April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“. Like most of my presentations, there’s not much text on the slides, so i’ll summarize here: We start with one slide of JAX-RS code, just to mention that we’re not going to talk about code. Next, we mention Stefan [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Just read Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?. The article argues that LinkedData, aka the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0, might be a threat to Googles dominating position. I was actually thinking the opposite. To me, Web 2.0 and SOA seem a bigger issue for Google. Web 2.0 interfaces are [...]
February 18th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, open standards, oss
I wrote a small Python program today, to see if a could create a workaround for a problem i have in Java. I’ve written a couple of Java applications that use OpenOffice’s API to create ODF and MS-Word documents. The OpenOffice API that i used in Java is pretty horrible: very verbose, not intuitive. You [...]
February 17th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
One important aspect of open source is often overlooked: collaboration. Open source enables organizations to collaborate on building the software they need. Too often open source is just consumed: downloaded and installed because it’s free. To my surprise, the report i mentioned earlier, Ranking OS and OSS: NOIV monitor does reward organizations that release their [...]
February 17th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
A study by a dutch government agency (ICTU) was just released which discusses the current results of implementing open standards and open source by dutch government agencies: Verbinding in het vizier (dutch, pdf). What is interesting is that the results are not just discussed, but all agencies are ranked by their results to implement the [...]
February 12th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I’m sure some will not agree with my statement, and some will think, duh, that’s so obvious, but i think this needs to be said: REST is a distributed data model. REST is not a simplified way to implement Web Services. It’s also not a way to call Remote Procedures with a Javascript friendly syntax. [...]
January 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
So SOA is dead, Services are what we need to focus on according to Anne Thomas Manes? How is SOA not about Services? SOA means Service Oriented Architecture. Seems like Anne Thomas Manes is contradicting herself… SOA is only dead if you interpreted SOA as creating Web Services and building composite applications with BPEL. And [...]
December 30th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in java, open standards, oss
Sending and receiving messages to and from google talk accounts is actually very easy. Google uses the xmpp (jabber) protocol. The Smack library enables you to use the xmpp protocol in java. I was actually trying to use xmpp in apache camel, but couldn’t get it working with google accounts, just with other accounts, so [...]
December 15th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I think the most important feature of the web is the fact that it’s based on open standards, so everybody can participate. It brings the whole world together. But another and just as important feature of the web is that all the information is out in the open, and linked together using hyperlinks. This enables [...]
November 11th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
OSGi could mean a big boost for middleware innovation.Current application servers all try to be as complete as possible, so they rank high in industry analyst’ charts, like the one you see here. Being up there in the right top corner is what it’s all about. So they all include everything and the kitchen sink, [...]
