Articles by James Strachan

SOA Made Easy: Open Source Apache Camel

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:15:00 EDT

Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The bits and bytes that are now available are undeniably sophisticated, diverse, and capable of almost anything, but many of the packages are built from the technology up and leave the job of how to use the capabilities effectively as an exercise for the reader.

SOA Made Easy with Open Source Apache Camel

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST

SOA + EDA = Open Source ESB: ServiceMix(*)

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:00:00 EDT

Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business resources, that interact by exchanging requests (for data delivery and integration, as well as for services) and that can handle streams of diverse business processes in real-time. To support large-scale, enterprise integration, organizations need to adopt strategies that rationalize the infrastructure for integration based on the requirements of business/IT organization itself.

Developer Viewpoint: Open-Source Not Java Itself...but "JRT"

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'I think Sun's done a fantastic job of growing and protecting the Java platform,' says veteran enterprise software developer James Strachan. 'There's just one more step they need to take - to open source some Java source code - and we're all happy.' Strachan's describes how there are two massive communities of developers being caused pain by the current licensing of Java and how it's badly affecting the Java platform to the benefit of .NET / Mono. His solution: set up an open source project called JRT that's 'not Java, not a Java platform - it's something else, it's JRT...a bunch of Java source code for some java.* and javax.*' - a win-win for Java, Sun, developers and Mono/gcj too, Strachan argues.