O'Reilly Network Articles and Weblogs: David A. Chappell

Grady Booch via Second Life!

I'm presenting a keynote at the next International Association os Software Architects (IASA) IT Architect conferences on May 22 - 23 in New York City. I was looking through the agenda and I came across this - Interesting Real-world Architectures...

Posted: Apr. 30, 2008 07:09 PM

ROI by the Ton -- Going Green with SOA, EDA, RIA and Web 2.0

For the past several years, I have been involved in many healthy discussions centered around the benefits of adopting technology and its supporting tools and infrastructure. Never once had I ever thought of measuring the benefits in terms of tonnage.

Posted: Apr. 22, 2008 07:09 PM

Interview on XTP, SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM in TechTarget

I recently did an interview with Rich Seeley for SearchSOA/TechTarget on the relationship between eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM. Here's an excerpt - ...

Posted: Feb. 18, 2008 04:47 PM

What's Happening with OSGi

I recently helped Khanderao Kand, one of Oracle's Fusion Middleware lead architects, co-author an article on the current state of OSGi. Here's an excerpt - ....The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a

Posted: Feb. 18, 2008 04:16 PM

More - more on "Defending SOA"

There has been a fair amount of chatter lately about defending the value of SOA projects or justifying such projects to the "C-level". Many of these discussions will point at the business value of doing more with less and achieving...

Posted: Jan. 28, 2008 11:47 AM

Video replay of BeJUG Enterprise SOA Conference Presentation on "Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA"

Hi all, A video recording of a SOA Grid presentation that I did at the BeJUG Enterprise SOA Conference has just become available at http://parleys.com/displa y/PARLEYS/Next-Generation+Grid+Enabled+SOA?showComments=true Topics include - - A new grid ba

Posted: Jan. 25, 2008 05:17 PM

Not Your MOM's Bus article published

I just published part 2 of an article exploring the "Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA". This one is sub-titled "Not Your MOM's Bus". Abstract: In our previous article we discussed how SOA grids can be used to break the...

Posted: Jan. 8, 2008 11:48 AM

2008 Predictions - SOA, Grid, SCA, Web 2.0, REST, etc.

- Grid computing will grip the attention of enterprise IT leaders, although given the various concepts of hardware grids, compute grids, and data grids, and different approaches taken by vendors, the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB....

Posted: Jan. 2, 2008 07:17 PM

Extreme ROI using SOA Grid

In recent articles and presentations I have been postulating that a concept called "next generation Grid Enabled SOA", a.k.a. "SOA Grid" and "Not your MOM's Bus", combines conventional SOA infrastructure technologies such as BPEL and ESB with middle

Posted: Dec. 19, 2007 05:46 PM

ESB-Con IV to air tomorrow!

When: Thursday Oct 18, 12 noon ET, 9AM PT, 1900 GMT Tomorrow I'll be joining in with other leading industry vendors to discuss SOA infrastructure in ESB-Con IV. Don't miss it! ESB-Con is a half day virtual conference, which includes...

Posted: Oct. 17, 2007 03:48 PM

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