Journey’s end
It has been a four-year roller-coaster trip, from the beginnings in May 2007, where I was astounded that I had even one visitor, to the movement from a free hosted solution to its own domain, through the heady days of the Gentalk interviews, and the Second-Life Gen Gatherings, the beta trials of CA Gen r8 through to its final release and even to its imminent service pack, the last four years have seen Gentalk.biz track what’s going on in the CA Gen world.Today, however, I have reluctantly, for a number of reasons, and with a very heavy heart, decided to announce the closure of Gentalk.biz.
The one overriding thought that I will leave Gentalk.biz with (on a personal level) is the fact that I have made many new, good friends, both inside and outside of CA.
In the forseeable future (as long as it is possible to predict), I am not disappearing from the CA Gen community completely, and will continue to be involved in the CA Gen arena, both in my working life and as part of the ongoing development process of the toolset (as far as I am allowed). I will continue to promote what I will always see as a fantastic, innovative and productive development environment.
The site will be active (comments will be accepted) until around September 2011, when it will cease to be visible on the internet. Any requests for copies of the content should be made before then.
One final note to all readers, contributors, friends and associates who have made the 4-year Gentalk.biz journey possible, I can only say….
Thank you all
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Its that time again!
CA’s latest application development newsletter is out…..
Latest news includes a bunch of CA Gen roadshows in many States, you can register for them here
I’m not going to wax lyrical about the content, since you should be subscribing to this newletter ! Its well worth it to find out about “happenings” in the CA Gen world.
Subscribe here…
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HE vs CSE for queries
It’s surely been noticed by many of us Gen users that the Host Encyclopedia is much more difficult to query than the Client Server Encyclopedia?.
How, for example would you query the HE to find entity types that have not been implemented in the Technical Design?
I’ve looked at this and can’t for the life of me construct a query to do this – does anyone know how to get this information out of the HE ?
One of the things that would make our lives easier would be an easy query interface to the HE and CSE. I know that we have the public interface, but it’s still hard – can anyone help ?????
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Web Services and the PSTEP Interface Designer
Now that we have the ability to construct web services from CA Gen (on top of an EJB) one wonders if there is any experience of doing this in an existing CA Gen environment and any successes or failure, or points to note ?
Specifically:
- Producing custom WSDL from the PSTEP I/D
- Doing “contract-first” design
- Performance tuning
- Simple and Complex type definition
- Security
These are the things that modern SOA systems are mindful of and need to do – discussion would be great, since this is a new-ish field of play for CA Gen, and many organisations will be considering this !
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Happy New Year 2011
Welcome to 2011 !
What do you
want CA Gen to do
for you in 2011 ?
I want CA Gen to continue to save me more development costs, let my developers be more productive, and finally, let me not worry about my platforms !
Just like it always has, but more of the same !
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