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Jack van Hoof
Jack van Hoof is an Enterprise Integration Architect at Dutch Railways where he advises on modern technologies, standards, and patterns to increase IT maturity with regard to business applications and application infrastructure, specifically in the areas of SOA, EDA, ESB and portals. He maintains a blog where he publishes his thoughts on SOA and EDA: soa-eda.blogspot.com.

SOA, BPM and DFD and the Art of Designing Systems
By Jack van Hoof
Back in the 70s everybody knew that programming was not about writing code, but about the art of designing algoritms. Edsger (Edgar) Dijkstra used the term 'elegance' for correctly designed algoritms and everybody knew exactly what he meant. Every programmer and d...
Apr. 24, 2008 02:30 PM  Reads: 2,227  Replies: 1
SOA Viewpoint: How To Mediate Semantics in an EDA
By Jack van Hoof
Systems that pass data to each other share commonly understood semantics. Explicit data semantics is the key to success in an EDA (and any other messaging system). In striving for loose coupling, data semantics is the ultimate level; when systems are decoupled at ...
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How EDA Extends SOA and Why It Is Important
By Jack van Hoof
Everything is moving toward on-demand business where service providers react to impulses - events - from the environment. To excel in a competitive market a high level of autonomy is required, including the freedom to select the appropriate supporting IT-systems. ...
Mar. 12, 2008 02:30 PM  Reads: 1,654
SOA Viewpoint: Layers are Encapsulations and Tiers Are Barriers
By Jack van Hoof
I came across an interesting article of Arnon Rotem-Gal-OZ about the (mis)use of the layered architecture style. I found it an interesting article, although I have an essentially different view. I think the model of layers and tiers is a services model. As it is ...
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