If it quacks like a duck...

Paul writes about the fact that Synapse IS (dammit) an ESB.

Back when we were originally pulling Synapse together, the intent was indeed to build something that multiple ESB vendors (hence the involvement from Sonic/IONA) could use as a mediation framework without needing to replace their entire products - cooperate on infrastructure, compete with higher-level products. While this idea had some merit, the fact is that it's quite challenging to define the boundaries between the "mediation" portion and the "registry" portion and the "endpoint management" portion. Add to this the distinct lack of actual coding participation from the extant ESB vendors, stir, let sit for a couple of years, and indeed you end up with a full-on ESB.

Whatever that is. :)

Regardless, Synapse has evolved into an awesome product, and stands head-to-head with (if not above) a lot of the commercially available ESBs out there. Viva la open-source!

WSO2 @ TechEd

My colleague Jonathan Marsh, WSO2's Director of Mashup Technologies, co-presented an interoperability demo today during the keynote at Microsoft's TechEd IT. He showed off using our PHP and Java stacks in a plug-and-play demo of fully-secure stock trading with Microsoft's stuff. He looked great up there! Through the magic of modern technology I was watching it from my kitchen and IMing with folks in Colombo who were all gathered to watch it in the lounge at WSO2 HQ.

Check out Jonathan's blog for the full skinny (and a pointer to the video)!

Memories

I'm currently working in my hotel room here at the Fairmont San Jose. It's weird - the last time I was here I was 21 years old on what might have been my first business trip ever (Interop '90 for those who remember such things). I have very fond memories of that trip, and damned if the hotel doesn't have the exact same (superlatively good) french fries!

Just out here for a couple of meetings tomorrow then I take the redeye home.

Mashup webinar, and hey I'm, er, tweeting?

WSO2 does free webinars every now and again about our products and general SOA and Web Services topics. Jonathan is going to be giving one on the Mashup Server this coming week. Check it out if you're interested!

While on the subject of mashups, one of our fab engineers, Tyrell, whipped up this cool Twitter + Google Maps mashup in just a few hours. It's pretty excellent, and it was serendipitous to find out about it around the same time I started tweeting (or is it "twittering"?). Now I want the same functionality, but filtered to either just the folks I'm following, or the subjects I'm tracking... (update - Tyrell added friend filtering the mashup. Rockin'!)

So if you do the Twitter thing, I'm at http://twitter.com/gdaniels!

First post to Blogger

This is an experimental post to check out how blogger does the do. Thinking of moving over here to get comments and all that happy stuff!