Events Defined

This page will be used to help define what events are in context to the various topics discussed on this site.

Events Defined
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A key component existing within nearly every organization regardless of industry, vertical, country or otherwise is the notion of an ‘event’. Some may call this a message, indicator, notification or something similar.

Events simply communicate a message to something. The message communicated can be good, bad or indifferent, true or false, on or off, verbose or terse. The something on the receiving end of an event can be a human, system, or other application, code or similar logic.

Events form the basis for much of what I’m talking about in this blog. They’re the conveyance mechanism of choice. I believe that the creation of events should be greatly simplified so that anyone can publish events from any source at anytime. It should be as simple as sending an email. (see RSSBus posts)

I’ve been fascinated by events since learning about the real-time enterprise movement and meeting Vivek Ranadive. His first book “The Power of Now” really spoke to me on the power of events. I look forward to reading his next book “The Power to Predict” which I’m sure will be as good as his first book.

Complex Event Processing

Event Processing Links at ComplexEvents a MUST READ!
a href=”http://www.eventstreamprocessing.com”>Event Stream Processing
Article: Complex Event Processing: Bringing BPM into the Real World
Complex Event Processing Blog
IBM/Tivoli Common Event Infrastructure (CEI)

Common Event Format
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IBM Common Base Event Format v1.0.1
BMC Software Common Event Format v2.1.0

Blogs/Forums
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http://jroller.com/page/hgilde
http://www.rulecore.com/espblog/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CEP-Interest/
http://jroller.com/page/sudeepg

Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
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Event Driven Architecture (EDA) And its relationship with SOA & BPM DRAFT RFI

Business State Machine
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http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wbit.help.ae.ui.doc/topics/cundstat.html

Must Read by Brenda Michelson on the Event-Driven Architecture.

Tools
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Open Source Event Stream Processor: Esper