ESB project planned by Apache

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is drilling deeper into infrastructure software with plans for an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) project.

ASF is next week expected to announce the ESB project, backed by a brace of software vendors and led by integration specialist Sonic Software. A source familiar with the project told The Register the ASF is offering customers an alternative to closed-source ESBs to "keep vendors honest."

http://www.theregister.com/2005/08/19/esb_apache/

Identity Management Architectures and Digital Identity

After some analysis, you've decided that your company needs to beef up its digital identity infrastructure. You've read some white papers from vendors and even considered buying an enterprise package that you've been promised will solve your single-sign-on problems. Still, you're uncomfortable. You should be.

 

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IBM Joins the Podcast craze

Podcasting it really taking off as a distribution channel for radio like addresses and shows and as I see it will eventually change the music industry in a big way.

IBM is using it to deliver investor information.

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Work Manager API for Threading from J EE Applications

BEA and IBM have introduced the Work Manager API and JSR-237 for abstracting the low level APIs for accessing container managed threads.

This elliviates the problem associated with use of threads out from under the container which could lead to resource issues. Using threads without the container's knowledge was always frowned upon but sometime necessary.

This DevX article described the Work Manager API nicely...

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Big names try to save the Bowery's punk music landmark

My brother Patrick's band The Silence Kit will be playing CBGB's next thursday as part of the benefit to try and keep the legendary club's doors open.

After 31 years at 315 Bowery, CBGB -- considered the breeding ground of punk rock and new wave, with early-'70s gigs by the Ramones leading to Television, Blondie, Talking Heads and the U.S. debut of the Police -- is in the last month of its lease. Renewal negotiations have been the subject of a complicated, much-publicized dispute between Kristal and the club's landlord, the Bowery Residents Community, a non-profit organization that aids the homeless.

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