It happened again today.   Someone said to me, "I cannot believe this software is open source.  This XAware software is just a powerful as software for which IBM, Oracle, Tibco and the like charge $50,000 plus per processor.  XAware gives it away under the open source GPLv2 license.  Hard to believe." 

 Believe it.  You can use the most p

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I think that SAP connection support is something that XAware must have. While it is possible to connect to SAP through calls to SAP XI Web services using the SOAP connector, it is important to include the possibility of connecting with SAP JCO, which would connect directly to business objects, without passing through so many layers.

Background
XAware is Data Integr

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In a recent SDTimes column, David Linthicum discussed "mashups" and whether they are consistent with SOA principles. David identifies two broad categories of mashups: visual mashups like Google maps displaying locations from a sex offender database, and non-visual mashups combining two or more other servic

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the missing support for EDIFACT and derived standards in Open Source XML-based Transformation Tools such as XAware and Chainbuilder. 

The goal was to get the people behind these communities motivated to provide the means and tools for managing Community projects. One of these will of course be the development of EDIFACT functionality.

Meanwhile t

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/ECE started in the mid' 80 with the development of the UN/EDIFACT (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) standaard for EDI. In 1988 the UN/EDIFACT standaard has been adopted by the International Organisatio

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In previous blogs, I have discussed contract-first service design and the benefits to constructing services as information-rich, smart endpoints. In his most recent book, SOA: Principles of Service Design, Thomas Erl formalizes and extends the

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On April 28, after two years of development, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) released IF-MAP with the intention of garnering industry adoption and utliization.

"IF-MAP provides a standardized framework for network and security devices to publish device state data--such as IP address, authentication, or virtually any meaningful information--to a central repository that can b

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Would you like to help add EDIFACT functionality to XAware?
XAware community member danga is launching a project to add UN/EDIFACT capability to the XAware Open Source Data Services middleware platform. To support this community project, we have created a CVS code repository, appropriately, "

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XAware's Chief Architect Kirstan Vandersluis authored this featured article in The SOA Magazine , The Benefits of a Data Abstraction Layer for SOA.

Abstract: Enterprises have c

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De Economische Commissie voor Europa van de Verenigde Naties UN/ECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) is midden de jaren '80 gestart met de ontwikkeling van de UN/EDIFACT (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) standaard voor EDI. In 1988 is de UN/EDI

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