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System bias is the point in an integration or SOA initiative when multiple systems need their data updated to reflect an upstream (external) change. In particular, it is the moment when people representing each system claim they need to build a capability into their existing systems to receive these update notifications. This is far too early in the conversation to discuss which systems should be doing what, but more importantly there probably shouldn't be multiple systems doing anything. That is point-to-point development, not SOA.

Multi-threading and event handling are built into the C++ API. Last, he talks about how the Coherence team built Java-like memory management for C++ and how they made Coherence 3.4 work on many of the operating systems running on Intel-like processors.

This week open source Linux vendor RedHat and traditional software management vendor CA, announced new products to provide insight into complex services interaction and allow better performance tuning.

Also this week, IBM released a new version of WebSphere Application Server, with runtime provisioning capabilities that allow more services to be deployed on fewer processors.

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, announced today that it is melding its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network to provide remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments.

On Tuesday, CA announced enhancements to its data center automation management products including its Application Performance Management (APM) technology. The CA Wily APM tools are now optimized to manage complex and highly distributed SOA and virtualized environments for both .NET and Java since CA is platform neutral.

When introducing the service-oriented approach within an organization, the software architect does not have to take on a "boil-the-ocean" implementation, according to an industry analyst who has looked at the current state of enterprise architecture.

In fact, small can be beautiful in service-oriented architecture (SOA), said Mike Rollings, senior analyst, Burton Group.