Making EDA programming simple with JeeWiz

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is becoming more popular these days, as the drive for loosely coupled and scalable architecture forces us to break our systems into components and integrate them through some sort of workflow.  Having said that, thinking in asynchronous events is not a trivial concept to deal with, seeing as we used to thinking and programming in a synchronous manner.

Space-Based Architecture lends itself very nicely to EDA, because it provides a means to register for events, manage the state of events and trigger different business logic elements based on state changes.
This makes the programming of EDA relatively simple compared with some of the other options, such as messaging and database systems. The following diagram shows how a typical EDA would look like in a Space-Based world - you can read the full description here.

While Space-Based Architecture makes EDA relatively simple compared with alternatives it can be made even simpler using advanced code generation tools that follows the Model Driven Development pattern.

JeeWiz is one of the leading products in that space: 

"The goal of JeeWiz is to automate software development as much as possible. JeeWiz builds all the code, configuration and build jobs that can be derived from high-level models of a system, achieving unprecedented levels of automation."

Matthew Fowler, Founder and CEO, New Technology/Enterprise Ltd. gave a presentation in our latest London Event introducing GigaSystemBuilder using JeeWiz which enables a model-driven development with GigaSpaces. JeeWiz is an Eclipse-based tool that makes it easy to create an entire project fairly easy. The product itself is highly customized. Users can use the same model to build their own templates, and in this way automate a large part of their development. The following diagram taken from Matthew's presentation, shows how a typical development process would look like with JeeWiz.

Matthew's presentation contains more details about the specific integration with GigaSpaces and what the generated code would look like -- I would highly recommend looking into it. The presentation is available online here. I was also happy to see that the GigaSpacesBuilder Eclipse-plugin is now available for download here. It comes with full documentation and an easy guide to get you through the first steps.

Well done Mathew and the JeeWiz team!