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Inside Architecture : Third attempt - definition of an applicati In a previous post, I rattled on about the problems faced by Application Portfolio managers who wish to reduce the total cost of ownership and measure portfolio return through the oversimplified lens of "how many apps do you have?" I complained, rather heartily, that the older definitions of an app are no longer valid. However, I didn't propose a new definition. Bad Nick. jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices Advertisement When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting. This article will share some best practices and examples for using the popular Javascript framework to create unobtrusive, accessible DOM scripting effects. The article will explore what constitutes best practices with regard to Javascript and, furthermore, why jQuery is a good choice of a framework to implement best practices. 1.
» ESBs: the analysts like them, but where’s their future? How long will the ESB market last? The enterprise service bus market has been on a roll, as detailed in two new analyst reports that are detailed in SearchWebServices. I talk a lot in this blog about the intangibility of the SOA concept, that there's no such thing as "SOA in a Box." Well, ESBs are the closest thing we have to a tangible SOA product. For now, ESBs are hot, hot, hot. But how much longer will they flourish as standalone products? » SOA done right: the Amazon strategy I survived the Google Seattle scalability conference And Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful.
Enterprise Java Community: Spring is the New Java EE Salil Deshpande, ex CEO of The Middleware Company (the company that originally created TheServerSide.com and TheServerSide Java Symposium), and now a venture capitalist with Bay Partners (the venture firm that among other things, invested in Weblogic, before it was acquired by BEA) attended TheServerSide Java Symposium after a long hiatus. He shares his perspective and experience – this article is partly human-interest and partly technical. The last time I attended TheServerSide Java Symposium, it was in 2004, also at The Venetian, when I was running The Middleware Company. It was only our 2 nd year running the conference, and the first time at a big venue. I remember the excitement all of us felt as our little Java conference had grown up. The new J2EE was back with a vengeance.
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Processes, Composite Apps Put P The layering of an interesting mix of service-oriented architecture, composite applications and business process management possibilities on top of the portal platform may just bring back some of the portal's pizzazz. Much of the feature fanfare and pioneering pizzazz seems to have drained out of the portal market in recent years as it's been largely consolidated into the hands of top players including IBM, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and BEA. But some of the spark is back this year as an interesting mix of service-oriented architecture (SOA), composite applications and business process management (BPM) possibilities is being layered on top of the portal platform. In announcing its WebSphere Portal Server last week, for example, IBM put a great deal of emphasis on "new collaborative capabilities with templates built on a Service-Oriented Architecture that can be used... to deploy role-based composite applications." IBM's vision sounds like a portal-flavored version of SAP's xApps game plan.
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know From Programmer 97-things Welcome to the home page for the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project, pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners. You can read through the Contributions Appearing in the Book plus the Other Edited Contributions, browse Contributions in Progress, view the list of Contributors, and also learn How to Become a Contributor. If you would simply like to comment on a contribution, please also read How to Become a Contributor as some of it applies to you. Cape Clear and Appian Announce Partnership Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM) pure-play leaders extend services with integrated process management solutions SAN MATEO, Calif. and VIENNA, Va.November 29 2007 Cape Clear Software, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Platform leader, announces a new alliance with Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology. The combination enables the design, development and deployment of end-to-end business processes spanning system-to-system integration and service orchestration with Cape Clears ESB platform, and advanced human-facing process management delivered by Appians comprehensive BPM suite, Appian Enterprise.
Agile: BizTalk? - Greg Young [MVP] I have been quite bizzy this week, emerged in BizTalk. I will be posting a complete review of the course I have been taking, it is through Mark Dunn (Dunn Consulting), and the teacher is Mark Berry. I will say now that my review on the course will be quite positive. I have run into a severe concern involving BizTalk in an agile environment. It really does not seem to be very testable and I have always had the notion when dealing with things in an agile environment that if I can’t test it; it doesn’t exist (is this not one of the main reasons why we don’t put business logic in the database?). I have gone through downloaded and played with BizUnit but let me tell you that the name is very misleading.
Enterprise Java Community: JBoss Seam: A Deep Integration Framew Software frameworks are very useful tools for enterprise Java developers. They are widely used to package reusable software components and services. Each framework provides a set of design patterns, APIs, and component models, which can be used in applications built on top of the framework. Examples of popular Java EE frameworks include both open source projects such as Hibernate, Spring, Struts, etc., and standard-based products such as various implementations for Servlet/JSP, JSF, EJB, JMS, Web Services etc. A typical enterprise Java application can use more than a dozen frameworks at the same time.
Analysts point to JEE complexity drag for SOA, but SOA ain' I caught some grief when I came out quite a while back with an "Enterprise Java is becoming legacy" observation. Now analysis firms Burton Group and ZapThink are building more momentum to the thinking. Gartner said as much recently with its "development is dead" declaration. Much of their disdain for Java EE 5 comes from burgeoning complexity, especially if SOA is prepared as a martini cocktail with Java as the vodka.