Loosely Coupled Thinking : Service Orientation

"Concept Typedefs", the Holy Grail of BPM and Closing the Gap Between Business and IT

jevdemon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:01:00 GMT

A typedef is a keyword in both C and C++ used to introduce new names for existing types. A simple typedef declaration lets you define your own names that can be used in place of type specifiers such as int, float, and double. Surprisingly, some people...(read more)

HBR on Susceptibility to Fads (like SOA)

jevdemon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:28:00 GMT

The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be...(read more)

Moving the SOA Goalposts

jevdemon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:00 GMT

SOA is about loosely coupled system integration . Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes . On the other hand SOA is about reuse , except that its actually not about reuse . Hang on a minute, SOA is like event...(read more)

If you can do something it doesn't mean that you should...

jevdemon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:39:00 GMT

I'm not really doing anything BPEL related these days but a post by Jesper Joergensen caught my eye. Since I'm not focused on BPEL I haven't kept up with some of the developments in the BPM-related blogosphere. Apparently Bruce wrote a post illustrating...(read more)

SOA Fatigue

jevdemon — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:33:06 GMT

Dave Linthicum recently blogged about not attending SOA conferences because he is able to determine the core trends and messages they would be promoting. I've thought this about SOA books, reports, trade magazines and online articles for well over...(read more)

BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask to OASIS

jevdemon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:05:05 GMT

The BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specs are headed to OASIS, resulting in a new BPEL4People Technical Committee (TC) - expect to see an announcement and call for participation soon. The TC will focus on defining human interactions (“human tasks”)...(read more)

Dave on Orchestration

jevdemon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:05:00 GMT

Dave Linthicum is blogging about orchestration and gets it mostly right. The blog entry does a decent job of describing orchestration at a high level - if you're unfamiliar with orchestration the blog entry is worth a read. The following, however, made...(read more)

BPEL != BPM

jevdemon — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:03:00 GMT

Interesting perspective on SOA and BPM here from Joe , but positioning BPEL as BPM is just wrong. BPM encompasses much more than simple service orchestration. It’s good to see the human element addressed here - there is some interesting work going on...(read more)

I guess Microsoft "gets SOA" after all...and a whisper worth listening to

jevdemon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:19:00 GMT

Last week I quoted from a rather strange article wondering if Microsoft "gets SOA" . Based on a recent IDC study it appears that many enterprises are planning to use Microsoft for their SOA initiatives. While the study is not SOA-specific it contains...(read more)

SOA Message?

jevdemon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:47:00 GMT

SearchWebServices published an article this week wondering if Microsoft "gets" SOA. I think you know my opinion on this but I'm interested in hearing yours. What do you think is Microsoft's SOA message? Feedback/flames/etc are highly encouraged....(read more)

SOA Zen Moment of the Day

jevdemon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:52:00 GMT

An InfoWorld newsletter called "The SOA Report" tells us that SOA is overly hyped. How ironic. But wait, it gets even more surreal. An analyst is quoted in the article saying " ...people are not getting a large amount of return on investment on SOA. Only...(read more)

Updated ESB Guidance available

jevdemon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:50:05 GMT

A new August Community build (CTP3) is available on the ESB Guidance on ESB Guidance community site . The CTP3 build introduces some new and augmented features such as “messaging” level end point resolution support for UDDI, WS-MEX, BRE and more (BizTalk...(read more)

Say What?

jevdemon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:35:00 GMT

Interesting perspective from Randy Heffner (Forrester) in the latest issue of Redmond Magazine: Perhaps Randy is unaware of our work on XML , SOAP and the Web Services Workshops that led to the WS-* specifications . The quote above seems to be inspired...(read more)

SOA and Business Process Conference 2007

jevdemon — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:04:00 GMT

The 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference will be held from October 29th through November 2nd, 2007 at the Microsoft Conference Center on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Customers and partners can learn about Microsoft’s current and...(read more)

SOA in the Real World - book errata

jevdemon — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:07:27 GMT

I just noticed a couple of the Figures towards the end of Chapter Two are unreadable (totally black). Below are corrected versions of Chapter Two (Figures 6-8 are restored) in both PDF and XPS formats. Corrected PDF: http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/jevdemon/Chapter%202.pdf...(read more)