The QuickFix/J team has posted news that we have added FIX support to Apache Synapse and WSO2 ESB. Firstly, obviously the main kudos goes to the QuickFix/J team for the great job they have done! Thanks guys.
Secondly, this makes for some really interesting use cases. Let me give you some hints:
1) Thanks to one of our committers we now have AMQP support via Apache Qpid.
2) Esper 2.10 is likely to have direct support for Axiom giving streaming XML and a big performance improvement.
3) There is an Esper Mediator for Synapse/WSO2 ESB which makes it simple to add Complex Event Processing to your SOA
The result - a great platform for rapid development of financial services apps - take your FIX interactions, start to bridge them to AMQP endpoints, look for event patterns with Esper, etc.
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Monday, 14 April 2008
Presentations from ApacheCon
I presented twice at ApacheCon Europe last week. Both times the room was full - I think AC-EU is starting to have a bit of buzz that wasn't there before. The conversations were excellent.
The first presentation was about "Fast SOA with Synapse" and you can see the slides here on SlideShare. I was up right after Guillaume Nodet talking about ServiceMix 4.0. I thought it was interesting that Guillaume's main focus on SMix 4.0 is that it is moving away from JBI towards a much more modular dynamic approach that allows dynamic configuration and runtime. Maybe I'm biased, but I sat there feeling pretty smug as Synapse has always supported simple dynamic configurations.
The second presentation was "REST and WS-*, Myths, Facts and Lies" and you can see the slides on SlideShare also. I was put up right after Roy Fielding talking about REST so there was a certain amount of pressure. In fact Roy sat right in the front and grimaced a lot! Oh and heckled a bit too. But actually I think I handled it ok - I had a lot of people come up afterwards and say they enjoyed the presentation. Roy's talk was very good, but I fundamentally disagree with his assertion that the WS-* design pattern has no architectural constraints. But that's another blog post completely.
As for presentations I saw - I really enjoyed the one on Felix and OSGi from Richard Hall, and in addition the BOFs about Sling and Shindig were excellent.
The first presentation was about "Fast SOA with Synapse" and you can see the slides here on SlideShare. I was up right after Guillaume Nodet talking about ServiceMix 4.0. I thought it was interesting that Guillaume's main focus on SMix 4.0 is that it is moving away from JBI towards a much more modular dynamic approach that allows dynamic configuration and runtime. Maybe I'm biased, but I sat there feeling pretty smug as Synapse has always supported simple dynamic configurations.
The second presentation was "REST and WS-*, Myths, Facts and Lies" and you can see the slides on SlideShare also. I was put up right after Roy Fielding talking about REST so there was a certain amount of pressure. In fact Roy sat right in the front and grimaced a lot! Oh and heckled a bit too. But actually I think I handled it ok - I had a lot of people come up afterwards and say they enjoyed the presentation. Roy's talk was very good, but I fundamentally disagree with his assertion that the WS-* design pattern has no architectural constraints. But that's another blog post completely.
As for presentations I saw - I really enjoyed the one on Felix and OSGi from Richard Hall, and in addition the BOFs about Sling and Shindig were excellent.
Monday, 7 April 2008
WSO2 wins Data Services Product of the Year
WSO2 Web Services Application Server has won the SearchSOA SOA Products of the Year award for the Data Services/Integration area.
According to one judge,
Congratulations to the team.
PS If you look at the list of categories, WSO2 plays in at least 6 out of the 9 areas. Of course I'm hoping to win a lot more in next years competition. More importantly, we really are the only Open Source vendor to have a true SOA platform story where customers can build as much of the SOA as they need using Apache licensed software.
According to one judge,
"It's nice to see open source software take on the growing data access problem. This is a tool that's likely to make both architects and developers happy. It's service-oriented and it addresses a common tactical problem that teams face in most every project."This is a great reflection on the great work the team has done - especially Sumedha who has driven this - but its an even greater reflection on the whole approach that we have taken with our SOA platform. The Data Services is simply a plugin module into the overall WSAS framework. That meant that the Data Services automatically got:
- REST support
- Full WS-* support including Security and SecureConversation
- TryIt instant test tool
- Full WSDL and WSDL2 support
- Cluster support
- Logging, Monitoring and JMX enablement
Congratulations to the team.
PS If you look at the list of categories, WSO2 plays in at least 6 out of the 9 areas. Of course I'm hoping to win a lot more in next years competition. More importantly, we really are the only Open Source vendor to have a true SOA platform story where customers can build as much of the SOA as they need using Apache licensed software.
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