Microsoft's Information Bridge Framework looks interesting. Perhaps Open Office and other applications could integrate the same back office data.
IBF will allow developers and information-worker users to expose "enterprise business objects" and then pull them right into their familiar Office documents. (Enterprise business objects, in this context, are entities such as "customers" and "purchase orders.")
We declared war on terror. We declared war on terror—it’s not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I’m sure we’ll take on that bastard ennui.Jon Stewart to the William and Mary class of 2004.
Languages where "new" is a special operator rather than a general message are missing the point about objects and messages, even for "new".
Government documents (PDF) released under the Freedom of Information Act disclose that on March 13, 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States proposed the following, and other deceptions, to justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
Fortunately we had a president in 1962 who could read, ask questions, comprehend, take a position, and stand up to the generals. What would have happened if we did not have Kenedy in office? What could happen next time if we had a president who were aloof and disengaged?
George Lakoff, via Keith ray...
Do any of the Democratic Presidential candidates grasp the importance of framing?None. They don't get it at all. But they're in a funny position. The framing changes that have to be made are long-term changes. The conservatives understood this in 1973. By 1980 they had a candidate, Ronald Reagan, who could take all this stuff and run with it. The progressives don't have a candidate now who understands these things and can talk about them. And in order for a candidate to be able to talk about them, the ideas have to be out there. You have to be able to reference them in a sound bite...
Conservative foundations give large block grants year after year to their think tanks. They say, 'Here's several million dollars, do what you need to do.' And basically, they build infrastructure, they build TV studios, hire intellectuals, set aside money to buy a lot of books to get them on the best-seller lists, hire research assistants for their intellectuals so they do well on TV, and hire agents to put them on TV. They do all of that. Why? Because the conservative moral system, which I analyzed in "Moral Politics," has as its highest value preserving and defending the "strict father" system itself. And that means building infrastructure. As businessmen, they know how to do this very well.
Meanwhile, liberals' conceptual system of the "nurturant parent" has as its highest value helping individuals who need help. The progressive foundations and donors give their money to a variety of grassroots organizations. They say, 'We're giving you $25,000, but don't waste a penny of it. Make sure it all goes to the cause, don't use it for administration, communication, infrastructure, or career development.' So there's actually a structural reason built into the worldviews that explains why conservatives have done better.
My closing statement is the mildly controversial one then: the current set of popular "enterprise grade" languages are fundamentally unsuited to loose coupling. It is time to move on.
Quote from Date defends relational model: "XML is not a real data model." Discuss :-)The way I see it "XML" is a data format. So then what is a data model?
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A very interesting joint position paper from Mozilla and Opera on Web Applications and Compound Documents.
However, the most powerful reason for devising a new markup language is the very close relationship between elements in a XAML file, and objects at runtime. Unlike any previous markup languages, XAML is designed to integrate directly with WinFX.Here's one thing I don't get about XAML. Is this a principled use of XML?
One point about XML that is hammered home at every opportunity is the ability to separate an XML document from the implementations of the systems that handle the document.
Yet with XAML we are being told the opposite is the advantage: there is a tight coupling of the contents of a XAML document and the specific implementation intended to process that document.
This seems like trouble to me, down the road, as you'd prefer the ability to evolve the documents and their handlers independently.
Maybe this issue is addressed somewhere, and I'm missing the advantage. It just seems counter to every other promotion of why and how to use XML.
As Powell is pushed back into the Bush administration spotlight as their token moderate, let's not forget his roles in military controversies go as far back as the My Lai massacre cover-up and include the Iran-Contra scandal.
One sign of readiness of the SOA concept will be patterns incorporating data services. These are just beginning to be discussed, from what I've seen. And so I think SOA is still just a fantasy.
Clemens Vasters discusses patterns of distributed data services. Some interesting ideas, although please try like hell to disentangle the location information from the customer identifier, at least at the service level if not in the legacy data!
