Kuali Rice: Software development simplified
23 August 2008The other day I was introduced to Kuali Rice. I haven’t actually had a chance to touch it yet myself, so I can only report on what I have seen, but I have to say that, so far at least, I really like it. According to their web site:
The Kuali Rice effort provides an enterprise class middleware suite of integrated products that allows both Kuali and non-Kuali applications to be built in an agile fashion, such that developers are able to react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner, so that they can produce high quality business applications.
Rice is built with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts in mind. Specifically, end developers are able to build robust systems with common enterprise workflow functionality, customizable and configurable user interfaces with a clean and universal look and feel, and general notification features to allow for a consolidated list of work “action items”. All of this adds up to a re-usable development framework that encourages a simplified approach to developing true business functionality as modular applications.
Several years ago I took a look at ServiceMix, which if I remember right, was not an Apache project at the time. It contains some of the same components, and has a picture that looks eerily similar to the one on the Kuali Rice page, but the focus of the ServiceMix project is actually a little narrower:
Apache ServiceMix is an open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that combines the functionality of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to create an agile, enterprise ESB.
Apache ServiceMix is an open source distributed ESB built from the ground up on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache license. The goal of JBI is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor independent way, allowing users and vendors to plug and play.
I always wanted to play around with ServiceMix, but never really got the chance. I imagine that the same will be true of Kuali Rice, as well. Still, it looks interesting and who knows — maybe one day!
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