As editor, I review a
great many proposals for
articles. A good portion
of them deal with SOA,
which is to be expected.
When I review them, I'm
reminded that there are
two very different views
of SOA, which in my
opinion are both eq...
Companies that decide to
invest in SOA sometimes
end up going to extremes
- too little or too much.
Too little happens when
some stakeholder latches
onto the buzzword and
wants to get the benefits
promised. However, the
environment ...
Companies are under
tremendous pressure to
meet the complex business
requirements found in
their IT infrastructures.
For example, they need to
expose their applications
to external trading
partners, comply with
government regulation...
The emergence of the
Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) over the past two
years has spurred the
deployment of
componentized
applications based on a
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA). SOA
enables the development
of business systems and...
We've seen a dramatic
rise in the use of SOA
and integration to
provide better business
process visibility and
agility to organizations.
The ease and low cost of
assembling new systems
together makes SOA an
efficient and valuable
business asset.
To ensure the success of
your mainframe SOA
initiatives, it's
important to be able to
support both bottom-up
and contract-first design
approaches. With the
former, businesses may
see an opportunity to
jumpstart the SOA,
quickly pa...
JSR 168 has changed the
playing field for portal
development, letting
vendors (and especially
ISVs) develop portlets
that various portals can
consume. Likewise, WSRP
has provided a standard
so portals can consume
portlets that resid...
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
facilitates the
development of
applications as modular
business services that
can be easily integrated,
secured, and
administered. Benefits of
an SOA approach include
more-rapid development,
d...
Services Oriented
Architectures (SOAs) and
business collaboration
technologies and
platforms, often enabled
by Web Services and
orchestration constructs
like BPEL, can be a
tremendous business
benefit. SOAs can provide
the fl exib...
Agile IT systems are
systems that are
malleable enough to
address business
uncertainties. Such
systems can effectively
respond to internal and
external stimuli in a
very short period of
time. Flexible IT systems
imply that the IT ...
The operations of many
large organizations rest
on large applications
that are characterized as
'legacy.' To increase
flexibility or reduce
costs businesses are
looking to modernize
these applications, for
instance, via renovation, ...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
title. Without having lo
This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi