Clear Methods

Business Modeling and Outside-In SOA

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ October 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Anybody who has ever attempted to teach computer programming to a room full of tech novices knows that some people easily get it, while others simply don’t. There’s something about the basic “do this, make a decision, then do that” execution flow of any program that is comes naturally to …

Clear Methods’ Language Gets Cool Greeting

By admin ⋅ July 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

“Water is a full-featured object-oriented programming language, expressed in XML. It does more than Java does,” says Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with Zap Think, an XML-oriented research group. It was designed to include security measures in the code so that it can move safely over the network. Water has built-in restrictions that prohibit it from calling files off a user’s hard drive or changing the system software where it resides, he adds. Because it uses XML syntax, “it’s not learning a new language for seasoned developers. They’re already conversant in with XML,” Bloomberg notes.

Clear Methods Airs Latest Steam Engine

By admin ⋅ July 16, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst of XML and Web services research firm ZapThink, said products like Steam and languages like Water could gain traction among major vendors like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems or IBM because Web services deployment is still very nascent.
However, his colleague, ZapThink senior analyst Jason Bloomberg, isn’t so sure folks are buying into the allure of Water just yet. He acknowledged the new features were nice, but nothing earth-shattering.

Water veut inverser le courant du développement XML

By admin ⋅ May 22, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

L’ambition de Water est de développer des applications XML – en particulier des services applicatifs distribués – en recourant à un seul langage. Une idée saluée par Jason Bloomberg, consultant au cabinet Zapthink : « Toutes les couches – données, traitement, présentation – sont écrites en XML. D’où une courbe d’apprentissage réduite. » Mais l’envol de Water est conditionné à son accueil auprès des développeurs. S’ils le plébiscitent, Water fera couler beaucoup d’encre.

Une autre vision du développement XML

By admin ⋅ May 16, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

L’ambition de Water est de développer des applications XML en particulier des services applicatifs distribués en recourant à un seul langage. Une idée saluée par Jason Bloomberg, consultant au cabinet Zapthink : « Toutes les couches données, traitement, présentation sont écrites en XML D’où une courbe d’apprentissage réduite.» Mais l’envol de Water est conditionné à son accueil auprès des développeurs. S’ils le plébiscitent, Water fera couler beaucoup d’encre.

Startup Writes Language to Replace Java, .NET

By admin ⋅ May 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

ZapThink.com [sic] Senior Analyst Jason Bloomberg said Clear Methods’ approach is an interesting one, albeit a challenge in a market where so many niche players are trying to develop Web services products that aim to complement or compete with software one of the giant vendors, such as Microsoft or IBM, don’t have.

“Programmers can do object-oriented programming, middle tier programming, and presentation-layer programming, all with the same language, and it’s all XML,” Bloomberg said. “They have a solid approach to security and as you would expect, Web Services are a no-brainer.”

ZapThink Senior Analyst Ronald Schmelzer agreed there are ways in which large companies can’t take advantage of XML as small companies can, “and I think that’s the story here. But that’s the typical story for startups — there’s always opportunity to do things in a way that large vendors can’t due to their size and flexibility.”

SOA Tools and Best Practices

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ February 20, 2003 ⋅ One comment

From its inception through 2002, the primary application for Web Services in the enterprise was to simplify point-to-point integration between systems, thereby reducing the cost of integration. This application of Web Services, however, only scratches the surface of the true potential of Web Services — enabling companies to build agile business processes and IT systems that can respond to change through the use of loosely coupled, standards-based Service-oriented architectures.

The business value of such architectures in terms of the business agility they provide is substantial, but as of early 2003, only a few early adopter enterprises have built such architectures, partly because few tools for building Service-oriented architectures are available on the market, and furthermore, there is little understanding of the best practices companies should follow to build such architectures. This report seeks to clarify the requirements for realizing the value of Web Services by providing a set of emerging best practices as well as an analysis of the tools that are currently available for building Service-oriented architectures.

XML: Just Add Water

By admin ⋅ January 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, in Cambridge, agreed. “Water is original and exciting. It just makes a lot of sense to use XML to write all your code in. If all developers knew Water, then everybody could write code for every tier–Web pages, middleware, Web services, whatever–all in XML. Goodbye, JavaScript, [JavaServer Pages], C#, Java, VB .Net.”

Bloomberg said the only problem is developer support. “For Clear Methods and their Steam product to be successful, Water has to take hold in the developer community, and that is an enormous challenge. Unfortunately, much as I like them and their ideas, there’s a real chance that Water will fall in the category of Great Ideas that Don’t Succeed.”

Service-Oriented Management

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ November 19, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

Service-Oriented Management Technology Landscape

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ November 19, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Web Services management applications provide software that helps companies manage the systems and applications that underlie their Web Services implementations. The Web Services management products on the market today offer functionality in five basic categories: system management, lifecycle management, business management, security management, and the most important, Service-Oriented Architecture enablement.

The latter category is especially important because many Web Services management products provide the critical infrastructure necessary for companies to take their fine-grained, atomic Web Services and other data sources and encapsulate and compose them into coarse-grained business Services that make up a Service-Oriented Architecture. Such architectures offer far more long-term business value than the point-to-point applications of Web Services common today.

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