March 31, 2007
March 30, 2007
bea makes announcements for web 2.0 offerings
The use of web 2.0 technologies has more companies looking at it for efficient user participation in the workplace. BEA announced the emergence of three new products: AquaLogic Ensemble, AquaLogic Pages and AquaLogic Pathways. Ensemble is for enterprise mashup creation and management. Pages is for simple day-to-day business solutions. Pathways combines social bookmarking and tagging with search and activity analytics.
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March 20, 2007
sun announced the release of glassfish v2
The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in New York City was the scene of the announcement of the beta release of GlassFish V2 from Sun Microsystems. This is the next major version of Java(TM) EE 5 application server and the release of Sun(TM) Developer Pack, a toolkit for simplifying and enabling advanced Internet applications for the Java platform. These releases will help build Web 2.0 and SOA applications which use AJAX and other technologies.
The GlassFish V2 Beta is available for download. Flexible open source technologies have been in demand and the scalability of Solaris 10 and the GlassFish application will no doubt become popular. GlassFish will boast of ease ease of development. The Sun Web Developer Pack simplifies access to open source techologies for creating rich Internet-based applications. This will help create RSS feeds more rapidly. The developer community will get next-generation Java technologies such as jMaki. Ben Galbraith, co-founder of Ajaxian.com, suggests to learn jMaki before you start down the path of integrating some of the popular Ajax frameworks into your application.
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March 14, 2007
soa is a set of best practices
Can return on investment (ROI) be calculated for SOA? Does ROI have to be calculated? First off, SOA is generally a long-term project with long-term results as a priority. SOA is all about solution building with many parts involved to build the finished product.
Joe McKendrick wrote about this and the very concept of SOA has many scratching their heads and wondering if an SOA venture is worth it. As Joe wrote, SOA is a strategic bet. SOA is about transforming business and is intangible. The best set of practices is used to drive business transformation.
March 13, 2007
service framework for libraries
Libraries have made good progress in changing their service with new learning environments. How should libraries be organized? Is there a shared view when it comes to making libraries more networked and more digital? Frankly, no. Where to start?
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was formed in 2005 and they in turn formed the Service Framework Group(SFG), which was to consider a more community-minded approach to information environments. The SFG wants to model the library for this new environment. A paper written on this subject and was published in July/August 2006.
A reference model is surely needed and the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) is a good example. OAIS provides the means for digital preservation and a service framework would shape the general library landscape as a shared reference point. AN OAIS is an archive made available to a community with accepted responsibility to preserve information.
As more applications are forthcoming, the framework has to be adaptable and flexible. New products from the Web 2.0 community will make information sharable and readily available. However the need for standards will soon arise during a project. The need for end-user friendly models will surely be a top priority. What good is the information archived if it can't be readily accessed?
