Terms to be Aware Of

More terms are being coined or thrown around this year than ever before.  The Gartner Integration Conference in Orlando has brought to the forefront the following terms; some of these have existed for sometime, but are just now being pushed to the general IT public.

SOC – Service Oriented Client; a rich client capable of interacting at a base level with Web Services

CEP – Complex Event Processing; the ability to apply logic to unrelated events that have been exposed via web services, or some other message architecture.

EPA – Event Processing Agent; a listener or sink that receives the event and applies some basic analytics or function, such as tripping a counter, forwarding the event, or adding information to the event.

EPL – Event Pattern Language;  I hate to use the term AI here, but this a language structure that is able to consume unrelated events and determine trends that may be relevant.  The end goal is usually to alert a “human” to the existence of the pattern within a dashboard.

Comments

[Chris Cantley]

He thepef,

I am having some issues with WSDL and you seem to have some experience in the industry. I just need a little direction if you have a sec.

Thanks,
~Chris