Author: David Millman

In the last few weeks/months I have got more immersed in the world of REST and what it means to build and have a REST application.  While at first glance it may seem that REST is a lighter weight version of a web-service implementation, it is by no means the complete answer and I do not believe...

One of the key things I saw in 2008 was the rise of events and eventing through Event Driven Architecture (EDA).  While "events" have always existed, they have primarily been used in specific markets such as...

As you have probably read in today's press and blogs, Progress is going to acquire IONA.  This is great news and I welcome my new colleagues from IONA.  But what does this mean to our combined customers?  While I am...

I am eagerly awaiting delivery of my Nintendo Wii Fit so that I can snowboard and ski in the comfort of my living room.  The Wii has changed the way that people play electronic games.  No longer do I have to contort five of my...

I had the privilege to speak at the IDC Event in Buenos Aries last week on Socially Oriented Architecture and then visit some companies who have or are about to invest in SOA infrastructure...

Whatever disaster occurs next, there is always someone able to turn it into an opportunity.  Look no further than the last dip in the economy and the associated Enron scandal.  Here was a company that lost millions of dollars overnight, causing distress to investors and employees...

We have all been there, performing the same task over and over again - this is no different when implementing a SOA.  There are many patterns, see www.integrationpatterns.com, that can be implemented plus many techniques to...

There's lots of industry noise about Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the expected benefits, but in many cases SOA is an implementation of procedural programming that may be implemented in Object Oriented (OO) technologies such as Java or .NET. That said, I cannot really see anything OO in a...

In a previous post, Distributed SOA, I have got a couple of comments about how technologies, such as SAML etc., fit in.  I would like to say that the title was Distributed Not Federated SOA, but...