enterprise-development

Is it possible to run a background process on the iPhone using private APIs?

I am not planning to send the application to the store, it would be for a limited distribution. I was thinking that if I could use the private API to do background process, I could then I could join the iphone developer enterprise program, and distribute within my company an application which works in the background. I guess an extension...

Master Data Management - Data redundance

Hi all, I am currently developing a system that holds all relevant master data like for example a customer, or information about an operational system that exists within our system landscape. The assigned IDs to these entities are unique within the enterprise. When some system stores e.g. customer related data, it has to hold the maste...

Where do I get figures about web application development?

Hi there, I know this is not truly programming realted, but I think some of you might still have good hints for me: I'll do a research paper on web application development and for that I would like to have an overview of the dominant languages/frameworks in (Enterprise) Web-Application-Development. Of course I have gut feelings tellin...

Integration between 2 modules in ERP system

Me and my team are working on an ERP system have many modules ( HR , Accounting , etc ) The problem we are facing that there are some shared entities between 2 modules (HR , Accounting ) like employees Employees in HR system have a lot of details like : Personal Information , Visa Info , Report To , Sources , Training , Etc E...

Date/Time and Internationalization for Enterprise Application -- Development Guidelines

Together with another developer, I have embarked on a journey to create a hosted 'CRM Style' application that will cater to enterprise level businesses. These businesses will be accessing our application remotely and so the hosted nature of the application will require certain features. For example, to guarantee a level of professional...

Google Search Appliances versus Microsoft Enterprise Search (FAST)

I am .NET developer and I have been working with various search providers but Google Search Appliance/Mini has been always the best fit for requirements when implementing enterprise level search. I have not worked yet on Microsoft Enterprise Search so I would like to hear developers experiences on it. These days I am getting a lot Enter...

Limiting JMS Destination Instances

Is it possible to limit the number of JMS receiver instances to a single instance? I.e. only process a single message from a queue at any one time? The reason I ask is because I have a fairly intensive render type process to run for each message (potentially many thousands). I'd like to limit the execution of this code to a single insta...

What are the CS fundamentals behind package/dependency management?

Often I hear about situations where companies are developing extensable in house software (the dreaded enterprise 'framework') which is supposed to support multiple 'plugins' from diffirent teams. Usually this ends up being a half baked solution that does not really work due to compatibility prolems between addins, or between addins and ...

Best practice for building a composite data transfer object (DTO) with Domain Driven Design (DDD)

I'm trying to figure out the best approach/practice for assembling a composite data transfer object off of an aggregate root and would love to hear people's thoughts on this. For example, lets say I have a root that has a few domain objects as children. I want to assemble a specific view dto, based on some business logic, that either ha...

help on developing enterprise level software solutions

there is a specific niche which I would like to target by providing a complete enterprise level software solution.... the problem is, where do i begin ? meaning, i come from writing just desktop software on VB/ASP .net/PHP/mysql and suddenly unfamiliar terms popup like Oracle, SAP Business Information Warehouse, J2EE.... obviously, som...

developping proprietary domain specific server ?

a company sells desktop software and also servers that is able to run "wrapper" programs generated by the individual UI program. my question is, how are these proprietary, domain specific servers made ? are they actually Apache + CentOS ? how would you go about building such servers built specifically for your software or can communica...

Sparxsystems Enterprise Architect and issuses/tasks tracking system?

We (developement team 4 upto 7 people) use Sparxsystems EA for requirement analysis, modeling etc. Do you know any well-working methods to use EA and some task/issue tracking system like Redmine/Mantis/Trac ? The problem is not to duplicate functionality (there are issues/tasks/changes in Redmine and EA) but to have some user friendly ...

Grails: enterprise level Grails

Hello; I am trying to persuade my boss about using Grails. I tell him it is the most productive way to implement our shopping web site. But he has doubts about its scalability when traffic gets higher and higher. So can you give examples of enterprise level web sites with notable traffic implemented in grails. Also is there anything ...

is there a specialized educational institution in enterprise software design ?

Is a software engineering degree sufficient for being able to design efficient code in enterprise architecture ? I mean that's what I want to do, some people go to game schools (Vancouver Film School) to make games or work in that industry. are there such similar programs for enterprise software design/development ? Are there special...

Java EE and JDK

I want to move from Java SE to Java EE. I will be using some of the sample projects that come with the Java EE. I have uninstalled the JDK but I think this may have been a mistake? When I download the latest Java EE (6), upon installation it asks me for the location of the JDK (which is uninstalled). I was under the impression that the ...

Why Android for enterprise applications?

Recently one of our clients is considering the posibility of picking up an old WinMobile 5.0 project. Several features are to be added to the point it will be a major version update. The client is worried about the mobile market, and thinks there's a chance all the effort put in this development will have to be thrown away in a couple ...

Where do DQL statements live in an application that is using Zend Framework and Doctrine

In an application that is using Zend Framework 1.10 and Doctrine 1.2, where should the DQL statements live if our application is built such that it has a Service Layer and a Gateway(aka Doctrine_Table) layer. It seems that our possibilities include: 1) Placing the DQL statements in the Service layer which seems to be a bit too high in ...

Can someone explain an Enterprise Service Bus to me in non-buzzspeak?

Some of our partners are telling us that our software needs to interact with an Enterprise Service Bus. After researching this a bit, my instinct is to say that this is just buzz speak for saying that we need to have a platform-indpendent way to pass messages back and forth. I'm just trying to get a feel for what our partners are telli...

What components make up enterprise .NET development

I'm looking at applying for a new job as an Enterprise .NET programmer. It says I need to have Enterprise programming experience. I have a lot of .NET experience, but I moved to a different role a few years ago which is very much Enterprise, just not .NET enterprise. What .NET components should I be familiar with? Remoting, LINQ, WCF, ...

iPhone Enterprise app push updates to users?

If my company is a member of the Enterprise program where we can distribute apps internally for any number of users is there a good way to handle app updates? Everything I see on installing such apps is saying I have to send the .app and a profile to the end users for them to add to iTunes and then sync their device to install. Is there ...