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Friday, April 09, 2004 OpenStorm Orchestrator Update Just a quick note - next week we will be making available the 2.1 version of the suite. Updates include: Studio Update - Improved wsdl editing - 'Helper' for specifying duration and deadlines - 'Helper' for graphically creating correlations - 'Helper' for rapid message definitions on in-bound and out-bound web service calls - Full XPath manipulation tool - 'Helper' for boolean expression building (switch, while) - Ability to create rapid services (drop either Java or C# code directly into an invoke node and it compiles and deploys the code as a remote web service, then replaces the code with the wsdl that front ends the code). - New 'Web Service Invoker' tool for calling/testing services - Canvas supports zoom-in/zoom-out, also has a new 'thumb-nail view' Java Server Update - Increased support for variations of the 'assign' tag - New console with drill down (view by bpel, by instance, by correlation, etc.) - Reliability upgrade with full state machine persistence (test = pull the power plug, plug it back in) .Net Server Update - Reworking web service layer to support latest Microsoft WSE upgrades - Creating long term architecture for Indigo support documentation - New BPEL Programmers Manual - Packaging WSDOX web service documentation with software In addition, we've added a couple people to the engineering team so we should be able to move a bit quicker on the 2.2 release. posted by jeff | 11:31 AM Monday, April 05, 2004 The Promise From the forward of, "Business Engineering with Object Technology" by David Taylor: We stand on the threshold of a new era in business engineering. For the first time in the history of computers, it is now possible to build information systems that directly reflect and expand the way we think about business processes. The critical enabler for this transformation is object technology. Hmm... sound familiar? Well, once again, we find ourselves on the same ole quest.... to achieve a COmmon Business Oriented Language. Yes, I'm a fan of service oriented-bpm. I believe that we need a new vocabulary... for the last several years we have seen some consistent patterns in enterprise computing: 1. A gradual movement towards specialized verbs (servers/services). 2. A desire to separate the verbs from the adverbs (factor out non-functional requirements). 3. Separating nouns and adjectives from verb implementations (XML Schema vs. classes). 4. Standardize the prepositional phrase (predicate). 5. Create a sentence grammar (composition languages). The verbs and the nouns that we choose to program our computers is central to productivity. The separation of our terms is essential. Breaking the bad habits of the object oriented verb-noun coupling will be tough. Creating our new vocabulary will be even harder. Finding a single Business Oriented Language may be impossible. Yet, we define our programming model by the means in which we separate our concepts. Moving beyond the standards gook is essential. Oh, and just for fun - here are the verbs of COBOL: Accept, Add, Alter, Call, Cancel, Close, Compute, Delete, Disable, Display, Divide, Enable, Enter, Exit, Generate, GoTo, If, Initiate, Inspect, Merge, Move, Multiply, Open, Perform, Read, Receive, Replacing, Return, Rewrite, Search, Send, Set, Sort, Start, Stop, String, Subtract, Suppress, Terminate, Unstring, Use_After, Use_For_Debugging, Write If only COBOL had the verbs 'publish', 'subscribe' and 'transform' ... then it we could have called it the 'COBOL-ESB' ;-) posted by jeff | 6:17 PM |
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