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Mitch Pronschinske10/29/09
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Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition. Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software. It took them six years to clarify this after a 2003 memorandum implied that the DoD shouldn't use open source. Yet another example of speedy...

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen10/26/09
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Consuming Services with WCF

Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects...

Mitch Pronschinske10/23/09
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Industry Leaders Forge a SOA Manifesto

This week, at the 2nd International SOA Symposium, seventeen SOA authors and technologists from companies including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Redhat, drafted and signed a Manifesto outlining the defining principles that constitute service-oriented...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/09
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JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy

DZone recently spoke with JBoss Fellow, Bill Burke on a range of RESTful topics, including REST-*, an open source project aimed at defining new standards,...

Mitch Pronschinske10/17/09
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An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. Sharlene McKinnon, who was part of the ThoughtWorks SOA team, had much to say about her experiences:

Mitch Pronschinske10/15/09
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NetKernel 4.0 Arrives; Based on New, More Efficient Microkernel

A completely revamped NetKernel 4.0 is now available under the 1060 Research public license. The new version of the resource oriented computing (ROC) platform is based on an entirely new microkernel that is smaller and faster. Randy Kahle, Director of...

William Vambenepe10/15/09
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Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud value proposition (see Hoff’s take for example). You have no control over patching/config actions...

Mitch Pronschinske10/14/09
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SOA Manifesto and Benchmarks Sought

A collection of industry leaders from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and various other companies met in September to draft a manifesto for SOA. A manifesto is not an unusual notion when you consider that manifestos already exist for clouds and the internet.

Masoud Kalali10/12/09
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Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic

A services-based IT solution such as "A Single View of the Customer", is typically deployed for use as an enterprise-wide business application. The general intent is that any corporate application (such as an order entry system or billing) requiring...

Ricky Ho10/08/09
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Architecture Review Process

A formal "Architecture Review Process" can be a very efficient way to understand how the existing system work via interaction with existing developers and architects who has good understand on different parts of the existing system. If these people...

Arnon Rotem-gal-oz10/07/09
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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's shares SOA Patterns Presentation's slides and Video.

Yesterday I gave a talk on SOA pattern on the European Virtual Alt.Net user group.

William Vambenepe10/05/09
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PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist plaform

I don’t know anyone in Silicon Valley who can code and doesn’t fantasize about writing an accidental killer app. One that gets designed during a long layover in DEN and implemented in a rainy weekend (El Nino is my VC). One that was only supposed to meet...

Justin Sargent09/30/09
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Microsoft Acquires New Technologies for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft announced the acquisition of four "industry solutions" that will increase the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX, an enterprise resource planning software platform and member of the Microsoft Dynamics family, on Sept. 22. According to...