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Gregor Hohpe on Conversation Patterns

Community
SOA
Topics
Choreography,
Business Process Management,
Orchestration

In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Google architect Gregor Hohpe talks to Stefan Tilkov about his new work on conversation patterns. Building upon his earlier work on enterprise integration patterns, Gregor sees conversation patterns as playing a critical role in real-world interactions, with analogies in the natural world.

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Oracle Unveils ts SOA Product Strategy

Community
SOA
Topics
Service Registry,
Governance,
Web Services,
Business Process Management,
Events,
ESB,
SOA Platforms,
Business Process Modeling,
Orchestration,
Workflow / BPM

After the Oracle acquisition of BEA it was not clear how Oracle was going to integrate often competing SOA products in its and BEA’s portfolio. In his presentation last month David Shaffer, VP Product Managemen for, Oracle Integration, described the Oracle-BEA product Strategy and Roadmap for SOA, BPM, Governance and Events.

Open source workflow engines compared: jBPM, OpenWFE and Enhydra Shark

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Architecture,
Java,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management

A new report looks at how open source workflow engines jBPM, OpenWFE and Enhydra Shark compare in support of standard Workflow Patterns, including how they stack up against their closed source alternatives Staffware, WebSphere MQ and Oracle BPEL PM.

Web services orchestration engine Apache ODE 1.2 Released

Community
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Orchestration,
Open Source

The Apache ODE team announced this month the 1.2 release of the Apache ODE project. These releases includes many new features, including external variables,support for WSDL HTTP binding and REST-style Web Services advanced endpoint configuration, and a lot of small improvements and bug fixes.

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Book Review: Applied SOA

Community
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
ESB,
SOA Platforms,
Business Process Modeling,
Enterprise Architecture,
Enterprise Information Integration

Applied SOA is a new book on Service Oriented Architecture written by 4 leading SOA practitioners that aims at making you successful with your SOA implementation. In particular, this book is going to help you tie your SOA initiative with your Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Core Data and BPM initiatives.

Beyond SOA: A New Type of Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - Part II

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Governance,
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Enterprise Architecture

In this second part of their article, the authors explore the architecture of Dynamic Business Applications and introduce the concept of a Resource Container. They demonstrate how this architecture can be layered on top of JEE and how it impacts implementation productivity.

Beyond SOA: A New Enterprise Architecture Framework for Dynamic Business Applications

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Enterprise Architecture

A successful outcome is never questioned when a plane with millions of interdependent parts is designed, especially when cost is not a factor. Why are the outcomes of complex software projects so unpredictable? In this two-part article, the authors analyze the causes of project failures and propose a new approach beyond SOA based on adaptive systems theory and a new information architecture.

Presentations about Business Process Management

Introduction to Agile for Traditional Project Managers

Community
Agile
Topics
Business Process Management,
Agile Techniques,
Adopting Agile

In this presentation filmed during Agile 2007, Stacia Broderick introduces Agile to traditionally trained project managers by making a comparison between Project Management Institute's (PMI) best practices and their equivalent Agile techniques.

Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Specifications,
Language,
Business Process Management,
Customers & Requirements

Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example language is shown using Ruby.

Books about Business Process Management

Composite Software Construction

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
WS Standards,
Web Services,
ESB,
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Orchestration,
Modeling

Composite Software offers a new level of granularity when compared to SaaS (Software as a Service). Composite Software is about enabling "right-sourcing", i.e. move (or keep) arbitrary small or large elements of functionality wherever it is the most cost effective to operate them, not just entire systems. Economically, "right-sourcing" is far more efficient than "outsourcing" and SaaS. The goal of this book is start by understanding today’s software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.