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Resurrecting SOA
Anne Thomas Manes redefines SOA based on the SOA Manifesto, focusing on models, methodologies and patterns, not on technology, intended to produce the desired business and technical goals.
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BPM: Top Seven Architectural Topics in 2010
Hajo Normann on modeling human interaction, improving BPM models, orchestrating composed services, central task management, business-IT alignment, non-deterministic processes, and choreography.
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Cloudy SOA
Mark Little introduces cloud computing showing that the middleware needs are similar to SOA’s, presenting benefits of running SOA in the cloud, and asking if the cloud and SOA should evolve.
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The Counterintuitive Web
Ian Robinson: the web is counterintuitive because clients are interested only in URIs and they are responsible for requests’ sequence, and one should use protocol resources , not domain resources.
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Does REST Need Middleware?
Bill Burke shows how to use REST to create interfaces to middleware services – messaging, transactions, workflow, security – in order to have RESTful enterprise SOA implementations.
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RESTful Business Process Management
Cesare Pautasso proves that BPM can be used to compose and implement REST web services, showing the relationship between business processes and stateful resources accessed through a RESTful API.
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Avoid a Failed SOA: Business & Autonomous Components to the Rescue
Udi Dahan addresses SOA from both a technological and business perspective by introducing business and autonomous components, basic elements of a service-oriented solution for the enterprise.
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Using RESTful Web Services and Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Mobile Applications
Jason H Christensen presents the evolution of mobile devices, how to integrate mobile systems with the cloud and use RESTful services, what is a basic mobile architecture and how it can be implemented
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Obscured by Clouds
Russ Miles and Toby Hobson outline many factors to be considered when adopting a cloud solution, creating a wider view of the cloud from the development and business perspective.
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Enterprise Mashups: Why Do I Care?
Ross Mason discusses how to use enterprise mashups by applying a number of patterns, such as FeedFactory, Super Search, and Pipeline, in order to find new ways to benefit from existing enterprise data
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Making SOA Work in a Healthcare Company
Brian Nicks tells the lessons learned by a healthcare company which inherited many technologies from Java to .Net to RPG to CICS to COBOL, deciding that the integration solution was to implement SOA.
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Domain Event-Driven Architecture
Stefan Norberg introduces Domain Event-Driven Architecture, how it helps SOA, and how it has been used by Unibet to make its architecture less coupled, resulting in better performance and scalability.