You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
The following application program interfaces (APIs) are available for J2EE
client applications, web servers, and EJB servers:
JMS: The Java Message Service is the API for sending and receiving
messages via enterprise messaging systems like IBM MQ Series and TIBCO
Rendezvous.
JAAS: The Java Authentication and Authorization Service is used to
authenticate and authorize access controls on users.
JAXP: The Java API for XML Parsing provides support for the industry standard SAX and DOM APIs for parsing XML documents, as well as support for XSLT transform engines.
JDBC: The JDBC API is for accessing databases from Java using a call-level
interface. More
on JDBC (new window).
SQLJ: The SQLJ API is for accessing databases from Java using embedded
SQL. More
on SQLJ (new window)
JDO: The JDO API is for accessing databases from Java using a transparent
persistence interface. More
on JDO (new window).
The following APIs are not available for J2EE client applications, but are
available for J2EE web servers and EJB servers:
JTA: The Java Transactions API is the API for managing and coordinating
transactions across heterogeneous systems.
JavaMail: This is the API for sending and receiving email.
JAF: JavaMail uses the JavaBeans Activation Framework.
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