Five Hibernate and JPA anti-patterns, plus tips on how to prevent problems with O/R mappers.

This article describes both the architectural challenges that are inherent in implementing “Engineering in the Cloud” and an architecture that we call “Engineering Software + Services”.

How can you create a multitude of instances without having to pay the cost of instantiating each object? Garfield Moore introduces and discusses an appropriate design pattern.

Puzzled by WF? Wonder what it’s all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.

Azure is Microsoft’s new programming paradigm, and Harry Fairhead investigates how much cloud there is in cloud computing.

Parlez UML
A five-day hands-on masterclass that teaches techniques for unifying up-front design, refactoring and enterprise architecture within an iterative, lightweight, test-driven approach to development, and provides a practical means to scaling up the Agile approach.

Parity
Parity’s Technical Architecture, Integration and Development (TAID) course is fully accredited by ISEB for their new ‘Certificate in IT Architecture’ qualification, and is aimed at experienced IT staff wishing to move into an IT Architect role.

Architecting-the-Enterprise
A four-day course, leading to TOGAF certification by The Open Group, covering the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture methodology, which can be used for developing a broad range of Business and IT Architectures.

QA
A five-day course which aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to design Microsoft .NET-connected solutions to business problems.

Learning Tree
A comprehensive introduction, which will help you choose between competing component infrastructures (.NET, J2EE, CORBA) and compare OO languages (Java, C++, C# and VB.NET).

QA
Four-day course aimed at experienced IT professionals, such as system analysts, technical architects, integrators, application designers and senior developers.

TOGAF is an industry standard architecture framework that may be used freely by any organisation wishing to develop an information systems architecture for use within that organisation.

Adaptive provides a web-based Enterprise Knowledge Repository and related “Adaptations” to support Enterprise Architecture for large organisations and governments around the world.

An independent analyst firm and think-tank, providing a focus for the industry on best practice in business software creation, re-use and management.

A leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, with a portfolio of products (including Crystal Reports) that focus on key areas like Enterprise Performance Management, Information Infrastructure and Data Integration.

The Perforce SCM System features comprehensive software configuration management capabilities, built around a scalable client/server architecture, and is used by over 100,000 developers worldwide.

A US-based site which aims to share knowledge about the Enterprise Architecture industry, solutions and technologies with IT executives, through articles and other resources.

A site specifically aimed at the UK architectural community, with local news, events and webcasts. You can also sign up for the Architect Journal, a free quarterly publication.

ZIFA’s mission is to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience in the use, implementation and advancement of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

Personal thoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect, currently a program manager at Microsoft, and previously chief scientist and chief server architect at Cape Clear Software Inc.