he inherent advantages to introducing queues into an application architecture are well understood. Queues, when used properly, can: Increase application robustness, as clients can send messages even when services are
he ACME Toothpick Company recently implemented two transactional Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services to integrate their toothpick manufacturing and log inventory applications. A third application, the ACME Manufacturing Manager (AMM),
As enterprise architecture (EA) matures into an established discipline in most moderate to large scale IT organizations, EA is increasingly being challenged to demonstrate objective evidence of its contribution to
“o you have a governance plan?” It’s not a question you want to hear while putting together a world changing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Governance is one of those words
f there is one truth in software development it is that change is constant. The best any developer can do is to isolate the things that change from the things
or most enterprise architects, the value proposition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is clear: SOA enables flexibility, agility and re-use benefits that are broadly recognized throughout the software development community. You
s seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious interest in corporate use of semantic technology continues to grow rapidly. Semantically-enabled applications are increasingly seen as
s the line between the desktop and the web blurs, more applications are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. Adobe AIR and JavaFX are prime examples of frameworks
bject-modeling methodologies have long held the promise of enabling development teams to deliver higher-quality software faster and with better code reuse. Sadly, traditional object-modeling solutions such as the Unified Modeling