IBM software architect e-kit

Reduce IT complexity with software development tools from IBM

Jan 2006
Updated Oct 2008

This complimentary e-kit for IT architects provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools that promote communication to unify all aspects of design and development.

Explore the benefits of:

• Reducing software delivery complexity with visual languages
• Patterns-based development
• Structural review and control
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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In this e-kit

Grady Booch podcast series:

• Current trends in software architecture
• The role of the architect
• Architectural styles and patterns
• The future of software architecture

Webcasts:

• Grady Booch on architecture (recorded Nov 29, 2007): Join Grady in an interactive discussion about architecture and reuse.
• Bridge the gap between business and IT with IBM Information Server FastTrack.
• The future of application servers in the enterprise and IBM WebSphere Application Server V7

White papers:

• The value of modeling
• IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Simplify integration with unified metadata
• IBM Information Server, Version 8.0: Understanding and analyzing your data
• IBM Information Server FastTrack: The need for speed—accelerating data integration projects
• Using advanced technology development solutions to improve financial services effectiveness
• Building service-oriented banking solutions with IBM banking industry models and Rational SDP

Trials:

• IBM Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software V7.5 trial download
• Rational Software Architect Standard Edition V7.5 (previously IBM Rational Systems Developer) trial download
• IBM SOA Sandbox for Reuse online trial (includes Rational Software Architect)
• WebSphere Application Server V7.0 trial download

Demos and podcasts:

• Podcast: Managing solution architectures
• Podcast: Understanding source systems: How to use IBM InfoSphere technology to understand existing source system structures and data quality
• Demo: Browse and topic diagram creation
• Demo: Static sequence diagram creation
• Demo: Architectural discovery diagrams
• Demo: Structural analysis
• Demo: Code review
• Demo: J2EE development using UML transformations
• Demo: A day in the life of an automated business process
• Demo: IBM WebSphere Process Server

developerWorks articles and other resources:

• Good modeling, good governance
• An introduction to architecture management
• Evolution of developer skills is essential for job survival
• UML in support of model-driven development (MDD)
• An introduction to Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
• Gain an edge in patterns-based development using Rational Software Architect
• Meet the experts
• The Value of Pattern Implementations
• Pattern Implementations for More Efficiency, Consistency, Quality, and Fast Results
• Model-driven and pattern-based development using Rational Software Architect
• Using model-driven development and pattern-based engineering to design SOA, Parts 1 and 2
• Model service-oriented architecture with Rational Software Architect, Part 4
• IBM Rational Software Architect Web page
• Applying domain-specific modeling to Model-Driven Architecture
• IBM Industry Models and ILOG business rules management systems, Part 1: Define business rules using IBM Industry Models