2007-12-27 Thursday

I've been heads down for the last few weeks working on the ESB and SOA design for a client engagement.

I've recently installed the following:

IONA's Fuse-5.0.0.6 Message Broker

Glassfish V2 UR1

JBoss Drools 4.0.3

This afternoon I helped some colleagues locate a utility to document directory structures. It is a Python script that generates an HTML listing. The Active State Programmer Network has some interesting code samples for Perl, Python, PHP, ???

I recently completed a preliminary review of the ebXML reference implementation (Omar-3.1). A few preliminary thoughts:

Bloated code base

Clutterd, ugly, non-intutivie User Interface design

Probably too "heavy" for most real usage

Reminds me of IBM's original UDDI service (that was also a bloated and ugly UI)

Some Links of Interest

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Rules versus Procedural Code

Changes in Ruby 1.9