What do you do after you've cofounded a company that developed award-winning
products for distributed computing, won a Young Entrepreneur of the Year
award, and finished a book on Web services? If you're Graham Glass you start
another company and continue pushing the envelope of distributed computing.
The company is The Mind Electric (TME) and the envelope is one of simplicity.
TME has tried to build a Web services platform with a simple conceptual model
and an easy-to-understand API. It is working on a next-generation product
they're calling a "Web services fabric" code named GAIA but this review
focuses on their current platform, Glue 4.1.
Today APIs are proliferating like rabbits and frameworks are getting larger
and more complex. When I wear my developer hat, I prefer... (more)
The moniker "Shared Data Services" has a sexy ring to it, and in a market
where service-oriented architecture is the topic du jour, you may be tempted
to roll your eyes... but don't. Pantero targets an important segment where
business spends $80 billion annually on integration and another $19 billion
on manual reconciliation.
Shared Data Services?
What are shared data services? A quick to... (more)
When I first looked over MagooClient from Magoo Software, it was difficult to
categorize. I expected that it would be another composite application
builder, but that's not what I found. Instead I found a tool that not only
allows users to interact with business processes, but that also becomes part
of the business process itself. MagooClient can not only reach out and
perform Web service... (more)
Business process execution Language support or BPEL is at the top of every
enterprise SOA punch list. It's an XML-based language designed to support
long-running complex business transactions in the form of orchestrated Web
Service interactions. Like most XML formats, you wouldn't want to construct
and debug a process of any complexity by hand and an "engine" is required to
recognize and... (more)
Dynamic languages like Ruby and Python have been enjoying a burst of
popularity in the Web development community and there are a plethora of
frameworks for those platforms that allow them to solve a wide variety of
problems. There's one company that's building its own dynamic language from
the ground up with a single-minded approach to the problem of fast
prototyping for Service Oriented... (more)
Paul Maurer is a principal in the financial services practice of a leading consulting services company.
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