I figured I would analyze yet another twisted perspective held by folks in the insular thinking ECM domain...
Brian Huff responded to several questions I asked awhile back and I truly hope that others within the world of ECM don't think this way.
Do you really want to allow average users to design project spaces with ACLs on the fly?
I still have to figure out why folks in the ECM world are the only ones who think they have unique performance requirements? I wonder if Brian understands that other Oracle products have externalized AuthZ via XACML and aren't running into performance issues. Do folks in Oracle actually talk to each other? Ignoring this for a moment, products such as BEA WebLogic Portal also make far more AuthZ decisions than any ECM system is likely do ever do and it has no problems scaling. If the issue is lack of knowledge within the ECM domain related to security, then simply say so, but don't speculate that
performance will suffer like the dickens as this simply isn't true.
SOAP versus REST? These days, I say nuts to them both. I'm more in favor of building service-oriented architectures with JSON web services. Ditch the entire SOAP stack, and go back to basics
It is now becoming clearer that folks at Stellent are pretty insular in their thought patterns. I wonder if they understand that SOA is all about disparate technologies being able to participate in a business transaction. Have you ever been within a large enterprise? Ever heard of those big boxes called mainframes? Have you ever considered how many SOAs still depend on the mainframe to participate as a first-class citizen? Maybe you could tell me how a mainframe could participate in JSON? I can tell you how it can participate with SOA and REST. The mainframe is one example, but I suspect you know that more exist.
If I ever got behind an ECM standard, it would have to be a JSON-based web service. Simple, open, cross-platform, extensible, flexible, discoverable, mashup-ready. I would accept nothing less.
What would it take for you to move away from
if and towards figuring out how to actually step up and lead the creation of one. Are you waiting for folks over at Documentum or Alfresco to take the lead?
I have a seething hatred for 90% of software standards and I'm unfortunately gifted at intimidating people.
I suspect that for every person you have ran across that hates software standards, I can identify
ten who have vendors who don't implement standards.
So, the last question: where the heck are the ECM patterns? Answer: in my noodle. I got 'em rattling around in my brain like a dried pea in an empty tuna can.
What would you think about the idea of writing an ECM patterns book together? Maybe we could get
Laurence Hart,
Craig Randall and
Alan Pelz-Sharpe to be co-authors...
# posted by James McGovern @ 3:30 PM
