Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

FWIW, at OSCON a few months back I chatted with a guy from IBM who was
using XMPP as the glue for their service component architecture:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-sca/

/psa

Neal McBurnett wrote:
> 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/
>

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