With the growing popularity of Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) and Complex Event Processing (CEP), patterns such as the blackboard and observer patterns will become important again (not that they ever really ceased being important). The blackboard pattern is used in systems that deal with problems that don’t have a deterministic approach to reaching a solution, mainly [...]
In my work with various clients, I’m starting to take note of the common scenarios I’m seeing of how people are using SOA to improve their business processes. I’m sure others are starting to notice some recurring scenarios as well. By capturing these scenarios, we can develop a set of patterns that can be used [...]
Back in the 90′s when someone wanted to be a better OO developer, they would pick up some books from these fellows. With SOA being all the hype these days, developers need similar guidance on how to do good Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD). As SOA is relatively immature (though some claim they’ve been [...]
