Chris Warner

Enterprise mashups, one of the hottest Web 2.0 technologies today, could impact your SOA in a very positive way. But are you ready for them? How does an SOA architect prepare for this dynamic technology? Do you know what a mashup is and what value it brings to an enterprise? Can you distinguish between a consumer mashup and an enterprise mashup? Equally important, do you understand the difference between a mashup and popular enterprise technologies like business intelligence, data warehouses, portals, and the Enterprise Service Bus? Mashups are not exactly new. Analysts and pundits alike have been talking about "composite applications" since the birth of the Internet. Today there are thousands of consumer-focused mashups. One popular mashup site, Programmable Web, repor... (more)

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

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": puttin... (more)

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

Chris Warner's Blog I spent last week at Oracle OpenWorld with Larry Ellison and 43,000 of his closest friends. At the event JackBe announced support for Oracle Fusion Middleware, most notably Oracle Portal and Webcenter. Our announcement was based upon our newest mashup innovation: a powerful connection between mashups and portals in the form of a WSRP-compliant 'mashlet' connecting to ... (more)

Notes from AJAXWorld: Times They Are a Mashin'

The Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog Whew! What a week we just had! JackBe got a mention in a major newspaper, was at 2 conferences, participated in an industry association, and unveiled 3 major new product innovations. In case you missed the mention in our previous post, JackBe got a small nod in The Wall Street Journal in an article titled Do-It-Yourself Software. At the very same time, we were a... (more)

Talking Mashups with Elvis and Caesar at GartnerPalooza

John Crupi's Blog It's only Thursday morning, and I've already had a pretty full week. I got to stay at 'The Second Home of Elvis'. I got to eat with Caesar. And I got to hang out with 20+ Gartner analysts. Where was I? I was at GartnerPalooza (my name, not theirs!), three concurrent Gartner Summits in Las Vegas: 'Portals, Content & Collaboration', 'Web Innovations', and 'Open Source'. Fo... (more)