Tim Bass
09-01-2008 05:58 AM
Kindred spirit Marc Adler*mentions*being a*bit*”turned off” by the*sniping back-and-forth*in the CEP/EP blog-o-sphere.**This was exactly how I felt in early 2006 when*folks were sniping back and forth about SQL standards and*event stream processing (ESP).* A group of vendors had created some stream processing engines and*all were in “power positioning” mode with the acronyms “ESP” and*”CEP”,*hoping to*ride what*they perceived as*a future event processing gravy train.

My goal at that time was to show everyone that there was a very mature (functional) reference architecture with decades of maturity that applies to (complex) event processing, adapted from the JDL model for information fusion.* Kum Bai Ya.



Professor David Luckham did not discuss architecture*in his book, The Power of Events. *Kum Bai Ya.

David’s*research at Stanford, some CEP related,*was funded by DARPA, who also support the JDL information fusion model.* Kum Bai Ya.

TIBCO Software adopted the JDL model (Note: I worked for TIBCO the time.) Kum Bai Ya.

We built a functional reference architecture around this mature model.* Kum Bai Ya.

We did not claim we invented it.* Kum Bai Ya.

We did not patent*the model, only shared it.*Kum Bai Ya.

The model is free and open for everyone to use.* Kum Bai Ya.

The folks in the military and government*totally agree with this model for CEP/EP.* Kum Bai Ya.

Complex*operational problems*are addressed every day with this model. Kum Bai Ya.

Air traffic control used this model for years.* Kum Bai Ya.

Missile defense uses this model to protect us from harm everyday.* Kum Bai Ya.

Intrusion detection and network management now use this model (Note: I*published an ACM paper on*adapting this*model*for cybersecurity*10 years ago). Kum Bai Ya.

Oh, blog-o-sphere.* Kum Bai Ya.



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