IDE: my eclipse

Looks like someone has built the IDE we all hoped IBM would come up with for WSED. Admittedly the WSAD/WSED products are getting there and offer enough functionality to make websphere development reasonably easy, certainly more pleasant than J2EE development in the past. These guys seem to have gone a step further - worth keeping an eye on.

myeclipse
the serverside article
IBM

RULES: Business rule mining

This article discusses the rather tricky subject of retrieving rules from code. Its an issue that most enterprises will have to deal with but one I hadn't given much thought until now.

RULES: Corticon rules engine article.

An interesting (if old) article on an application of Corticon's rules engine in Washington. Worth noting this is the rules engine shipped with the latest version of Chordiant.

RULES: Rules Engines

Expect to see some musings here on rules engines and their role in a modern architecture. I include a couple of links below.

java.net article
Drools

SOA: FTP Online - special report on SOA

A particular interest of mine at the moment is Service Oriented Architecture. FTPOnline are currently hosting some interesting papers on the subject, go here to have a wee shufty.