Over the last week I have been working on enhancing the Salesforce BizComp to handle the return from a query that involves JOINS.  Unlike an RDBMS, Salesforce does not allow JOINS on between any two objects, they must have a pre-established relationship.  Relationships in Salesforce are heirarchical, so there is always a parent which can have many children, but the children only have one

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I just got back from Mulecon 2008, thanks to the Mulesource guys for hosting a great event and for answering all of the questions thrown their way over the 2 day period.   At XAware we don't use muleESB for our product but it is an environment we would like to add value to, thus was my mission, to better understand that environment and to get to know what people are trying to ac

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Yesterday I attended the first day of TheServerSide Java Symposium (TSSJS). The morning started with the keynote about why the near future will be about languages, mostly about Domain Specific Language (DSL) implemented in a dynamic (ruby, groovy, etc.) language layer sitting on top of your stable language like Java. The first breakout session I attended was on performance

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GA always seems like a huge formal step, it is an event that seems to take on a life of its own. Having recently moved from proprietary software to open-source, we are still trying to grapple with all that it means to be truly open-source and promoting the release to GA is one of those issues we were discussing in our Beta2 release meeting.

We have a good process to move software from re

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Whether you've just spent a couple of hours writing an entire ACORD bizview doing all of the mappings or you've spent a couple of minutes integrating 5 different data sources into one xml view, troubleshooting why it doesn't work exactly how you planned it to can be daunting. The problem may be in a misplaced xml tag, data you didn't plan on, or a changing data source. The sol

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