Nothing is more
enlightening for a
technologist than to
observe development in
progress. We're faced
constantly with a
bewildering array of
choices and tools. We see
specifications on paper
that then become
something completely
...
'Our processes are
bulletproof. Nothing gets
into production that
doesn't go through the
proper and complete
approval process.' Famous
last words uttered by far
too many enterprise
architects. Some of them
actually believe it's
tr...
Developing under a
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) is
different from
traditional development.
A large set of business
changes will now be
funneled through a
relatively small number
of enterprise services.
An inefficient or bad...
ChoicePay has embarked on
a strategic Web
Services-based SOA
initiative as part of its
ongoing effort to improve
customer and partner
service. To meet its
service improvement
objectives, ChoicePay
builds reliable and
robust Web Se...
When SOAP-based Web
Services solutions began
appearing five years ago,
one of the major
challenges was securely
propagating end-user
identity in Web Service
chaining scenarios.
Certainly a user could
authenticate to a portal,
and ...
An efficient Service
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) implementation
distributes as much
processing as possible to
trusted appliances in the
nearer tiers, where
intelligent content-based
routing decisions made by
highly efficient
proce...
When designing your SOA
and services, keeping the
service consumer in mind
will make the job easier.
Consumers must conform to
the interfaces of each
service they use and
invoke them with the
right data in the right
format. The more...
Every organization is
under pressure to deliver
tangible business benefit
through its IT projects.
This point is illustrated
by the fact that almost
all IT projects are
justified based on the
ROI they will deliver.
However, very few...
This article is the
second part of a two-part
series covering best
practices for building
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
applications. The
following are the seven
key steps for effective
SOA adoption:
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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
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word investment in the
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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