• FT.com / Technology - In search of competitive edge
  "JP Rangaswami...has 15 years of experience of “seeking to innovate with a fairly bare wallet” to support his contention that success takes more than money...He advocates a four-pronged approach to innovation on a lean budget.."
  (tags: soa BT)

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• open-jbi-components: Project Home Page
  Incubating Sun Project - Project Open JBI Components will foster community-based development of JBI components (Service Engines, Bindings, and Shared Libraries) that conform to the JBI Spec (JSR208).
  (tags: sun jbi openesb servicemix via:kevin_schmidt)
• Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers | CNET News.com
  "Microsoft has filed for two patents covering technology used to organize and read syndicated Web feeds, such as those delivered via the widely used Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, family of formats."
  (tags: microsoft patents rss)
• Nick Bradbury: Microsoft's Content syndication platform Patent
  MSFT's motivation for the ESP patent? "...often companies file patents just to protect themselves from lawsuits. There are plenty of sleazebags who file patent applications on obvious ideas...wait for someone like Microsoft to infringe those patents"
  (tags: microsoft patents rss esp)
• 77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno
  "The 77 Million Paintings software disc uses the screen of your computer or television to create a constantly evolving painting. The painting is generated from hand-made slides that are randomly combined by the computer"
  (tags: visualization computer_art eno)

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• » Ten companies where SOA made a difference in 2006 | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com
  Joe McKendrick - Highlighting 10 (top 10?) company examples of SOA Value in 2006
  (tags: soa value mckendrick)

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Last week, Joe wrote about the impeding event-driven architecture (EDA) wave.  EDA, as anyone within earshot of my soapbox knows, is a natural complement to SOA.  While I normally blog about “event processing” related topics at elemental links, I just read a good paper from Coral8’s Mark Tsimelzon that will resonate with ebizQ readers. 

The paper describes 10 basic Complex Event Processing (CEP) patterns that appear repeatedly in CEP applications.  The patterns are of the style of Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf’s excellent Enterprise Integration Design Patterns.  In addition to style similarities, you can see many of the message based enterprise integration patterns (channels, enrichment, filtering, routing) present in the CEP patterns.

The 10 CEP patterns Mark presents are:

If you are curious about CEP, take a look at Mark’s (easy to read) paper.

[Disclosure: Coral8 is NOT a client of Elemental Links, Inc.]

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• United States Patent Application: 0060282695
  Microsoft patent application for Event Stream Processor... "Identifying a transaction from a real time event stream having latency. A method of the invention receives events from the real time event stream where events define a plurality of transactions
  (tags: microsoft esp eda)
• SEC to Investors: More Internet, Less Hedge Funds - WSJ.com
  "On Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC's guidance appears to be an artful compromise aimed at addressing criticism about the law's Section 404..The guidance..allows management to make judgment calls "in light of the size, nature and complexity of the company.."
  (tags: sox sec)
• Firms Seek Edge Through Speed As Computer Trading Expands - WSJ.com
  Time is money. Physical relocation of computers was critical: "The move (KC to NY/NJ) shaved a precious fraction of a second from the time it takes Mr. Cummings's firm, Tradebot Systems Inc., to buy or sell a stock on computer-based exchanges like Archipe
  (tags: algo_trading wsj tradebot)

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• Architecture – EDA and Events Processing Essentials
  New EDA Article by Manas Deb, Ph.D, senior director with the Oracle Fusion Middleware development team. Haven't read it, so no commentary (yet).
  (tags: eda oracle read)
• StreamCruncher - Event Processor
  Brand new Java event processing engine, with "a database under the hood". The product is "free" but the code is not "open".
  (tags: esp cep streamcruncher)
• Making the Case for Complex Event Processing Software
  John Morrell of Coral8 on CEP.
  (tags: coral8 cep esp eda)

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• Save the Internet Blog: Net Neutrality
  "The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet."
  (tags: netneutrality savetheinternet)

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Perhaps I need more coffee, but this amused me this morning:

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Last week I concluded my 2006 travels with stops at CMG2006 and a SOA Alliance meeting.   My CMG2006 session was "Observations from the Field: Tackling the Hard Parts of SOA":

"Enterprise architects and technical leaders consistently state the hardest part of SOA is not the technology. Rather, the real work is in service definition, semantics, establishing an SOA program (evangelism, planning, governance, infrastructure and tools) and wading through the industry hype. This presentation delves into the hard parts of SOA, and shares real-world practitioner tips for success."

The presentation was based on a paper I wrote during the summer, with some additional observations/tips and illustrations.  I also added a new section on capacity planning/usage prediction, to elicit tips from the audience.  More on that later.  For now, I'm posting my SOA Hype slide, because there was audience interest in reusing it.

Several notes:

• The slide was produced in late October, the same Google search today yields "34,700,000 for service-oriented architecture."
• The SOA Re-use break even of 1.3 is from Jeffrey Poulin's work.
• For realistic numbers on SOA adoption, see ebizQ's SOA Governance Survey Results. 
• The great Web Services Standards poster is here.

The slide...

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