Java is an outstanding language for building components, services, and many
applications that are vendor and platform neutral. The vast adoption of Java
technology by the industry in the past decade is a testament to the power of
Java. Development of new applications, services, and components using Java is
not going away, but many organizations have progressively moved to the next
phase in maturing their IT Infrastructure. This phase is driven by many
factors including how businesses operate today, having to constantly adjust
to market trends, and that IT has moved from being a support organization to
being the backbone of business and, hence, needs to keep pace with the
organization. Continuous and faster alignment with changing business needs,
time-to-market, and cost... (more)
Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI,
ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about
yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven
Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a proven paradigm
in system-level programs, war and military simulator applications, gaming,
and other areas... (more)