I’ve been working with Amdoc’s Clarify CRM a lot lately. I’ll be documenting some of the pitfalls I stumbled upon here.

Hopefully, somebody will find these usefull in avoiding doing the same thing.

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After giving it some thought, I decided to release several of my pet projects as creative commons licensed open source.

In the first phase I’ll be releasing Foresight (a Java remote and embeddable database) as well as Schmoo (a mobile access and integration platform).

I’d particularly like to put stress on Schmoo on which I’ve been working for the last five years, give or take a few months. It features SMS and MMS centre connectivity via various (extendable and customizable) protocols such as SMPP, MM7 and others. Basically it ties into a business process engine and is used to drive premium SMS and MMS mobile services of the user’s choosing, such as chatting systems, parking billing, wallpaper and ringtone delivery services… It also features a full set of functionality to allow a Schmoo gateway to act as a core component for SMS/MMS bulk reselling.

Both of these products are a bit dusty and rough around the edges. Try them out and don’t hesitate to get in contact with me if you like them or have questions!

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Since all the losers on the TIBCO-L mailing list can’t seem to grasp some simple things, such as creating a TIBCO BusinessWorks’ palette with custom activities, I’ve decided to spend some time over the weekend and create a detailed step-by-step guide for doing this. It should be up on Monday afternoon.

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Suppose you have a string composed of messages which are fixed in length. However, you do not know for certain how many messages there are in the string. You need to take this string and unpack it into a list of repeating elements where each element represents one message.

How do you do this? BusinessWorks’ built in Parse activities will not help you because you do not know in advance how many messages there are in the package.

Let’s do it! Read on »

I’ve read a lot about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). I’m still not clear on some of the concepts that should be followed if one wishes to say that they are doing SOA. In this series of articles I aim to explain what SOA is all about and then moving on to some concrete examples of how working with SOA baffles me.

To put it short, SOA is a design approach which is aimed at achieving loose coupling between interacting software components. There are two important design limitations which are imposed:

• employing a set of transparent interfaces acceptable for all of the components
• using these interfaces to transport minimal and descriptive messages described by an extensable schema

But what exactly does this mean and how does it work in real life?

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Read on »