Brent Carlson @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

Brent Carlson

Brent Carlson is vice president of technology and cofounder of LogicLibrary, a provider of software development asset (SDA) management tools. He is the coauthor of two books: San Francisco Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software (with James Carey and Tim Graser) and Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks (with James Carey). He also holds 16 software patents, with eight more currently under evaluation.

SOA Governance Best Practices – Architectural, Organizational, and SDLC Implications

By Brent Carlson; Eric Marks

The fact that you're reading this article means that you are probably planning a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative and recognize that some level of governance is required in order to be successful. If you are like most people in this position, you a...

Jan. 29, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 26,588 Replies: 1

Whitehorse

By Brent Carlson

With Whitehorse, Microsoft has placed a significant stake in the ground when it comes to modeling enterprise services. While Whitehorse is part of the not-yet-released Visual Studio 2005 (codenamed 'Whidbey'), Microsoft has publicly discussed and demonstrated sign...

Jun. 7, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,450

Software Reuse Is Dead, Long Live Software Reuse

By Brent Carlson

I know what you're probably thinking as you look at the title of this article: 'software reuse - been there, done that, and it doesn't work....' And it's true that many a software architect or project leader on a WebLogic project has broken his or her pick on the ...

Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 8,607

Discovering and Documenting Business Application Patterns

By Jim Carey; Brent Carlson

Over the past two months, we've looked at the process of extracting a business application pattern from a series of business requirements. You've seen this pattern take shape, from its original form as a design meeting the specific needs of a particular business a...

Apr. 15, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,177

Discovering and Documenting Business Application Patterns

By Jim Carey; Brent Carlson

This month we'll look at pattern discovery in more detail by continuing to examine a business application pattern we discovered and documented. Our focus isn't on creating formal patterns, but on capturing, refining, and sharing the knowledge gained during devel...

Mar. 21, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,896

Discovering and Documenting Business Application Patterns

By Jim Carey; Brent Carlson

You're probably saying to yourself, 'Oh, no! Not another patterns article!' Technically, that's what this is. However, instead of simply showing you a finished pattern, we're going to look at pattern discovery. And, while what we'll talk about can help you capture...

Feb. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,997

Putting Web Services into (Business) Context

By Brent Carlson

Web services tool vendors frequently compete on how quickly their users can 'generate a Web service from scratch' or 'expose a Java/COM+/CORBA class as a Web service.' While speed of development is important, the broader business needs of an enterprise must be the ...

Dec. 16, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 10,407