July 2004 - Posts

Enterprise Service Bus

Cape Clear announces today the release of Cape Clear 5 one of the most conceptually powerful Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in the world. This new version comes with a set of interesting features 

Protocol-independent routing, messaging, and message transformation. Organizations typically use a variety of infrastructures and protocols to distribute information across their enterprise. Cape Clear's ESB supports this infrastructure, simplifying integration, protecting a firm's existing investment in technology, and ensuring that firms can get the information they need quickly, where it's needed. Cape Clear 5 provides out-of-the-box support for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, JMS (including MQSeries, JBoss, and other leading implementations), IIOP, and RMI.

* Sophisticated graphical data integration. Cape Clear 5 enables the rapid integration of diverse data models and sources. Cape Clear's tools provide for any-to-any mappings of data from structured text, CSV, fixed-width, Excel, and XML formats, including popular data standards such as EDIFACT, SWIFT, and FIX. The result is that companies can quickly and easily accept and process data from internal systems, customers, and partners regardless of the format, radically reducing administrative overhead. Cape Clear 5 now includes support for script-based transformations, enabling developers to build complex custom transformations using their preferred scripting language, such as JavaScript or Perl.

* Enterprise management capabilities.
  • As the adoption of SOA and Web Services grows, it is apparent that organizations want to manage these services through their existing enterprise management infrastructure, such as CA Unicenter or IBM Tivoli.
  • Cape Clear 5 provides SNMP and JMX interfaces, enabling users to manage and monitor the platform and services, as well as to customize dashboards and alarms for lights-out system management.
* BPEL-based routing and workflow. Cape Clear 5 adds a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 1.1 engine, which enables developers to define and deploy complex business processes across the enterprise. Processes are dynamically deployed, increasing the flexibility of the organization and IT infrastructure.

* Extended security support.
  • The Cape Clear product suite has advanced support for application security.
  • The system supports HTTPS, SSL, XACML, X.509, SAML, JAAS, LDAP, and integrations with leading security infrastructures such as Entrust, Netegrity, and the Liberty Alliance. In Version 5, Cape Clear enables the delivery of secured value-bearing transactions with support for digital signatures.
* Simplified SOA development. Cape Clear 5 includes the popular Cape Clear SOA Editor, which provides an easy-to-use graphical environment for creating, editing, and integrating services. The editor supports best-practice SOA by encouraging developers to begin by defining the service, then to focus on the actual implementation.

* Rapid, automated technology and data integration. Cape Clear 5 simplifies the integration of existing applications and technology. It includes automated wizards that step developers through the integration process and includes support for a diverse range of existing technologies, such as J2EE (including all the leading application servers), Java applications, CORBA, databases, COBOL, and JMS, along with support for any JCA-compliant adapters. Cape Clear 5 also includes pre-packaged data adapters for a wide variety of data formats-from Microsoft Excel to any structured or semi-structured files, XML DTD, XML Schema, SWIFT, FIX, TL/1, Parlay, and EDI/EDIFACT.

* Standards-based Enterprise Service Bus. Cape Clear 5 is built from the ground up around industry standards. These include BPEL 1.1, SOAP, UDDI, WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, WS-Routing, JMS, WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0, WSDL, XML, XSLT, XPath, and XQuery.
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JWSDP 1.4

A new article explaining the features of Sun JWSDP 1.4 can be founded here. Honestly I think that Sun needs to provides a better support for WS-* protocols. Currently JWSDP supports WS-Security. Some of the major features are the support fro OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) and WS-I profiles.

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WSE and .NET Compact Framework

Well, the .NET Compact Framework has now support for some of the most important WS-* protocols. The OpenNETCF.org group, as part of a fantastic job, has releases OpenNETCF Compact Framework Library for developing smart client applications.

Among the many enhancements is support for WSE2.0 features that provide support for the WS-Addressing, WS-Security, and WS-Attachments specifications. Also included are enhancements for debugging and tracing as well as added graphics controls.
 

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BEA news

Two news from BEA Systems:

  • The WebLogic Server Process Edition is now available. With this product BEA Systems increase the support for Orchestrations and SOA features.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        WebLogic Server Process Edition provides you with the technologies and tools you need toeffectively service-enable your existing resources, create composite services using
    process-driven development, and extend these composite services to interact with other
    applications and technologies. Each of these phases allows you to take distinct measurable steps
    that are effective for both project and enterprise level architectures.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                         WebLogic Server Process Edition increases the features provided by other BEA products in this area like BEA WebLogic Integration.
  • Today BEA Systems published a benchmark comparing the performance of JMS vs. Web services for sequential request processing.
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WSE and MQSeries

Simon Guest has been developed a MQSeries transport for WSE 2.0. Some of the most important Web Services technology provider in J2EE like IBM and BEA support JMS as a typical Web Service transport and recently Roman Kiss post a MSMQ adapter for WSE 2.0.

I think that Simon again shows an important aspect of interoperability, in this case provided at the transport level in the Web Services environments. For me sounds great and I just begin to make some tests.

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Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks

Today Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks and has released a paper comparing the .NET and J2EE Web Service performance.

In this paper, Microsoft responds to the Sun representation of .NET vs. Java relative Web Service performance with corrected results for .NET, and expands on Sun's tests to show relative .NET vs. J2EE performance for more realistic Web Services that do more work. They have provided all the source code including the .NET implementation, the Java implementation, and the Java driver program so customers can replicate the results. Microsoft believes they have accurately re-created Sun's original tests given that the Java results they achieve for Sun's four original tests very closely match Sun's reported results when taking into account the slightly faster server hardware they used in their testing (3 GHz vs. 2.6 GHz CPUs). However, they have found the .NET results to be 2-3 times better than Sun reports. Finally, they find .NET to significantly exceed the performance of Sun's JWSDP 1.4 in tests involving larger message sizes.

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Comega compiler

I receive a terrific news this morning. Comega compiler preview is available for download here. I just begin to develop some samples whoooo!!!.

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WSE MSMQ transport

Roman Kiss writes an article that explains the different messaging levels in WSE 2.0. He also shows how to develop and use a MSMQ custom transport.

Have Fun!

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ActiveBPEL

Well, BPEL appears in the Open Source world.

ActiveBPEL, LLC is an open source software organization that licenses and distributes the ActiveBPEL™ engine technology. The ActiveBPEL engine is a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications.

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Don Box and ES

Don Box post a nice reflection about how to get distributed transaction support in the .NET framework (Whidbey, 1.1, 1.0) without use ES.

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