http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Alex Fletcher en Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media SYS-CON Media Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:08:33 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/518909 Undoubtedly, as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) continues to emerge as a hallmark of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the competition between open source and proprietary products will continue to heat up. Granted, ESB is a well-established category of infrastructure software. Enterprises across the world (medium to large) rely on this technology to provide the reusable business services for its applications, business processes and users. In parallel, the ESB market has proven ready for open source disruption.<p><a href="http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/518909" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:00:00 EDT http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/518909 http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/506194 Even if the announcement that Apache Software Foundation (ASF) granted Synapse separate, top-level project billing last week didn't generate major waves of uproar of reaction and commentary, it remains a significant move to the overall state of a burgeoning open source SOA arena. Initially, after first catching wind of Synapse in early spring of last year, I was thrown off slightly by some of the divergent descriptions/understandings of the effort that were floating around the web and as is the case with incubated open source projects it was a rapidly changing code base looking to grow in a more concisely defined direction over time.<p><a href="http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/506194" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/node/506194