The increased manageability, reliability, and opportunities for reuse
promised by a SOA can only be fulfilled with an effective governance
structure in place to coordinate service creation, maintenance, provisioning,
and consumption.
However, many small and medium-sized organizations struggle when starting
their service catalog due to the seeming contradiction between the strategic
benefits of SOA and the often negative impact that governance can have on
individual line-of-business project schedules. How do we get our projects
done while building a service portfolio? This article proposes governance
structures that embrace the tactical, project-centric nature of much of our
work while acknowledging the strategic importance of services.
The Need for Governance
By definit... (more)
It's a great problem to have: thousands of people like yourself providing
daily updates from the leading edge of your craft. If you want to learn where
things are going in the world of Web programming, you need to read blogs and
lots of them.
Aggregators help make that easier, but only by reducing the amount of
running around to find new sources. The quantity of content flowing through ... (more)
Early releases of Cold Fusion (under Allaire) focused on the Windows market
and it was common to include example Access databases. It was common for
entry-level developers to take this example to heart and build systems on
Access back-ends. One didn't have to install, set up, admin, or most
importantly pay for anything. With the beta release of ColdFusion 8, Adobe is
providing support fo... (more)
The sign of an experienced developer is solid design. Novices edit examples
they find on the Net, journeymen figure out how to code something as they do
it, but craftsmen plan their work. Starting out, this can look like wasted
time, but if your app is any good, your customer will want to expand it.
Then, if you need some help, you'll have to explain all that intuitive code
to ten people... (more)
With the introduction of MX, ColdFusion programmers started to move away from
the world of hard-to-maintain reams of scripts with includes, and into the
world of clearly defined libraries with specific responsibilities. CustomTags
were a good stab at re-usable code, but focused on the level of the function
as opposed to grouping functions, which meant the method lacked a good way to
defi... (more)
Over the past decade, Chip Temm moved from North America to Europe and on to Africa where his company anthroLogik solutions provided analysis and development services to non-governmental organizations across seven timezones. He is currently back in Washington, DC where "remote development" means working from home and "wildlife" means raccoon.
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