Tips

Tips

• Tools and practices to create a meaningful SOA ALM process

  To create a meaningful SOA ALM process, architects have to remember modern apps are increasingly using components.  Continue Reading

• 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

• Developing, migrating SOA applications in cloud infrastructures

  In many cases, changes to optimize SOA applications for virtual and cloud resources are limited to the publication and orchestration processes.  Continue Reading

• Automated function point: Improving SOA estimates as specs mature

  The finalization of the new automated function point analysis will improve SOA project estimation as automation and specs mature.  Continue Reading

• Mobile impact on SOA offers apps big gains

  Mobile broadband has a big impact on how people access and use online resources. Tom Nolle discusses how mobile services on SOA affect apps today.  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

• How to use application metrics to manage the SOA application lifecycle

  Application metrics are evolving, but three requirements must be met if they're going to work for SOA application lifecycle management.  Continue Reading

• Changing enterprise architect role enables business, software agility

  EAs must be the innovators pushing organizations to adopt new technologies that allow business capabilities to change along with new opportunities.  Continue Reading

• App integration: The time is now

  Learn why businesses need to update their app integration processes and how to avoid technology silos.  Continue Reading

• Testing SOA applications: Tips for smooth deployments

  Testing is a key step in software development. Here, Tom Nolle shares best practices for testing SOA applications to ensure unimpeded deployments.  Continue Reading

• Orchestration and app performance in SOA

  Learn the fundamental and finite details of the orchestration and app performance in service-oriented architecture.  Continue Reading

• Getting the most out of SOA reuse

  Failing to focus on reuse strategies may inhibit the success of a transition to SOA. Experts offer tips to leverage SOA reuse for better services.  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Business goals must drive integration strategy

  Integrating apps in a way that meets business goals can be difficult. A business-oriented integration strategy is key, says Forrester's Randy Heffner.  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 native mobile apps are better than HTML5 apps

  Should mobile apps be implemented using HTML5 or native code? Here, a look at why native apps may be a better solution than HTML5 apps.  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

• How has the role of the business architect changed for the enterprise?

  Business leaders are concerned over the role of the business architect, rapidly changing architectures and how to keep up with a business enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Big data in motion: Data moves with CEP

  There is a real difference between big data at rest and big data in motion. To get it moving, CEP and other technologies may be called for.  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

• Prepare now for future changes in development teams' makeup

  Not all enterprise developers will succeed in mobile apps. Teams need to add skills, James Duggan told attendees at last month's Gartner ITxpo.  Continue Reading

• Application architecture, BPM must align objectives

  Business process management and application architecture must work towards common goals in creating cohesive business architecture.  Continue Reading

• The mainframe environment encounters the Web, cloud and SOA -- and survives

  The mainframe environment remains relevant amid industry growth in SOA, cloud computing and Web applications.  Continue Reading

• In-memory data cache performance dos and don'ts

  Go beyond Hadoop-style big data batch processing and into real-time operations with in-memory data caches.  Continue Reading

• Selecting a SOA testing tool

  Choosing a SOA testing tool can be tricky and, if done incorrectly, can diminish ROI. Learn what to consider when selecting a SOA testing tool.  Continue Reading

• Take an event-driven approach to enterprise governance

  Event-driven enterprise governance allows projects to hit key integration areas, streamlining governance and reducing multiple "silos of governance."  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

• Portfolio management tools draw roadmap for business transformation

  Business transformation, portfolio management and application infrastructure strategy are the pillars that support business integration success.  Continue Reading

• Recent articles on messaging middleware for integration

  In our efforts to provide the best in application integration coverage, SearchSOA.com writers continue to return to message queuing. Coverage in recent weeks ranged from MQ management product trends to expert views on the emerging role of MQ in ...  Continue Reading

• Gaining reusability in SOA projects

  Chubb fashions SOA to achieve more reusability. Insurance industry’s Chubb Corp. recently spoke about its use of SOA reusability at IBM Impact 2012.  Continue Reading

• Skills, ESBs and ROI: Pictures from the SOA journey

  Barriers to immediate and wider use of SOA may include limited skill sets and the time it takes to build-out supporting SOA infrastructure. These and other issues were discussed at IBM Impact 2012.  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

• Best practices for OSGi development in enterprise Java integration

  From EclipseCon 2012, OSGi expert Timothy Ward explains how to tame the wilder side of OSGi development for enterprise Java applications.  Continue Reading

• SOA growth reveals benefits and lessons

  Service-oriented architecture is a way of including roles (customers, suppliers, engineers, etc.) and viewing everything as a service.  Continue Reading

• Take ''T-I-M-E'' to understand legacy applications

  A review of old apps may lead you to Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate them. How do you decide? A Gartner analyst gives some guides.  Continue Reading

• Top five service-oriented cloud computing articles in 2011

  Cloud computing has gained momentum as a force in enterprise architecture throughout 2011. Here is a look back at the top 5 stories on service-oriented cloud computing.  Continue Reading

• Who develops your business architecture for SOA?

  Where do we find the analysts required to develop business architecture and transform business models needed develop aligned SOA solutions? Ramsay Millar discusses his research.  Continue Reading

• OAuth protocol gains for securing Web services authorization

  OAuth (Open Authorization) allows Web application users to move from site to site without an additional login. It has gained exceptional attention of late in the world of services and security.  Continue Reading

• Monolithic applications present monumental development challenges

  Monolithic applications can provide huge throughput, but they may be too tightly coupled with mainframe hardware for iterative modernization projects.  Continue Reading

• Thoughts on communicating enterprise business architecture

  SOA may have reached a tipping point. But, to move forward, you must effectively speak the language of business architecture.  Continue Reading

• Gartner takes on cloud identity management

  Issues 'on the ground' resurface on the cloud when identity management comes into play. While there is no one winning formula, identity and access strategies are emerging.  Continue Reading

• Forming a strategy for mobile application services

  The path to mobile development requires a look at native platforms, HTML5, application integration middleware and variations thereof.  Continue Reading

• Learning about business architecture the hard way

  Big system expenditures can go unmeasured, unmonitored or unreported over time. This is just one aspect of learning about business architecture the hard way.  Continue Reading

• Mobile application interfaces: Three tips for meeting user demands

  As user expectations for mobile applications get more strict, development teams must package up their services more deftly. Gomez experts clue you in.  Continue Reading

• 'Service chunking' integrates mobile apps into enterprise portfolios

  "Chunking" SOA services is a useful technique when recreating enterprise applications as mobile apps for business.  Continue Reading

• Look to Open Virtualization Format for managing cloud computing workloads

  Standards for cloud computing are slowly evolving. Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is one such standard that software architects may tap into.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise architect tool belt: TOGAF 9, UML, BPMN and others help

  As it matures, SOA is increasingly about articulating business needs, according to software architect Ramsay Millar. A mix of modeling tools helps architects meet these needs, he told SearchSOA.com.  Continue Reading

• ''Development with the Force.com Platform'' provides quick view into key PaaS

  Salesforce.com's Force.com was an early platform as a service. Central is Apex, a general language with some DSL-like traits. In an interview, author Jason Ouellette explains.  Continue Reading

• Architectural planning for the cloud: What could go wrong?

  SOA in Action recap: David Linthicum on where cloud computing implementations fail to contribute to the greater enterprise architecture.  Continue Reading

• Consider niche tech XQuery to bring improvements to data integration

  XQuery arose in the early days of XML Web services. Where is it now? It is a useful tool for data integration, says one expert. But there are caveats.  Continue Reading

• SOA in Action Recap - What can go wrong in cloud computing?

  Cloud computing and SOA strategist Melvin Greer discusses security and data issues in moving to the cloud platform in this excerpt from our recent ''SOA in Action'' VTS.  Continue Reading

• Lean integration posed as approach to middleware

  So-called Lean integration has emerged from the factory floor to offer a new approach to middleware architecture. Does it run counter to SOA?  Continue Reading

• Cloud integration security best practices start to emerge

  The Open Group views scenario modeling as a means to achieve useful risk analysis as SOA services go to cloud integrations.  Continue Reading

• The 13 Identity Commandments – per the Jericho Forum

  What are the fundamental design issues that must be addressed to succeed with Web-based applications today?  Continue Reading

• Why cloud computing providers don’t get SOA

  Too busy selling infrastructure, most cloud computing providers out there have no clue as to the value of SOA to their core business.  Continue Reading

• SOA development is path to renewal for growing Brazilian bank

  At Itau Unibanco, email- and paper-based development team communications have given way to a new approach to development, based around a repository of software models and services.  Continue Reading

• On enterprise architect skills today - Q&A with The Open Group's Leonard Fehskens

  SearchSOA.com's Jack Vaughan recently spoke with Leonard Fehskens, Vice President and Global Profession Lead at The Open Group.  Continue Reading

• Big Data is a bigger deal than we thought

  ''Big data'' is not just a movie we have all seen. It betokens the ability to see operational data directly, and forgo special databases for BI.  Continue Reading

• Forrester analyst says consider process fine points when adapting BPM tools

  Forrester Research analyst Derek Miers says the 'process' in BPM signifies importance when pursuing flexibility in IT systems.  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

• Modernize? Consider the MIPS

  Forrester’s Phil Murphy says modernizing mainframe apps continues to make sense for organizations on the high end of the MIPS scale, recommends following a modernization framework.  Continue Reading

• Q&A: Gartner's Richard Watson's field report on BPM

  SearchSOA.com talks to Gartner Analyst Richard Watson about the state of business process management and his latest research papers.  Continue Reading

• Harness real-time BPM analytics, streamline processes

  Business Process Management came to prominence as a means to optimize processes. Now it drives better enterprise reporting.  Continue Reading

• Implementing BPM real-time analysis? Start with BAM

  A BPM system needs a dashboard to show its return on investment and keep the execs abreast of what goes on. Architects need to choose the right levels of alerts to make BAM effective. Starting with BAM may be the best entry.  Continue Reading

• Linthicum on solidifying the SOA and cloud computing links

  In this tip, expert David Linthicum explains the connections that exist between the cloud and SOA and how to build on these connections.  Continue Reading

• The future of the mainframe and Web services

  Web services have had a long run of ''wrappering'' mainframe legacy systems. Will Web front ends overburden the venerable platform and end the party?  Continue Reading

• Three legacy modernization pitfalls to avoid

  SOA-enabling legacy systems is fraught with pitfalls. There are some dos and don’ts that can make this journey easier.  Continue Reading

• Is it time to migrate your midrange assets to the cloud?

  The cloud may be the next logical step for midrange legacy apps. But architecture, security and legal issues give some pause.  Continue Reading

• Software test veteran suggests: Set up a SOA Test Center of Excellence

  SOA changes architecture, and savvy application development managers know it changes test frameworks, too.  Continue Reading

• How EAI and SOA play complementary roles in the SAP ecosystem

  Since the rise of SOA for application integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) often gets ignored. Learn how EAI and SOA play complementary roles in the SAP ecosystem.  Continue Reading

• Apache open-source projects' background

  The Apache Software Foundation publishes a lot of useful open source tools. You may already know about Tomcat or Apache Server, but lesser known tools are worth a look-see.  Continue Reading

• The ESB and its role in application integration architecture

  The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a form of plumbing that enables effective SOA implementation. But understanding the ESB remains an industry-wide quest.  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

• Enterprise mashup apps forge alternative to integration engines

  Enterprise mashups are a viable alternative to integration engines. Learn the benefits of using enterprise application mashups for delivering real-time analytics.  Continue Reading

• Application integration expert Linthicum on cloud computing

  Governance is the foundation for cloud computing trust and reliability. Learn how to implement governance to improve the reliability and trust of cloud computing services.  Continue Reading

• Rethinking the conventional wisdom of data architecture

  As the business world becomes more Web-connected enterprise architects should stay ahead of the game. Often, this means bucking the deep-set trends of conventional wisdom.  Continue Reading

• Video, HTML5 canvas and the codec cavalcade

  Browser support is again a new frontier. Video codec are a central issue. A variety of codecs are being offered for HTML5. Some codecs may be the subject of patent litigation.  Continue Reading

• XBRL backgrounder: XML meets the CPA

  For public companies, XBRL has arrived. For others, the journey may be beginning. SEC mandates have caused XBRL to hit the public scene in a dramatic fashion.  Continue Reading

• Challenges confronting the XBRL implementer

  The SEC has mandated that all public companies must use XBRL. Learn more about XBRL and how to comply with the SEC mandates.  Continue Reading

• Graduate from portals to enterprise application mashups with REST APIs

  Enterprise application mashups are sometimes seen as just portals, but mashups experts say they can be much more. REST APIs allow developers to do more with less planning.  Continue Reading

• Low latency message queuing primer

  Messaging middleware has long provided dependable communications between systems. Learn how significant decreases in latency can provide nearly instant delivery of messages.  Continue Reading

• Get ready for HTML5 and canvas elements

  The HTML5 canvas element is a new way to display active graphics and manipulate images with JavaScript. Find out what the new element will mean for Web development teams.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise application development means more than just Java: Q&A with Forrester's Mike Gualtieri

  Java may not be the best choice for enterprise application development, contends Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri. In this interview, he maintains Java innovation is not the same as development innovation.  Continue Reading

• Perspectives on application modernization

  Application modernization guru William Ulrich explains how mapping out business capabilities can lead to a more complete business acceptance of the tenets of SOA.  Continue Reading

• Embedded OS conundrum: Build, buy, or borrow?

  Early on in the development process of an embedded system, there comes a time when a decision must be made concerning the OS. Does one build, buy, or borrow?  Continue Reading

• Jeff Genender on working with ActiveMQ

  Open source evangelist Jeff Genender talks about how to get the most out of ActiveMQ.  Continue Reading

• On SOA infrastructure – Tips from TSSJS presenter Jeff Genender part two

  Open source maven Jeff Genender shares his take on SOA infrastructure. He includes message buses, containers, orchestrators and more in his definition.  Continue Reading

• Application mining tools and screen scrapers pave the way for services

  You can't fix what you can't identify. For legacy application modernization efforts, application mining tools can provide a wealth of information about existing assets.  Continue Reading

• Q&A - Enterprise Architect Maja Tibbling - Pt.2: "Infrastructure, SOA and legacy"

  We recently discussed role of SOA in cloud computing, infrastructure building, and application modernization with Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect at Con-way, Inc.  Continue Reading

• Q&A - Enterprise Architect Maja Tibbling - Pt.1: "No SOA, No Cloud"

  SearchSOA.com recently spoke with Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect at freight giant Con-way, Inc. The topic was the status of SOA as cloud computing begins to emerge.  Continue Reading

• NIST cloud computing standards work off the ground

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reached a first important stage in developing cloud security standards and guidelines by creating draft documents.  Continue Reading

• Frameworks and application modernization

  While enterprise frameworks reflect basic best practices, some bits are specific to the unique needs of application modernization.  Continue Reading

• The eternal sunshine of the enterprise mashup

  Consumer applications built with mashup techniques have become commonplace and yet enterprise mashups are still hovering somewhere just outside the mainstream.  Continue Reading

• Architecting SOA in the age of cloud infrastructure

  Building a SOA infrastructure for the cloud requires a truly service-oriented approach and a thorough understanding of the value of services.  Continue Reading

• IT and SOA infrastructure – SOA questions answered: Part Three

  SOA expert Kerrie Holley explains the tricks of SOA infrastructure and introduces some best practices in this Q&A.  Continue Reading

• HTML 5 nears completion: What is happening to HTML?

  HTML 5 is nearing completion. After a decade of relative stability for Web authors, it looks like we are headed for another period of dramatic change.  Continue Reading