Articles by Chris Warner

What Do You Do While Waiting for Fusion-Driven SOA?

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:00:00 EST

Sure, Oracle has its award-winning Fusion Middleware SOA-driven tools to integrate these sources. And Oracle already has a roadmap that ultimately merges/migrates its acquired customers into the Oracle fold. But what does an organization do while its waiting for the Fusion-driven SOA effort to reach critical mass before users can get the answers they need? Just wait? And should we tell this same organization to wait for the ERP migration to be completed before it tries to launch new information-driven initiatives? Of course not. As the kissin' cousin of databases and applications and the next door neighbor of SOAs and portals, mashups are the nimble-and-quick complement to these larger efforts. Mash and publish, growth and innovation continues.

Notes from AJAXWorld: Times They Are a Mashin'

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:15:00 EDT

In the Wires demo, Kishore showed how easy it was to create a mashup that invoked several third-party services, merged and filtered the results, and published the mashup as another service that can be consumed by the users. He then showed how to mashup SalesForce WSDL web services to create a mashup that encapsulates some complex micro-orchestration of multiple SalesForce services (login, query for Sales Leads) and Yahoo Geocode REST service (to obtain geocodes for each Sales lead obtained from SalesForce query). And there wasn’t a single line of code involved.

AJAX Composite Apps - The Last Mile Between Your Users and Your SOA

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:45:00 EDT

In the telecommunications industry there's a special phrase for that bit of technology that carries data from the last pole or relay box into the customer's home. It's called 'the last mile' and it's often seen as one of the biggest challenges because this last step in the technology chain can be a considerable physical undertaking. In the IT industry we also have our 'last mile': putting the right application in the hands of the end user. Composite applications address this 'last mile', combining a rich user interface with SOA-driven application integration technology.

Talking Mashups with Elvis and Caesar at GartnerPalooza

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:15:00 EDT

David Gootzit talked about the 'Portal of the Future' and mashups are a key actor in the tale he told. David described portals as an 'important' entry point for enterprise mashups. More interestingly, he outlined key areas that must be addressed for mashups to become to a first-class portal citizen (like user profiles, security, metadata and portlets) and guidelines to deploying mashups. And there was more mashup talking to be done. Unfortunately, I had to come home to get ready for AjaxWorld. Which means I am missing Anthony Bradley's session on mashups tomorrow, among others. If anyone has comments on that, I'd love to hear them.