Paul Slater joined Powersoft Australia as a PowerBuilder instructor in 1995 and has enjoyed mixing periods of freelance work with time as a senior consultant for Sybase Australia. He is presently working for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service as a transplant systems analyst on the National Organ Matching System. As well as being a devotee of all things PowerBuilder he’s fanatical about PowerDesigner and doesn’t understand people who aren’t.
BPEL is a mystery to me. EbXML? Sorry, not a clue. These things, of course,
are about defining and executing business rules and processes in enterprise
application servers. On my travels through the world of PowerBuilder
applications I've frequently come across the need for business rules to be
implemented in the applications I've been working on. They often end up
hard-coded in non-visual objects where they deny perhaps their most vital
attribute: they should be dynamic and preferably user-editable.
Although many projects to create applications have to implement business
rules, they often don't or can't stretch to the industrial-strength servers
supporting "languages" like BPEL and EbXML. As a result the business rules
for the application end up written into the code, t... (more)
Paul Slater joined Powersoft Australia as a PowerBuilder instructor in 1995 and has enjoyed mixing periods of freelance work with time as a senior consultant for Sybase Australia. He is presently working for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service as a transplant systems analyst on the National Organ Matching System. As well as being a devotee of all things PowerBuilder he’s fanatical about PowerDesigner and doesn’t understand people who aren’t.
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