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The Rat-hole of Object-oriented Mapping

Mark Seemann recently had a great post that, as most of his posts seem to do, challenges the average reader to re-think their reality a bit. The post is titled “Is Layering Worth the Mapping”. In the post Mark essentially details some of the...

Enterprise Service Buses, Brokers, Message Queues, Oh My!

Continuing on my theme of message-oriented , I thought I’d get into a bit of detail about the various middleware options and some details about these options. Regardless of what type of middleware is chosen, one thing is common to all types of message...

Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term

I recently blogged about Message-Oriented Architecture (and Message-Oriented Middleware, MOM).  The technology leads to extremely flexible and scalable applications; but it really distracts from the system.  It’s like calling a standard single...

Message-oriented Architectures (Updated)

I’ve had a few people ask me about message-oriented architectures and my knowledge and experience of it has evolved over time; so, I figured it would be a good idea to collect and publish some information about it. It’s not one of those topics...