VOSibilities

We are pleased to present a recording of a joint webinar we presented on June 12, 2008 with XAware entitled How to Create and Orchestrate Services for Your SOA and Web 2.0 Applications.

Despite the imposing title, I think you will find the content — especially the lively Q&A at the end of the webinar — very interesting.

 

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For this episode of our podcast, I am very pleased to bring you a video recording made by our own Kim Pease in which she demonstrates ActiveVOS’s capabilities to interact with JMS queues. Kim gives a great overview of what you can do with ActiveVOS, but even more than that, the features she demonstrates make a very subtle but important point: orchestration developers don’t live in a 100% SOAP world.

Many of the services developers need to orchestrate are available via JMS and originate and terminate in common systems like MQ Series and JBoss. We believe it’s very important to be inclusive of these transports and to make sure they are able to participate in a first-class way with SOAP-transported services. In short, being “doctrinaire” about how services should communicate with the orchestration system only serves to impede developers who deal with heterogeneous systems as a daily matter of course. A good example of this pragmatism in ActiveVOS is at about 6:00 into the demo when Kim shows how ActiveVOS will automatically detect an incoming message’s format and reply in kind.

I want to thank you all for the feedback we’ve been receiving about this podcast series. We will continue to post a wide variety of content: demo vignettes (help me persuade Kim and our other engineers to burn the midnight oil to create more by downloading and viewing this episode like crazy), product information, audio podcasts and PDF content. Be sure to subscribe to this feed at http://www.vosibilities.com/category/podcast/feed or in iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=274122495.

You may have also noticed that when we have video for the feed, I try to post both a larger .avi and an iPod-formatted .m4v or .mp4. They are always the same content, but the .m4v is usually smaller because it’s reduced in resolution to fit iPods. Please feel free to download either or both. Also, as a convenience who visit the blog instead of subscribing to the podcast feed, the .m4v can be played in a Flash player on the blog just by clicking on the image.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #8- Kim Pease on using JMS with MQ Series and JBoss to orchestrate web services [9:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (258)
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OK, at risk of obscuring my passionate post of earlier today about BPMN, BPEL and BPEL4People, it’s about time that we posted the pix of us at JavaOne. It’s taken a whole week because the Flickr plugin I tried earlier this week crashed the blog completely.

Anyway, I was motivated to do this this afternoon because our guys are calling everyone whom we met at JavaOne to follow-up. And just a few minutes ago, Mike Kettering came in to tell me a woman he spoke with had a great time at the party. It was so nice of her to tell Mike that she’d had a good time so long after the party ended.

Frankly, I don’t remember the party very well, but I know I had a blast. (-:

Just click on a thumbnail to see the photos from Flickr. Those big yellow bowls were actually lighted, though you can’t see it in the photos. And most of the other shots showing people palming big snifters are of people enjoying a 40oz cocktail masterpiece.

So, next time we invite you to a pahty, you’re gonna come, right?

Pssst…wanna have some fun at JavaOne? Join us for our Tiki Bar Party on Wednesday May 7, 2008. Get all the details here.

Why a Tiki Bar Party? Because we’re big, big fans of Tiki Bar TV and we wanted to have some fun ourselves. So, we maxed out on the kitsch and we’ve invited a bunch of people — including you — to join us.

But you have to work for those free cocktails (featuring unforgettable tipples like the BPEL Island Julep and the VOSarita). You gotta get two button at the show and then wear ‘em to the Bamboo Hut to get in. Pictures of these oh-so-cool-you’d-want-’em-anyway buttons are below. Where do you get the buttons? At the Active Endpoints and XAware booths, which are in Startup Row in the Pavilion.

How can you lose? Cool buttons, cooler drinks and fun people. Sounds like a pahhty. We hope to see you there. Remember: check out www.javaoneparty.com, print the invite and get those buttons to join us at the best party at JavaOne this year.

Here’s the Active Endpoints button:

 Here’s XAware’s button:

We are pleased to offer our first audio podcast. Until now, we’ve used our podcast feed to offer videos, webinar replays and news about Active Endpoints in PDF form.

Now, we are going to a more “classic” use of our podcast feed by providing audio interviews with the people inside Active Endpoints who are driving our product and market efforts. I hope to offer regular podcasts that span the gamut of topics: from marketing to technology with everything in between.

Enjoy this inaugural episode with Chris Keller, a founder of Active Endpoints, who I stuck in the “Wayback Machine” and asked a couple of tough historical questions. First, “Why BPEL”? And second, “What lead to the requirement for BPEL4People and WS-Human Task”?

 

 VOSibilities podcast #4: Chris Keller on Active Endpoints, BPEL and BPEL4People [14:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (132)

View a recording of the April 17, 2008 webinar BPEL Basics for Java Developers, presented by Active Endpoints’ Ron Romano and Alex Neihaus. This webinar was extraordinarily well-received and offers Java developers a conceptual introduction to SOA-based service orchestration using familar concepts.

There are two files in this post. The first file is formatted for an iPod and can be viewed here on the blog. Please be patient while the podcast downloads into the player. It is also available in our podcast feed (search on “vosibilities” in the iTunes Store to subscribe).

The second, a DivX-encoded AVI file, is significantly larger in size (@460MB) and can be downloaded for more comfortable viewing.

 

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I was reading Frank Cohen’s blog today (he was nice enough to help get the word out about our webinar on Java and BPEL this coming Thursday) and I ran across this very interesting comment Frank made after having attended a Java conference recently:

Java architects and developers are frustrated looking for Business Process Management (BPM) standards and tools. Brian Sletten’s talk…was titled “Avoiding ESBs” but could have been better described as “I’m sick and tired of waiting for vendors to give me a decent Business Process Management (BPM) platform!”

Here in VOSville, we think one of the mega VOSibilities (that’s posibilities for those of you who are already tired of my lame puns) that exists in the marketplace is at the junction of visual orchestration systems and BPM. I know, I know, this ain’t very specific. But, I can’t say anything more at the moment.

Let me just say that we are cooking up sumthin’ very special that will answer this precise criticism. And, I promise, you won’t have to wait long to see the water (and our competitors’ blood) boil.

But, you do have to wait. While you do, Frank was kind enough to send over information on a bootcamp his company is holding. Here’re the details. You should check it out.

Frank Cohen and Robert Schneider are putting on their Open-Source Test Automation Bootcamp, a 3-Day Hands-On Course, in Philadelphia on May 14-16, 2008. Companies such as AMD, Amazon, TV Guide, Ford, and The Jackson Labs sent their testers, architects, and managers to learn Frank and Rob’s test methodology, test patterns, and best practices. Plus they received hands-on training with free open-source test tools, including soapUI, Selenium, and PushToTest.

The Bootcamp delivers hands-on training to test Web applications, Web services, Ajax, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and REST applications to optimize these for performance, reliability, and proper function. The Seminar teaches practical methodology and techniques to surface performance bottlenecks and optimizations to improve scalability and throughput.

Bootcamp instructors Frank Cohen and Robert Schneider are the leading authorities and teachers for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations.

Details can be found at http://bootcamp.pushtotest.com