Hi Keith, Yes, in fact our ESB includes a mobile connector that provides many of the QoS necessary for enterprise level SOA, and we completely agree with the need for a distributed and "right sized" code base. Our architecture in general is a distributed one supported by a microkernel runtime with configurable plug-ins (i.e. deploy what you need for a given endpoint).
So I agree with you about this direction of the industry. I just wanted to point out the common confusion between a "request" for a transaction and the execution of the transaction itself. Mobile devices are capable of the former today but not the latter. But as I said I agree with you that this would be a good thing, and I also believe it's achievable in the not too distant future. Eric --- Keith Harrison-Broninski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Newcomer wrote: > > >Unless there's a transaction manager on the mobile > >device (which I haven't heard there is), mobile > >devices can't participate in a coordinated > >transaction. Also clients don't typically > participate > >in a coordinated transaction unless there are > >operations on local data (i.e. data managed on the > >device). > > > > > Indeed. But we need such clients. The general > trend of IT is towards > lightweight, client-side, P2P applications with no > barrier to entry and > low TCO - though the only such application proposed > for process > management (without which you cannot do /enterprise/ > transaction > management) is my own work with humanedj > <http://www.humanedj.com>. > Does anyone know of other such efforts? If so, I > would be very > interested to hear of them. > > In general, to me it seems that the distributed > approach of ESBs towards > SOA is typical of this trend. Servers have become > smaller and smaller > (and people have more of them), to the point where > most server machinery > is not that different from client machinery, and the > same will happen in > due course with the software they run. > > -- > > All the best > Keith > > http://keith.harrison-broninski.info > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
