Creative New UserGroup

[Gervas]

As you are all aware the Web has had a major impact on application
architectures.  In place of closed monolithic enterprise apps we are
experienceing radical new developments in distributed computing
structures.  Two salient recent developments are:

[1]	Web-facing n-tier client/server AppServers based mainly on J2EE
and .NET platforms;

[2]	The birth, overhype and hesitant growth of Web Services;

[3]	The promotion of Web Services has also caused vendors of
application software and 	the larger customers to become more aware of
Service-Orientated Architectures (SOA).

Database structures are also beginning to come into question as the
shortcomings of predominant RDBMS systems are increasingly being
exposed by new globalised application interactions.

With a view to addressing these issues and the simple question of
where do we go from here, I have just formed a new Next-Generation
Applications Architectures Group.  So why don't you come, have a look,
join and contribute to what promises to be a highly creative Group
without technology-as-a-religion shackles?!

You can find us at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/n-gaa/

See you soon,

Gervas

Moderator

Next-Generation Application Architectures Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/n-gaa/

SOA Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/

Jini/JavaSpaces Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jini_javaspaces/