Recent OVUM Cloud Forum 2012 as well as other events and publications demonstrate a shift in Cloud’s consumer’s attention (What is Happening to Clouds and Who is at Fault?) from technical to business aspects of Cloud Computing (hereinafter, Cloud), particularly, to its usability from business perspectives. It seems that 2012 will be the year of …
Category Archives: Archive 2006-2013
Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?
2012 IT developers and, especially IT Security specialists struggled for years trying to create an identity control at the enterprise level. The most known initiative and model in this area is Single Sign On (SSO) where an identity of an end-user can be propagated between systems and can be recognized across an enterprise. In today’s …
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#Purpose #Case #Management and #Solution #Flexibility #Estimate
2012 Preamble After many years of process-dominating approach to our work, we have collectively “discovered” that the process is not the only way of doing things. There are many unstructured activities and even social activities that have to be governed and managed. These activities affect our daily productivity and, at the end, an efficiency of …
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#Patterns In The #Context of #SOA #Business #Services
2010 Introduction Along the evolutionary path through centuries, the Mankind has found that we need some things stable, immutable, and even ‘untouchable’ to grasp the other constantly changing things. The examples of such immutable things include religion postulate, mathematical axioms and the Earth shape. Nonetheless, sometimes, the knowledge acquired in the evolution pushed us to …
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Does a Web Service Make a Service for SOA?
cloudcomputingexpo.com , 2006 Neither SOAP WebServices nor HTTP REST interfaces constitute services defined in SOA What could be easier than to take your application, wrap it with a Web Service, announce it or register it in the UDDI and get a SOA Service? Even better – take a data warehouse, cover a SQL executing code …
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SOA Strategy and Spline Tactics
2010 First things first: ‘SOA Strategy’ in the title of the article stands for ‘Service-Oriented Agile Strategy’,’ and we will talk about how to transform IT to make it agile to Market. ‘Spline’ is a term unusual to non-mathematicians. In simple words, spline is an interpolation function that balances between the smoothing and closeness to …
Logging for SOA – an enterprise-level solution
SOA & WOA, 2008 Reads: 13,996 What could be the problem with logging in SOA in the presence of such wonderful tools like log4j, Java’s logging library and similar? Why might we need something special for SOA and why aren’t existing techniques enough? The answer is simple and complex simultaneously – in SOA we are …
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RIA-SOA Collaboration Pattern
J2EE Journal, 2008 Reads: 28,812 Resolving RIA-SOA Conflict A friend of mine said, when we discussed the RIA-SOA topic, that he was fully entitled to have a service that provided a merchant’s price to his RIA. The price was assumed to be taken from a back-end data store. I agreed with him but thought that …
Service Reuse and Entitlement
J2EE Journal, 2008 READS: 12,417 At a glance the reuse of a service and entitlement to those service results have nothing in common. But on the second thought, the more a service gets reused the greater the chance of serving users with different access rights to the service results. We’ll discuss two models of reuse …
Wonderland Of SOA Governance
InfoQ, 2009 Introduction – Down to the Rabbit Hole One man, Harry W., once said “Alice does not fall down the hole. She sees the white rabbit, is intrigued, and willingly follows him down the deep rabbit hole.” Yes, the secret of Wonderland is about the meaning of the words: Harry has insisted that Alice ‘willingly follow[s]’ into …
Collecting Financial Market Data with Thread Pool
SOA & WOA, 2006 READS: 20,545 In this article I’ll share my experience in using the new features in Java 5 for solving an old industry problem, the problem of collecting constantly published financial data in reliable way. The business case example I’m going to discuss relates to the acquisition of some sort of market …
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Service Versioning for SOA
SOA Magazine, 2006 READS: 37,497 Policy-based version control for SOA services SOA development practice isn’t much different from other software development practices except for design and maintenance. Multiple self-containing and aggregated services that interact with others have their own life-cycle and evolution. The loosely coupling model of SOA services significantly simplifies design but creates additional …
Assured Delivery of Audit Data With SOA and Web Services
J2EE Journal, 2006 Reliable messaging via Web services and JMS READS: 24,548 This article describes two techniques that may be used for assured delivery of important data, specifically, audit data, in distributed systems. We will review design that leads from assured to guaranteed delivery. This task gets more and more important in light of modern …
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If a Resource Thread Hangs in the Portal
WebLogic Journal, 2006 READS: 26,326 This article describes a workaround design that allows a Portal to survive if its resource starts hanging request threads. Business TaskHow frequently does your Portal experience user requests hanging in the resource? Not frequently, I hope. However, if this happens and the resource continues hanging user requests, the Portal is …
Entitlement to Data
J2EE Journal, 2008 The requirements for different user-facing applications frequently say something like: “User has to see/read/be shown only funds/records/itineraries/policies he or she is entitled to.” Permissions in these cases usually depend on multiple factors related to the user profile (job role, locale, etc.), to the protected data (data origin, storage, approval status, etc.), or …
Dealing with Architectural Security
J2EE Journal OCTOBER 15, 2005 10:30 AM EDT READS: 32,681 Application architects have heard about the increased importance of security, but in many cases they really don’t know how to approach this issue. In this article, I’ll share my experience and define a few basic steps and checkpoints for building application architecture with …
Finding Services with the Novell Trader
by MIKHAIL ZLOCHEVSKIY Software Engineer, Novell Trader Java Technologies Group 1 Dec 1997, Provo, USA Focuses on the basic query method for the lookup of distributed objects with the Novell trader. Explains the query parameters and how to successfully locate objects registered with the Trader. Introduction Simple Client Code for Novell Trader TraderQuery Class Methods …
Why Managers Admire Ambiguity
Any Architecture is based on answers to five core question: WHY, WHAT, WHO/WHOM-FOR, WHERE, and WHEN. Any architecture comprises models and structures that detail the answers. If any answer to aforementioned questions is vague it becomes apparent immediately because it brings uncertainty and can lead to multiple versions of architecture with no criteria for comparison. …
We do not need SOA 3.0… we never needed SOA 2.0 as well
This BLOG is a reaction to the post by Scott Andersen, IASA Fellow, published on 29 Oct., 2012, at IASA’s Thoughts on Enterprise and Technology Architecture. In the BLOG, Scott points to new fantastic gadgets – Meta-Watch and BlackBerry connected watch – that are on their way to the consumers and expected by the end of this …
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My BLOGs at ebizQ for 2008-2013
Here, You can find my BLOG-posts published for the several years in ebizQ.
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