'Event Transforming' EDA, CEP Visualized Eclipse IDE Application Development

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Robin Smith's Blog | April 15, 2008  11:19 AM | Comments (0)

The creation of Event Driven Architecture based applications which can leverage the power of Complex Event Processing can be a daunting task, but now with the evolution of unique BEA Eclipse IDE tooling, customers are able to build, publish and debug, in a matter of minutes, very powerful "event'ing" solutions with the WebLogic® Event Server. As developers extend their knowledge of the new application and programming models available, the associated application event processing network (EPN)  is also evolving in complexity. The EPN is one of the core principles of our EDA implementation and defines the adapters, streams and processors, together with the event listeners, which effectively addresses the Event Stream processing needs of any solution.

So, we are now seeing a growing need for a visualization approach as another stepping stone to achieving simplistic creation of very powerful event driven applications.

The latest Eclipse tooling 2.1 version, available from our eclipse update site,  addresses this issue "head-on" with the first of many planned updates, highlighting an Event Server Eclipse project artifact collection visually on the IDE "canvas". The Event Server Project Wizard steps you through a few simple tasks to complete the Java foundation of the application, and then your development environment immediately portrays the EPN, with easy to use features such as scaling, saving and printing the network of nodes image.

With the cool, direct node to code access, developers can enhance and augment the EPN in one click of the mouse, expanding the applications capabilities in seconds.

A great new screencast is now available which steps us through the lifecycle fundamentals of developing an Event Driven Application, leveraging the EPN visualization aspects, as a core method to understand and manipulate  the application structure and to easily extend its functionality.

For more details on our unique focused approach to the world of Event Stream processing, including Complex Event processing and our lightweight, Equinox OSGi™ based Java container, built from the ground up specifically for the low latency and high through-put needs across industries, check out my other blogs.

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