You know that documentation is important, but how much should you realistically document? Discover how to weigh cost against benefit and gain the most from your software architecture documentation....   Read Article.

Luke Hohmann clarifies how the marketing and technical aspects of the software architecture system must work together to achieve business objectives.n...   Read Article.

Discover the role of Luther in the rapid building of customer support systems for Inmedius. You will see examples of wearable computers used by workers in the field and how the system based on J2EE is working toward continual innovation....   Read Article.

Keep the bad guys away from your fortress while at the same time allowing access through the use of walls and guards. You will discover what each of these devices do and how you can create them for your own system....   Read Article.

There have been significant improvements in the ways in which we build software over the last fifty years, two of which are worthy of note in the attempt to make software an asset: we've raised the level of abstraction of the languages we use to express behavior, and we've sought to increase the level of reuse in system construction. MDA takes...   Read Article.

In a complex business ecosystem, where constraints and bottlenecks are common, can IT solve all business problems? Pujan Roka reminds us that despite complex software solutions, business problems don't just go away; new problems evolve out of changing business and process needs....   Read Article.

Adaptive systems should be able to adapt to changes that occur in their operating environment without any external human intervention. Software architectures for such systems should be flexible enough to allow components to change their pattern of collaboration depending on the environmental changes and goals of the system. A drawback for using object-oriented...   Read Article.

Modeling and simulation in support of adaptive ecosystem management can be better accomplished through a dynamic, integrated, and flexible approach that incorporates scientific and technological components into a comprehensive ecosystem-modeling framework. The Integrated Dynamic Landscape Analysis and Modeling System (IDLAMS) integrates ecological models...   Read Article.

Learn how to create secure applications on the Microsoft platform with the patterns practices guides described in this article....   Read Article.

The presentation layer is a vitally important part of an application. This article discusses the thin and smart client approaches and provides guidance on how to choose between them....   Read Article.

The fourth edition of the acclaimed Architects JOURNAL has been released. Read the latest cutting-edge articles, starting with David Hill's take on choosing the right presentation layer architecture....   Read Article.

Explores an enterprise-wide data transfer strategy necessary to guide IT practitioners and to enable consistent representation of key business entities across enterprise applications....   Read Article.

Covers interoperability using message exchange patterns and shows how a pattern can be implemented using BEA WebLogic 8.1.3....   Read Article.

Describes a benchmarking exercise undertaken during October 2002 at Microsoft's ISV Laboratories (ISV Labs) in Redmond, Washington, to test the performance of Microsoft technologies....   Read Article.

Shows how alignment between Business and IT can be stated in terms of the components found in most Enterprise Architectures....   Read Article.

Use Office applications to address common problems encountered when moving an enterprise to a service-oriented architecture....   Read Article.

Explores the concept of file structure, and contrasts it with an emerging view of Model Driven Architecture....   Read Article.

Maarten Mullender explains the fundamental idea of creating a description of what Web services expose, and then explores possible use of such descriptions....   Read Article.

Provides an interoperability walkthrough based on OASIS WS-Security 1.0, and explains how to configure the two environments for signing and encrypting SOAP requests and responses using X509 certificates....   Read Article.

Use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to improve your organization's efficiency in tracking goods and assets, and increase your levels of product and asset visibility....   Read Article.