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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
IONA Acquired by Progress
It's been a big year for application development industry acquisitions - MySQL, BEA, Borland CodeGear, Cape Clear. It's now the turn of IONA Technologies, which has been acquired by Progress Software for $148.4 million. The acquisition follows a few false starts, including a bid from Software AG.
IONA's legacy CORBA product is widely deployed in the telecommunications and financial industries, although that can not be too attractive to Progress, which already has plenty of legacy products. Perhaps the encouraging results for IONA's new
Service Component Architecture-based product called Artix influenced the acquisition?
Labels: Service Component Architecture, Service Data Objects
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Bringing SOA to the People
The SOA Magazine has published an very good paper by JackBe's by John Crupi and Chris Warner called "
Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People".
The abstact is here:
Forrester Research predicts that mashups will be a $682 million industry in the next 5 years. But can you define mashups? Can you describe the value of mashups to an SOA architect or even a business user? Can you outline the relationship between mashups and existing enterprise technology? Knowing the answers to these questions will advance you well down the road to embracing the concepts and techniques behind mashups in your organization.
This three-part series will help you get a head start by discussing the gritty details. In Part 1 we'll define a mashup in the context of the enterprise, contrast it against other common data integration technologies, and outline some of the more important architectural elements. In Part 2 we'll discuss why SOA architects should care about enterprise mashups. Finally, in Part 3 we'll discuss an enterprise architecture that incorporates mashups as part of your SOA-enabled ERP/CRM/SFA/BI and homegrown applications. A PDF version is
here.
Labels: Service Component Architecture, Service Data Objects
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Apache Tuscany Graduates!
Apache Tuscany has graduated to full Apache project status today!
Andy Grove made considerable contributions to Tuscany SDO during the early days of the project.
Here's the reference written by Kelvin Goodson for the vote on Andy gaining committer status on the project.
Andy has taken part in SDO Java and C++ discussions since November of
2006, in particular in the area of the Community Test Suite (CTS). As some
of you may not follow this closely, I've distilled quite a bit of detail
from the lists to show Andy's participation. He ...
- been active in creating and resolving numerous JIRAs
- did some of the work of the initial drop of tests to the SDO Java
CTS from Rogue Wave and in the CTS infrastructure design, including ensuring
vendor independence.
- has discovered and offered solutions to a number of anomalies
between the CTS and the specification
- developed and contributed tests for testing XML schema choice
function.
- provided good insights to the required and permitted behaviours of
implementations when dealing with elements which are nillable
- has taken part in discussions for an M1 release of the CTS
- Initiated discussions on DataHelper formats wrt dates and
durations
- developed new test cases for spec section 9.10 -- XML without
Schema to SDO Type and Property
- solicited input from the Tuscany community with respect to the
equivalence or otherwise of null URIs versus empty strings, in order to
feed back to the spec group
- took a significant part in discussions of how to ensure the CTS is
test harness agnostic, and provided patches to update tests to assist in
this goal
- contributed a set of tests for XSD complex types
- provided support to the community with problems running the CTS
and with insights into new Junit features
Aside from Tuscany, Andy has been active in the SDO Java and C++
specification efforts, and I think he will be a great asset to the project.
Regards, Kelvin.So well done to Andy Grove and everyone else involved in Apache Tuscany!
Labels: Service Data Objects
Friday, April 25, 2008
New SDO Tutorial
We have published a new
SDO tutorial that provides a general introduction to SDO (rather than being product-specific).
Labels: Service Data Objects
