Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Lori MacVitte from F5 had a few comments about my post on using XML appliances in ESB capacity. While I don't completely agree with some of her specific points about what ESB capabilities are missing from XML appliances (for example, parallel processing is employed by most appliance vendors, transactionality is also supported for relevant protocols [...]
Posted in SOA, ESB |
Full Text
|
No Comments »
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
IBM recently announced that DataPower XI50 appliance now supports transformations developed using WebSphere Transformation Extender design studio. This is the same technology used in the Message Broker product. Additionally, support for WebSphere Registry and Repository has been added. From the announcement:
New offerings being announced today include the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50, which now supports [...]
Posted in SOA, ESB |
Full Text
|
5 Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Batch processing (a.k.a. "bulk processing") is dull and boring compared to the new world of SOA, Software as a Service and Web 2.0. It’s hardly ever mentioned these days, so one can get an impression that batch processing all but disappeared from an enterprise and got replaced by “enterprise mashups”, or, at the very least, [...]
Posted in SOA, ESB |
Full Text
|
No Comments »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Almost any enterprise SOA effort begins with an attempt to define XML schemas for key entities used by organization's business processes. These entities inevitably include "person", "organization" and associated information such as contact data with addresses, phone numbers, etc. While not every organization needs to support (and model) all CRM-related functions, person/organization (sometimes a [...]
Posted in XML Schema |
Full Text
|
1 Comment »
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Service Component Architecture (SCA) so far has largely gone unnoticed by developers of enterprise applications, even though there are already several SCA implementations on the market. Additionally, open-source SCA implementation from Apache called Tuscany is gaining momentum.
I suspect that most developers think of SCA as yet another "enterprisey" SOA-related standard along the lines of [...]
Posted in SCA |
Full Text
|
5 Comments »
Subscribe to RSS feed