By Wolfgang, on August 24th, 2011%
I have been using the Enterprise Architect modeling tool for many projects. I like the tool especially due to its quick modeling capabilities and productivity. Therefore is ideal for workshops with participants from IT and business. Performing live modeling together with the domain experts is a very efficient approach to gather accurate information related to processes . . . → Read More: BPMN 2.0 Model Interchange with Enterprise Architect, Signavio Modeler and Activiti Designer
By Wolfgang, on August 15th, 2011%
Data transformations are the daily business in ETL and ESB scenarios. If you have a service- or business process boundary it is very likely that data has to be transformed between different representation.
Typical integration scenarios have to deal with a huge amount of different formats (flat file, xml, csv, json, even binary). To make things even . . . → Read More: Beautiful Transformations with Groovy
By Wolfgang, on August 8th, 2011%
In the ServiceMix forum there is an interesting debate going on about the Future of ServiceMix. I’ve collected some quotes from the thread. I know it is sometimes dangerous to cite people without giving the full context, but I think it helps to get a rough idea about the direction in which ServiceMix is heading. If you are interested in more details please . . . → Read More: The Future of ServiceMix
By Wolfgang, on August 7th, 2011%
It seems that that ServiceMix/Camel and Activiti are growing together as you can read in the blog post Supersize Activiti with Mule ESB and Apache Camel and Deploy Activiti as OSGi Bundles
Activiti has its roots in business process management, whereas Camel comes from the area of enterprise integration. Both allow to describe and automate processes. Activiti . . . → Read More: Combining Activiti and Camel?