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Microsoft's Dino Chiesa talks about how to use Services without Components to create 2 phased commit transactions using the EnterpriseServices ServiceDomain without using the COM+ hosting model in Transactions, SWC and IBM MQSeries
Grady Booch is building something we have always needed, a Handbook of Software Architecture [registration required]. “The primary goal of this present work is to fill this void in software engineering by codifying the architecture of a large collection of interesting software-intensive systems, presenting them in a manner that exposes their essential patterns and that permits comparisons across domains and architectural styles. Reflecting on his work on patterns, Christopher Alexander notes that he and his colleagues "made observations, looked to see what worked, studied it, tried to distill out the essentials, and wrote them down12." This approach is at the core of all good science.“