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alphaWorks: Ajax-based development environment for end users

alphaWorks Services, the emerging software services from IBM research and development labs, has launched a new service called IBM Development Engagement Service:

IBM® Development Engagement Service is a development environment for end users that focuses on form-based applications. Business users who have no programming skills can use IBM Development Engagement Service to create online forms.

Users start their development session by accessing a Web-based and highly-visual user interface (UI). The user proceeds through a series of wizard pages in order to specify details such as an application name, behaviour, look and feel, and the model for the form that is to be managed by the application.

After the user defines the application using the development UI, the definition is submitted to the IBM Development Engagement Service back-end where the application is constructed. At this point, the user receives a URL that he can use to access the application.

This new service, created by the IBM Haifa Research Lab, is composed of two distinctive components:

• An Ajax-based Web application component, where users access to the development environment and construct an application that implicitly defines a model.

  
  
  

• The IBM Development Engagement Service back-end, that it exposes services such as data access, user profiles, application construction out of templates, and more.

  
  
  

links for 2007-04-20

• EclipseZone – ECF Skype provider in the works …
  kype chats from inside Eclipse
  (tags: Eclipse Skype ECF IM collaboration)
• InfoQ: Microsoft SOA Reference Model, Initial Draft of the Introductory Chapter
  abstract reference for understanding, designing and building software architectures that adhere to service-oriented principles
  (tags: architecture microsoft SOA)
• Redmond Developer News | Enterprising Mind | Don Ferguson
  more theories about Don’s exodus
  (tags: ibm microsoft)
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive «
  We need the busy AND the burst economy. However, many companies will find themselves at risk of not benefiting from the hyperproductivity of the burst economy
  (tags: business productivity)
• » Microsoft Visual Studio Orcas: Maybe in 2007, maybe not | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
  Microsoft is planning to deliver a non-feature-complete Beta 1 of Orcas in April. Microsoft expects to ship another beta of the product later this year. The final may or may not make it out in calendar 2007.
  (tags: microsoft visual-studio orcas)

This blog has been accused of not being updated

Yes, you are right! This blog has fallen straight into the typical problem of not being updated. Now it seems a links blog. But the last couple of weeks all my energy was focused on my MDA vs DSM practicum, so I didn’t have much time to do anything …. except some twiteering

(Via monkchips)

So even though I will still be busy, I hope to update more often over the next few weeks.

links for 2007-04-14

• Jini and OSGi, yet again
  There is a raging debate about OSGi and Jini, yet again. Which isn’t necessary or helpful. The two technologies are very different applications of similar design philosophies, and should not be seen as competitors.
  (tags: java osgi jini)
• InfoQ: Agile Strategies for Enterprise Architects
  Development teams should not be required to adapt, at least not significantly, to meet the needs of enterprise architects. In my experience, the surest way to failure is to have the enterprise architecture tail wag the development dog.
  (tags: enterprise agile architecture)
• InfoQ: Presentation: Java EE Class Loading Architectures
  Java Class Loading basics, comparing the class loading architectures of the Sun’s Appserver 9, BEA WebLogic 9.1, and JBoss 4.0.2.
  (tags: j2ee classloader)
• People Over Process » Blog Archive » The IT Department and SaaS: When Your 15 Minutes Are Up…?
  does the IT department’s role get reduced to just desktop and network management?
  (tags: IT departmet work culture)

links for 2007-04-12

• InfoQ: Web Service Software Factory v3 now supports DSLs for designing Contracts
  The factory supports a model-driven approach for designing and implementing web services. WCF service contracts and data contracts can now be modeled in a visual Domain-Specific Language (DSL).
  (tags: microsoft MDD DSL)
• InfoQ: Presentation: Beat Schwegler on Architecting for SOA
  He introduces the notion of a service model as a mediator between the business and technology models, and explains how a migration towards such an architecture could occur through a step-by-step architectural refactoring.
  (tags: microsoft architecture soa)
• Thoughts on Scaling Without a Database
  Robert McIntosh wrote a thought-provoking piece on designing a scalable Web application without a database. I share three reasons why such a notion deserves some merit.
  (tags: software development database scalability)
• WebSphere Community Blog: Customer driven content in WebSphere
  Customers have no incentive to share their own stuff, but lots of incentive to use stuff that other customers have shared. And IMO there’s little doubt that the disadvantage to sharing is far outweighed by the advantage gained reaping the benefits of comm
  (tags: enterprise open shared ecosystem community)