This Q&A with XAware Chief Architect, Kirstan Vandersluis, "Data Services Mashups Emerge for SOA" , is from SOA News on SearchSOA.com:

 

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Mark Scrimshire blogged about attending a Ray Valdes presentation on Portals and Mashups (http://ekive.blogspot.com/2008/03/portals-and-mashups-putting-powr-of-soa.html).  The article nicely explains how Web 2.0 and SOA technologies combine to produce a new generation of portals, fed by information culled from throughout the enterprise.  The separation of concerns between Web 2.0 an

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I attended various different tracks today with a variety of topics including standards, mashups and specific toolkits.

There are a dizzying array of tools and toolkits for implementing AJAX applications with one estimate of over 200 separate and often overlapping toolkits, many of which are open source.  These include full frameworks, gadgets, widgets and server & client side i

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When discussing XAware with technology users, I typically start by saying that XAware technology provides an XML-based data abstraction layer. This is a fairly simple idea with potentially powerful ramifications. Decomposing the phrase, we have "XML-based" and "data abstraction layer". Despite its drawbacks, XML has proven over the years to be a universal format for represen

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I had a 30 minute meeting at the Gartner conference with Roy Shulte, an integration specialist with Gartner.  I updated him on the XAware community, and let him know visitor numbers and downloads were growing nicely.  I refreshed him on the technical overview of what we do... XML-based integration, creati

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