Andrej Koelewijn

Today, during a SOA workshop we had a discussion about governance. Most people see the need for Governance when applying SOA. Without governance your beautiful flexible architecture will soon evolve into SOA spaghetti. Hard to modify, the opposite of business agility.
One goal of SOA governance is that it should verify that Services are reusable: Shared [...]

I’m still playing around with groovy scripting. It’s an excellent way to quickly prototype some ESB scenarios. Last week i blogged about using groovy to write files to a gtalk account using Apache Camel, the example below shows you how to start an ActiveMQ broker, which persists messages to a PostgreSQL database. An Apache Camel [...]

Groovy 1.6 makes it really easy to quickly try out new frameworks. Dependency management build into the language allows you to write simple scripts, all required libraries will be downloaded automatically when you run it.
Here’s an example using Apache Camel. This script can simply be run from the command prompt. Groovy will compile it, [...]

Here’s a presentation i did last year, but it seems appropriate to repost, as it makes the same statement as Diego Doval makes in his post what “web 2.0″ really means — and why “web 3.0″ will never come.
I my presentation i made the same point that Diego is making:
Web 2.0 apps are different from [...]

So SOA is dead, Services are what we need to focus on according to Anne Thomas Manes? How is SOA not about Services? SOA means Service Oriented Architecture. Seems like Anne Thomas Manes is contradicting herself…
SOA is only dead if you interpreted SOA as creating Web Services and building composite applications with BPEL. And yes, [...]

Matt Raible just wrote a post describing how LinkedIn is using OSGi to build it’s next generation SOA architecture. It’s nice to see that LinkedIn is moving into this direction as i just had the same idea today.
Gert vanthienen explained to me how to add a maven repository in ServiceMix, so you can easily install [...]