Search390.com Web Enabling Tip July 18, 2001 ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Postmaster Direct ======================================================== Get free offers from reputable merchants for products that you are interested in. Pick from over 50 categories of interest, modify your profile at any time to suit your needs, and receive only the email that interests you when you subscribe today. Just click on the link below and get your account up and running: http://search390.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ ======================================================== ======================================================== FEATURED TOPIC: COBOL or Java? ======================================================== Java has been heralded as the language of the future. So should you scrap all that COBOL code for Java? Well each is better suited for different applications, however, someone with skills in both would be a pretty hot commodity. For more information on this topic, go to: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci754959,00.html ======================================================== TODAY'S WEB ENABLING TIP: IBM's IMS IM's the Internet! I'm Impressed! By Jim Keohane IM means Interface Metamodel, not Instant Messenger, though there are analogies to be drawn. IBM's IMS E-Commerce Connectors Team at the Silicon Valley Laboratory developed the Common Application Metamodel (CAM). CAM is an IBM open standard initiative for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). It was submitted as a proposal to the Object Management Group (OMG). OMG is the world's largest software consortium with a membership of over 800 vendors, developers, and end users. See http://www.omg.org. So far the best description I have personally seen of CAM is part of a draft document, with diagrams and illustrations, at the web site for the Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica in Spain. Sections 6 (page 13) and 9 (page 79) are of special interest to those who have labored in the Open Transaction Management Access (OTMA) vineyards. See http://www.iti.upv.es/iti/i+d/mirrors/ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ad/00-08-12.pdf. CAM defines and publishes a metadata exchange standard for information about accessing enterprise applications such as CICS and IMS. Anyone who has written COBOL COPYBOOK to XML translators or who has tried to make IMS message contents discernable to Java code, as have I, knows there has just got to be a better way. CAM is that better way! "Because CAM provides physical representation of data types and storage mapping to support data transformation in an EAI environment, it enables Web services for enterprise applications." --Shyh-Mei Ho, IBM Silicon Valley Lab. Ho also gave presentations (at IBM's Transaction and Messaging Technical Conference last month in Salt Lake City, Utah) on IBM's XML MetaModel for EAI, Web Services and Tooling Solutions and on CAM. See http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/t_m/cics_mqs_tm.pdf. IBM has indicated CAM in their statement of direction for IMS. I would expect third party software developers to also adopt CAM, especially if and when it is accepted by OMG. For extra credit: 1st October 2000 IMS Technical Conference. See http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/2000/ims.pdf. IBM's Bob Love gave a presentation "developing for IBM's enterprise servers" at IBM's Spring 2001 technical disclosure meeting in Poughkeepsie, NY this past April. See http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/s390/spring2001.html. Bob also presented twice on IMS matters at Websphere 2001 in Austria last May. See http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/europe/websphere2001/agenda.pdf. *HOT* Staffing Flash for firms adopting this new technology! Shahaf Abileah is available next January. Visit http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sabileah/resume. Or see excerpt of CV below. IBM - IMS E-Commerce Connectors Team Summer & Fall '00 / San Jose, CA Silicon Valley Labs. Helped to architect the Common Application Metamodel (CAM), an IBM proposal to the Object Management Group (OMG). Developed a demo to validate CAM. The demo consists of a three tier architecture, using Windows NT and S/390, and is implemented using the following technologies: SOAP, XML, XMI, Java, JSP. About the author: Jim Keohane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is president of New York consulting company Multi-Platforms, Inc. His company specializes in commercial software development/consulting with emphasis on cross-platform and performance issues. ------------------------------------------------- What did you think about this tip? Let us know! Post your comments in our Developer Discussion Forum. While you're there, see if you can answer the following posted by search390 user "os390SearchEngine" --"Hi! I'm looking for a search engine that runs on OS/390. Do you know of any? Thanks." 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