• Axis 1.x or Axis2?
  anne thomas manes on Axis2. Contains a good (quick) writeup of Axis2.
  (tags: webservices axis apache)
• Pamela Slim's Flash Movie: Declaration of Independence
  via Kathy Sierra "to anyone who feels like a "corporate prisoner", or who has recently taken the leap and could use a gentle reminder of what this is about, I urge you to watch her (Pamela Slim) little Flash movie, Declaration of Independence."
  (tags: entrepreneurship motivation)
• Forking Web 2.0
  Jeff Schneider's view of giving SOA a face: "Collaborative Composite Client Platform"
  (tags: soa web2.0)
• NPR : Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence'
  "Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as "The Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. That might sound like a dry subject, but with Tufte, information becomes art."
  (tags: tufte visual_thinking information_visualization)
• Business analysis and SOA part 1 of 6: The benefits of business services
  (tags: erl)

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• Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services
  "Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables "compute" in the cloud. Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction."
  (tags: amazon servicegrid ec2)
• Hydrogen power system unveiled in Maine - Yahoo! News
  Go Maine! "Developers of the system said it's the nation's first publicly accessible direct high-pressure hydrogen energy system as well as the first complete hydrogen energy system in Maine."
  (tags: maine renewable_energy)

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• 10-step program to SOA success | Tech News on ZDNet
  Dave Chappell (Sonic): From talks with practitioners, "I have noted a consistent set of themes which I have rolled up into what I will call the 10-step program to SOA success."
  (tags: soa chappell sonic)
• Inside IBM DB2 Viper | InfoWorld | Review | 2006-08-14 | By Sean McCown
  I confess, I'm intrigued by IBM's Viper: hybrid XML/RDBMS. As business information is delivered, stored, and processed as XML. As code morphs to XML metadata. As the need for sophisticated registry/repositories emerge. I hope to give it a test.
  (tags: xml rdbms ibm viper)
• IBM SOA Business Catalog
  "The IBM SOA Business Catalog is a single, comprehensive online directory of hundreds of reusable SOA assets from IBM and select business partners. Speed time to value by reusing existing services, tools, components, and best practices for building your S
  (tags: soa ibm catalog reuse)

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• Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Dashboard: Event Streams Gain Open Option
  quick read on event stream/cep processing engines: open source Esper, Coral8 (crystal decisions' founder), Streambase (Mike Stonebraker)
  (tags: esp cep streambase coral8 esper)

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Updated 8.23.2006 at 11:04 to insert "DRAFT" into the post title, and add the following clarifying note:

The linked document is a "work in progress", and not (yet) an official RFI.  In other words, please review the RFI for content (additions, changes, deletions), not for submitting a response.  Thanks.

[The original post starts here]

For readers of elemental links, this is a duplicate post. I'm going for max reach!

The Object Management Group’s SOA SIG is looking for community (practitioner, vendor, researcher, observer) feedback on a draft request for information (RFI) on event-driven architecture (EDA) and its relationship with service-oriented architecture (SOA) & business-process management (BPM).

Here’s the RFI Summary:

The EDA Sub-group of the OMG SOA SIG seeks information from members of the EDA, BPM and SOA community as well as anyone interested in promoting standards in this area. Requested information will be evaluated by the EDA Sub-group, resulting in the development of Requests for Proposal(s) (RFP) for standardization of Event definition, relationship between EDA, BPM and SOA that will ultimately allow development of standards for Complete Life Cycle of Events -Ontology of Events, Sense and Respond Services, Events Metrics and processing of complex events. Please note that it is our intent to develop modeling standards for the EDA/SOA and EDA-Business Process interaction and provide standards for the implementation of that interaction as well.

For those (like me) not completely familiar with the OMG process, here’s the description of the RFI process taken from section 8 of The OMG Hitchhiker’s Guide, V7.3:

The intent of the Request for Information (RFI) is to gather information for the purpose of guiding a subgroup in its efforts to provide solutions to industry problems. The RFI is an optional process used by a subgroup to canvass a targeted industry segment for one or more of the following purposes:

• Acquiring general or specific information about industry requirements.
• Soliciting assistance in identifying potential technology sources.
• Soliciting input to and validate a subgroup’s roadmap.

Generally speaking, the RFI process determines which Request For Proposals (RFPs) get issued (and, based on negative feedback, which don't) or influences the way a particular RFP is constructed.

There are no restrictions on who may receive or respond to a RFI. Both OMG Members and non-members can respond. RFI Responses may include information about relevant technologies, products, standards, research, requirements, and other guidance for the subgroup.

If you are interested in EDA (simple, stream, complex), take a look at the RFI and provide comments to Dr. Harsh Sharma. The plan calls for a final review of the RFI at the OMG’s September Technical Meeting in Anaheim.

I suppose this is where I say “I’m going to Disneyland!” I am a guest contributor (no $ exchanged either way) to the EDA subgroup of the OMG SOA SIG.

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• IT|Redux » Imagine: Ismael Ghalimi on "Office 2.0"
  Travel lite: 1. use online services as a replacement for any application currently installed on your personal computer. 2. Two, store all your documents online. 3. Do everything through your web browser of choice. Puts "integration" in the cloud, or t
  (tags: office2.0 integration saas iaas ghalimi)

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Since January, when I traveled to speak in St. Louis and my luggage went to Detroit, I’ve been leery of checking my bag. Besides factoring in stops and layover time, I consider arrival time, engagement start time, the likelihood of shopping for business apparel, the ability to receive an overnight delivery, and my general luck. If all that adds up, I hand the bag over. Well, until yesterday that is. And that’s fine. I get it. Safety wins over hair gel.

So, why am I writing about this at all? I was thinking about the U.K. restrictions and enterprise IT. From today’s WSJ:

Rules are a lot stricter. All hand baggage is prevented from being carried into the aircraft cabins, except for a few exceptions such as travel documents, prescription medicine necessary for the flight and pocket-size wallets and purses, which must be placed in a plastic bag. As part of this rule, laptops, cell phones and other devices must be place in checked luggage.

Laptops, blackberries, smart phones, mass storage devices (iPods, voice recorders, usb keys) will be out of your people’s hands, and through dozens of others, for hours at a time. Of course, this got me thinking about data protection: removing unnecessary data, encryption and backups.

From there, I started thinking about USB keys and portable storage devices. What’s really inside a standalone USB key? Could a storage device (current or future form) be deemed safe to carry on? Will we find ourselves checking machines and carrying on the heavily encrypted data?

Then though, I started thinking about why mobile professionals carry data laden machines anyway. It’s to work in terminals and on the plane. At the endpoints, home, office, meeting, conference, hotels, there’s connectivity -- to people, data, and applications.

This made me jump to Ray Ozzie and how connectivity provides opportunity for everything-as-a-service.

So now, I find myself thinking about data-as-a-service, information-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, temporary storage, trusted data keepers, and traveling data light… Thoughts?

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• Home - Open SOA Collaboration
  The alliance behind SCA and SDO: "The Open SOA Collaboration represents an informal alliance of industry leaders that share a common interest: defining a language-neutral programming model ... Service Oriented Architecture"
  (tags: sdo sca soa)

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• Service Architecture - SOA: How SOA helps you hit the agile sweet spot
  Steve Jones: "its easier to manage 4 people, or even 4 teams of 4 people than it is to manage 16 people directly". Services and Agile Approach.
  (tags: agile soa)
• InfoQ - Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
  Carl Ververs (ThoughtWorks) on getting SOA off the ground using Agile practices. Focuses on conquering the unknown (SOA strategy, best practices, technology, what's right for you) by doing, rather than pondering.
  (tags: agile soa)
• Dilbert Mission Statement Generator
  "Our mission is to continue to interactively create diverse intellectual capital and professionally enhance emerging sources while maintaining the highest standards"
  (tags: humor dilbert)
• The Art of the Start Video
  Guy Kawasaki giving his Art of Start speech. Because we all start something, sometime.
  (tags: kawasaki entrepreneurship)
• Pew Internet: Pew Internet - Bloggers
  "A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology."
  (tags: blogging)
• Sztywny Blog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer
  Answers from Tim Bray, Linus Torvalds, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Steve Yegge, Peter Norvig, Guido van Rossum, and James Gosling
  (tags: programmers)
• Complex Event Processing » Blog Archive » What’s the Difference Between ESP and CEP?
  David Luckham, father of CEP, on CEP and ESP. A must read for those interested in event-driven architectures.
  (tags: eda luckham)

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