Tag: application integration

Enterprises of all types see increasing value in standards-based development and integration, and they often look to the TM Forum for deep and consistent models of business process, data, applications and system architecture. Moving from analysis through design...

In my opinion the rage against ESBs is directed more at the term "Enterprise Service Bus" than at the need for integration within an enterprise SOA. Few bloggers would...

The Tower of Babel was an engineering marvel that failed nonetheless. Like the great tower, SOA represents a revolution in “infrastructure,” the very scope of which threatens its success.

According to the biblical...

Today, I write like my colleagues. No humor. No funny title. No family stories. Just boring technology evangelizing.

I apologize.

But, I have something to say, and it can't wait until I think of a funny, but related personal story.

People often ask about policy portability. In...

There are a lot of laws in computing with people's names on them: Moore's Law, Amdahl’s Law,...

Wow, things have really changed. I remember the first WS on Wall Street show I was at in '03 (if memory serves). It was all about "web service proxies." It was hard to tell the differentiation between the vendors, and,...

Since I know many people google me and read this blog, let me start by saying that my children are written in Java, C#, and C++.

Actional can police every service platform out there... but for some, we add functionality using our Agent...

I don't know Tom, though I respect his accomplishments. I suspect he's a pretty smart guy, which would only mean that he'd be smart enough to have nothing to do with SOA,...

...her bastard child.

I was once relaxing with some friends and was asked, "what's the one thing you do better than anyone else?" I thought for a minute, and answered "I'm stupid. Too stupid to give up. Long after normal people give up, I just can't let things...