Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:48:40AM +0200, Leif Johansson wrote:
> RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> >
> > The PR below came by today.  I think the interesting part is at the
> > end, where
> >
> >   This SOA will provide a working integration layer that ties together
> >   disparate applications of interest and importance to higher education,
> >   using IBM's WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
> >
> > So, hmm, maybe it's about getting people to buy WebSphere ...
> >
> > But I've been interested for quite a while in working examples of ESB
> > (aka MOM, event/message-queue, pubsub etc) kinda stuff in university
> > settings, since I'd like to be in our middleware agenda at some point.
> >
> > I asked Barry Ribbeck, who most of us know.  He said it's his group
> > but he doesn't know much but could get interested people in touch with
> > those who do.  I asked for a writeup.  If others are interested a call
> > could be put together.
> >
> > Also interesting I suppose that IBM is jumping into this in a
> > Mellon-like fashion.
> >
> >  - RL "Bob"
> >
> > ---
> >
> > IBM Awards Rice $700K for Shared University Research Project
> >
> > Rice University and IBM have announced they will collaborate on the
> > development of an open-standards-based service-oriented architecture
> > (SOA)
> > that will help higher education institutions tie together their
> > increasingly
> > diverse academic software applications.
> >
> > "In academia today, discrete, open-source, academic applications such as
> > courseware management systems, digital libraries and content commons are
> > becoming central to the life of a university," said Kamran Khan, vice
> > provost for information technology. "It is important to tie these
> > stand-alone applications together into a more coherent whole."
> >
> > IBM's gift will enable Rice to collaborate in the research and
> > development
> > of an open-standards-based SOA for higher education called the Rice Open
> > Collaborative Learning Environment (Open-CLE). Rice will provide a
> > working
> > demonstration environment to validate the approach.
> >
> > A service-oriented architecture, or SOA, enables computers to share
> > data and
> > tasks among disparate applications, helping an organization to more
> > closely
> > align technology with business goals. In academia, an SOA also enables
> > each
> > member of a group of institutions to create its own suite of tools to
> > support particular research, collaboration and learning needs. Providing
> > such integration and customization is critical if open-standards-based
> > environments are to become a viable alternative for meeting the needs of
> > higher education institutions around the world.
> >
> > Rice University and IBM will collaborate to design an SOA for Rice's
> > Open-CLE. This SOA will allow individual educational and research
> > applications to "talk" with each other. Rice's largest open standards
> > applications today include Sakai -- a leading open source course
> > management
> > system; OwlSpace, powered by Sakai and operating as the framework for
> > Rice's
> > web-based Collaboration and Learning Environment; Connexions, a
> > collaborative, educational web-based environment composed of independent
> > teaching modules that can be used alone or connected into larger courses;
> > and DSpace, a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes,
> > preserves and distributes digital research material.
> >
> > This SOA will provide a working integration layer that ties together
> > disparate applications of interest and importance to higher education,
> > using
> > IBM's WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The integration will
> > provide
> > an open standard for linking higher-education applications together
> > and will
> > provide a strong foundation for both continued application development
> > and
> > user acceptance.
> >
> +1 - We've been working for a while building on  XMPP JEP-0060 as a MoM.
> I'd
> be very interested in speaking with others about that and related things.
> 
>     Cheers Leif

Ahh - MoM == "Message Oriented Middleware".  Cool.
Looks like you have a description of it at "XMPP as MOM" -
  http://people.su.se/~leifj/xmpp.pdf

Note that and other JEPs are now freshly rebranded from a "Jabber"
Extension Protocol (JEP) to an XMPP Extension Protocols (XEP):

 XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe  http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html

The Internet2 wg-pic - Working Group on Presence and Integrated Communications
has been meeting Thursdays (next time is today, 4 PM Eastern time.)
A recent focus has been server and client support for extended presence.

I'm CC'ing wg-pic on this mail.

See  http://pic.internet2.edu/  and visit 
xmpp:

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/