Enterprise Integration Patterns: Gregor's RamblingsGregor's Ramblings on Enterprise IntegrationReflecting on Enterprise Integration Patterns- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The end of the year is always the time to reflect on the past happenings. My friends in Japan often send a New Year's card with 12 pictures, each showing the significant event during the month. I am not sure something significant related to Enterprise Integration Patterns happened each month, but I think it's still nice to reflect a little bit on the history and current state of the patterns. After all, the patterns have matured from a draft paper to being adopted as the lingua franca for a...http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/66_fouryears.html I Want My Events- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Last time I claimed that users like events. This time I want to show how I fulfilled my personal desire for events off the Web. I built two solutions to alert me to new book reviews on Amazon, one using a Python script, the other using Yahoo! Pipes.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/57_pipes.html API's are for Humans, too- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When graphical user interfaces became popular thrifty people had the idea that they could generate them automatically. Well, that bubble burst pretty quickly. When people say nothing is new with Web services, they are right in this case. Once again people want to generate the interface automatically.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/55_api.html Google Developer Day- July 2, 2008 Last week Google held a developer day in 10 cities around the world. Here are my take-aways.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/54_gdd.html Eric Newcomer is on to me- July 2, 2008 You can only get away with joking about transactions for so long before the gods of transactions bring you to justice. So is was only a matter of time before Eric Newcomer would catch me waxing about coffee and transactional integrity...http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/53_eric.html Users Like Events- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Two weeks ago I presented a keynote at the DEBS (Distributed Event-based Systems) conference. The emphasis of the conference was on academic work in the field but event-based systems are rapidly gaining traction in commercial applications as CEP (Complex Event Processing) is becoming a household name like SOA (equally difficult to pin down). All this talk about events reminded me that applications on the Web are becoming increasingly event driven.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/56_events.html |