I’ve been home on holiday for a few days now (since just before Christmas).  It’s nice to stay with my…

Ever built a web service?  I bet you have.  And I bet, that for most readers, you thought “here’s a…

As I’ve blogged before, a Kata is a practice exercise.  I’m attempting to brainstorm out a kata for each of…

As my kids have grown (I have a 12 year old, a 10 year old, and a 7 year old),…

When developing a Service Oriented Business Application (SOBA), you want to seperate your user interface from your services.  Services present…

One of the tenants of Service Orientation is that the boundaries are explicit.  Boundaries are usually expressed in the form…

A few days back, I blogged on “how to design a service.”  It has become increasingly clear that I answered…

I find myself in the situation of having to set down a design standard for SOA services. The thing is: SOA…

Hohpe and Woolf identify four basic integration styles.  I am considering the enterprise as a whole and asking “what is…

In SAP implementations, the ABAP code that performs the functions of various business processes is stored in the database, or…