Sunday, December 23, 2007

Messaging

Messaging is hip and trendy these days. It's central to application integration and distributed computing, and may represent a way forward in tackling concurrency (see “communicating sequential processes”). Here are a couple messaging resources:

Mule may be the future of the Gaggle. The Gaggle is a framework for integrating bioinformatics software and databases on which I've done some work. Gaggle currently is implemented on Java RMI. It really needs to move to a more language-neutral messaging protocol. A messaging approach should also make it easier for Gaggle to interoperate with web-service based systems like bioMoby and Taverna.

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