Recently, BEA Systems released their annual report on the state of the enterprise portal market, which includes a synthesis of customer survey results and a summary of analyst research. The report reveals that portals remain a top priority for CIOs at large enterprises for the sixth consecutive year. It also substantiates industry consensus that portals remain ideal platforms for consolidating applications, helping enable the integration and reuse of existing systems and data, and helping companies introduce Web 2.0 capabilities to their increasingly tech-savvy user communities.
Composite Software Construction - The goal of this book is start by understanding today's software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.