The saying goes, 'when
all you have is a hammer,
everything looks like a
nail.' It comes from
carpentry, where it
implies a certain amount
of limited capability for
a craftsman, but it has
applicability in a wide
range of situations...
The benefits of BPM
(business process
management) reach from
the mail room to the
board room and beyond.
BPM, with enhancements
enabled by Web services,
provides tactical
benefits that
significantly enhance
application creation an...
When I tell customers
that my company does Web
services management, the
question I often hear is
'so what do you mean by
Web services management?'
It's no wonder there's so
much confusion on this
issue, because the term
'management'...
As soon as new business
applications roll out,
someone is waiting to
change them. Most
application developers
are resigned to this
reality because they
understand that business
conditions change, and
the applications that
support ...
BPEL (Business Process
Execution Language) makes
business processes and
composite Web services
first-class citizens of
the Java and .NET
platforms, while
preventing vendor
lock-in. The result is a
drastic reduction in the
complexi...
Whether you're in a
clothing store, a car
dealership, or a bank's
online catalog looking
for low-interest loans,
you're more liable to buy
if you get some personal
attention. You want
someone to answer your
questions in real time.
Like most companies, you
want to streamline your
business, automate manual
processes, and expose key
functionality to partners
and customers. And like
most companies, you
probably have a mixture
of applications and
hardware - some new, some
old.
There's a phenomenon I've
witnessed again and again
in my years building
systems. I call it
'Guerilla IT.' Listen to
my description and see if
you've witnessed it
inside your organization.
Called to larger tasks,
messaging technology is
now in a phase of
evolution. A mixed
message model is needed
to combine the best of
Web services and
traditional asynchronous
message delivery to
provide the flexibility
required for...
The use of a range of
wireless,
Internet-enabled portable
computing devices has
dramatically extended the
reach of online services.
Nonetheless,
complications such as
wireless service gaps,
time constraints, and
hardware inconveni...
Web portal software has
emerged as one of the
most important components
of software enterprises
over the last few years.
That success has carried
with it the challenge of
how to integrate
disparate software
services into the portal ...
In July 2003 a consortium
of Web services vendors
released the Web services
Composite Application
Framework (WS-CAF) to the
community. WS-CAF is
comprised of three
specifications that
together provide a means
of reliably composing
...
When dealing with
application integration,
as you know by now, we
are dealing with much
complexity. The notion of
ontologies helps the
application integration
architect prepare
generalizations that make
the problem domain more
understandable.
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friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
There are 8,909 books
listed on Amazon.com with
the word 'Investing' in
the title; there are(!)
27,146 books with the
word investment in the
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This book is an update of
an earlier version that
was written for SQL
Server 2000. It employs
the Murach approach of
dual pages that repeat
and enhance the concepts 
Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from B
In my many years of
programming, almost 20
years now, I have used
countless integrated
development environments
(IDEs). I have used
everything from a simple
text edi