Articles by John Evdemon

John Evdemon's Top Ten Predictions for 2008

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:30:00 EST

Many so-called 'architecture astronauts' have been writing about multi-tenancy as if it's something shiny and new. Multi-tenancy has been around in one form or another for decades. As hardware costs continue to fall expect to see more organizations opt for a virtualization approach to enable multi-tenancy capabilities, thereby avoiding the complexities , costs and risks associated with a ?multi-tenant aware? solution.

Tracking the Evolution of XML

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 EDT

The XML 1.0 Technical Recommendation was approved in 1998, with a corrective release (termed the 'Second Edition') in 2000. The popularity of XML and XML-related initiatives has far surpassed the expectations of the original XML Working Group. The XML 1.0 Technical Recommendation (TR) has been, without a doubt, one of the most popular and successful developments of the W3C.

REST & Pneumatic Tube Systems

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

It's often said that history repeats itself - and by studying history we gain better insight into our current (and future) society. In the late 1800s the telegraph was immensely popular, but telegraphs only connected telegraph offices. Messages still had to be transcribed into a paper format and delivered to the appropriate person.

Stick It in Your Ear

Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

As the 1970s drew to a close, Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' first appeared on BBC radio. 'Hitchhiker's Guide' was (and continues to be) wildly successful - the series was adapted into a four-book 'trilogy' and a hit TV show. 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' featured a wonderful mix of Monty Python-like humor, science fiction, and science fact. One of the most intriguing ideas offered was the now infamous Babel fish.

The End of E-Business As We Thought We Knew It

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:00:00 EDT

During the late '90s and the early part of 2000, many people were busily working in startup X or Y, gleefully anticipating an initial public offering and the promise of cashing in on the New Economy.

The Importance of Integration Standards

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

On a recent trip overseas I neglected to pack the adapter plugs that enable you to plug an electrical cord from one country into an outlet in another. If you travel overseas you soon realize that many countries have incompatible electrical outlets.

Rube Goldberg Would Have Loved XML Schema

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Rube Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who illustrated complex ways to achieve easy results, saw his cartoons as 'symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.' He believed there were two ways to do things: simple and hard, and that a surprising number of people preferred the latter.

XML-J '2.0': Enabling the Extensible Enterprise

Thu, 30 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

(This editorial is in two parts. Part 1, below, is by John Evdemon. Part 2, by JP Morgenthal, then follows.)XML-Journal recently posted a special article online (at www.sys-con.com/xml) celebrating XML's fourth birthday. It's hard to believe the little toddler has grown up to become a preschooler. When XML was first introduced back in February 1998 it was designed to be a Web-based version of SGML. Indeed, the W3C XML Technical Recommendation states its goal as enabling a 'generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.'

jAllora by HiTSoftware

Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:00:00 EDT

HiT Software provides a line of standards-based XML and SQL middleware for application development and systems integration. HiT's Allora product line provides bidirectional XML access to databases and supports standard DOM/SAX parsers and, optionally, is accessible via SOAP interfaces (JMS support is also available). jAllora is the Java-based version of HiT's Allora middleware product and provides an easy-to-use and -understand approach to serializing relational data into an XML format (a version of Allora, winAllora, is also available for the Windows platform).

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Web Services

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:00:00 EDT

Is XML required for Web services? Not necessarily. Developers have been designing and building 'Web services-like' solutions for several years - long before the term Web services (or the Web, for that matter) existed. RPC introduced the concept of location transparency - distributed objects (DO) that could be located and utilized regardless of their location on the Network. Clients used IDL for describing and contracting services with distributed objects.

Eliminating Redundancy in XML Using ID/IDREF

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00:00 EDT

XML can be thought of as the 'universal serialization of data.' It provides a flexible, open approach for modeling data and sharing messages among business partners (or systems) in a consistent manner. XML provides the ideal solution to messaging in a B2B e-commerce infrastructure since it enables a loosely coupled design that can significantly lower a partner's barrier to entry.

Extensible Integration of the Enterprise and Beyond

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00:00 EST

One of the most significant challenges that businesses have traditionally faced is the integration of various system components throughout the enterprise. Over the past year, EAI (enterprise application integration) has emerged as a popular approach for integrating systems and gaining a strategic advantage in the marketplace. A corporation that has successfully integrated their internal systems is better positioned to take advantage of the opportunities that emerge following this effort. A financial services firm, for example, could profit from 'cross-selling' products and services that in the past may have been tied to monolithic, proprietary systems that were incapable of sharing information. Tool vendors such as NEON, IBM and BEA have enabled businesses to take advantage of EAI using technologies such as message brokering, MOM, CORBA, COM and others.

Of XML and Software Patents

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 EST

'Patent applications are written by lawyers for lawyers.' - The League for Programming Freedom (http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html)