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CEP: hype, or the next best thing since sliced bread?
… was the title chosen by OMG for the CEP round table [*1] discussion at their Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems this week. “CEP vs hype” has been somewhat an over-discussed (but ultimately
Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 09:44 PM
EPTS Glossary, presentation-style
Whilst presenting a CEP Tutorial at the OMG’s Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems [*1] this week, I re-formated the EPTS Glossary of terminology into a presentation format. Naturally, as one who cannot le
Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 02:28 PM
DEBS08(6) - Model-Driven Eventing
Another talk at DEBS that threatened to be on-the-ball was Douglas Schmidt’s keynote [*1] on model-driven event processing. Although it was not mentioned, most commercial CEP software systems [*2] can be considered model-driven (e.g. draw a dia
Posted: Jul. 7, 2008 08:04 PM
DEBS08(5) - Event-based Constraints
Another paper at the Distributed Event Based Systems conference was on “Event Based Constraints for SensorNet Programming”. I had high hopes for an interesting paper on goal-driven CEP, but in fact the authors (from Brown University, USA)
Posted: Jul. 7, 2008 08:41 AM
DEBS08(4) - Event-based Middleware
Continuing on with the Distributed Event Based Systems conference, its quite surprising that the presentations on event transmission (aka intelligent middleware, content-based pub-sub, clustering pub-sub nodes for performance, secure pub-sub etc etc)
Posted: Jul. 7, 2008 08:26 AM
DEBS08(3) - Continuous Queries
Next from the Distributed Event Based Systems conference: the CQL tutorial by Dieter Gawlick and Shailendra Mishra, covering Oracle’s version of a continuous query language [*1]. What was interesting was their defense of the claim that “y
Posted: Jul. 3, 2008 01:19 PM
DEBS08(2) - Overloaded Agents
Continuing our posts from the Distributed Event Based Systems conference: the next tutorial was Opher Etzion from IBM Labs on CEP Patterns [*1]. Or more accurately, a notation for event processing components, which seemed more generic than the Snoop
Posted: Jul. 3, 2008 01:09 PM
DEBS08(1) - Active DB’s contribution: Snoop
Occasionally it is good to attend an academic [*1] conference in one’s field, and the Distributed Event Based Systems conference is considered one of the main events for CEP (although it includes a major dose of pub-sub / middleware topics too)
Posted: Jul. 3, 2008 12:59 PM
CEP as applied to SOA
Although pundits might debate whether EDA (and thence CEP) is a part of the SOA paradigm (or not), there is no doubt that CEP can be used to make SOA services more useful [*1]. One such area is in managing SOA performance and SLAs (the SOA equivalent
Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 05:20 AM
Advanced, Event-Driven, Process Modeling
From OMG last week, it looked like the BPDM versus BPMN debate was “beginning to end” (although pundits are finding plenty to comment about: for example see EDS’ Fred Cummins’ comments, and Bruce Silver’s response) [*1].
Posted: Jun. 30, 2008 08:25 AM
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A Terrorist Fist Jab
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Jul. 16, 2008 06:33 AM
CEP: hype, or the next best thing since sliced bread?
… was the title chosen by OMG for the CEP round table [*1] discussion at their Workshop on Distrib uted Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems this week. “CEP vs hype 221; has been somewhat an over-di scussed (but ultimately uninterest ing) topic on various blogs of late; the point here at OMGR 17;s workshop was to raise awareness [...]
Jul. 15, 2008 09:44 PM
More on ?Best? Practices & The Dreyfus Model With Dan North
Two of our recent blogs; The Misnomer of Best Pr actices an d The Dreyfus Model are tied together nicely in this episode of Enerjy.tv by way of a conversa tion I had with Dan North of T houghtwork s. Dan regularly speaks and  blogs abo ut these topics and gives his views on where so called Best Practices should be in an orga nization and how they are [...]
Jul. 15, 2008 01:47 PM
Bold Shill - UX Week News
There̵ 7;s a lot happening yon Adaptive Path way as we gear up for UX Week 2008. We’ ve just announced the actual super final completing of our program, including Jury Hahn, and the pr esentation s we’ ;ll get from the folks at the Explor atorium. My colleague Leah Buley conducted a marvelous interview with Audrey Chen, lead IA on TheD ailyShow.c om. [...]
Jul. 15, 2008 11:33 AM
iPhone game in top 50!
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Win32 API - Move Some Memory
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Various updates from me (J2ME, JSON, travels - and blueMa rine, of course)
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Jul. 14, 2008 07:34 AM
Why the Web Dinosaurs Died
The Kaazing team recently got a Comet article published in the Jav aDeveloper 's Journal (JDJ June 2008), which gives an overview of the impact Com et-based solutions will have on your IT infrastruc ture. The article is now published online - Why the Web Dinosaurs Died. Enjoy! Cheers, Jonas
Jul. 11, 2008 08:31 PM
Some Things You Might Ask Me (About Enterprise Mashups)
I know a good idea when I see one. Recently I was inspired by a blog post from esteemed Web 2.0 bi g-thinker Andrew McAfee. In ?Some Questions you Might Get Asked? he compiled a list of co mmonly-ask ed questions when discussing Enterprise 2.0.So I polled my executive team and a few of our partners. With a nod to Mr. McAfee, here's the most commonly asked questions JackBe encounters when we're discussing mashups with prosp ective mashup ado pters.In no particular order: 1. What are the most typic
Jul. 11, 2008 10:00 AM
New Version of Mail for Exchange for Nokia Phones
Nokia have issued a new version of their Blackberry Killer app '  ;Mail for Exchange. What is Mail for Exchange.  It is the name of No kia's email client built on top of  60;Microso ft's ActiveSync technonolo gy. It provides push synch ronization of email and other data between Microsoft Exchange and Nokia devices. It also now supports MIcrosoft Exchange 2 007. 
Jul. 10, 2008 05:48 AM
Moonlight Serenade
Here is how to play this famous song by Glenn Miller: In the key of Bb, start with F6 by fretting F on the B string, 6th fret with your index finger. The pinky holds the bass note C on the low E string. Hold that chord for the duration of the bar (4/4). Now change to [...]
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