Active Endpoints announced today that ActiveVOS has been selected to orchestrate the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system as part of a 10-year, US$1 billion contract awarded to Lockheed Martin. You can read all the details in the press release attached to this post.
Today, Active Endpoints announced that ActiveVOS was used to develop and deploy an important learning and training application for Toyota Motor Europe. You can read the details in the PDF attached to this post.
In this audio podocast, Guerman Smirnov, systems development manager at Australian telecom AAPT, describes how his company has used ActiveVOS to extend complex internal DSL service assurance capabilities to AAPT’s resellers and partners. In doing so, AAPT has reaped the benefits of moving to the 100% standards-based BPEL capabilities included in ActiveVOS and has reduced the internal resources necessary to provide good customer service.
As always, thank you for listening and we look forward to your feedback.
VOSibilities podcast #15 for SOA, BPEL, BPMN, BPMS and CEP users: AAPT Orchestrates Service Assurance with ActiveVOS [12:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (115)
We’re not surprised that our message to Java developers created quite a stir (Sandy’s comments, Alan Zeichick’s post, Dana Blanekhorn’s post, Adrian Bridgewater’s comments and Josh Fruhlinger’s post).
I knew it would, and there was significant soul-searching inside the company about releasing it and sending it to so many developers. I’d be the last to deny we’re promoting ActiveVOS and our company. (That is my job.) But being jingoistic was the last thing we were thinking. I was patterning the idea after something I did in a previous life in which we reported on the incidence of spam, something we were in position to know because we aggregated stats from spam filters. People loved it.
At Active Endpoints, we “know” something about the relative state of adoption of modern app dev technology in the Java community based on our geographic aggregate data that individual Java developers wouldn’t have access to unless we told them. And it’s an interesting data point because it does say something about relative economic advantage that economies with vastly larger GDP — and therefore an increased need to be agile– aren’t demonstrating the same alacrity of adoption that emerging economies are.
Do you think that the open-source SOA companies who claim “millions” of downloads in efforts to promote themselves as viable businesses in North America would have shared this with the community? I doubt it. It took a measure of courage to speak up.
I’d argue we’re being more honest by sharing what we’ve learned in the marketplace than most. And I’d hoped this would signal to the Java community what working with us would be like: we’re dedicated to what we do and we’ll always try to be open and direct. If we’ve scared a couple of people into wanting to move application development forward in their companies, we have arguably done those companies a service, whether or not they use ActiveVOS.
I think you can tell a lot about a company that will share its market knowledge with you and which wants to create constructive discussion about the impact of its technology on the businesses it seeks to serve.
This wasn’t a “buy American” screed. This was, instead, exactly what we called it: a wake-up call to the Java community to look past obstacles and move to the next level of services-based development.
We are very pleased to present a replay of a webinar that we presented jointly with the JBoss division of Red Hat entitled How to Achieve Your SOA Vision in the Real World.
Presenting along with me are Pierre Fricke of JBoss and Mike Moniz of Active Endpoints. The webinar details our companies’ joint vision and technology for how developers, managers, enterprise architects and business analysts can move beyond the debates, the complexity and the high costs that have torpedoed implementation of services-based applications for far too long.
And, Active Endpoints is very proud to show publicly for the first time the upcoming ActiveVOS 6.0 (slated to to generally available in August, 2008) which completely resets the standard for what an integrated, all-in-one development and deployment system can achieve. Be sure to check out Mike’s amazing demo. And I also recommend you stick around for the lively panel Q&A at the end of the webinar.
You may have also noticed that when we have a video podcast, I try to post both a higher resolution .avi and an iPod-formatted .m4v. The .avi is approximately 150MB; the .m4v is approximately 80MB.
There are three ways to watch the webinar replay. In ascending order of resolution they are: playing the .m4v file from the website, which results in a 320×240 image. If you download the .m4v file, it will play in iTunes or QuickTime at 640×480. Finally, if you download the .avi, the resolution is 775×582. The .avi file is DivX encoded, so most everyone should be able to view it.
As always, we’d love to know what you think of the webinar. Please email me comments at editor@activevos.com or post a comment here.
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In this podcast episode, I talk with Active Endpoints’ CEO, Mark Taber, about our company’s vision for how we intend to “democratize” complex event processing (CEP) and stream processing so that everyone can benefit from these technologies in their applications.
Mark describes the concepts and then talks about why we believe these technologies should be part of every visual orchestration system — and previews what we’ll be delivering in ActiveVOS in our upcoming release in August, 2008.
As always, we appreciate your support of our podcast, as demonstrated by the large number of people who are downloading and subscribing to this content, and we welcome all feedback. Just email us at editor@vosibilities.com.
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Tomorrow and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, we are holding a webinar for systems integrators, consultants and custom application developers. We’ve had quite a lot of interest from SIs since we introduced ActiveVOS in early March, and this is the first time we have prepared content specifically to show SIs how they can use ActiveVOS in their custom application development efforts, accelerate their practices and increase client satisfaction.
Attendees will receive a special offer on ActiveVOS training.
Please register via this page on our website. We hope to see you at one of the webinars.
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:
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.
VOSibilities podcast #3: BPEL Basics for Java Developers webinar April 17 2008 (iPod format) [91:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (817) VOSibilities podcast #3: BPEL Basics for Java Developers webinar April 17 2008 (DivX-encoded AVI) [91:49m]: Download (466)Active Endpoints today announced the Java Advancement Kit, a set of education, training and products that will enable Java developers to take the next step in their professional advancement by quickly and easily using web services to create compelling service orchestrations.
Please join us for an informative webinar on April 17 entitled BPEL Basics for Java Developers. Register here.
This informative webinar will help you expand your Java knowledge to acquire an understanding of the basics of BPEL. A high-level overview of BPEL and its importance in a web-services environment will be presented, along with a brief discussion of the basic BPEL activities and how they relate to Java concepts. The following topics will be covered:
• Parsing the Language of SOA with Java as a guide
• Breaking out of the VM: evolving from RPC to Web Services
• BPEL Activities - Receive, Reply, Invoke • BPEL Facilities - Fault Handling and Compensation (“Undo”)
We hope you can join us.
Today, we are very excited to announce ActiveVOS 5.0, the industry’s first visual orchestration system. You can read the details in the press release below. (And starting Wednesday, March 5, 2008, you can actually request a trial.)
As they say in the TV commercials, this changes everything about SOA. From capabilities, to pricing, to performance, to support for standards, ActiveVOS changes it all…for the better.
We hope you will become part of the revolution.
Today, Active Endpoints announced availability of ActiveBPEL Community Edition Server 5.0. The community edition contains the first implementation of BPEL4People.
Also today, OASIS announced the formation of a technical committee focused on finalizing the BPEL4People specification. We are participating in this technical committee and look forward to BPEL4People once and for all eliminating proprietary workflow from enterprise applications.
You can read more about Community Edition in our press release, attached to this post.
Active Endpoints to Drive Mass Adoption of Services-based Applications
Mark Taber Appointed CEO
