Robert Davies

The cloud: few topics are as frequently discussed among information technology (IT) professionals. But why? Internet hosted applications and services certainly aren't a new concept. In fact, application service providers began delivering functionality via the Web more than a deca... (more)
Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name i... (more)
Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name i... (more)
Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business resources, that interact by exchanging requests (fo... (more)
The latest hype technology has numerous software vendors scrambling to become buzzword compliant. Analyst groups from Gartner to IDC hail the enterprise service bus (ESB) as the revolutionary technology that will transform middleware due to the vast benefits of adopting vendor-in... (more)
Called to larger tasks, messaging technology is now in a phase of evolution. A mixed message model is needed to combine the best of Web services and traditional asynchronous message delivery to provide the flexibility required for today's real-time enterprise. Traditional messag... (more)
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