Jack van Hoof

Jack van Hoof's Blog Living in the era of SOA and BPM, I come across a lot of books, articles and blogs that try to tell me how wonderful the world can be. When using a BPM-tool you are able to model and manage the business processes of your company. Flexibility is the keyword. N... (more)
Jack van Hoof's Blog 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 decouple... (more)
Jack van Hoof's Blog 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-syst... (more)
Jack van Hoof's Blog 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... (more)
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