マイクロソフト株式会社 萩原正義   Microsoft社は2004年よりソフトウェアファクトリーを次世代のソフトウェア開発基盤技術として推進してきた。2009年以降はWindows Azure Platformを始めとするクラウドが新しいソフトウェアの開発および実行基盤と位置付けられる段階になり、クラウドのアプリケーション開発へのソフトウェアファクトリーの適用の機会が増えると予想される。そこでここでは、ソフトウェアプロダクトラインの構築、特性モデルによる可変性（ソフトウェアの要求変更能力）の提供、ソフトウェア開発プロセスの自動化と効率化、DSLによるモデル駆動型開発、開発資産の管理などソフトウェアファクトリーが取り組む技術を考慮し、クラウドのアプリケーション開発へのソフトウェアファクトリーの適用を解説する。 1 クラウドのアプリケーション開発の基本 1.1 クラウドのアプリケーション開発上の制約 クラウドのアプリケーション開発に特有の制約条件を以下に示す。 （１）非同期通信 部分的な障害に対応するため、同期通信によるトランザクションは参加者のライフタイム同期が全体の稼働を停止させるため許容されない。

Then tell us what you need! Blaine has blogged a link to a survey that patterns & practices will use to help them understand what challenges that are affecting you the most... so that they can choose the right areas to focus effort in providing guidance. If you’ve got a couple of minutes spare head over to the survey ... What tasks or areas are difficult? What consumes the most time? What is it that causes you post-deployment headaches? What parts of the process are tricky? What don't you do

This is late news as I’ve been busy recently, but if you’ve been following Blueprints make sure you read Michael’s post here . They’re evolving into something else, that I’m sure will be even more exciting... I’ll be staying tuned so no doubt I’ll shout up when I hear more.

S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President Developer Division, has provided a catalog of developer tools that have been released or updated in the past few months. The catalog includes 36 links to products. You'll find the catalog at his blog at Deliverling Ongoing Value . He writes, "I thought it would be a fun exercise to catalog many of the tools and technologies that we have made available to you since we shipped VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5." Here's a quick list of links. For details see Deliverling Ongoing

A community technology preview was released for Microsoft project code named "Oslo" in January and now there are some great places to learn about how to get started using it. The whole idea of modeling helps you describe the problem you are solving closer to the world that your users need, rather than in code constructs. ” Oslo ” is the codename for Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform that helps you build your own models. Modeling is used across a wide range of domains and allows more people

The Microsoft "Oslo" team has updated the community technology preview (CTP) and release its software developer kit (SDK). Oslo provides you with tools, SDK, and experience to help you and your users model data and processes. "Oslo" is the code name for the Microsoft's next generation application development platform. The goal of "Oslo" is to provide a 10x productivity gain across the application lifecycle (design, development, and management). "Oslo" leverages domain-specific models, languages and

This article follows on from part 1 , so make sure you know how far we got. Basically we can generate a project according to our required template, so next we want to be able to add a new View-Presenter enabled Web Page to the project. We’ll do this using some T4 text templates – one for each file we need to create. Note: Remember this is based on the November 2008 CTP, so it may not work in future versions. Menus and Commands Primer To allow us to do this, Blueprints has notions of Menus and Commands

We’re just getting back into the swing of things after a couple of weeks break over the Christmas holidays, not to mention the disruption of unusually heavy snow followed by floods here in the Seattle area. Two articles caught my attention this week. One, an article in eWeek by Darryl Taft, positions Oslo at number 9 in the Top Ten Development Products for 2008 (even ahead of the iPhone SDK). Also, in the text version of the story , Oslo makes it to number 2! Granted, in this latter story, Darryl

This article follows on from part 1 , so make sure you know how far we got. Basically we can generate a project according to our required template, so next we want to be able to add a new View-Presenter enabled Web Page to the project. We’ll do this using some T4 text templates – one for each file we need to create. Note: Remember this is based on the November 2008 CTP, so it may not work in future versions. Menus and Commands Primer To allow us to do this, Blueprints has notions of Menus and Commands

I’m sure I’ve warned you before – I’m a big believer in Software Factories… but I’ve been quiet about this for a while now. That’s because I’ve been waiting for the ‘next big thing’… enter stage left: “Blueprints”! I had the pleasure of attending a talk that Michael Lehman and Jezz Santos gave in Seattle a while back, and more recently I’ve spent a little time recently playing with the CTP available on codeplex, and getting a feel for how it works. I thought others might find another example useful,