Articles by Khanderao Kand

Universal Middleware: What's Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a 'universal middleware' that will address issues such as application packaging, versioning, deployment, publication, and discovery. In this article we'll examine the need for the kind of container model provided by the OSGi, outline the capabilities it would provide, and discuss its relationship to complementary technologies such as SOA, SCA, and Spring.

A Close Look at BPEL 2.0

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:15:00 EDT

As most readers are probably aware, the Web Services-Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) provides a broadly adopted process orchestration standard supported by many vendors today and used to define business processes that orchestrate services, systems, and people into end-to-end business processes and composite applications. However, in many ways BPEL's adoption has gotten ahead of the formal standardization process.

OrbixWeb 3.0

Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00:00 EST

OrbixWeb 3.0 is a CORBA 2.0 compliant, 100% Pure Java ORB with better lifecycle management of distributed objects. It includes many useful services which make it easier to develop, deploy and manage distributed applications in the Internet age.

VisiBroker 3.0

Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00:00 EST

After making the important decision to embrace the Common Object Request Broker(CORBA), the next important decision that you will have to make is choosing an Object Request Broker(ORB) vendor suitable for your needs. You have many options to select from: Digital's ObjectBroker, ExpertSoft's PowerBroker, HP's Orb Plus, IBM's SOM, Iona's Orbix, Sun's Joe, VisiBroker from Visigenic, etc.

NetDynamics

Tue, 01 Jul 1997 00:00:00 EDT

If you are planning to deploy your database application on the Internet or Intranet, very soon you will need to deal with state management.' The stateless nature of Web architecture makes it radically different from the other (traditional) client-server architectures. The servers do not maintain any information on a client after the request is served. NetDynamics offers a solution for such problems. You can develop a fully object-oriented Web application in Java using the NetDynamics system. It supports server side Java for the generation of dynamic Web pages, application logic and database connectivity. It also addresses security, access control and flow control of the user in a Web application.