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Web Services

18 August 2006

Web services are self-contained, modular applications that are able to wrok together without relying on custom-coded connections, because they are built on open standards. Web services share a common protocol so they can communicate with each other despite the fact that they speak different languages.
Web services make functionality available in an application or module via […]

Interoperability

18 August 2006

Interoperability enables communication, data exchange, or program exceution among various systems in a way that requires the user to have little or no awareness of the underlying operations of those systems.
Today’s interoperability is realized by XML web services. The most interoperability cases are between J2EE environment and .NET platform.
Interoperability between Java and .NET is […]

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

18 August 2006

A service-oriented architectue (SOA) is an application framework that takes everyday business applications and breaks them down into individual business functions and process, called services. An SOA let you build, deploy, and integrate these services independent of applications and the computing platforms on which they run.
Why SOA is so hot? SOA gives us […]

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

18 August 2006

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing to reliably connect and coordinate the interaction of significant numbers of diverse applications across extended enterprises with transactional integrity.
In ESB, applications and event-driven services are tied together in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in a loosely coupled […]

UML - What’s It?

18 August 2006

UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. The UML provides a language-neutral, tool-supported, well-documented standard for modeling systems such as web applications. It enables system requirements, structure, and behavior to be succinctly captured and effectively communicated.
As explained by Duncan Jack in August 2005’s JDJ, UML is interpreted as:

Unified: The result of unifying three leading […]

Data Integration

18 August 2006

Data Integration is the process of accumulating and combining data set from disparate sources at various locations. This data can then be used for business intelligence, CRM, data mining, or other applications that involve the analysis of data in order to make key decisions.
Data integration incorporates a series of processes – the sequence of […]

JAVA versus C#.NET from Developers Viewpoint

18 August 2006

Java or C#.NET, that’s an endless debate. Can you have both? that’s NOT a good idea because it is not necessary, and you cannot afford it. Project managers always debate the merits of one over the other in new architecture design and upgraded system implementations. It’s very odd to see a […]

J2EE Design Pattern Applied - A Simple Web Tier Application Framework

22 June 2006

Introduction
If you haven’t heard of the words Design Pattern, you are not ready to design modern software system. At least, you are behind.
In the software engineering evolution history, reusability is always one of the golden goals. There are Object-oriented (OO) programming languages such as Small Talk, C++ and Java trying to achieve the goal at […]

Web Services Part 1 - Dissect Apache SOAP

15 May 2006

Until now anybody who has an eye opening on the technology world should have heard enough about Web Service. Is it hype or the next big one?
It seems the server side is becoming a technology-congested area, which is crowded with Web Servers, Application Servers, Transaction Servers, Message Servers, Directory Servers, and Security Servers and so […]

Wireless LAN@Home, Part I - Wi-Fi is Wining, Bluetooth and HomeRF are Fighting

25 April 2006

Starting from year 2000, the installation base of broadband Internet connection at home is escalated. Statistic also shows that more and more family own more than one PC. Home LAN (local area network) is definitely and obviously the next consideration for those PCs.
When talking about connection, communication equipment and PC at home, it always involves […]

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