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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business agility strategy. Repeat after me: Business. Agility. Strategy. There are so many technology-focused definitions of SOA floating around that it's difficult to remember that simple fact. SOA is focused on recognizing, precisely defining, storing, retrieving/reusing and optimizing business processes, both automated ones and human ones. If we as an industry allow SOA to mean Yet Another Integration Technology, we doom ourselves to yet another level of integration middleware, and yet more maintenance hassles caused by the brand new legacy systems we are installing today. SOA is an enterprise strategy certainly. Nevertheless, we recognize that the early champions SOA - those who recognize the enterprise value proposition - ... (more)

Extracting UML from Legacy Applications

The operations of many large organizations rest on large applications that are characterized as "legacy." To increase flexibility or reduce costs businesses are looking to modernize these applications, for instance, via renovation, introducing an SOA architecture, or even re-implementing in a new environment. No matter which approach is taken, it's important to salvage as much knowledge ... (more)

Today's Silver Bullet Is Tomorrow's Legacy

One of the most delightful parts of my job is to travel the world, sharing the Object Management Group's vision of integrated, interoperable systems with varying sizes of audience ­ from as few as 10 people to as many as 10,000 ­ in every corner of the planet. While the travel can sometimes be grueling, it's worth it when I get a question or two after a speech that shows that someone has ... (more)

What Will Come

In the swirl of events around the announcement last year of the upcoming CORBA 3.0, the attention centered on the upcoming CORBA Component Model. While CORBA has existed in some form or another as an adopted technology of the OMG's open, neutral, standards-setting process since October 1991, this year's major revision point for the first time will address a wealth of issues that point at... (more)

The World Wide Web And Distributed Object Computing: A Natural Match?

A Capsule History of Active Webs The runaway success of the Web's HTML display language made everyone in the software community stop and take note. What was so exciting about this new technology? Was it the markup language itself? Couldn't be! HTML is just a stripped down version (DTD) of SGML, which has been around for a while. Was it the concept of a remote screen interface language? No,... (more)