http://www.soluta.net/ Soluta.Net Feed Rss about tecnology. en-us http://www.cen.eu/CENORM/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/ebifconference_2008_announcement.asp Pierfranco Ferronato of Soluta.Net has been invited at the eBIF 2008 Conference]]>, 8t and 9th December 2008 at Equens, Utrecht (NL) "eBusiness interoperability practice: examples, impacts and standardization challenges" The conference focuses on eBusiness interoperability needs, practice and challenges seen from a business perspective. It will increase the awareness of related policy developments, and of how business needs are or can be satisfied via standardization processes. In the context of the Internet of things he will give a key notes]]> "Beyond SOA: interoperability challenges in the Digital Ecosystem era" Soluta.Net 20 Oct 2008 http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/orlando/info.htm "At the OMG Meeting in Orlando the MDA Users SIG has been scheduled and the agenda has been posted at this link]]>]]> Pierfranco Ferronato (Soluta.Net) and Christopher St. John (Intelliun) and will present the topics at the SIG" Soluta.Net 12 Sep 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php I'm glad to inform that Soluta.Net has just started to work in the Persist Project. More information here]]>]]> Soluta.Net 11 Apr 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Pierfranco Ferronato has been invited as an Expert to the ERA Coordination Initiative in the field of Networked Enterprise Workshop about “Setting up a regional ERA coordination initiative in the area of Digital Business Ecosystems” in Bruxelles the 15th of April 2008. The interest in the area of Digital Business Ecosystems goes beyond its research and technical aspects. DBE is currently viewed as a methodology and approach (supported by IT) for making emerge the self-organising endogenous economic processes among networks / clusters of small economic actors, mainly SMEs, which operate at regional and local level. Consequently, the DBE area is more and more considered as a distinctive key policy instrument focused on supporting the regional and local economic development (both for regions and countries) rather than a mere ICT research area. Therefore, there is a need to bring together the relevant regional authorities in the EU Member States in order to reach a consensus on the evolution of the DBE concept and the new challenges and opportunities that provides for regional innovation and economic development. Deficiencies in Europe's regional research and innovation policies can only be addressed positively if co-ordination at regional and local level is established through notably an ERA co-ordination action. ]]> Networked Enterprise ERA ]]>]]> Soluta.Net 4 Apr 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The project PERSIST has been funded by the EU: Soluta.Net is a partner of the project.]]> More information from ICT-PERSIST]]>]]> Get the flyer here]]>]]> Soluta.Net 27 Feb 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php We are proud to announce the 4th edition of the INCUBATE Newsletter (Edition 4, February 2008) Click on Newsletter]]>]]> Soluta.Net 22 Feb 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The mission of the COIN IP is to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the above 2020 vision..]]> More information from COIN]]>]]> Soluta.Net 11 Feb 2008 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The second edition of the MDA Forum was just held the 5th of October, the event -Dedicated to Model Driven Architecture- was organized by Soluta.Net a leaders in offering solutions for software architectures and software strategies in collaboration with the Object Management Group (OMG). The second edition of MDA Forum has prestigious keynoters of the event were David Frankel, Architect of Model Driven Systems in SAP Labs, Andrew Watson Vice President and Technical Director of the OMG, and Alan Hartman, Director of MDE technology group, in IBM. ]]> The speakers presented MDA in relation to standards and specifications and demonstrated how the European industry is successfully applying this approach in production. Reports were presented where MDA shows the ability to tackle typical IT issues such as reuse and Scalability. In particular Hartman presented five official case studies in which MDA has brought improvements in productivity on average of 21%, with Maximum values up to 80% on certain maintenance activities. Frankel, author of two influential books on MDA, presented the vision of SAP and the role of domain-specific languages (Domain Specific Language). Andrew Watson presented the vision of OMG and three major success stories. ]]> The audience gave value to the event with timely intervention and key questions about MDA, the face to face discussion showed interest and high competence. ]]> The afternoon sessions focused on real cases of MDA applied in Italy in the fields of banking, finance, insurance, embedded systems and in telecommunications cases. Satisfied Dr. Pierfranco Ferronato of Soluta.net, organizer of the event, was satisfied by the outcomes of the event; the number of attendants where higher than the first edition. The audience included representatives of leading companies in the industrial, banking, government agencies and departments of computer science of the University All the participants have expressed appreciation for the high quality of the sessions and of the contents: they are all waiting for the 2008 edition ]]> News from IT-Ware]]> ]]> Feedback:]]> "I complimenti per l'MDA Forum: ben organizzato" Stefano Lotti Innovaziona Italia spa ]]>]]> "Complimenti, è stata davvero una bellissima esperienza!" Fabio Salvi, Capitalia Informatica]]>]]> Soluta.Net 22th Oct 2007 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The Digital Business Ecosystem project (DBE)]]> funded under the 6th FP ]]> has been successfully reviewed by the EU Commission; one of the deliverable associated with the work of Soluta.Net about the specification of a MDA based language for modelling services ("SDL specification for the DBE Platform") has received a very positive comment:]]> "This is an excellent deliverable; the MDA orientation of the service design aspects in DBE produced a coherent view and a valid set of potential standards, like the SDL described in this deliverable. The validity of this work spans largely beyond the field of DBE and has application throughout the whole web service industry." Soluta.Net 20th July 2007 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.Net has been interviewed and cited by Diego Lo Giudice in the very recent Forrest report about MDA 'The State Of Model-Driven Development'".]]> Soluta.Net is the only Italian Software Integrator that was cited in the article.]]> Summary:]]> "Forrester expects model-driven development (MDD) to play a key role in the future of software development; it is a promising technique for helping application development managers address growing business complexity and demand. However, as in all early stages, there is still a lot of confusion about what MDD really is, what role standards like MDA play, what the real benefits and challenges are, and how vendors are promoting their MDD offerings. We interviewed various industry players and end users to get an update on the state of MDD. We found that while it's still in its infancy, organizations are gaining real benefits, tools are getting better, vendors are showing commitment, and MDA is being used in various ways. However, not all MDD approaches are suitable for all organizations, and application development professionals need to clearly understand the differences between modeling, between the various approaches to MDD, and when to move from one to the other." ]]> The article can be found at http://www.forrester.com/rb/search/results.jsp?N=0+11260]]> ]]> Soluta.Net 05th May 2007 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.Net is glad to announce its participation, as a speaker, at the "Softech 2007"]]>, organized in Milan, Hotel Executive, organized by BCI-Italia ]]> Dr. Paolo Miotti has been invited to hold a keynote on SOA architecture. ]]> Program: Agenda]]> ]]> Date: 15 March 2007 ]]> Location: Milano ]]> Soluta.Net 17th Feb 2007 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Dr. Pierfranco Ferronato has been invited to hold a keynote at the SISE 2007]]> in Switzerland, organized by IBM]]> and by university of computer science of Zürich]]>.]]> SISE ]]> is the software engineering special interest group of the Swiss Informatics Society ]]>.]]> Its main goals are:]]> * To offer education in the domain of software engineering both for practitioners and for researchers ]]> * To facilitate and initiate personal contacts]]> * To encourage the creation of work groups dealing with current issues of software engineering.]]> http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/sise/sise2007/programm2007.pdf]]>]]> ]]> ]]> Soluta.net 7th Dec 2006 http://mdaforum.soluta.net Soluta.net was invitated at the "Enterprise Interoperability Cluster an FP7 Information Day" organized by the ICT for Enterprise Networking Unit of Information Society and Media Directorate-General. ]]> Dr. Pierfranco Ferronato participated at the one day meeting and had a session titled "Does SOA scale when supporting interoperability of networked organizations?" ]]> http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/ict-ent-net/ws20070208.htm]]>]]> ]]> ]]> Soluta.net 17th Feb 2007 http://mdaforum.soluta.net ]]> ]]> Soluta.net is glad to announce the “MDA Forum 2006”, first Model Driven Architecture (MDA®) event in Italy realized in collaboration with Object Management Group, organized in November in a wonderful villa veneta not far from Venice. ]]> MDA® is a software development approach that helps the enterprises to develop complex projects reducing the maintenance and development costs, allowing quickly incorporation of technological and functional changes. MDA® moreover favours the safeguard of the business investments since allows continuous and transparent reuse of the analysis and the code.]]> The one day event includes deepening tutorial and describes some real Italian projects based on MDA in fields of business like the systems embedded and the CRM/ERP; for each presented case weakness and force points will be highlighted.]]> For details and accreditations follow the link http://mdaforum.soluta.net]]>. Soluta.net 16th August 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net is glad to announce its participation, as a speaker, at the ICE Conference 2006, organized in Milan, Palazzo delle Stelline. on the 26-28th of June 2006 , organized by EsoNET, Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the European Commission.]]> The ICE conference is the leading forum for practitioners, researchers and tool vendors from all over the world to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their work in the broad domain of Concurrent Enterprising, the combination of the concept of Concurrent Engineering and the Virtual/ Extended Enterprise.]]> Dr. Ferronato will present, on Monday the 26th in the Session 6a -”Virtual Enterprises 3 (Collaborative Processes)” a scientific paper illustrating the innovative results achieved on the Business Modelling Language for the Digital Business Ecosystem. ]]> Further details on the event can be found on the following URL: www.ice-conference.org]]> Soluta.net 21th Jun 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net is glad to announce its participation, as a speaker, at the Workshop on “Digital Business Ecosystem for Economic and Territorial Development in the Region of Trentino”, organized on the 30th of May 2006 by Provincia Autonoma di Trento and CREATE-NET]]>. Among the several interventions from the DG IFSO of the European Commission, Local Authorities, Industrial Partners, SMEs and DBE project partners, Pierfranco Ferronato, Chief Architect of the Project, will explain an example of “Ecosystem Oriented Architecture”. CREATE-NET is an International Institute, founded in Trento by major Universities and Research Centers in Europe. This first institutional workshop will illustrate to the community of SMEs in the Region of Trentino the objectives and results of the biggest Open Source based European Project ever funded by the European Commission, the DBE project. A public competition will be launched to select innovative SMEs acting as drivers to experience the software-based services offered by the DBE platform]]>. A second technological workshop will be lately organized to train the winning SMEs on how to develp and use business application to exchange internet-based services. The invitation is free. Further details on the event can be found on the following pdf:]]> Agenda]]>]]> Invito]]>]]> To download the Soluta contribution at the workshop, click on the following link: ]]> "DBE, an example of Ecosystem Oriented Architecture (PDF)"]]>]]> "DBE, an example of Ecosystem Oriented Architecture (ODP)"]]>]]> "DBE, an example of Ecosystem Oriented Architecture (PPT)"]]>]]> Soluta.net 24th May 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The Italian ForumPA webportal]]> dedicates a special to the IBSE project (Basic Infrastructure for the Electronic Health) where Pierfranco Ferronato is responsible as the Chief Architect for the definition of the technical architecture of the new Italian Electronic Healthcare System. The web special offers an updated overview of the architecture in its different layers and components, as defined during the various working groups among the IBSE project partners. Dr Ferronato is proud to contribute to such a challenging and mission critical e-Health domain. Soluta.net 28th March 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php "SOA has been designed and envisioned for inside Enterprise integration as a mean to bridge systems and to create a governance layer on top of existing platforms as either legacy or assets. Now the industry is heavily moving to B2B environments where the parties are not single department applications but rather Enterprises…” ]]> P.Ferronato]]> speaker at the second OMG annual workshop will address these and other issues for next generation of projects that are already ongoing, tackling SOA and proposing new techniques borrowing concepts from real industrial and research projects currently under development and leaded by the speaker as an Enterprise Architect. He will describe P2P based approaches for service registry, decentralized model repositories, scale free network and refers to cutting edge technologies in the Business Ecosystem arena. ]]> To download the Soluta contribution at the conference, click on the following link:]]> "Tackling with SOA when scaling up to integrating between Enterprises"]]>]]> "Tackling with SOA when scaling up to integrating between Enterprises"]]>]]> "Tackling with SOA when scaling up to integrating between Enterprises"]]>]]> Soluta.net 28th March 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net participates at the Cutter Consortium]]>'s Enterprise Architecture Summit, held in London on the 7th of March 2006, illustrating strategies and techniques helping organisations to adopt successful Enterprise Architecture(EA). ]]> The Keynote presentations by the director of Cutter's EA Practice, Mike Rosen]]>, and by Cutter Senior Consultant Tom Welsh]]>, are followed by interactive panel debates discussing the merits of, and pitfalls experienced in implementing EA and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Pierfranco Ferronato]]> has been invited to join the Cutter Consortium as a Senior Consultant in EA, internationally recognized as an expert in large-scale architectures and object-oriented/component development, as well as MDA, EA, EAI, and Web services. P. Ferronato will debate whether trends and techniques in EA will have traction, what their implications may be, how to use EA to meet specific enterprise goals. Soluta.net 28th February 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net is pleased to announce its latest publication at the ATL Subproject website (http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/atl/atlTransformations/#SSL2SDL]]>): the SSL to SDL Transformation, as new ATL Transformation example. ]]> This example of ATL Transformation and associated meta-models represents a precious contribution provided by Soluta.net to the EU research project DBE]]> as it makes some advances in the state of the art in the research area of Semantics and Ontology. Soluta.net 22nd February 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The latest 'DBE Bulletin' is now available. The DBE Project is entering its third and last year. Already in the past many SMEs have been involved in projects built upon DBE, and now the plan is to launch DBE as a self-sustaining entity, owned and managed by its users community. DBE]]> is an Internet-based software environment in which business applications can be developed and used, Soluta.net has the architecture leadership of this strategic EU-funded project (the DBE is the biggest Open Source project ever funded by the European Commission). You are encouraged to download the latest DBE Bulletin]]> and visit the completely redesigned DBE's public web site]]>. Soluta.net 09 January 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php The Cutter Consortium is organizing an AE Summit in London the 6th-7th of March by the Savoy Hotel. Cutter's Enterprise Architecture Summit is more than just an opportunity to hear the leading enterprise architecture thinkers present inspiring keynotes! Following his keynote, Mike Rosen will be joined by Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe and Pierfranco Ferronato]]> to debate, moderated by Tom Welsh, whether these trends and techniques will have traction, what the implications of those trends may be, and will brainstorm along with conference delegates on other trends bubbling to the surface. Cutter Consortium]]> Soluta.net 02 January 2006 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Pierfranco Ferronato has been invited to join the Cutter Consortium]]> as a Senior Consultant in EA (Enterprise Architecture). Cutter offers a different value proposition than other IT research firms; clients -- who are *users* of technology -- get practitioners’ points of view, derived from hands-on experience with the same critical issues corporate and institutional IT professionals are facing, not the perspective of a desk-bound analyst who can only make predictions and observations on what’s happening in the marketplace. Cutter partners with consultants are experts in their field. More than 100 internationally recognized experts provide the content, consulting and training to its clients. Cutter has about 5,000 clients worldwide, mostly IT management in large firms, of which about 40% reside outside N. America. These experts are committed to delivering top-level, critical, and objective advice. Soluta.net 22 December 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Burlingame, California, "OMG Technical Meeting”, December 5th-9th, 2005 (http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-info.htm]]>) Soluta.net will be present at the forthcoming OMG Technical Meeting in Burlingame CA and will hold a 60 minutes presentation at the MDA QSP Fast Start Seminar Monday, Dec. 5th at 13:00 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/hotel-info.htm]]>). The speech will describe the achievements of the MDA based Pant@ project that is currently running in Coopservice which Soluta is actually leading from the Architectural perspective (http://www.soluta.net/projects.php]]>). ]]> The Pant@ project(pdf)]]>]]> The Pant@ project(sxi)]]> Soluta.net 27 November 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Dr. Pierfranco Ferronato has been invited to give a presentation at the second OMG annual workshop "SOA, MDA and Web Services: Integrating the Enterprise, and Beyond" in Washington, DC, from March 27 to 30, 2006. Session Abstract: "SOA has been designed and envisioned for inside Enterprise integration as a mean to bridge systems and to create a governance layer on top of existing platforms as either legacy or assents. Now the industry is heavily moving to B2B environments where the parties are not single department applications but rather Enterprises. Inside Enterprises there is administration ability of the SOA infrastructure, ability to handle the network, gain control over resources and IP, everything is reasonably under control. Between enterprise this is not true any more, IPs may change, protocols are subject to be replaces without notice, UDDI needs to be shared among parties, UDDI becomes vital for indexing and discovering services and , models need to change at a pace which is faster than any ability to maintains coherence and harmonization via a coordination process. The entire B2B becomes a very loosely coupled community which brings news challenges in SOA architecture: dealing with this reality requires to re-think of the founding principles and and technology of SOA. This talk will address these and other issues for next generation of projects that are already ingoing. The presentation will delve into the issue, tackling SOA and proposing new techniques borrowing concepts from real industrial and research projects that are currently under development and that the speaker is leading as an Enterprise Architect. He will describe P2P based approaches for service registry, decentralized model repositories, scale free network and refers to cutting edge technologies in the Business Ecosystem arena." Soluta.net 27 November 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Milano,"Agile Techniques for Software Process Improvement, Second Italian AICA Forum, 15th November 2005" (Link)]]>. ]]>Soluta.net has been invited to hold a session in Milano (Italy) during the Second Edition of Italian AICA Forum ( http://www.aicanet.it/]]>), a workshop about Agile Techniques for Software Process Improvement. Paolo Miotti, Chief Consultant of Soluta.net, will be focused on describing how an Agile MDA approach reveals itself to be strategic in enteprise software projects development, in which the value and the reuse of models are maximized throughout the complete lifecycle of software; this significantly reduce the overall developing and maintenance costs. ]]> Depliant]]> Soluta.net 9 November 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Pierfranco Ferronato is working with Innovazione Italia spa(http://www.innovazioneitalia.gov.it]]>) for the definition of the architecture of the new Italian Electronic Healthcare System (). He is the main technical architect for the definition of Basic Infrastructure for the Electronic Health (IBSE). The solution, now under finalization, for the creation of the National Electronic Health Record is advanced and challenging, its architecture is unique in the e-health domain and it exceeds the current implementations worldwide. Soluta.net 15 July 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Pierfranco Ferronato has successfully delivered the internal Work Group]]> for Innovazione Italia Spa. This Work Group is supporting the development and definition of the IBSE project: the Base Infrastructure for the new Italian Electronic Healthcare System (Sanita' Elettronica). Soluta.net 14 June 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net announces that JunoMda(tm) has been relased as Open Source! It is registered in Sourceforge]]> even if at the moment it contains only a redirection to http://junomda.soluta.net]]> where it is possible to download it. JunoMDA, we recall, is a Soluta.net initiative, it consists of a Platform Independent UML profile and an AndroMDA cartridge for generating a php web application. Many features will be added to it namely, a better installation process and extension to the profile for addressing user authentication, news, image and file management. We are proud of this decision and hope you can take advantage of it. Soluta.net 25 April 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php P.Ferronato has been invited to hold a session in Birmingham (UK) the 4th and the 5th of May in "Technology Workshop on the Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE)" to describe the architecture of the Digital Business Ecosystem project. The purpose of the workshop is to help software companies to gain a deeper understanding of the DBE architecture and to facilitate their participation in the DBE. Soluta.net A9 April 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php P.Ferronato has been invited in a one day conference in Aragon-Zaragoza for the "Regional Technical Workshop 11th May 2005" to describe the architecture of the Digital Business Ecosystem project. The workshop is going to be presented by Mr Fernando Beltran, General Director for IST in the Government of Aragon. The purpose of the event is to present the DBE by the Government of Aragon and to show their support to the project and to make the call of interest for future software Implementers SMEs. Soluta.net 9 April 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php May 18th-2005, Pierfranco Ferronato, Chief Architect of the Digital Ecosystem Project, has been invited to hold a session at the Workshop "Towards a network of digital ecosystems: which technology, which research and which instruments ?" in Bruxelles. The workshop is focused on technology and research. It attempts to identify the technology and the research activities needed for building digital ecosystems which satisfy the needs expressed in the first workshop, also taking into account the recent research findings on the topic. Please find at http://www.nachira.net/dedoc/events/2005.05/workshop_3ya2.html]]> the agenda of the workshops. Soluta.net 24 March 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net will hold an MDA FastStart Seminar during the next OMG Technical Meeting that will hold in Athens the 11th-15th of April (http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-info.htm]]>). ]]> The FastStart seminar will be on Monday, from 1-5 pm (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas/MDA_FastStart_Seminar.pdf]]>). ]]> The general theme of the seminar is 'How to Bring in MDA'. So, our presentation will be geared to that topic and show how we have successfully helped a company do that. Thus, our presentation will show two case studies, not tool oriented.]]> The Fastest Way to MDA(sxi)]]>]]> The Fastest Way to MDA(pdf)]]>]]> The Fastest Way to MDA(ppt)]]> ]]> OMG documents]]> Soluta.net 19 February 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net and Finantix (www.finantix.com]]>) announce a collaboration agreement ]]> Finantix is a leading software company with deep expertise in designing, developing and delivering J2EE-based IT solutions for banking and finance industries. We recommend Finantix Studio, their MDA tool, that provides unique modelling capabilities to deliver enterprise-grade IT solutions. ]]>"P.Ferronato, Chief Architect"]]>]]> Soluta consults our clients to architect and model component-based software solutions according to the MDA approach. Soluta's experienced technical architects and leaders make sure that projects are successfully implemented within budget and time constraints. ]]>"M.Greco, Chief Architect"]]> Soluta.net 11 February 2005 http://www.soluta.net/events.php P.Ferronato has been invited to hold two sessions on MDA Technologies in the forthcoming MDA Forum in Tokyo.]]> DBE Overview(sxi)]]>]]> DBE Overview(pdf)]]>]]> DBE Overview(ppt)]]>]]> DBE Architecture Specification(sxi)]]>]]> DBE Architecture Specification(pdf)]]>]]> DBE Architecture Specification(ppt)]]> Soluta.net 13 September 2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Soluta.net announces the JunoMDA(tm) project: "when design is more important then code". In the recent months- for our internal use- we have been developing an MDA solution for generating php applications from UML models. We have decided to donate this project to the Open Source community: it will be soon hosted in Sourceforge. The JunoMDA(tm) project consists of: 1- an UML profile 2- a PHP AndroMDA Cartridge How does it work? An UML Platform Independent Model of the target application is annotated with the PIM profile and the AndroMDA Cartridge generates an entire and complete php web based application. The generator takes care of creating the tTier, the eTier, the wTier and the uTier: the architectural style adopted is Component Based Development (Herzum and Sims). At the moment the uTier generates HTML and we are planning to make use of a template based presentation technology. Moreover JunoMDA(tm) creates all the infrastructure files, SQL scripts for table creation, configuration files, directories and all the descriptors needed by PHP and mySQL. JunoMDA(TM) generates a ready to be used application not a PHP class model: it is a full features web application. After the engine has terminated, is it readily runnable! The UML Profile enables the generator to properly produce the application. It handles -for example- the relations between business data types, the generation of CRUDEL operations for managers and the proper layout for the uTier. The profile helps the generator to create the correct widgets in the uTier (combo, radio, checkbox, text field or buttons for creating the association). JunoMDA(tm) adopts a regular MDA approach with a proper separation between PIM and PSM; even thought the PSM is not generated at the moment (we create the code instead), we are not using any PSM tag or stereotypes, hence being able to generated a java based application with no changes in the model: "Why code when we can model?" Of course the PHP AndroMDA Cartridge can be replaced by a Java/JSP/HTTP one with a limited effort. We are producing the documentation and a case study, shortly after we will upload it in Sourceforge and send an announce in the ML. Meanwhile, if you have any question do not hesitate to contact us. Soluta.net 09 September2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php Research and the enterprise: knowledge and production for the Information Society The paper "Pervasive Service Architecture for a Digital Business," has been accepted and it will presented at the AICA 2004 conference]]> by P.Ferronato Soluta.net 10 August 2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php We are pleased to announce that Soluta.net is a Qualified Service Provider (QSP) in the OMG]]> Model Driven Architecture (MDA]]>) Fast Start program]]>; we are pleased for being recognized by OMG as a valuable partner in the program. Agile development process applied to Model Driven Architecture, has demonstrated to be an effective approach for software engineering, improving quality, time to market and software reuse. Its value is proving to be valuable in small/medium application as well as in mission critical systems. There are just 26 companies in the world that have been granted this status, we are allowed to provide MDA educational and consulting services on behalf of the OMG: we are the second Italian company that has entered this program. This synergy will enable OMG to provide more quality MDA related services, especially in Italy, and it will give Soluta.net a world while visibility. Soluta.net 07 July 2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php we are very pleased to announce that we have just become Object Management Group (OMG) Members. The OMG is not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications like UML, Corba, MDA, CWM and XMI just to name few. OMG is a vendor-neutral membership-driven organization and have hundreds of members who are working towards developing and refining these standards. We have decided to enter the consortium as Influencing Members. It is out interest to be active members in order to be at the cutting edge of technology and reference standard. Out main interest is in UML, XMI and MDA. We hope be able soon to become Qualified Service Providers (QSP) in the MDA Fast Start program. Such qualification will demonstrate to customers the skill and proficiency we have gained in the Digital Business Ecosystem project.]]> Useful links]]> http://www.omg.org]]>]]> http://www.omg.org/mda]]>]]> http://www.omg.org/faststart]]>]]> http://www.omg.org/uml]]>]]> http://www.digital-ecosystem.org]]> Soluta.net 06 June 2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php P.Ferronato terra' uno speech su: 'Architetture avanzate per l'abilitazione ad un modello di sviluppo Agile'.Viene spiegato come le architetture dei sistemi complessi si possano adattare al modello di sviluppo Agile e come l'approccio contrario possa essere deletereo per un progetto. Le architetture distribuite orientate ai componenti sono adeguate a supportare un modello Agile di sviluppo ma debbono essere adequatamente profilate. Verranno descritti degli anti-pattern architetturali, divisi per categorie, per mettere in luce le criticita' come evidenziate dall'autore in real case history.]]> The program]]>]]> Il depliant]]>]]> The presentation (ppt)]]> (sxi)]]> (pdf)]]> Soluta.net 12 May 2004 http://www.soluta.net/events.php P.Ferronato will present the paper: Pervasive Service Architecture for a Digital Business, co-authored with Thomas Heistracher, Thomas Kurz, Claudius Masuch, Miguel Vidal, Angelo Corallo, Gerard Briscoe, and Paolo Dini. In this paper it is presented ideas and architectural principles upon which we are basing the development of a distributed, open-source infrastructure that, in turn, will support the expression of business models, the dynamic composition of software services, and the optimisation of service chains through automatic self-organising and evolutionary algorithms derived from biology. The target users are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The collection of the infrastructure, the software services, and the SMEs is called a Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) http://wcat04.unex.es]]> Soluta.net 12 May 2004