Tips

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• SOA and RESTful interfaces: When, why they should be combined

  The debate between SOA and RESTful interfaces has raged for a while, but many application architects say they are confused as to which one is better.  Continue Reading

• How to properly build the server side of mobility applications

  Building desktop versus building mobile applications: More than the device is different.  Continue Reading

• Developers get into BaaS, mobile APIs for new opportunities

  Backend as a Service and mobile APIs offer devel¬opers a whole new dimension of opportunity: cloud services to build the mobile apps of the future.  Continue Reading

• Using patterns for big data design

  Design patterns have caught on as a way to simplify development of software applications. Increasingly, that means using them for big data design.  Continue Reading

• Using SOA for big data and cloud data management

  Big data and cloud data management can be problematic. Learn how SOA can manage data in several ways.  Continue Reading

• Why SOA applications are easy to migrate to cloud

  Learn why SOA applications are the easiest of all apps to migrate to the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Centers of Excellence: Managing organizational skills

  Centers of Excellence are effective, but tend to slow projects down. Learn how to better organize skill sets with CoEs.  Continue Reading

• 'Big data' and the changing role of enterprise architects

  As more companies turn to 'big data' to gain new business value, the role of enterprise architects shows signs of changing.  Continue Reading

• Solution architecture becomes part of software development efforts

  Over the years, the enterprise architect has joined the pantheon of software team titles. Now it is time to include the solution architect.  Continue Reading

• Best practices for solutions architecture

  Solutions architecture has gained a reputation for being difficult to define. Even so, best practices unique to solutions architecture have emerged.  Continue Reading

• Thinking like a developer for better REST interfaces

  Organizations need to think about a developer’s needs in the development or deployment of RESTful services. Read this tip by George Lawton that will help create better REST interfaces.  Continue Reading

• ESB performance depends on service design

  ESBs have found increased use among SOA infrastructure tools - but they may not provide greater services reusability, if configured incorrectly.  Continue Reading

• The enterprise architect’s role in ITIL v3

  Find out why you should integrate enterprise architecture processes with ITIL, according to Henry Peyret, principal analyst at Forrester.  Continue Reading

• Cloud governance: Learning from SOA

  Cloud governance is an often neglected but necessary component of successful cloud computing deployments. Service oriented architecture (SOA) governance and best practices can help.  Continue Reading

• Gartner Analyst: Rethink the application paradigm - consider business capabilities

  'Application' may no longer be the best way to describe what we develop.  Continue Reading

• The impact of HTML5 on Web applications

  HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is an essential part of the Internet experience. HTML5 is one part of what WHATWG sees as essential to the future of Web applications.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise architects can use BPMN as common language for process modeling

  With BPMN, enterprise architects can create models with direct input from business users and those same models can be translated by developers into executable code.  Continue Reading

• Developing applications that work with message-oriented middleware requires mind shift

  Message-oriented middleware helps developers create applications with asynchronous functionality increasingly vital to modern distributed applications. But programmers must be ready to cede control over orchestration to make the jump to messaging ...  Continue Reading

• UML Basics

  Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the most popular software modeling languages. Read this tip to learn about the basics of UML, including diagrams, profiles, and updates.  Continue Reading

• OSGi framework helps you manage Java components

  The OSGi framework specification began as an embedded format. Its use by the Eclipse and Java communities position it as an increasingly popular way to manage software components.  Continue Reading

• How difficult is SOA?

  SOA often gets spoken about as if it's incredibly difficult to achieve, but, in truth, the principles on which it is based aren't so hard to understand.  Continue Reading

• WADL: The REST answer to WSDL

  In order to obtain metadata description capabilities for REST, like the ones WSDL gives to SOAP, developers have created WADL (Web Application Description Language).  Continue Reading

• J2EE application components

  A discussion of the J2EE application components.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?

  The enterprise service bus (ESB) has begun to gain popularity and could supplant proprietary enterprise application integration (EAI).  Continue Reading

• Application server components

  Rundown of what's what in application servers.  Continue Reading