Prakash Aradhya's Weblog

Tuesday Feb 19, 2008

End of HD-DVD... Can now clearly see a blue ray at the end of the tunnel

The brighter side is its a win for Java enthusiasts. Yes, BR technology includes java in it. Too bad, Toshiba didnt include java in their machine.

I feel happy that I chose to buy a blue-ray player a little while ago. I feel relieved that that I can now expect to see all my favorite movies to be lined up in BR.

Its unfortunate for thousands of people who went for HD player considering how cheap they were. I am sure they knew what they were getting into. I wish Toshiba had offered some kind of compensation for those folks.

It is interesting and indeed a good thing for consumers that this format war is over. While consumer confidence is so low and the global economy is fearing recession (certainly not China and India), it is no good for anyone to sustain this war. I think it is a smarter move from Toshiba to abandon the ship. They saved themselves a whole lot of money that they would have lost over several years. Betamax Vs VHS war went on for 10+ years. Its a big jolt for speculators who were hoping for the same length of war.

Seems like Sony learnt a lot from its Betamax support failure. Now here is the new winner who was a big loser in the past.

Anyways... I am happy that I made the right decision to back BR :)

Posted at 01:16PM Feb 19, 2008 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Monday Sep 10, 2007

10 great things about Open ESB

Here is something I found useful for all those who brave about Open ESB....

Project Open ESB is an Open Source implementation extends
the Java Business Integration (JBI) runtime as specified by
JSR-208 to create a multi-vendor open ESB The Open ESB is
based on multiple instances of JBI, which are linked by a
proxy-binding, based on Java Message Service.

The Open ESB project also is designed to be extensible,
including a variety of JBI plug-in components, including a
SOAP-over-HTTP binding component, and business process
service.

Now, the Top 10 Project Open ESB Benefits.

1. Open Source: Open ESB is developed in the open-source
community - because of this it can leverage the strength of
a vibrant developer community enabling enhancement and
contribution that add value.

2. Open Standards: the components on Open ESB communicate
based on open standards such as web services and WS-*
specifications as opposed to other ESB's that use a
proprietary bus.

3. Interoperability: Components that plug into Open ESB can
come from different contributors/vendors both open-source
and commercial enabling companies to use best of breed to
build their applications.

4. Interoperability: JBI based communication mechanism
eliminates "stove-pipe" integration issue between
containers.

5. Extensible: pluggable service technologies,pluggable
external bindings based on the JBI standard are what allow
an Open ESB ecosystem to be built up both from open-source
and commercial best of breed components working together.

6. Wealth of language support - through its wealth of
Service Engine components pluggable into the ESB Open ESB
supports development in a wide variety of languages -
allowing developers to pick "the best language for the job"
- whether it is Java, BPEL, SQL, Scripting etc.

7. Fully featured IDE: Open ESB comes with a wealth of
tooling to build and manage applications on the ESB that is
pluggable and is fully integrated into the Netbeans IDE.

8. Composite Applications: Open ESB can be used to create
and run SOA based Composite Applications that include any
of the pluggable components mentioned above.

9. Clustering: Fully integrated into the GlassFish Cluster
Support and allows component level clustering strategies
also.

10. Augments Java EE: bi-directional bridge allows to
include and call Java EE artifacts in Composite
Applications, calling JBI services from Java EE. This
allows Java EE developers to leverage their existing
knowledge and step into the realm of Composite Application
development using the wealth of programming languages
available in Open ESB.

Posted at 05:36PM Sep 10, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Monday Jul 30, 2007

Dare to Change !!!!

Jonathan Swartz, our beloved CEO of Sun Microsystems finally set a new trend in how the business results are propagated to public.

How else ? Through his blog and through Sun's website.

Why always hang on to the traditional press / analyst briefing and use that channel to send messages ? Lets change the way we communicate with the world, as long as we maintain the spirit and integrity.

What channel can be better than communicating with vested people directly ?

Jonathan broke that tradition and set a new trend....

Posted at 04:33PM Jul 30, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[3]

Who said Sun doesnt raise ?

Checkout Q4 results of Sun Microsystems that just got released....

We not only met the expectation... but almost doubled it...Hurray.....

Find out more through our CEO's blog...

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

Posted at 04:30PM Jul 30, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Friday May 25, 2007

Cast your vote now !!!!

Open ESB is currently no. 3 in the best java enterprise service bus category. This is definitely a great achievement for one of the youngest player on the bloc.

Cast your vote now !!! Blog about it. Tell your friends and collegues to vote.

http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm

Click on "Best Java Enterprise Service Bus" and vote.

Lets make the Open ESB the Best ESB !!!

Dont forget to vote for Glassfish and NetBeans also...

Posted at 12:09AM May 25, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

JavaCAPS meets (will) Open ESB

Yes, you read it. Some of the components of Open ESB will be inlcuded as part of upcoming JavaCAPS release.

More details on what will be included will be outlined shortly.

Posted at 12:07AM May 25, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Coverages in SearchWebServices.com

My boss, Kevin Schmidt gave an extensive interivew to SearchWebServices.com during JavaOne.

Check out Kevin's blog for more bites on integration space....

You can find all the press coverage we have had at JavaOne about Open ESB.

Posted at 12:04AM May 25, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Thursday May 24, 2007

Open ESB in press

Incase if you missed -

The press release for Open ESB went out on May 9th 2007
Here are the links ...

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-05/sunflash.20070509.1.xml

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070509/sfw068.html?.v=98

There were lots of buzz around Open ESB at JavaOne

Posted at 11:53PM May 24, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Tuesday May 08, 2007

Open possibilities - Open ESB latest in the growing opensource community

Open ESB was featured in yesterday's communityOne event at Glassfish and NetBeans day.

There was an overwhelming interest in the community and technology.

Come explore the new entery in the growing open source communitya at JavaOne pavilion.

You can find lot of the details in today's JavaOne Today ad.

Open ESB pod # 980.

Posted at 04:35PM May 08, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Countdown 0: JavaOne is finally here.

Many of the general sessions are broadcasted online.

Checkout - http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp

Lots of new exciting announcements were made today.

Java as open source is now completed.

New scripting language JavaFX is unveiled.

Many more exciting news...

connect to java.sun.com / javaone for more details.

Posted at 04:25PM May 08, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Monday May 07, 2007

Countdown started for Java One 2007

Come check us out at CommunityOne day today (Monday), held in Moscone center, San Franscisco.

Open ESB is featured in multiples of Open source activiites.

Explore...java.sun.com/javaone.

Posted at 12:11AM May 07, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Saturday May 05, 2007

Open ESB at Community Corner in JavaOne

Check out - http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner

About 6 mini-talks are planned around many technologies of Open ESB.

Open ESB demos are also planned at the demo station.

Visit the corner to explore futher about Open ESB.

http://open-esb/org

Posted at 01:01AM May 05, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Just released Open ESB 2.0 Beta 2

Latest release of Open ESB 2.0 Beta is now available for
download.
Visit:
http://java.sun.com/integration/openesb2_0/

Or 
http://open-esb.org

Posted at 12:58AM May 05, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Sunday Apr 08, 2007

MASTERS 2007 - Zach Johnson - What a day for a young IOWA brat

What a day it was on Augusta golf national golf club. The new Green (Mettle) jacket honoree Zach Johnson bravo....Congradulations on well deserved win.

Having stuck to TV last two days, Zach was never in my radar screen, untill he reached hole 14 th today. May be we should blame CBS for ignoring him so much.

As always my fav was Tiger. I continued to root for him, he tried his best, I am not so much disappointed as he emerged as runner up. But he had a chance to further up untill he played 15th hole.

Anywasy, it was Zach's day. As I noticed there were atleast 5 different players switched between the leader position. One time, I was very sure Ghoosen is going to be the MASTER. What a come back for him. He barely made the cut after disastrous first 2 rounds. Great recovery for him today to tie for 2nd postion along with Tiger.

It is quite a lot of pressure when you are in the leading position to maintain it. One thing I intensely experienced in todays game was the pressure individuals facing and making mistakes when they were in leading positions. A big lesson Zach conveyed in his game was to not to look at the leader board and just play your game.

I dont know how many people can keep their sight off of leader board. Zach cliams to have done it untill he played 17th hole. May be thats one reason why he bogied that hole :) Gosh....he didnt look at the board when he was at 15th or 16th.

In summary, it was terrific game day today. However my pleasure of watching Tiger break Jack Nicklaus's record of winning highest no. of MASTERS is still unfulfilled. Well, there is always a next time. !!!

Posted at 08:18PM Apr 08, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]

Tuesday Apr 03, 2007

Boston Redsox - what a season starter

hmm....

After a long break in the ball game, was hoping to see some action from Red sox side.

Red sox lost to Royales by 7-1. Not a great start for the team.

This is probably the worst pitching I could remember from Schilling.

Anyways lets hope things doesnt repeat on Wednesday.

Posted at 12:07PM Apr 03, 2007 by prakash in General | Comments[0]