As a big SAML fan I should recommend this
This nice article covers the basics of Java Rule Engine (JSR 94)
This is great news. Now .NET and Java developers can take advantages of the Alotva engines:
Altova makes the same engines that drive its award-winning XMLSpy®, MapForce®, and StyleVision® XML development tools available for use in your custom applications. Now you can use the very engines that have helped make Altova software the industry’s leading XML development toolset in your own applications – free of charge!
AltovaXML™ is an entirely free download that includes the Altova:
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AltovaXML™ includes COM, Java, and .NET interfaces so that it can be used from a variety of different applications. You can also call its functionality from the command line. There is no license keycode required to activate AltovaXML™, and you may use it in your applications royalty-free.
AltovaXML™ features include:
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BEA has released to general availability both WebLogic Server 9 and the AquaLogic Service Bus, available for download from BEA's web site. Documentation for both is available on EDocs.
WebLogic Server 9.0 is fully compliant with J2EE 1.4, and is focused on simplifying and streamlining the day-to-day management of production systems. Production redeployment of updated web application versions can be done on a "side-by-side" and "sanity check" basis, with HTTP sessions gradually migrating over to the new version. WLS 9 also includes a new diagnostics service, administrative console with domain-wide change control, and full support for the Jython-based WLST scripting tool.
AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is a configuration-based, policy-driven Enterprise Service Bus, based on WLS 9, with message brokering and web service management (WSM) features. It supports Xquery-based routing, many transports including filesystem, FTP, HTTP/S, JMS (including Websphere MQ and JMS/XA), and Email (POP/SMTP/IMAP), many messaging approaches including REST-style XML, WSDL-defined SOAP/XML, plain text or binary, dispatching based on header, XSD type, WS-addressing, transport header, or dynamically based on the message shape.
BEA continues releasing new stuff:
- BEA has announced the general availability of Tuxedo 9.0, the newest version of their high-end transaction manager. Tuxedo is designed to provide transaction management for C, C++, and COBOL, and integrates with BEA's AquaLogic platform.According to BEA, "The BEA Tuxedo system is analogous to a Service Request Broker (SRB) and provides a service-oriented infrastructure for efficiently routing, dispatching, and managing requests, events, and application queues across BEA Tuxedo processes and applications."
- BEA has made an updated version of JRockit 5.0 available for download at http://commerce.bea.com/products/weblogicjrockit/5.0/jr_50.jsp.This update bundles J2SE 5.0 Update 3 and includes support for the Memory Leak Detector tool. This version of JRockit supports Linux and Windows on x86 an Itanium, and adds support for Intel EM64T and AMD64, see the supported configurations for details. The next JRockit 5.0 release will contain a port Solaris/Sparc. AIX and HP-UX ports are also coming.
BizUnit 2.0 was released. Congratulations Kevin, cool stuff.
Mark Davydov has a fantastic article about complex business transactions.
Clive Finkelstein writes a nice article about Business Process Modeling Notation. BPMN is absolutely an option to consider representing business process in a easy and Standard way to business analyst. BPMN also abstracts the visual language for the represent the Business Process from executables languages like BPEL4WS