thejavajar

An interesting subject that I have been paying attention to is Scott McNealy (former CEO of Sun Microsystems) and his push for the Obama administration to embrace Open Source technologies. A few posts like this one have popped up recently explaining that McNealy’s working on a paper advocating Open Source technologies for the new administration. I did not know that McNealy was head of Sun Federal and this paper is explained as nothing more than a “white paper being sent to a big customer”. I think this a great opportunity for the U.S. government to get on the path of utilizing Open Source technologies which could stimulate the U.S. and global economy quite heavily. I think that if the right people are in place to make the right decisions, we can set ourselves up for a much more stable technological future. I don’t think that every problem has to be solved with an Open Source solution, but finding the best fit for the problem should be the primary goal.

Spring Integration is a SpringSource project with goals of applying the popular and proven technologies of the Spring Framework to support well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns. The key to Spring Integration is adapters which provide a higher level of abstraction to Spring’s support for current enterprise technologies like remoting, messaging and scheduling. While injecting Spring’s pattern of development into Enterprise Integration Patterns, Spring Integration is focused on maintainability and separation of concerns which should be a number one priority on the plate of developers when working with enterprise integration projects. I am excited about what this project has to offer.

Kevin Barfield, from JBoss, will be presenting at the Tampa JUG this month. The topic will be “Developing A JEE-Based SOA Architecture using JBoss”.

I am sure there will be a bit of why JBoss is the best choice talk going on, but it will also be a great opportunity to see what JBoss offers from an ESB/JEE/SOA point of view and hang out with some passionate Java folk. I am extremely interested in what JBoss has going on and I will be at GCA on January 27th, 2009.

More information can be found here:
http://www.tampajug.org