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Arch2Arch Editor's Blog | April 23, 2008  10:54 AM | Comments (0)

Hi. As I mentioned in my first personal post last week, I am taking over for your original Arch2Arch editor-in-chief Jon Mountjoy, who has moved on to a new position. I'm excited about joining the Arch2Arch community. I wrote in some detail about my background in my first Dev2Dev Editor's post and my personal post, so I'll just provide a brief summary here.

I've been a professional software engineer, team leader, and architect for almost three decades, working on a variety of platforms and technologies (as pretty much everyone who's been in the business that long has). In the 1998-2003 period I did a lot of Java development and technical review of Java books. I also worked on a partnership between my small dot.com-ish company and BEA, where we would have used WebLogic as the basis for an online document archive and retrieval system, and bill payment systems. Unfortunately, changing conditions prevented the project from taking off...

Now, a quick summary of recent Arch2Arch happenings.

This past week we published a new article, Quinton Wall's Rethinking Connectivity. In this article, Quinton describes how organizations can approach the problem of connectivity through defining four dimensions of connectivity: internal, external, industry, and hosted. Reorganizing our thinking about connectivity into these dimensions can lead to increased adaptability by the organization to changing trends.

We are also featuring William Dettelback's Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance. In this article, William talks about performance aspects when AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) is applied to handle visitor entitlements for a WebLogic Portal application.

Take a look at these if you haven't done so already, and browse the full archive of Arch2Arch Articles for more architect insight.

In the Arch2Arch Blogs, Chris Tomkins' post titled AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 - Getting started with Workspace Studio, which tells you how to add a server, create an ALSB project, create and deploy ALSB resources, and more, has drawn considerable interest and comments.

Irene Rusman posted her first blog, How to look at the ESB federations?, in which she talks about how ESB federations will transform IT infrastructure into an integral part of business structure. Welcome to Arch2Arch, Irene!

The number 5 is featured in two interesting blogs this week: Dain Hansen posted Going beyond the Silo: 5 Steps to Federation, about how to get your IT federated; and Michael Stamback posted 5 Tips for Buying SOA Governance, which talks about the ironic fact that, with governance, agility and simplicity comes at the cost of complexity.

The Arch2Arch Event Calendar features BEA.Participate.08, which will happen in Chicago, Illinois on May 12-15. Chris Bucchere posted a blog that includes a sneak preview video related to BEA Participate 2008 on the Dev2Dev Blogs site.

The current Arch2Arch Poll asks:

Are you using business process management software in your enterprise architecture?

Please participate by voting on the Arch2Arch home page.

Our previous poll asked "Do you have any real time or soft real time requirements in your enterprise architecture?" 70% of respondants (30 votes) answered "yes."

If you've got a suggestion for a future Arch2Arch poll, feel free to post your idea as a comment below.

That's it for today!

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