Phew, the temperature is so high here in Bologna that it's difficult even to think.
Nevertheless, this month is gonna be even hotter! So, here are some quickies of the current things that are happening.
Akademy, Akademy, Akademy...
I'm finishing my preparations for Akademy, and the presentation is coming out nicely. I'm trying to make it understandable even by people who does not know much about Service-oriented Computing. I will also demo a couple of service-oriented applications for KDE (of which you could have seen screencast/shots in the kde blogs), and explain how they work and how easy is to make them with JOLIE.
By the way, if you need/want to talk with me, I'll be at Akademy the 9th, the 10th and the 11th (the 11th only in the morning).
Rising interest
We, as italianaSoftware, are receiving more and more interest in JOLIE by the business world. It looks like this could produce some open-source products. We shall see what comes up. The industry involvement has already produced some good things, like the sponsoring of the Google Web Toolkit integration in JOLIE (we are already using this in the open-source world, too: Echoes is based upon the JOLIE-GWT compatibility).
A lot of features to come in the next months
Some projects from the academic side are taking shape. A student from the University of Bologna, Davide Malagoli, is putting the basis for a complete bi-directional JOLIE<->XML translator. While JOLIE already supports the SOAP protocol, this is a great thing for the integration with tools designed for the Web Services technology. For instance, we will be able to generate automatically a WSDL document of a JOLIE program. As JOLIE supports more than just SOAP and TCP/IP sockets, we are already designing standard compliant WSDL elements to describe that.
We have got other two projects in early development, I will blog about them in the near future.
Looks like this fall and winter I will have a lot of features to put in the source tree, and a lot of screencast/shots to make. =)
As for this coming week-end, see you all at Akademy!
P.S.: welcome back to the blog world, Aaron!
UPDATE! Got the permission from the student to blog his name, so here it is. ;)
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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That's pretty interesting Fabrizio. I've heard mumblings about service oriented architectures around KDE 4 recently, as well as JOLIE (it's a name that open up a lot of possibilities!), and it sounds pretty interesting as it's something we haven't quite seen around the open source desktop world before.
I look forward to the presentations........
What SOAP bindings are you using in KDE apps? kwsdl from kdepim/kode, gSOAP, or something else?
@bille: I don't know what bindings KDE apps use for SOAP interaction. Our goal (JOLIE and Plasma projects) is to make so that Plasma apps do not need to care about protocols at all, so our scope is different.
As for JOLIE, soap support is provided natively: you just need to ask the service to "speak SOAP". JOLIE separates the program logic from the communication details; so, even if you change the used protocol, the main program remains unchanged.
Under the hood, we use standard Java APIs for SOAP and XML (as JOLIE is made in Java).
carissimo, quanto tempo dai tempi di ultima online, mediterraneo e il programma server per ultima ( che non ricordo più come si chiamava ).
Vedo che sei sempre un programmatore ai massimi livelli :)
tanti salutoni e peccato che non potrò vedere la tua presentazione
Marco (Elcabesa)
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