Harris Reynolds has been working in software development and systems integration for the past eight years. Most recently he was an enterprise architect at Fannie Mae where he was responsible for the development of messaging architecture supporting internal integration. Prior to consulting for Fannie Mae he was a lead engineer for webMethods working on SOA infrastructure and their underlying service registry. He has also completed projects for several large companies including Amkor Technology, BASF, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Bank of America.
With the release of Flex 2, Adobe has introduced a tool that makes building
rich user interfaces for the Web easier than ever; of course, as anyone
remotely plugged in to the Web development community knows, Ruby on Rails has
made creating database-driven Web applications brain dead simple. This
article discusses a technology that marries Flex with RoR applications by
providing a means of automating the communication between the client and
server. The technology is "WebORB for Rails," a free and open source (GPL)
server made available by Midnight Coders (www.themidnightcoders.com).
Many of the tutorials on the Web that talk about integrating Flex clients
with Rails discuss using raw XML over HTTP. While this mechanism is nice for
the standard "mom and apple pie" tutorial... (more)
It is sometimes beneficial to stop what you're doing, take a look around, and
see where you've come from and where you are going. This regrouping is taking
place right now across the software industry and is focused on the problem
space of Web service description, discovery, and integration. At a high
level, this article briefly discusses the progress made to date at solving
the problem,... (more)
Harris Reynolds has been working in software development and systems integration for the past eight years. Most recently he was an enterprise architect at Fannie Mae where he was responsible for the development of messaging architecture supporting internal integration. Prior to consulting for Fannie Mae he was a lead engineer for webMethods working on SOA infrastructure and their underlying service registry. He has also completed projects for several large companies including Amkor Technology, BASF, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Bank of America.
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