March 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in soa
Small tip if you are using synchronous endpoints in MULE: last week I was trying to create a webservice proxy in MULE, but couldn’t get it to work. When calling the webservice endpoint as provided by MULE, no result would be displayed. Turns out, unlike specified on the Mule Messaging Style page, even for the [...]
March 22nd, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Yesterday i went shopping for two child car seats. The store i went to first didn’t have the brand i was looking for. So i entered childrenstore into google search on my mobile phone. To my surprise it showed me the results sorted by distance. First time i used google’s location aware search. Very [...]
March 21st, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oss
Just saw this statement on succesful open source projects by Jay Kreps on the Linkedin blog:
The long-term success of an open source project depends on its not being controlled by a single company, person, group, but forming a real self-sustaining group of interested developers.
I couldn’t agree more. Open Source is about group collaboration. One single [...]
March 13th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oss
Here are some pictures i took after the election of the first board of OSSLO.
OSSLO is a group of commercial companies that want to promote Open Source Software as a professional alternative to closed source software. I think this is a very important message. Too many people still think Open Source equals Hobby Software, [...]
March 13th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
I just watched this presentation by Tim Berners-Lee on linked data where he’s basically requesting everybody to turn the internet into one big database: RAW DATA NOW! He wants everybody to publish data on the internet, not just documents and applications. Being able to access raw data, without an application shielding it, and limiting your [...]
March 11th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oss, soa
I’m still playing around with groovy scripting. It’s an excellent way to quickly prototype some ESB scenarios. Last week i blogged about using groovy to write files to a gtalk account using Apache Camel, the example below shows you how to start an ActiveMQ broker, which persists messages to a PostgreSQL database. An Apache Camel [...]
March 11th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oss, soa
The latest release of Java Magazine contains an article i wrote titled: Client Server 2.0 with jQuery and Grails. Unfortunately, not all code examples fitted into the magazine. You can download the complete article, including screenshots and sourcecode here: Client Server 2.0 met jQuery en Grails (dutch).