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.
This middle-tier architecture allows the existing database to be the "database of
record." At the same time, it also protects the existing database from direct Internet
traffic and provides a high performance engine to interact with
the Internet traffic. Also see object-relational
mapping (new window) for this architecture.
For how to use object database with Java application servers, see enterprise architectures using Java application servers (new
window).
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Consona's CEO Clearing the Air (about Compiere) – Part 2 Technology Evaluation Centers (blog) For one, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) acts as the middle-tier language for customizations and is widely embraced as the language of the open source ... 16 Jul 2010 at 10:40am
Introduction to Hibernate 3.0 Siliconindia.com (blog) ... to implement the business logic in database. It is most useful with object-oriented domain modes and business logic in the Java-based middle-tier. ... 16 Jul 2010 at 1:12am
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The Object Data Standard: ODMG 3.0 (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by R. G. Cattell, Douglas K. Barry, Mark Berler, Jeff Eastman, David Jordan, Craig Russell, Olaf Schadow, Torsten Stanienda, Fernando Velez Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews. Customer Review: A well-written, concise reference covering a diverse range of topics that will be of interest to all who know the frustration of cramming complex OO systems into relational tables. From a complete design pattern for Object and Object Relational database systems, to design patterns for declarative language symantics; from C++ and Java...
Object-Oriented Database Design Clearly Explained by Jan L. Harrington Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: "Object Oriented Database Design" is a book for beginners and, as far as I have been able to investigate, it is a perfect walkthrough along the background of object structures. Figures, exemples, syntax of codes and clear explanations lead the learner through theory towards practice. Exemples are often very nice.
Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications by Clifton Nock Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: I have to disagree with the previous review. I will try to explain why I think 'b88zhou' review is inadequate after presenting my overview of this book. After reading numerous pattern books, it is nice to see a pattern book with very good organization. Each pattern is presented with the following subsections. * Description * Context ...