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Spring Integration RC1 hatched: Q&A with Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment & future directions
Spring Integration provides an extension of the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Following the announcement of RC 1 that became available this week InfoQ has a Q&A with SpringSource’s Iwein Fuld on key benefits, deployment scenarios and future directions of Spring Integration.
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Is WOA Phony?
The WOA debate continues with analysts and consultants joining the fray with twi online polls that try to evaluate how much the term means to the community. Is it the future or is it just another flash-in-the-pan?
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QCon San Francisco a Few Weeks Way: 100 Speakers in 17 Tracks!
The second annual QCon San Francisco conference is coming up in just a few weeks; this year we've got over 100 speakers in 17 tracks covering the key topics of importance in enterprise software development. With speakers such as Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Rod Johnson, Bob Martin, this is the biggest QCon yet.
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Seven Forms of Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM
In his new article, jBPM’s founder Tom Baeyens tries to explain different forms of business process management (BPM) through seven distinct use cases.
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Can a Spoonful of Governance help SOA?
Does SOA Governance means to you "visions of endless meetings and committee reviews"? Steve Stefanovich argues that "You might already practice governance and don’t even know it" and that "a reorientation and formalization of many of the things good software architects have been doing all along" might help your SOA initiative.
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Introducing Windows Azure - Cloud Services Platform!
Microsoft unveiled a major initiative today: Windows Azure. Azure is a "cloud services operating system": specifically, a single platform providing complete cloud-based development, hosting, and management services -- services for .NET managed code, SQL Server, and enterprise applications like Active Directory. Azure represents a fundamental shift in MS towards embracing cloud computing.
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Implementing SOA Governance
In this article, Todd Biske, an Enterprise Architect working for a F500 company, provides his guidance to implement a successful SOA Governance organization. He recommends a 3 step process focused on policy definition and enforcement. He also provides his perspective on the role of a SOA Center of Excellence with respect to Governance.
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Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy
Based on their vision to deliver on the promise of model-driven development in SOA where business users, SOA architects and developers will be able to use the modeling tools to collaborate on composite applications, Microsoft has recently made several announcements about its modeling strategy.
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What Makes Good REST?
Roy Fielding casts an eye at the SocialSite REST API and finds it is less than a perfect REST citizen.
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Article: Why BPEL is not the Holy Grail for BPM
In this article, Pierre Vigneras of open source workflow engine Bonita fame, discusses the pitfalls of using the BPEL for designing workflows.
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Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5 Enterprise Released
MuleSource, a provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, announced the general availability of Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5.
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Moving the SOA Goalposts
During the past several years industry tried to define and redefine SOA many times, often contradicting itself in the process. Is SOA really changing that much, or all this is happening due to continuing lack of understanding of what SOA really is?
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Business Processes for SOA Governance
Prabhakar Mynampati, an Advisory Architect at IBM, published last week an article detailing 6 SOA Governance business processes. The article includes a BPMN-like process definitions, rationales and benefits of adopting more formal approaches to SOA Governance.
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JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1 Released
Red Hat has released a new version of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (version 4.3) and a new version of JBoss Operations Network (2.1). The new SOA Platform allows for the remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments while the new integrated management platform aims to improve cooperative support.
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BPM Products Consolidate Functionality For The Future
In a recent survey of Business Process Management vendors found agreement that BPM needs to automate all types of business processes in the future, with distinctions between things like workflow and straight-through processing disappearing. Another area of agreement was the need to base BPM around SOA.