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IBM Power Systems
IBM is merging the System i and System p series into IBM Power Systems.
IBM Power Systems is a new hardware server computer platform that "unifies IBM's highly successful integrated platform, IBM System i, with its fast growing UNIX operating system platform, IBM System p." "Now you can take advantage of a single, energy efficient and easy-to-deploy platform for all of your UNIX, Linux and i applications ..." The IBM Servers division still has System z, its mainframes, and System x, its x86 PC servers.
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Apr 22 2008, 11:53:58 AM EDT
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WebSphere sMash
Mashups go mainstream with WebSphere sMash.
WebSphere sMash, built on Project Zero, is a development and execution platform for mashup applications. IBM calls these situational applications, meaning they can be developed quickly with relatively simple programming skills. Situational apps aren't meant to be very industrial strength, although the services behind them may be.
sMash supports developing applications with the following (often called Web 2.0) technologies:
- REST Web services
- scripting languages: PHP and Groovy
- visual assembly of services (into what I call service coordinators)
Dan Griffin says: "Project Zero has now been announced to the world as WebSphere sMash. ... The only difference between Project Zero and WebSphere sMash will be in the build level of the code."
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Apr 11 2008, 06:05:49 PM EDT
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Building WebSphere ESB Solutions
IBM is offering an online class on WebSphere ESB.
Building WebSphere ESB Solutions is a Redbook Workshop that will teach WebSphere ESB 6.1. It's online (so no travel) and instructor-led, and will run May 12-15, 2008. The registration fee for non-IBM employees $1600 USD. IBM employees can register internally.
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a powerful solution for mediating service requests. Based on Service Component Architecture, it provides a set of pre-built and custom mediation capabilities to perform tasks such as routing, transformation, logging, and lookup. This 4-day online workshop provides extensive hands-on lab exercises of all of these features. Additionally this workshop positions WebSphere ESB within the IBM SOA Foundation.
This workshop uses the latest (V6.1) releases of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer tools. It also integrates WebSphere ESB with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere MQ.
Students will explore and build ESB solutions for deployment to WebSphere ESB. They will use WebSphere Integration Developer to perform the typical tasks of an integration developer including modeling, testing, configuring, and deploying ESB-based applications. They will then deploy and administer these applications to WebSphere ESB. |  |
The class will be held only of there's sufficient interest, so if you are interested, please register.
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Apr 07 2008, 11:50:49 AM EDT
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GPS for Air Traffic Control
The air traffic control system is being redesigned for the first time in 50 years.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) is an air traffic control system that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) to enable aircraft pilots to choose their own flight paths and be less dependent on air traffic controllers and radar, a significant step towards so called "free flight." It is envisioned to enable greater amounts of aircraft traffic to move more efficiently with fewer delays for passengers and to reduce fuel consumption and pollution. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working to adopt it in the United States. ADS-B requires new ground equipment, which is what the FAA plans to finance and build with taxes. It also requires new equipment in all aircraft and new training for all pilots, an expense the FAA is delegating to airlines and pilots but which those organizations may resist incurring.
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Apr 06 2008, 10:14:28 AM EDT
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Speaking at ROOTS 2008
I'll be speaking at the ROOTS 2008 conference.
ROOTS 2008 is the 9th annual Recent Object-Oriented Trends Symposium, which will be held on April 28-30 in Bergen, Norway. You can find more info in ROOTS - Recent Object Oriented Trends 2008 April 28-30 2008, Bergen, Norway.
I'll be giving two talks:
There are a lot of good speakers invited (and me too), including:
I hope you can join us.
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Apr 01 2008, 11:22:56 AM EDT
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Secure Mashups with SMash
IBM is making Web 2.0 secure with SMash (secure mashup).
A mashup is a very simple application that takes data and functionality from multiple sources and applications on the Web and combines them together as one source or display of information. The app is very simple because it delegates all of the real work to the existing apps on the Web; therefore mashups can be written very quickly, and when they stop working, you can just throw them away and write new ones. They're a very simple example of how SOA can make behavior easy to reuse. Every mashup example I've ever heard of combines geographical data, such as the location of coffee cafes, with map data to display where the locations are.
The mashup model basically has no security, which limits its use to only public data (like the location of coffee shops). To make it more useful, it needs security, such as the ability to control who can access data, how it can be used and forwarded, where the data is coming from, keeping the data private, and so on.
SMash (secure mashup) is a technology from IBM to enable the development of mashups that are more secure. IBM is donating the technology to the OpenAjax Alliance.
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Mar 31 2008, 11:14:56 AM EDT
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Large WAS Installations Redbook
IBM has a new Redbook on large WebSphere Application Server installations.
Techniques for Managing Large WebSphere Installations is an IBM Redbook. You can download the PDF at no charge.
As WebSphere Application Server installations grow to accommodate the growth of business processing, the question "How large can a WebSphere Application Server cell be?" is being asked more often. This IBM Redbook discusses large WebSphere Application Server installations, and as you will see, the answer to the question is not straightforward. Numerous variables play a part in supporting or constraining the size of a WebSphere environment. These variables are most likely different in each WebSphere Application Server installation, resulting in a different answer for each environment.
This Redbook discusses large WebSphere Application Server topologies, focusing specifically on best practices when planning and configuring the high availability manager, core groups, and core group bridging. A review of high availability, core groups, and core group bridging features is followed by extensive coverage of planning, designing, and implementing a large cell migration. The book then covers detailed scenarios of configuring single and multiple core group topologies.
In addition, the scripts, applications, and batch files used to set up and test the scenarios are included as additional material that can be downloaded and modified as required for your specific environment.
This Redbook is intended for WebSphere Application Server administrators and planners who are considering migrating their small to midsize installations to larger topologies. |  |
WAS is quite scalable. This book will show you how.
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Mar 28 2008, 10:01:08 AM EDT
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Understanding SOA Security Redbook
IBM has a new Redbook on SOA security.
Understanding SOA Security Design and Implementation is an IBM Redbook. You can download the PDF at no charge.
Securing access to information is important to any business. Security becomes even more critical for implementations structured according to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, due to loose coupling of services and applications, and their possible operations across trust boundaries. To enable a business so that its processes and applications are flexible, you must start by expecting changes – both to process and application logic, as well as to the policies associated with them. Merely securing the perimeter is not sufficient for a flexible on demand business.
In this IBM Redbooks publication, security is factored into the SOA life cycle reflecting the fact that security is a business requirement, and not just a technology attribute. We discuss an SOA security model that captures the essence of security services and securing services. These approaches to SOA security are discussed in the context of some scenarios, and observed patterns. We also discuss a reference model to address the requirements, patterns of deployment, and usage, and an approach to an integrated security management for SOA.
This book is a valuable resource to senior security officers, architects, and security administrators. |  |
SOA can add security holes to an architecture, but can also provide the opportunity to enforce security policies more systematically. This book will help show you how.
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Mar 18 2008, 10:32:09 AM EDT
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Don Ferguson likes my book
Don Ferguson has posted a review on Amazon for my SOA book.
| I've talked about the paperback edition of my SOA book, Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice. Now Don Ferguson has posted a review of it on Amazon: Excellent and critical book.
Don Ferguson (sometimes architecture terrorist) was until recently a fellow at IBM (i.e. one of it's top 50 or so technical people), where he was one of the main people in charge of IBM's SOA approach. So he knows a thing or two about it, so when he says a book about IBM SOA is good, that's petty significant. When he contacted me out of the blue to tell me that he'd seen my book and liked it, I was pretty excited. (I didn't even know he knew it existed.) Now his review lets everyone know, which is awesome. |  |
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Mar 17 2008, 02:44:47 PM EDT
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Architecture Terrorist
How should an architect get the developers to do what he/she wants?
Don Ferguson says he has at times become an "architecture terrorist" to get development teams and managers to do what he asked. As he points out, it's difficult to get new features into products and other applications. Sometimes as an architect you have to threaten to do it yourself, often badly because you're an architect and not/no longer a developer; that can scare the team into hurrying up and adding the feature before you can, a sort of preemptive attack for program design.
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Feb 14 2008, 03:00:00 PM EST
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Bobby Woolf: WebSphere SOA and J2EE in Practice
