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An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
Author Gabriel Bechara delivers a simplified, top-down approach to enterprise architecture in the context of SOA (service-oriented architecture). With a focus on information technology, he shows how to build a better alignment between business and IT. Mar. 28, 2007

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What is a reusable Service?: Service principles are the foundations of any SOA architecture, without those principles any SOA approach will not be successful. What are those principles? And how to apply them ?
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on March 02, 2008 at 11:21 PDT | Comments (0)  

Why a unified view of data is important?: While mergers and acquisitions have become business as usual, unification of data and processes is one of the main aspects IT departments in large organization have to deal with.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on October 11, 2007 at 13:48 PDT | Comments (3)  

SOA governance and roles: Composing an enterprise SOA team and related considerations
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on April 30, 2007 at 13:36 PDT | Comments (2)  

Web Services versioning: Service versioning in enterprise SOA approaches
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on April 12, 2007 at 00:32 PDT | Comments (2)  

Context management in different scopes: Context management depending on the layer the services are related to
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on March 13, 2007 at 14:35 PDT | Comments (0)  

Top-down and bottom-up approaches compared: A short comparison between the different approaches.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on January 29, 2007 at 10:55 PDT | Comments (0)  

Achieving an efficient SOA: Is it only about products?: Understanding and choosing the right products should help when implementing SOA. But is this enough?
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on November 26, 2006 at 03:47 PDT | Comments (0)  

From application architecture to enterprise architecture - First steps: In this blog we will be taking an application splitting it into multiple applications then exposing some parts using Web Services, we will be starting from the simple case exposed in Application architecture using Weblogic Integration moving toward an enterprise architecture thus promoting re-use at the service level.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on November 11, 2006 at 11:07 PDT | Comments (0)  

Application architecture using Weblogic Integration - Part 3: After focusing on a simple case in the second part of this blog let's see what are some of the motivations behind the choices that were made.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on September 01, 2006 at 09:09 PDT | Comments (2)  

Application architecture using Weblogic Integration - Part 2: Part 2, shows how to apply approaches introduced in part 1 in a simple case.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on May 01, 2006 at 04:57 PDT | Comments (2)  

Application architecture using Weblogic Integration: This blog focuses on application architecture of one Workshop/Weblogic Integration application. The proposed application architecture permits: Re-use, maintainability and extensibility of code; Team work ; Reorganisation of projects with-in an application to multiple applications depending on variability of sub-elements.
Posted by Gabriel Bechara (BECHARAG) on March 13, 2006 at 11:59 PDT | Comments (1)