Sun plans to develop a new persistence API that joins concepts of EJB adn JDO technologies.
An open letter from Sun, to the community, has been released. The letter talks about how a new specification, RI, and TCK will be placed under the JSR-220 (EJB 3) group. JDO experts will join this effort, which will be based on the EJB 3 early draft as a starter.
A nice
article about Human Workflow Services in BizTalk Server 2004 has been published in MSDN Magazine.
The new Gartner report put Microsoft on top of the SOA technology providers.
Gartner has just released a new "Magic Quadrant" Report for Web Services that is meant to help guide decision makers as they choose which vendors to work with to develop their SOA strategy. In this report Microsoft tops all of the other vendors with IBM not far behind. Sun and BEA on the other hand are still in the “Niche Players” quadrant.
The report uses the following five criteria to determine the positioning of vendors within the quadrants.
- Web Service Vision and Business Strategy
- Overall Incorporation of Web Services in Product and Service Offerings
- Support of Emerging Business Models
- Web Services Standards Influence
- Web Services Developer Influence
Well this guy is simply amazing. James Strachan has develoed now ActiveSOAP, a new open source project, which is a pure StAX based implementation of the SOAP 1.2 protocol for implementing document centric Web Services and SOAP intermediaries. Currently HTTP and JMS are supported transports.
In the past week WS-Transfer specification was released. I think that the authors and contributors do a great job. However isn't good to see that IBM is not is the list of the authors. In the last version of WTTK IBM provides an implementation of WS-Resource Framework specifications that follows a similar idea of WS-Transfer. In some topics there are a set of specification that addresses similar problems: WS-Eventing and WS-Notification set (WS-Notification, BrokeredNotification and WS-Topics); WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery and now WS-Transfer and WS-Resource Framework. In some cases I think that would be nice to uniform criterias among the Web Service technology providers.
Christian Weyer post a great resume of the features of SOAP Scope 4.0.
The UDDI Publishing Wizard obtains the second prize in the BizTalk Server 2004 Developer Competition. More information in the Scott Woodgate blog.
Great news for the J2EE Web Services Developers. ReadiMinds announces the release of the WebServices Applications Suite 2.0 (WSS 2.0) which consists of tools to build, integrate, enable and manage enterprise Web services applications.
The WSS 2.0 Platform Products consists of: Business Process Manager (ReadiOrchestra); Service-Oriented Applications Platform (ReadiCORE+Partner Manager+Business WebServices Libraries); Portal (ReadiPortal); Integration & Business Network Platform (ReadiConnect+ReadiB2Bi+ ReadiDesktop); Mobile System (ReadiMobile); Management & Monitoring System (ReadiManager); and Rapid Deployment Studio (ReadiStudio).
WSS 2.0 runs on multiple J2EE application servers including open-source ones. This includes BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Jboss, Sun ONE, Borland, and Oracle 9iAS.
WSS 2.0 is built on pluggable architecture and supports adaptive security services framework covering all three layers namely transport, content and process. It incorporates latest revisions to OASIS specifications related to webservices including SOAP, UDDI, WSRM, and SAML etc. Enhancements include code generation wizards for UDDI clients, Service clients and B2Bi editor. Other enhancements include efficient JMS and SOAP monitoring apart from providing run time dynamic configuration. The new release also incorporates efficient error handling and tracing mechanism. Additional enhancements in WSS 2.0 include a visual ReadiConnect and ReadiB2Bi editor, enhancement to security services, improved transaction management and richer webservices libraries to facilitate enterprise webservices applications development and deployment
My last article covers the concepts behind the BizTalk Server 2004 UDDI Publishing Wizard. You can find it here. Thanks so much to my friend Rene for the pictures.