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Nitin Bharti08/11/09
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VMWare to Acquire SpringSource for $362 Million

Virtualization infrastructure provider VMware announced today that it will acquire SpringSource for approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options. The acquisition has been approved...

William Martinez08/07/09
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Who's in control of the Flow?

Flow control is something important architect's must not overlook. Let's see which strategies do people follow to control the flow...

Nitin Bharti08/07/09
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Tech Chat - Mike Neale on JBoss BRMS

JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) provides an open source business rules management system that enables easy business policy and rules...

Nicolas Frankel08/06/09
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Selecting Development Infrastructure

This week, I was tasked to create a development infrastructure with the following components:

William Martinez08/04/09
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Clearing Doubts About SOA Concepts

From many talks, blogs, case studies and reviews, I have collected a list of conceptions of what people think SOA is. Here is a discussion about it.

Peter Koen08/03/09
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Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing

In part 1, Peter introduced green computing with Azure. He discussed where power saving can be achieved and the four levels of optimizing your infrastructure. This week, in part 2, he looks in detail at how to save power in each of those levels. He also...

Arnon Rotem-gal-oz07/30/09
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Remove the business context from your services

A lot have been written and said about multiple use (or reuse depending on your definition) of services. I want to touch one aspect of this with this post.

William Vambenepe07/28/09
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REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 2: configuration management)

What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data center and in Clouds)?

William Vambenepe07/27/09
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A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is the example he provides:

Lyndsey Clevesy07/24/09
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Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Mule In Action

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Mule in Action' (by Dave Dossot and John D'Emic). This chapter covers the major transports the Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) supports and provides working configurations...

Masoud Kalali07/24/09
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Principles for Implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

This article provides four key principles and actions an organization can undertake for implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA). SOEA adopts the concepts used in enterprise architecture and service-oriented systems design and...

Len DiMaggio07/23/09
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Gateways and Notifiers - Enabling ESB Interoperability on the JBoss SOA Platform

One of the strengths of the JBoss SOA Platform is how it enables you to connect legacy applications together. How are these connections made? To answer that question, we have to think about awareness.

Nitin Bharti07/22/09
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Tech Chat - Greg Wilson on Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

In this interview, recorded at JavaOne 2009, Greg Wilson, Enterprise Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems, provides an overview of the Adobe LiveCycle...

Masoud Kalali07/21/09
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Workflow-Enabled Services with Windows Workflow Foundation

A workflow is a collection of activities that describes a business process. Modeling business processes is a key requirement for developing service compositions. Workflows provide a way of describing business process logic by expressing the order of execution...

William Vambenepe07/20/09
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REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management protocols.