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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 and logic as possible from the legacy application. Unless the application's function is obsolete recovering functional knowledge (what does the application do?) and structural knowledge (how does ... (more)

SOA - A Business Agility Strategy

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 ... (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)

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)