Sunday, January 20th, 2008
In Can OSS Integration Server Software Enable EAI/BPM, Dennis Byron discusses whether open source software can compete in the integration server market.
Research has shown that often when cost is such an inhibitor, open source software (OSS) can help…On the other hand, everyone agrees that BPM/EAI/integration software is among the most complex software developed and offered in the market. Therefore—conventional wisdom says—it is no place for the OSS culture and development model…Conventional wisdom is wrong again.
createTank’s elemenope SOA framework is mentioned as one of the few FOSS competitors in the market area.
The elemenope framework is a classic integration server based on both OSS terms and conditions and OSS culture. It has been in development since 1999, almost since the start of the integration server era, and it has also enabled a service-oriented architecture (SOA) since before that term became popular.
Worth a read…
Can OSS Integration Server Software Enable EAI/BPM?
http://www.ebizq.net/hot_topics/open_source/features/8804.html
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
eWeek serves up deception.
MS wants to downplay US developer/IT quality to make the case that they need more H1B workers, in order to:
1. Bring in workers of dubious quality
2. (And the real reason) to lower the market rate on US developer/IT workers.
The same holds true on MS arguments on security clearance requirements for US Govt. work (MS is against).
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
In Does SOA threaten developer jobs?, much is said about supposed concerns that developers now have over SOA adoption.
So, one might surmise that Jacquard Loom developers once felt insecure about the goings on in assembler and C development, and that C developers once lost sleep over OO and Java development.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
In today’s high-tech world there is a growing need to create a simpler way to describe web-based applications. In the past one would use a WSDL to describe such application. One competing project put forth from Sun is Web Application Description Language [WADL] (http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/abstract-153.html).
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
XML processing in hardware to boil down an XML doc for simpler binding to objects:
http://tinyurl.com/2syl99
Most importantly:
“We use an object binding framework,” he explained. “We use XSLT to
transform it in hardware. So when the XML comes in, all the validation,
all the business rules that are applied to it, all the transformations are
done, so we get a clean XML that is exactly fitting the object that we
want. So we can make one Java call, say un-marshal, and we have the
object, lo and behold. We don’t have compiled classes. We have no mapping. Nothing.”
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Interesting concept: REST, XForms, XQuery, and “skimming” –
Pattern of holding data on the server in a native XML database, and offloading all translation and processing to the client.
See: REST, XForms, XQuery, and “skimming”
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