There's been lots of debate this year over whether or not Sun should open
source Java. I've talked at OSCon to quite a few Java guys, many long term
Apache developers, who are disgruntled at Sun for not open sourcing Java. I
totally share their frustration as Sun have done 95-99% of all the right
things. Part of the frustration is there's only a little step further to go,
we're all so close.
I think Sun's done a fantastic job of growing and protecting the Java
platform. There's just one more step they need to take - to open source some
Java source code - and we're all happy. However up to now I think the problem
has been that no-one's managed to explain to Sun why they should do it or
even what 'open sourcing Java' means in real practical terms.
Sun is clearly very concerned that any kind of move in this direction could
undermine the Java platform, leading to fragment... (more)
Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications
to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service
Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business
resources, that interact by exchanging requests (for data delivery and
integration, as well as for services) and that can handle streams of diverse
business processes in real-time. To support large-scale, enterprise
integration, organizations need to adopt strategies that rationalize the
infrastructure for integration based on the requirements of business... (more)
Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps
and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and
software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports,
containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The bits and bytes that
are now available are undeniably sophisticated, diverse, and capable of
almost anything, but many of the packages are built from the technology up
and leave the job of how to use the capabilities effectively as an exercise
for the reader.
Today, many readers have completed many... (more)
Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps
and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and
software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports,
containers, standards, best practices...you name it.
The bits and bytes that are now available are undeniably sophisticated,
diverse, and capable of almost anything, but many of the packages are built
from the technology up and leave the job of how to use the capabilities
effectively as an exercise for the reader.
Today, many readers have completed many ... (more)
James Strachan, technical director at IONA, is responsible for helping the Company provide open source offerings for organizations requiring secure, high-performance distributed systems and integration solutions. He is heavily involved in the open source community, and has co-founded several Apache projects, including ActiveMQ, Camel, Geronimo and ServiceMix. He also created the "Groovy" scripting language and additional open source projects such as dom4j, jaxen and Jelly. Prior to joining IONA, James spent more than 20 years in enterprise software development. Previously, James co-founded LogicBlaze, Inc., an enterprise open source company acquired by IONA. Prior to that, he founded SpiritSoft, Inc., a company providing enterprise Java middleware services.
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