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More on Granite Data Service's with Project Founder Franck Wolff
Earlier this year, InfoQ discussed Granite Data Services (GDS) with project founder Franck Wolff. In this post, we follow-up with Wolff to learn more about the recent 1.1 release of GDS.
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Is Vendor Lock-in a Barrier to Cloud Computing Adoption?
Tim Bray, Dare Obasanjo and Dewitt Clinton exchanged their point of view about Vendor Lock-in as a barrier to Cloud Computing Adoption. Do you see it as a major issue or do you think that when a vendor will offer something better that people want to migrate to, it will also solve the migration problem for you.
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Moving the SOA Goalposts
During the past several years industry tried to define and redefine SOA many times, often contradicting itself in the process. Is SOA really changing that much, or all this is happening due to continuing lack of understanding of what SOA really is?
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Interview: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang
In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more.
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A Speedier Groovy Coming Soon
The Groovy development team and G2One have been working to improve the performance and features of Groovy, while maintaining a stable release. The steady work on Groovy 1.6 has led to significant performance improvements available in beta form right now.
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Business Processes for SOA Governance
Prabhakar Mynampati, an Advisory Architect at IBM, published last week an article detailing 6 SOA Governance business processes. The article includes a BPMN-like process definitions, rationales and benefits of adopting more formal approaches to SOA Governance.
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Is BPM-as-a-Service Giving a new Chance to BPM?
Rashid Khan, former CEO of Ultimus, was noting this week that the BPM market did not live up to its expectations. It is a problem of cost, skills, ease of use, standards? Can BPM-as-a-Service relying on Web 2.0 technologies and business model change the fate of BPM?
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JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1 Released
Red Hat has released a new version of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (version 4.3) and a new version of JBoss Operations Network (2.1). The new SOA Platform allows for the remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments while the new integrated management platform aims to improve cooperative support.
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BPM Products Consolidate Functionality For The Future
In a recent survey of Business Process Management vendors found agreement that BPM needs to automate all types of business processes in the future, with distinctions between things like workflow and straight-through processing disappearing. Another area of agreement was the need to base BPM around SOA.
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HP Releases Systinet 3.0
HP announced the release of HP SOA Systinet 3.00, their SOA governance solution.
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Adobe Releases Flash 10
The latest update to the Flash Player from Adobe Systems has been released for general availability. To take full advantage of many of the new features, developers will have to wait for the release of Flex 4 sometime next year. However, Flash 10 does bring four main improvements that should interest developers: Pixel Bender, 3D Effects, Advanced Text Layout, and changes to File Reference API.
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Presentation: Mark Little's "Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek"
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and shows that both approaches have their roles to play in any good architect's toolkit. He elaborates on where possible convergence could, or should, occur within the industry.
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Windows 7 Is to Be Called, Well, Windows 7
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Management at Microsoft, has announced the name of the next version of Windows client operating system: Windows 7.
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Flex Testing with FlexMonkey
In this post, InfoQ.com discusses FlexMonkey with project founder Stu Stern of Gorilla Logic. FlexMonkey is an open source record / playback tool for testing Flex applications.
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Deep Linking in Flex with URLKit
In Rich Internet Applications, Deep Linking is the ability to link directly into a specific state of the application without reloading the application. In Flex 3, Deep Linking support was added, but does not support many advanced requirements. For those cases, Flex developers can use URLKit.