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- Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantra
- Is reuse an idea that's too good to be true? The idea of "build once, use often" has a lot of appeal for enterprises, and, as discussed many times in this blogspace, the first and foremost return on investment to be gained from SOA. There has been a lot of...
- Tags: SOA, Chappell, David Chappell
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
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- Avoid accidental complexity, and 96 other things every software architect should know
- Favor simplicity. Avoid accidental complexity. Don't worry about building the 'perfect' beast. Don't worry about future-proofing. Treat people with respect. These common-sense pearls of wisdom come from a book titled 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Richard Monson-Haefel, that is packed with truisms...
- Tags: Solution, Complexity, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Experts convene to analyze SOA's vital signs
- Ron Schmelzer passed this on to me: he and the ZapThink crew are hosting an SOA confab next week in Boston that plays off the "SOA is Dead" theme we've been hearing so much about, titled "SOA: The Night of the Living Dead." And appropriately, Anne Thomas...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- ESPN Cricinfo Mobicast 2.05 (Mobile)
- This application will automatically update, eliminating the need for constant web page refreshes and long waits. With stunning game time visuals from Getty Images and the latest news from Cricinfo, this is a must have for all cricket fans. Also included are several audio podcast features from experts such as...
- Tags: ESPN, Getty Images, Mobile, Plusmo, Podcasts, Games, Internet, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-07-09
- SOA economics: addressing 'boundary costs'
- Who's going to pay for this SOA? Often, the costs of handling and processing SOA-based services gets spread all over the map. This has implications as SOAs grow in scale and complexity. Oracle's Dave Chappell discusses the matter of "boundary costs" as part of...
- Tags: XML Document, SOA, Boundary Cost, Application Grid, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, XML, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision
- A new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues about what the Softies are planning to unveil at this October's Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data...
- Tags: Zurich, Operating System, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Service, David Chappell, Red Dog, SQL Server Data Services, Application Service, EC2, EC2 Customer, Windows Live ID, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview
- This 28-page overview, created by Chappell & Associates, introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies and focuses on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. Since every technology, virtual or otherwise, must be effectively managed, this discussion also looks at Microsoft's management products for a virtual world. The goal is to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-08-01
- More Microsoft 'Oslo' modeling details fall into place
- While Microsoft isn't planning to provide testers with "Oslo" code until late October, the company did finally start putting some real meat on its software-modeling bones at the TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando this week. Until this week, Microsoft would say next-to-nothing about Oslo. Until the TechEd...
- Tags: Repository, Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture
- Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Grid is 'the new ESB,' and a warning about Web 2.0 interfaces
- David Chappell the SOA Oracle of Oracle issued his predictions for the market over the coming year, and says that grid computing will be hot, hot hot. But, he cautions, "the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB [Enterprise Service Bus], " given "the various concepts of hardware...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Grid, David Chappell, Enterprise Service Bus, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Web Services, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
- 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008SAAS SilosI'd like to see more service providers that focus on one element of Enterprise and do that one thing real well.Make it real open, secure, scalable, ,and all the other important aspects of Enterprise 2.0.And make it so you can access this...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, SOA governance, software-as-a-service, Interesting list Dion, Big SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
- The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Software-as-a-service, AJAX, Information Technology, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, Mashup, Web-orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- A looming election nightmare?
- After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...
- Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Exploring the possibilities of a Web 2.0-SOA marriage
- Are Web 2.0 and SOA soulmates, or are they in two separate universes? I'll be exploring these issues at a panel today Tuesday, entitled SOA and Web 2.0: Mashups, SaaS, and Collaboration: Putting the Pieces Together, which will include fellow ZDNet blogging community activitists Dana Gardner and Phil Wainewright. ...
- Tags: Panel, Web, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Why doesn't Microsoft get in on the Service Component Architecture action?
- Microsoft is pretty well known for creating its own bandwagons, not jumping on someone else's. But if Microsoft is really serious about SOA, shouldn't it at least get in on the Service Component Architecture action? After all, SCA is about moving the SOA service code base away from specific languages,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Microsoft Corp., Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Service Component Architecture explained
- David Chappell has just posted a good primer explaining exactly what Service Component Architecture SCA is and why we should care about it.In the paper, David explores the properties of components, SCA's Java Component Model, composites, policies, and implementing SCA.David acknowledges in in his conclusion that vendors have had...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Case Studies
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- The genetic secrets of the black widow spider
- Biologists at the University of California at Riverside UCR have identified the genes for two key proteins in the 'dragline silk' of the black widow spider. This silk, one of the seven different silks that an individual spider produces, is used by spiders as the structural foundation of their webs....
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- More debate on Service Component Architecture -- is it vendor lock-in?
- There was an interesting and passionate thread of follow-up commentary to my post from earlier this month, "Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit." Consultant David Chappell initially raised questions about the positioning of SCA as a part of SOA, but Oracle's Dave Chappell responded that SCA has plenty...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit
- Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bitSCA is about building services to fit into a SOAHi Joe,Its Oracle Dave Chappell. In my blog writeup on the SCA panel discussion gets heated after the fact I spoke about this area of contention, which I thought that David, Gregor et...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., runtime infrastructure, Bloomberg L.P., Joe IT, JBI, Service Component Architecture, SOA
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit
- Service component architecture SCA is a good thing, right? Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, complexities, and latency issues?Well, some analysts out there have professed that SCA has, well, issues. David Chappell, for one,...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, Standards Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
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