The Fluxology Office and GigaSpaces

Yesterday Paul successfully applied for the GigaSpaces startup program.
We will work with the exciting GigaSpaces technology and we want to explore both technical and business opportunities. We think GigaSpaces is an ace especially in the finance and telecommunication markets, were the capacity to deal with a huge number of transactions in high availability and the capacity of easily scaling horizontally for performances are crucial.

"GigaSpaces provides infrastructure software solutions that deliver unparalleled dynamic scalability for high-volume transactional applications, without the overhead and complexity inherent in traditional multi-tier development & deployment environments."

"GigaSpaces’ innovative “space-based architecture” combines advanced services such as distributed data caching, distributed messaging bus, parallel processing, and grid-enablement with open standards and cross-language support to enable a “write once, scale anywhere” approach to the development and deployment of distributed applications."

Next step on our side will be to create a set of joint solutions with Java CAPS and GigaSpaces, the possibilities and applicative fields are infinite. I will blog here for news about this experiment.

New partnership with The Fluxology Office

This month I have started a partnership with a small but very smart consulting firm called The Fluxology Office. It was founded by my friend Paul Peters, a dutch experienced IT consultant and entrepreneur who worked with me at SeeBeyond for a while.
We are working around Europe to help customers to get the best out of Sun Java CAPS and other new Sun technologies, we offer both consulting and training. We are also expanding our technology offer by selecting different new products we want to use in our projects.

Java CAPS review from The SOA Lab

Note: the previous review was written in 2007, so it was no more up to date and I decided to remove the link because it could be misleading. The Java CAPS product line has evolved a lot since version 5, the new version 6 introduces a whole set of new possibilities as it merges previous JCAPS 5.1 Repository components with the new, open-source JBI architecture and components based on the OpenESB, Netbeans and Glassfish Communities.

A recent review of the latest JBI-based products (Glassfish ESB) can be read here.

If you want to discuss more about the new Sun's SOA / EAI product line you can send me an email.

SOA without Technology

In this beautiful article "A Low-Tech Approach to Understanding SOA" Dan North describes a Service-Oriented Architecture in terms of a 1950s corporation, where no computers were available and people worked with just pens, paper and folders.

The idea is to focus attention to the business description level, without mentioning any technology. I think this is a very effective metaphor, which helps shaping the What, Who and Why of a business services architecture without bothering with implementation details.

Forgetting for a while about the technological infrastructure can really improve the quality of description and lead to a cleaner picture of what it is really necessary. SOA is first about People and Process, then Platform (Read this "SOA Methodology" presentation for an example).

There is nothing new under the sun, except that some weird information about SOA has delivered wrong concepts to final customers and it's time for some clarity.

HermesJMS with JCAPS

Here you can find how to setup HermesJMS with JCAPS.