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 from [...]
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 are [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
You should consider an application server when you have a need for:
Integration with existing systems and databases
Website support
Secondary reasons to use application servers derive from the primary reasons.
A few secondary reasons are:
E-Commerce
Web-integrated collaboration
Component re-use
One way to look at application servers is that they are a formalization of a
solution to a problem that has been around for a long time. That problem can
characterized as a need to create an integrated presentation and processing
environment for existing systems and databases. The presentation has pretty much
been decided with browsers now being the dominant interface. This is why you usually
see a Web server paired with or included in an application server. The integrated
processing has been moving towards components for some time. Application servers
provide containers for such components along with application program interfaces
(APIs) to support the components. These APIs are to the existing systems and
databases.
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SpringSource Unveils TomcatExpert.com MarketWatch (press release) Apache Tomcat is the world's most widely used Java application server. SpringSource employees are responsible for 95 percent of the bug fixes to Apache ... and more » 16 Mar 2010 at 7:06am
Red Hat to be cloud facilitator, not fluffer Register RHEV uses the open-source KVM while Red Hat already makes its Linux available, along with its JBoss application server, on Amazon's cloud service. ... and more » 17 Mar 2010 at 5:43pm
JBoss in Action: Configuring the JBoss Application Server by Javid Jamae, Peter Johnson Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews. Customer Review: I bought this book about 6 months ago to prepare for a projected move to the JBoss AS from Websphere. As with most technical books I read as much as I needed for the tasks at hand. My project seems to be cancelled, so I may not go back to this book, but I'd like to leave this review. I believe this is the only book targeted at JBoss ...
WebSphere Application Server Administration Using Jython by Robert A. Gibson, Arthur Kevin McGrath, Noel J. Bergman Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews. Customer Review: I was introduced to this book during a Jython class taught by Keven McGrath. He kept referring to the book in the classroom, and bringing up sample pages for examples. I was favorably impressed during the class, and even more so when the book finally arrived. They take a very important subset of Jython code for WebSphere and give con...
70-643: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration, Package (Microsoft Official Academic Course Series) by Microsoft Official Academic Course Average Customer Review: based on 1 review. Customer Review: Decided to buy the MOC (MS Official Curriculum) for this test. Didn't find it worth the money. Seemed to be a longer read than the Sybex books (although didn't use the Sybex book for this exam so I can't say how it would compare). Text was well written and easy to understand. It was written for a newbie to network admin role. I was up...
Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications by Gregory Nyberg, Robert Patrick, Paul Bauerschmidt, Jeff McDaniel, Raja Mukherjee Average Customer Review: based on 16 reviews. Customer Review: I really like this book. It is not for beginners, and is not an "Intro to J2EE". However, for advanced developers, and especially those leaning towards the administation aspects of WebLogic Server, this book is an excellent resource. The examples in this book are straighforward, and the accompianing discussion is well written and ea...
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