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A call to arms at JBoss World
Dennis Callaghan, June 15, 2006 @ 7:38 pm ETI stuck around JBoss World in Las Vegas late enough to catch an interesting presentation as the conference was wrapping up this afternoon on how the city of Loma Linda, Calif. has wired itself with a high-speed fiber optics network. Now it’s just looking for ideas for how to take advantage of this network. Think of application services like real-time traffic (as in vehicles, not Internet) monitoring, digital communications and entertainment, collaboration, even online voting.
The city will build such services on the JBoss JEMS middleware platform and is looking to the open source community to generate ideas for and build these services that can be deployed on the high speed network. The presentation was appropriately called a “City-wide ESB.” Check out the Loma Linda Connected Community Program Website to read about what the Inland Empire city has done and get contact info for the city’s IS director, W. James Hettrick. Perhaps at next year’s JBoss World, we’ll see some examples of services the open source community has created for this very wired city.
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