for supporting asynchronous invocations using REST.
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Using BPM And SOA To Maximum Business Value
Industry analyst Neil Ward-Dutton, writes that the combination of Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is seen as technically complementary. There are different views on how the two concepts play together, however, the author maintains that there is enough synergy between them to increase business value.
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A Value Proposition for Enterprise Architecture
In a series of posts, following his participation in EAC 2009, Richard Veryard discusses the role and value of Enterprise Architecture.
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SOAP Over Java Messaging Service
W3C has just released Candidate Recommendation SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0, defining how SOAP should bind to a messaging system that supports the Java Message Service (JMS).