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21 February 07 - 18:04Debugging and monitoring a SOA

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Properties of a service-oriented architecture which are often stated to be essential are flexibility and easy adaptation to changing businesses. These properties can be found on a high level. By using a tool to model business processes one can acquire a lot of flexibility. You can, for instance, model a business process in the Mendix Business Modeler and, assuming the services you need to use already exist, deploy this process on the Mendix Application Server in a few clicks.

Sounds easy! But the realist among us will have some reservations. How do we check whether our orchestration is correct or not?

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09 February 07 - 09:56SOA best practices

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SOA, service-oriented architecture, you can't easy live without reading this term each day. SOA mostly stays on top of the executive and IT agenda's, but were to start? What best practices exist, leading to SOA success? As SOA matures, and nowadays it does, IT organizations are finding common best practices for SOA success. Next two articles give a nice overview:

10 Steps to SOA success
Five high-level action items for SOA success

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Success is defined by the beholder, not by the architect In order to understand anything, you must not try to understand everything