Warren Hampton

SOA, EDA, BCM, ESB and BPEL...More than IT Catch Phrases? I recently had the chance to evaluate the next-generation Fiorano SOA Platform suite from Fiorano Software, Inc. As an architect and developer who's worked with previous versions of the kit over the last three years in addition to several competitor offerings, I looked forward to sitting down with Fiorano's latest release. For those unfamiliar with the product, it's a feature-rich SOA/BPM development, deployment, and administration suite built on the company's J2EE ESB technology. It relies on standards-based services, shared component modeling, peer-to-peer communications, and high-performance event-driven messaging (pub/sub and queuing) across a distributed network. This latest release brings a standalone BPEL Editor, Composite Components, pre-built JCA-compliant adapters, a Business Development Component K... (more)

Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform A Honey of A Product

SOA, EDA, BCM, ESB and BPEL...More than IT Catch Phrases? I recently had the chance to evaluate the next-generation Fiorano SOA Platform 2006 suite from Fiorano Software, Inc. As an architect and developer who's worked with previous versions of the kit over the last three years in addition to several competitor offerings, I looked forward to sitting down with Fiorano's latest release. For those unfamiliar with the product, it's a feature-rich SOA/BPM development, deployment, and administration suite built on the company's J2EE ESB technology. It relies on standards-based services,... (more)