Setelah hampir sekitar dua tahun belajar komposisi dengan kamera Canon Powershot A400, kurasa tiba saatnya bagiku untuk meng-explore lebih dalam lagi bagaimana melukis dengan cahaya itu. Setelah sempat bingung antara memilih dua “agama” fotografi, Canon EOS 350D ataukah Nikon D40, aku memilih tetap di agama yang sama sewaktu bermain-main dengan kamera Nikon FM10 yang sempat menjadi bintang di era kamera film. Kesan pertama, begitu menggoda, selanjutnya….. :-S waduh… kontrolnya kok banyak sekali? :(

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I love you
I need you
but I do not have to remember you
’cause you’re part of me…

Kalimat di atas adalah sempalan dialog dari film romantis Korea: A Moment to Remember. Wah, ternyata tak hanya teknologi yang berkembang, rayuan gombal pun juga berkembang. Biasanya kita hanya menuliskan I always remember you, tapi di sini lebih jago lagi; Aku tak perlu mengingatmu, karena kamu adalah bagian dari diriku. Hmm… orang Jawa punya istilahnya, yaitu garwa yang merupakan kerata basa dari sigarane nyawa (belahan jiwa) yang dalam kehidupan sehari-hari lumrah disematkan kepada suami/isteri.

Wah, bisa dipakai nih :D ;)) Siapa yaa.. yang jadi korban SMS gombalku berikutnyah… :D

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Disusun oleh Adobe Photoshop CS3. Masih dalam rangka test drive software ini. Ampun-ampun, mendesain tak pernah semenyenangkan ini ^:)^ . Sumber diambil dari Majalah SWAsembada edisi Mei 2007, artikel selengkapnya ada di artikel ini dan artikel ini. Selamat dech buat Pak Bos :) Btw, aku ini sebenarnya programmer atau desainer grafis sih? :( :-/

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From IBM’s presentation about SOA from Board Room a few hours ago. I loved to attend this meeting, ’cause from there I’d got a new perspective about how the system is designed based on Service. Thanks for IBM, and Mrs. Hana Parker for her interesting and interactive presentation. Below is my summarization about service oriented architecture as I got the big picture from the presentation. If there was any wrong concept, please correct me and let me know.

SOA’s Point of View

Suppose that we have existing functionality in our organization, but the functionality resides in separate system, such as: (1) the data is in a database, (2) the bussiness logic is in a legacy mainframe application, and (3) the bussiness logic is also in a J2EE application. We would like to extend the current system without affecting running system, and of course there will be no problem if we want to create new functionality. In SOA’s point of view, things that exposed to be “an services” is bussiness functionality, not applications minded. Take a look at the figure below:

If there are Purchasing application which have Request functionality and Financial application which have Check Budget functionality, on contrary with Object Oriented Architecture which will expose Purchasing and Financial as Objects/Application and Request and Check Budget as Methods, SOA will expose Request and Check Budget as service. So, an application may have one or more services.

Architecture

As you’ve seen at figure above, this simple diagram showing an distributed architecture. We have two database, one J2EE application. So, talking about database connectivity, we have 2 connections. If we add one more application which connects this two databases, there’ll be 4 connections. And as the system grows, the diagram will be much more complex and just like Mrs. Hanna said, a spaghetti diagram.

SOA comes with solution. We add an interface, let say, a pipe, or whatever. Every resources such as database back-end, or existing applications connect to this pipe. IBM introduces their terminology: Enterprise Service Bus. Any services is defined here. Applications exposes their functionality as a service and its service will reside here. By then, application which has connectivity with user (user interface) will access this ESB and access what they need. Of course, it can be defined, what services can be accessed by an application. SOA claimed that this approach will be much more simpler than spaghetti architecture when the system grows bigger and more complex. It doesn’t matter which database should be accessed by an application, but the point is, which services should be accessed by an application. Its services is provided by an service provider which has direct connectivity with its needed resources such as database, file server, and so on.

Well, it’s a very big subjects to learn, and unfortunately, I don’t have much time just like when I’m still in college. Technology is always running fast and we should keep our eyes on it. :)
Hihihi… ;)) sengojo ditulis neng boso enggres, sopo ngerti si bule iku moco :D :P :”>

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Selamat untuk Mas Hedi, si empunya Sekadar Blog, yang menjadi komentator ke-1000 di blog ini. Sebelumnya, Pak Urip sang Helgeduelbek adalah komentator nomor cantik, yaitu ke-999. Ah, sayang sekali dua komentator ini adalah selebritis blog semua, blog-nya terkenal dimana-mana, jadi apalah artinya satu linkback dari blog ala kadarnya ini? Seperti menggarami air laut kata pepatah. Tetapi, karena saya telah berniat untuk memposting komentator ke-1000 dan ke-999, sebagai penghargaan dan ucapan terima kasih atas kunjungan pembaca ke blog saya ini, maka tulisan ini saya angkat di sini.

Terima kasih telah berkomentar dan membuat saya tetap bersemangat untuk ngeblog. Ada yang mau jadi komentator ke-2000? :D hehehe…

Eh, iya, lupa.. FORZA MILAN!!! WE’LL NEVER WALK ALONE :D

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