//"Space-based programming" heralds a new way of building distributed applications. The dominant methods of distributed programming are based on remote...
I have just posted details of this conference taking place in Palm Springs on the 12th to 14th October. You can find details in the Events folder in the Files...
I have just come across an excellent article written by an ex-Novello (yes, I must confess to being one as well) who knows the notorious Darl McBride of SCO....
I have just written an article which you muight find interesting. I canot post it to the messages as I am told it ends in a commercial plug, however our...
Another thought-provoker by Seán. The collaborative sysytems he describes make a lot of sense as being vital components of next-gen systems. Here is his...
Social Networking (or Social Software): I am glad we are discussing this. I've already blogged what I wanted to say, so I'll save the repetition again in...
A lot of you working on leading edge systems will have come across software agents working in a semi-autonomous fashion. This weeks Economist has an...
"Agents" is a term that means different things to different people. While to some it might go with the Matrix movie agents touch, for some others' it could...
Here is Seán's latest thought-provoker which will doubtless irk those technical purists who would have nothing to do with filthy lucre (or perhaps it would...
Web sites, databases and other illusions By Sean McGrath Strange as it may seem, there is actually no such thing as a web site. By this I mean that URLs - the...
Mozzie, I don't have any experience with it, but here's another one that appears to be more actively maintained: Ozone http://www.ozone-db.org/ Cheers! Terry...
Not that Jini couldn't do it, but here's one perspective to learn from several projects to improve WS solutions: http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=7376 ===== ...
I have started a forum on Internet Computing (thin client computing and applications/ Internet Operating System etc). that some of you may be interested in. ...
Some of you will have come across OpenWings in the J/JS and SOA Groups. For those of you who have not they have some very interesting architectural papers at ...
... have "real semantic meaning, so they're not just whiteboards," Oberg said. "Developers shouldn't be convinced that modeling is worth their time by 'it's...
IBM/Rational is not the only one out there - see Compuware (OptimalJ) and Interactive Objects (ArcStyler) as well. The OMG's Model Driven Architecture is...
From what I understand, OMG, looking for something to get their teeth into after CORBA (aging and brittle), dreamt up the whole UML/PIM/PSM scenario. Gervas ...
Well stricly speaking UML was out there first, but it was given to the OMG to look after. I had a good chat to OMG in September about UML and MDA, and get the...
The problem with the direction that the UML is heading, I'm referring to Model Driven Architecture (MDA), is that it is loosing it's value as a descriptive...
I think the MDA is the next step in allowing one to express the architecture in an useful abstract way. My only difficulty has been in not enough effort to...
... Perhaps this has something to do with it: '[...] Don Box [...] asked the roomful of developers "how many people have successfully deployed DCOM?" Nobody...
David, I was being needlessly provocative by using the terms "ageing and brittle" - you know far more about these things than I do, which is why I wanted to...
Jini/JavaSpaces is restricted to Java, CORBA and WebServices are not. I agree that WebServices may be a little more flexible (but not as opposed to brittle)...
Seán McGrath, who is a bit of an XML guru, has written the following article which explains why he is in love with it: The impotence of numbers By Sean...
<<META Group Analyst Thomas Murphy pointed out that the traditional, "waterfall" way of dividing application development among business analysts, architects,...
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