Here we're going to show a FastSOA mid-tier service and data caching
architecture applied in three real-world scenarios. The scenarios show how to
accelerate SOA performance and mitigate performance problems through mid-tier
service caching, native XML persistence, and mid-tier data transformation,
aggregation, and federation.
Three Use Cases and the FastSOA Pattern
FastSOA is an appropriate solution for SOA performance and scalability
challenges. Each use case shows how pure XML technology used in the mid-tier
mitigates and solves performance and scalability problems and delivers
flexibility unavailable with object and relational technology. While there
are many (sometimes contradictory) definitions of SOA, most software
developers and architects recognize and support SOA as a pattern built around
consumers, services, and brokers. Figure 1 shows this relationship. T... (more)
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Today is US Independence day and I stopped at the Apple store to see the
iPhone, and ask questions about the new MacBook Pro. I wanted to see the
iPhone in person to learn what I should expect from mobile phone people
interaction and feature sets. And I wanted to learn which MacBook Pro model
I'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks.
iPhone is beautiful. It is smaller than I expected. Just a little larger than
my current Samsung D807. iPhone has a nice feel and the touch keyboard worked
very well for my big fingers. iPhone was suprisingly hot - temperature wis... (more)
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A blog by Jason English at iTKO has me bothered. Jason praises an analyst
report from ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg titled Divorcing SOA from Web
Services. Neither iTKO nor ZapThink seem to get the vision behind SOA and Web
services.
The IT industry has a long way to go to serve enterprises and organizations
needing to well manage their efforts through information systems. Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) are entirely appropriate to
build information systems. The vision behind SOA and WS help us a lot and in
different ways.
Here is a sli... (more)
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I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld
Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at
http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com
I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax
Bootcamp I taught in New York at the SOA World conference. I am very
impressed with TIBCO GI and Sun jMaki
-Frank
SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all
Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and
concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), ... (more)
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Rod Johnson of Spring fame has posted The Power of Adoption: Why No Company
is Big Enough to Deny Developers What They Want to talk about two big
software company acquisitions that were announced today. Oracle announced it
is buying BEA. And Sun announced it bought MySQL.
For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit
with AquaLogic to build scalable workflow (ala BPM) services. Instead, we
users and developers will be waiting for years to see WebLogic and AquaLogic
integrated into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack.
For MySQL, I was ... (more)