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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)

Pantero 1.3 Shared Data Services

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)

Product Review: "MagooClient 2.1 XML Messaging Client"

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)

Product Review — ActiveBPEL 2.0 from Active Endpoints Excels at BPEL

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)

'Delving' into Cretaceous Software's SOA Fast-Prototyping Toolkit

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)