In continuation of this
jot the service bus being XML based is a bad idea for multiple reasons. It should be in Java. The Oracle Service Bus sits atop a J2EE server; so do the routing, assignments, pipelines and service calls in Java. The engineers that will be working on the orchestration and aggregation through the service bus will be middleware engineers anyway, so developing and loading a jar into weblogic to the service bus functions is not a big deal. It is a skill that exists on the team already so there is no ramp up time for the developers to get used to the XML based services, proxies, wsdls, schemas, xpath, xquery etc.
The second reason is that the service bus is very difficult to debug and refactor. There are numerous tools to debug and refactor Java classes, and eclipse is rife with them. To debug a service bus proxy you cannot track the message flow directly at each point of the pipeline, assign, replace, etc. You pump it in, debug at the webservice level and then look at the XML output. If it was java based existing tools would enable the orchestration and aggregation be debugged directly at each step.
Thirdly a lot of the XML tools were fashionable ten years ago when these technologies were created. Which is great. XML has a place and is very useful in several problem domains. The service bus is not one of them. Most project teams are resource deficient anyway, and having developers that can navigate the path from back-end, to middleware and front-end are rare as it is. Throwing another difficult to debug impediment that uses non standard tools (XPath instead of Regex) is a massive drain on feature output, and hence project schedule.
I would like ten cents for every time I have made a change in a WSDL and then had to regenerate the Proxy, the XSD and then go in and fix the bindings by hand. It is frustrating and the namespaces are a pain to keep in order at the XSD and WSDL level. Working with the OSB is a frustrating experience, especially when you have the java middleware and backend debugged, tested with junit and soapUI only to see the OSB dump null and 0 variables on your service.
I think the service buses should be done in Java and kept within the same skillset domain as the J2EE backend. This isn't an old dog not wanting to learn new tricks, rather a grizzled developer with tight project schedules seeing a weak point in the technology stack that is difficult to dampen and a source of blockers, bugs, and wtfs.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
