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Latest Articles from David Linthicum
By David Linthicum Since the beginning of computing we've been dealing with the notion of coupling, or the degree to which one component is dependent on another component in both the domain of an application or an architecture. Lately, the movement has been towards loose coupling for some very good reaso... Mar. 18, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 20,156 Replies: 2 | By David Linthicum I just got back from the Gartner Application Integration show. This is perhaps the seventh of these conferences I attended, including the first one back in 1998. The good news is that the conference was packed and application integration seems to be making a strong resurgence with a li... Feb. 2, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,411 Replies: 1 | By David Linthicum As I work with corporate America, as well as the government, I'm finding that services-oriented architectures (SOAs) are like snowflakes?no two are alike. I'm also finding that everyone has their own definition of SOA, and I've seen everything from messaging systems to portals called ... Dec. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,970 | By David Linthicum Want to leverage your enterprise's Web services? Chances are you'll be enabling or exposing existing application services and not building new. This should come as no surprise to anyone. Oct. 28, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,149 Replies: 1 | By David Linthicum Software design has always been a focus for developers, but as we cycled through different approaches, standards, and architectures over the years, I think we've had a tendency not to pay enough attention to the fundamentals of software engineering. Clearly I've seen a decline in softw... Oct. 1, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,733 | By David Linthicum Let's face it, we're going mobile. You only need to consider how you communicate these days to understand that. I, for one, find that my Blackberry is becoming my e-mail terminal of choice, as well as my best source of information via the WAP-enabled Web browser built-in. And oh yes, i... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,332 | By David Linthicum Since the advent of Web services, and other distributed computing standards for that matter, we've been wrestling with the notion of identity and how to manage it. Truth-be-told identity management has been put on the back burner as organizations attempt to get their first Web services... Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,058 Replies: 1 | By David Linthicum As we look to make more practical use of Web services, the need has emerged for a better user interface; one that's neither too fat nor too thin. An interface that allows developers to make the most out of the client's native features, while at the same time, not bogging the client dow... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,350 Replies: 4 | By David Linthicum Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, is the modern notion of connecting systems together at both the information and service levels. Indeed, enterprises are racing to enable their existing applications to externalize services, as well as build the appropriate integration infrastructu... Jun. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,187 | By David Linthicum The transformation layer is the 'Rosetta stone' of the system. It understands the format of all information being transmitted among the applications and translates that information on the fly, restructuring data from one message so that it makes sense to the receiving application or ap... Jun. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,049 | By David Linthicum When dealing with application integration, as you know by now, we are dealing with much complexity. The notion of ontologies helps the application integration architect prepare generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable. Apr. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,291 | By David Linthicum Application integration brings a combination of problems. Each organization and trading community has its own set of integration issues that must be addressed. Because of this, it is next to impossible to find a single technological solution set and/or standard that can be applied univ... Mar. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,871 | By David Linthicum In this presentation, we'll look at the notion of Web services in context of application integration. We'll look at approaches, architectures, and enabling technologies that you can implement today to address the problem of application integration using the new paradigm of application ... Feb. 24, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,732 | By David Linthicum While there are many standards that look like ebXML, ebXML is the first horizontal standard designed to address the exchange of information and adherence to inter-enterprise processes. However, in attempting to reach this lofty goal, ebXML is also a complex standard and takes some unde... Feb. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,620 Replies: 1 | By David Linthicum Many in the world of application integration have begun to adopt the notion of ontology (or the instances of ontology: ontologies). Ontology is a term borrowed from philosophy that refers to the science of describing the kinds of entities in the world and how they are related. Jan. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,950 Replies: 3 | By David Linthicum Although a number of standards exist for information interchange and process definition, industry standards have yet to emerge for defining common integration server and B2B integration server services such as routing, rules processing, and transformation. In the absence of such standa... Dec. 3, 2003 10:11 AM EST Reads: 11,054 | By David Linthicum Fundamentally, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is about loosely coupling applications and data stores together to solve intraenterprise business problems. Its strength is facilitating the free flow of information from any system to any other system, one-to-one or many-to-many,... Mar. 7, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,041 |
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Dave is an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today.In addition, Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON's 
