Henry Bowers has spent more than 15 years in the high-tech sector, building and managing software products for both private industry and government. He has more than seven years' experience working with rules-based systems and business rules in general. Henry is currently a product manager for business rules at ILOG (www.ilog.com). For more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency.
The emergence of Web services is forcing sites to substantially rethink how
existing applications can and should work together.
Previously, considerations about where certain functions should execute
focused principally on the tier. Should the client, the application server,
or the database management system perform this processing? Web services,
however, force the question in a horizontal direction: Which server on this
tier is best suited to handle this processing? And, even more frequently, how
can this application be partitioned intelligently so the right pieces are on
the correct servers? Design tools are responding to these changes with
model-driven architecture and services-oriented application development, two
approaches that capture and represent the salient factors in the design of
loosely coupled, distributed applications.
However, most sites that have co... (more)
Henry Bowers has spent more than 15 years in the high-tech sector, building and managing software products for both private industry and government. He has more than seven years' experience working with rules-based systems and business rules in general. Henry is currently a product manager for business rules at ILOG (www.ilog.com). For more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency.
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