Today most of the
conversations surrounding
service-oriented
architectures (SOAs)
focus on flexibility and
breaking down
applications into
services: modular,
reusable, componentized,
with increased
availability to the
services a...
Over the past few years
Web services have grown
from a conceptual draft
based on the ideal of
cross-platform
programmatic
interoperability to a
formal specification and
a vision of grand-scale
distributed system
architectures. Tod...
Finally, executives on
the business side of
management teams are
asking for technology
that can be delivered,
modified, and executed by
business people. The
promises of many
enterprise application
investments were never
realized i...
Recent trends in IT such
as service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and
Web sevices, in
conjunction with the
still-increasing
popularity of the .NET
framework, put
Microsoft's BizTalk
Server in the center of
attention for CIOs, CTOs, ...
Building an SOA usually
means leveraging a
loosely coupled-type
architecture. While the
benefits of a loosely
coupled SOA with many
services are apparent,
the operational
characteristics can be a
nightmare. However, with
a bit of ...
In most software topics,
the boundary between
theory and practice in
software is clearly
demarcated: theory is for
academics who seldom
descend from the ivory
tower, practice is for
industry professionals
who have long forgotten
t...
I'd like to take a moment
to introduce myself. I've
been working with SYS-CON
for about eight years
now, across different
publications, so when
Sean talked to me about
providing regular content
for WSJ, I thought to
myself, 'Cool.' ...
Sometimes the old clichés
are the best ones. I've
been working with a
number of different
groups and companies
recently, defining and
refining their takes on
service-oriented
architecture and Web
services. In thinking
about the di...
Business process
management (BPM) is a
business management
philosophy consisting of
the idea that a business
can be understood and
managed solely in terms
of business processes.
BPM is process-centric
and responsive to change
in b...
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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
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I took the advice of a
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
title. Without having lo
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