This series of articles is not just about revisiting the UML basics. It also will discuss best practices. (Go to “Useful UML Modeling: The Goldilocks Conundrum” to read part 1
(Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series — Useful UML Modeling. The goal of this multi-part series is to get back to basics and help make modeling more practical and
In terms of rapid software development, software architects and IT departments have never had it so good. Java, .NET, SOA and open source architectures enable organizations to build highly distributed
REST, or Representational State Transfer, is a style of software architecture for accessing information on the Web. The RESTful service refers to web services as resources that use XML over
constitution that defines a core set of principles. Three separate but equal branches of government. An executive branch which sets direction. A legislative branch which creates laws through a rigorous
ay by day, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is gaining more focus in many organizations. MDA stresses the benefits of modeling at various levels of abstraction and the integration and flow
ser stories are probably the most popular tool for gathering user requirements on an Agile project. A user story represents some goal that a user would like to achieve, and
hile the value proposition of Enterprise Architecture (EA) should always be transparent, the severity of the current economic downturn intensifies doubts about whether EA contributes to the economic survivability of