eBizQ 04/24/2008
Event-driven applications that are constructed as compositions of Web applications offer significant benefits. Just as mashups compose Web services to create added value, so too can compositions of event-driven applications create added value.
This article first reviews concepts about event driven applications, sense & respond systems, and presents metrics for evaluating and comparing such systems; then offers a few examples of federated Web applications; and finally gives two examples of Business Application Monitoring (BAM) dashboards dealing with politics and with startup companies.