Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Google Claims Rivals Can't Hold a Candle to It - Yahoo! News

Does size matter?

Apparently Google thinks so. They are bragging about the size of their web index. Well at least the article explains those birthday cakes on their website.

PubSub PubStats

PubSub PubStats

I thought this was kind of a cool tool, actually several tools at this site. You can get site stats, rankings for more popular sites and even plugins for Firefox and IE to manage realtime subscriptions. Check it out when you have time.

ClearNova: RAD for AJAX, J2EE, and Open Source

ClearNova: RAD for AJAX, J2EE, and Open Source

CLEARNOVA has just released a platform for developing AJAX applications. Their site has some good info on AJAX and samples for learning or playing with AJAX. The Learn AJAX section on their site has samples and downloads to help. You don't need their platform for that. Their product is not free, actually pretty pricey. But still it does look interesting.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications

Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications

I found the article referenced above while reading Slashdot. It goes into a lot of detail on Ajax development. After reading the article, it reminds me of the functionality available in .Net with web services which has the ability to do asynch callback type functionality.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Mule 1.1, ESB messaging framework, released

Mule 1.1, ESB messaging framework, released

Mule is another open-source ESB along the lines of ServiceMix. I started looking around ServiceMix a few weeks ago. I think the thing that strikes me is the lack of tooling for these offerings. I am not a huge GUI fan, I tend to lean more toward the command line and simple text editors. However, given the somewhat complex nature of integration work especially when asynch messaging, and complex transformations/enrichment are involved; I think tooling becomes extremely important. Before these frameworks become any kind of serious player, they will have to evolve a lot. They probably will not need the kind of tool sets available from the pure play vendors but something more than what is there will be needed for more mainstream adoption.

Microsoft Gets the Open-Source Religion

Microsoft Gets the Open-Source Religion

It's a small first step but as the author points out, it could be a sign of things to come from Microsoft.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search

Not bad and very fast. Try searching on something like...oh I don't know, how about webMethods or ESB's?

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Iona takes lead in new Eclipse SOA project

Iona takes lead in new Eclipse SOA project

More talk of ESB's and SOA. Iona and Loosely Coupled are definitely not on the same page. Iona is pushing this new tool set via Eclipse as open-source as well as their ESB offering. That ESB word just keeps coming up. Of course since Oracle is going to end up owning everything, it really probably doesn't matter.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Loosely Coupled weblog - on-demand web services

Loosely Coupled weblog - on-demand web services

There is an article out there on the ESB as a concept. It's called Microsoft explodes the ESB. Now there is a wise authority on Enterprise Application Integration. Now if only their servers didn't have to be therapeutically rebooted.... On a serious note, Microsoft has done a pretty good job with their web services tool kit. But I would really hesitate to give them much credibility beyond that.

As far as the ESB goes, maybe the term will go away in the near future. But what is happening in the middleware layer will not. Companies still struggle with basic concepts especially surrounding SOA. And I am still not convinced that what the article is proposing is the best way to go.

Thursday, September 01, 2005