The Future of CA Gen – evolution/revolution – 10 points to Utopia part 2
Looking back at this post – detailing 5 ideas for the future of the CA Gen product, where I thought about where CA Gen needs to go in the future, here’s the final 5 ideas that will see CA Gen evolve into a Next Generation Development Toolset.
Sixth: Complete Unicode support
Seventh: Evolve the action diagram syntax to cater for the new developments in technology, such as support for iPhone accelerometer sensor and tilt mechanisms, as well as new features appropriate to those new platforms. Maybe a common language for all CA development tools ?
Eighth: Offering a SAAS for CA Gen – difficulty in getting established resources to deploy and manage an encyclopedia and toolset should not be a problem – “Cloudify it” and offer a managed service to organisations, either as a partnership with Systems Integrators or from CA itself.
Ninth: BLOB and CLOB support needs to be there
Tenth: Wizards and tooling to “upgrade” existing technologies to use CA Gen, so older technologies could be modernized into CA Gen
There – I hope you have view on how CA Gen should develop in the future – please share them with the readership via comments – anonymously if you want – you don’t need to register and log in to share your views.
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The Future of CA Gen – evolution/revolution – 10 points to Utopia part 1
With the up and coming CA World 2010 in May, and the run-up to the release of CA Gen r8, it’s time to think about the future of CA Gen and what it will become.
There are development challenges out there that CA Gen clearly meets, but what about those that it doesn’t, and what about other tools that do ? Where does CA Gen “fit in” and what should CA Gen be doing to “fit in” with today’s modern development challenges ?
I thought that I should lay down some thoughts for further discussion within these pages – so feel free to comment as you like on the first 5 ideas…
First: Framework support – we should get CA Gen to support popular frameworks, so generated application components could be framework-agnostic, which can then be specialised for different target frameworks. Those frameworks could include:
- Clouds (Azure, Amazon etc)
- Java frameworks (Spring, STRUTS etc)
Each emergent framework could have a new “specialisation SDK” which could take the framework-agnostic code and “turn it into” a framework specific set of code.
Second: Deployment platforms – there are a plethora of new development platforms out there that CA Gen should natively support:
- iPhone
- Android
- WindowsMobile
- Blackberry
Third: The toolset should be able to “communicate” or “be integrated” with other tooling of a similar nature and exchange metadata
Fourth: Communications should be open – make the Gen servers available to be accessed by any technology. Using XML as a way of opening up those servers means that then any communications middleware (e.g. MQ, Tuxedo etc) could be used to access the data. Other technologies could then seamlessly use the Gen servers with no proprietary technology like Transaction Enabler.
Fifth: The tooling needs to be based around Eclipse – a move in that direction has already been made with CA Gen 7.6 and the upcoming r8
Points 6 thru 10 coming soon…. watch this space…..
EDIT: Since I posted this on Monday of this week, traffic has significantly increased ! Don’t forget you can comment on this, and every post – you don’t need to register or login to comment – It’ll be great to get your views – that’s what Gentalk‘s for !
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Did YOU have anything on the QAT Flow wishlist ?
Because if you did, and there are 7 things on that wishlist that have just made it into v5 of the QAT Flow product – perhaps one of them is yours ? No doubt there are more new features in there….
QAT are releasing their product in around 3 weeks time – maybe there’s still time to get stuff you want in there ? Check out the posting here.
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CA World 2010 CA Gen sessions in your feedreader @caworld2010
There is a still easier way to get the session grid for CA World 2010 – just the CA Gen related sessions!
I’ve formulated them into an RSS feed – the feed will be updated often as the grid changes and sessions are added, taken away, etc:
The feed is here: http://gentalk.biz/blog/caworld2010.xml
Just point your feedreader at it !
Its experimental at the moment – please let me know of any problems with it or improvements you could suggest!
Finding CA Gen sessions at CA World 2010 @caworld2010
I tried to find an easy way of finding the CA Gen related sessions at CAWorld 2010. I’ve come up with an easy way of doing it:
- Go here: https://www.ca.com/caworld/agendas/default.aspx
- Click “Advanced Search”
- Make the following selections:
- Focus Area : “Mainframe”
- Product : “CA Gen”
- Press “Search”
- Wait
- Read all the session details !
Hope it works for you !
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