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Jonathan Maberry is a household name. Who you ask? When it comes to writing, Jonathan is a Proteus whom you may never have heard of. He is an award-winning prolific author of hundreds of articles, short stories, non-fiction books, comics and novels. Horror readers know his zombie works and the first book in his Joe Ledger Thriller Series, Patient Zero, also involves zombies. It crossed genres and has thrust him to the forefront of an elite group of current writers who have every book anxiously anticipated by rabid horror and thriller fans alike. He is capable of seamlessly changing subjects, styles and genres with the flick of a pen. But he is just beginning to see his due when it comes to film entertainment.
Why after all these years and writings is he finally being recognized by the entertainment establishment? How does it feel when you finally get your shot at the big payoff? What he really has to share is his upbeat attitude and optimistic outlook, which is admittedly easier to maintain when you embody so much talent.
"The option (for Patient Zero) grew out of the growing interest in zombies for TV," Maberry said. "Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead had just been optioned by Gale Anne Hurd and Frank Darabont. The second book in the series, The Dragon Factory, wasn't out yet, and they didn't know that there were no zombies in the rest of the series."
Although Jonathan feels like an old soul to the horror reader due to his magnificent outpouring of written works, the truth is his tenure in the fiction field is relatively young.
"I'm still relatively new in the game. Although I was a magazine feature writer for over twenty-five years I broke onto the fiction scene in 2006. And I'm in genres where there is a lot of very talented competition. I look at guys who have been around for decades and see that sometimes they've never been optioned, or if they have been optioned, it hasn't always resulted in a film or show. I don't consider myself to be so fantastic that Hollywood should drop everything and focus only on me. That said, we've had a fair amount of interest in various projects. Quite a few times we've turned down option offers from producers who we felt weren't right for the material. My literary agent, Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger, Inc. and my film agent Matt Snyder of CAA, are looking for the right deal – not just any deal. So, that takes a bit of time. Right now we have very, very strong interest in the Rot & Ruin books and we're highly optimistic about them being optioned soon."
His first taste of option has happened, and the roller coaster of anticipation began and then ultimately died. What didn't die was Jonathan's drive. More product is coming out and more chances to grab at the golden ring.
"There are always highs and lows in the process, no matter how much you know about the realities. It's like Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football. You hear about something new - a new player in the mix, a script being commissioned, the appearance of your show on a development short-list, and you're suddenly ten feet tall and the world's your oyster. Then something happens to cut you down to size. The thing with me is, my natural bent is toward optimism. I'll probably always keep charging at that football, hoping that this time Lucy will let me kick it.
"I'm a film nut and I grew up on comics, so all of my stuff tends to be visual. I storyboard my novels the way films are laid out. My new book, Dead of Night, was entirely storyboarded and even plotted out as a movie. I wrote the book based on my own film treatment. It helps me to visualize the characters, block the scenes, and get inside the pyrotechnics of the action if I can see it on the movie screen in my head. Writing comic books has helped this process considerably."
He already had a cinematic writing style but still, getting that shot at the option has to have an effect on a person's approach to their ink-slinging.
"In 2010, I made it onto the New York Times bestseller list for the first time. That changes one's career path quite a bit. It puts you squarely on the radar of producers and other folks. I've also significantly increased my social media footprint and that's useful, too. Plus I was on a massive book tour this year (somehow he missed Dark Delicacies) and while on the road I've made some new friends who are well-connected in Hollywood. We'll see if any of that does the trick.
"I want to have a movie or TV show based on my stuff, but it isn't why I write. I love writing novels and short stories, and I love interacting with readers. However, at heart I'm a storyteller, so film/TV opens another creative door for me, and that's always exciting."
So at this point in the game, what has been the most surprising aspect of the Hollywood game?
"I've been warned by so many people that the whole Hollywood crowd is vain, shallow and stand-offish. But...so far that hasn't been my experience at all. I've met a number of folks – actors, screenwriters, directors – and they're pretty cool folks: well-read, smart, insightful and creative. So far, that's my picture of Hollywood."
As usual we like to end the column with words of advice. Can you add anything to help us through this mad world of optioning?
"The most important thing for any writer flying near the Hollywood flame to know is this: be patient. Don't expect it all to happen right away, don't bet the farm on anything. Not until you see your name on the screen."
Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. He's the author of many novels including Assassin's Code, Dead of Night, Patient Zero and Flesh & Bone. His nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to zombie pop-culture. Since 1978 he has sold more than 1200 magazine feature articles, 3000 columns, two plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, poetry, and textbooks. He founded the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founded The Liars Club; and is a frequent keynote speaker and guest of honor at major writers and genre conferences. Jonathan lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his wife, Sara and their son, Sam. Visit him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com and on Twitter (@jonathanmaberry) and Facebook.
Del Howison is a journalist, writer and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. He is also the co-founder and owner of Dark Delicacies "The Home of Horror" in Burbank, CA. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you have any information on the optioning of horror books he would love to hear from you.

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This isn't a Polk question per se but I've gotten so much great help from this forum that I thought I'd try here before signing in somewhere else...
I recapped an old old pair of Sony speakers (SS-580) for a neighbor not long ago - these are little 3-ways in nice wood cabinets - look like mini KLH or ARs of the late 1960s. When I got them they had no sound coming from the tweeters. After replacing the caps in both crossovers (one 1uf and one 2uf), they both have great soaring high notes but almost no bass - low notes are completely lost.
Now these are not heavy duty speakers or woofers, but I do seem to remember that they reached at least a little bit lower before. Could the recap have changed the crossover values? I used the same value capacitors. And both speakers sound the same so I didn't short anything out.
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Get out your schooner and knee-high socks because Fort Belvoir's 17th Annual Oktoberfest is back this week!
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The Brew Room, a cafe for the over-65s is to be held at Addingham Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Addingham, every third Friday of the month from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
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|DB2's new 'Viper' release offers more SAP support
Up to 60% of SAP customers have deployed SAP applications on Oracle databases, according to Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, MA. Because large enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are usually chosen to operate with highly scalable, enterprise-performance workhorse databases like Oracle, it isn't surprising that other database vendors are trying to make a dent in Oracle's SAP market share.
IBM Corp.'s new DB2 release (code-named "Viper"), which was introduced in the summer of 2006, has integrated features for SAP. One of the more important features of Viper is that it includes an XML storage engine in addition to a relational storage engine. Philip Howard, research director, data at Bloor Research in the U.K., says "... performance comparisons by early adopters of Viper indicate performance gains on queries of 100 times or more, development benefits of between four and 16 times ... the ability to add fields to a schema in a matter of minutes as opposed to days."
Howard says that in addition to the XML storage engine, the new release of Viper will include new data compression capabilities such as row compression. IBM believes its compression techniques will result in savings of approximately 35% to 80%. Because there are special SAP facilities included with the new Viper release, the savings could be on the higher end.
Of course, other database vendors contend that their databases are best suited for the midtier market. In an Accenture white paper called "Coming of Age: SAP on Microsoft," the claim is made that companies can reap a huge cost benefit by using SQL Server instead of other databases (such as Oracle and DB2) that are traditionally viewed as the back-end databases of choice for ERP systems. By using commodity, Intel-based servers running Windows and SQL Server, Accenture claims some companies can potentially save 20% to 70% on hardware costs. In fact, Accenture states that "at certain clients, we have identified up to 70% savings on database and operating system licensing and administration costs." It's also interesting to note that Accenture claims that the top shipping platform for SAP over the past three years has been Windows, and not a Unix-based operating system.
Protecting a database from data corruption requires an almost Einstein-like ability to manipulate time. Once a database has been corrupted, it must be reset to an earlier point in time. Like a storage array that can take a snapshot, or a file system that can journal every change, most database applications journal every transaction through a group of redo logs and archives. While each database brand has a unique method for achieving this goal, in general, every transaction is logged so that it can be reapplied or removed if required (see "DB2's new 'Viper' release offers more SAP support"). Marry this capability to the cloning capability in most storage arrays, and you have a highly available and highly recoverable application.
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The steps to accomplish a point-in-time recovery are easy to document, but the execution of the task within a functioning data center can be a challenge. The following is the basic sequence of events:
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Stop all updates to the database. "Stop" may be too strong a word to use when describing Step one. If we truly stop all updates, then end users see the ERP application as unavailable and that's typically not acceptable. Most databases have the ability to suspend updates to the primary table space--also referred to as putting the database in backup mode. During this time, the updates to the primary tablespace are suspended and the database application starts to create a secondary journal of updates that will be reapplied once the suspended mode is complete.
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Blame game gets intense at federal cuts draw nearBy JACKIE CALMES
The New York Times | February 24,2013AP File Photos
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, and President Barack Obama are the lightning rods for their respective parties as massive cuts in federal programs draw closer.WASHINGTON First the White House and Congress created a potential fiscal crisis, agreeing more than a year ago to once-unthinkable governmentwide spending cuts in 2013 unless the two parties agreed to alternative ways to reduce budget deficits.
Now that those cuts are imminent because compromise is not they have created one of Washingtons odder blame games over just whose bad idea this was.
The battle lines over cuts that are scheduled to begin Friday, known in budget parlance as sequestration, were evident Saturday in President Barack Obamas weekly address and the Republican response, by Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota.
The idea for sequestration did come from the White House, as news accounts made clear at the time Jacob J. Lew, then Obamas budget director and now his nominee for Treasury secretary, was the main proponent.
Lew, who was a senior adviser to the House speaker in the 1980s, lifted language from a 1985 law he helped negotiate, the Gramm-Rudman law. It was conceived by two Republican senators to be a sword of Damocles, as they said at the time, one that hung over the two parties, poised to strike unless they compromised on deficit reduction.
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Here's my issue. Low hiss for all speakers when the system turns on and nothing is playing. I assume this is from using the line level instead of all RCA connections. I can live with this. My fade and balance controls all work except for the front right. If I fade all the way front and balance on the way right sound comes from all speakers! This does not happen on any other speakers when faded to them. Really strange, I've never seen this happen. Verified by multiple people that my system should be working as designed and I've stumped all of them with this issue. I went to the dealership and tried other Sportages and all of them work fine so it's not a stock HU thing.
So yeah, the RCA fronts do function as an output though Polk CS was unsure and th manual says only the 880 has outputs. Yes I've tried unplugging the rca's to see if that was causing the fade/balance. It was not. My next test will be moving speakers from the output terminals and determine if it follows a specific channel/wire. Wanted to pose the question here and see if anyone has ever experienced this?


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Nicholas Hoult stars in Bryan Singer's Jack The Giant Slayer. And here's the new trailer for it...
Warner Bros has stuck its foot down on the promotional push for Bryan Singer's upcoming Jack The Giant Slayer, presumably keen to make its mark before Disney starts the heavy promo work for Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great And Powerful. Both films do seem to be targeting a similar audience, after all.
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777 VACATIONS - BRIAN BOLTON4816 Hwy 95, PARKER, Arizona United States of America
777 VACATIONS - BRIAN BOLTON DBA HOME SWEET HOME VACATIONS UNETHICAL PRACTICE OF RENTING AN UNINHABITABLE PROPERTY. PARKER, Arizona
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We are 3 families, a total of 10 adults and 1 baby (my son at 8 months). We arrived and everything was very small and totally cramped. OK - no big deal. My husband and I rented out (for an additional expense) the back room since we had the baby and needed a quiet area. They had set up an air mattress which we were not told about, instead of the pull out bed that was listed on the site. The sofa bed was still in the room so it just made the space even that tighter. I don't even want to know why the sofa bed was no longer a sleep option. Air mattress was horrible. We slept crappy for the 4 nights we stayed. This back room also boasted a full kitchen. It looked like it was put together from a close out showroom (Retail signage on the sink/dishwasher). No refrigerator so I couldn't keep my son's foods in with me.
The major complaint is the pest infestation and which made us captors in the trailer itself. There are two decks advertised ... and they look beautiful. A top sun deck with chairs and umbrellas. And a lower deck that has a pool and ping pong table. When we arrived, everything was dusty and unkempt. We spent $4k for the week so I would have expected some prep in getting the property ready, but nothing. Myself and 3 other people worked on the bottom deck and immediately you could tell there was an infestation. Bugs everywhere! Disgusting. I thought Okay, let's just clean this up so that we can enjoy during our stay. We brought down cleansers and towels and started wiping down the games and spaces. Dead bugs everywhere. Took us about an hour and was just disgusting. After though, I realized that the bugs just kept coming back. So then I thought, okay maybe the river is just having a higher degree of bugs this year. Wrote it off and the day/night was done. We could not be outside at all.
The next day we traveled up and down the river. I noticed no bugs like at our rental property. When we got back to the property, I spoke to the neighbors (also renters). Again, no bug problem there. Walked over to the other neighbor. That property was vacant but I inspected their decks and dock and again, no bug issue at all. Apparently the bug infestation is limited to this property only.
We spent $4k for the 5 nights, 4 days. We choose to only stay 4 since the bugs were simply intolerable. Here is a summary of the property:
- PEST INFESTATION. Decks are completely uninhabitable. It is why we rented and justified the cost.
- Refrigerator never cooled anything. We adjusted the settings to the highest but nothing was kept cold. We had to use our coolers and get ice every 2 days.
- Broken Dining Table Chairs. They look OK, until you set in them. Someone just "put them together" but the fall apart with weight (I weigh 115 lbs).
- Light Fixture in Living Room. Do not work.
- Bathrooms. They all have clogged drains. So you end up with residue marks on side of tubs.
- No actual bed as advertised. You get an air mattress.
- Hodge podge kitchen. Parts were pulled from a showroom and installed. No refrigerator yields the kitchen unusable.
- Clogged drain in tub again.
- They have a floating pontoon dock. No one will deliver a pontoon boat to this property (locals know this property well). We had to go out and meet them to pick up a boat and then understood what they meant. The floating dock is not safe.
- The ramp into the water is very narrow. Brian claims its all up to code, but barely.
Brian's handling was extremely poor. Instead of helping and trying to mitigate situation, he actually accused us of not being intelligent enough to enjoy the property. They also have pictures of their grand daugther in the advertisement for this property. Totally unethical as there is no way this property is safe or enjoyable for kids. I kept my son indoors simply due to the pest infestation.
We paid top dollar for this property and we made the best of our week there. But this guy is a total scam. The posting from 2011 is accurate although it seems the AC has now been fixed as we had no problems with that. RENTER BEWARE. Stay clear of this property and specifically with Brian and his 777 vacations dba Home Sweet Home Vacations businesses.
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Imagine you took the steaming cup of coffee that was offered in that scene. You were being primed to feel more warmly about the person who gave it to you. Those two other actions nudged you into liking that person even more. And it works. Subconsciously – unless you discover how sensory cues affect your feelings and judgment. Moving the bag is viewed as favor that evokes the instinct to reciprocate, even if you are not consciously aware of that feeling. And the setting for your important meeting can help or hinder you. Many kinds of sensory cues subliminally influence how we feel about ourselves and about others. Powerful people can be primed, for example, to feel more entitled to get whatever they want.
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Arts Council hosts JAM Program
The Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) Program began in Alleghany County 11 years ago.
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The idea has spread around the region. Today there are 15-plus programs (see http://www.jaminfo.org for more).
The Watauga JAM program started five years ago, and it is a program of the Watauga County Arts Council, featuring weekly lessons at the Jones House Cultural and Community Center.
Students from second through 12th grade meet for lessons on Thursday afternoons and evenings for group lessons with some of the finest local traditional players. Instructors for the 2011-12 JAM program include Cecil Gurganus, Randy and Deborah Jean Sheets, Amanda Spencer and Jeff Moretz.
Classes will be offered for fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin and will meet at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30 p.m., depending on the instrument and playing level. Class sizes are between four and eight students.
The program is supported through a grant from the N.C. Arts Council and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. This support, in addition to local donations and fundraising efforts, allow the Watauga Arts Council to offer the classes at a reasonable rate.
Enrollment for the program is $100 per student, which includes about 25 lessons, performance opportunities, guest performers, a lending library of CDs and other perks. Instruments are available for rent for the duration of the program for $25.
Because the program has continued annually, it is already more than half full with returning students, but there are still spaces for all of the instruments and playing levels, and any second- through 12th-grade student is invited to contact the arts council about enrollment.
Program organizers are also discussing the possibility of expanding the program into other areas of the county, perhaps at a school or community center.
Also, in addition to the lessons offered at the Jones House, Deborah Jean Sheets has an after-school club for students interested in playing mountain music. Participating students play more as a band, instead of individual instrument lessons. In fact, Sheets' after-school club resulted in a band last year, High Strung, which already had numerous performance opportunities.
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In Green Bay last weekend, fans had to wait in long lines to get into the game.
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The emotional and narrative cement of the late MTV series Run's House came at the end of each episode, when New Jersey den-father Reverend Run texted and/or tweeted contemplative missives to his support system from his bathtub. Seems like Rev's bath texts were prescient, and Run the Younger has taken note. Second-youngest son, Diggy, is among a sizeable group of rappers who've been long-embraced twitter's substantially expanded audience.
Last night, XXL revealed its annual list of "next" rappers to the internet. The 2011 list includes Run's second-youngest son Diggy and a lot of other rappers who have already long been embraced by the sizable twitter audience that's substantially expanded since the Rev's pre-smart phone tub sessions. They include former FADER cover stars Lil B and Yelawolf, our favorite teen to love and hate YG (shout out Ty$!) plus Meek Mill, Big K.R.I.T., Cyhi Da Prynce, Lil Twist, Fred The Godson, Mac Miller and Kendrick Lamar. It's likely you already know about these dudes if you're a blog reader—they come from all parts of the country and are supported by both labels and their own internet savvy. But where are the ladies? At a moment when everyone in the country may have some Nicki-karaoke practice, are there no female MC's, young or old, quality enough to be deemed rap's "next," or perhaps, more appropriately, "now"?
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STRONGSVILLE, OHIO — KICK – Veronica, 88, Strongsville, Ohio, formerly of Summerhill, died Nov. 27, 2012, at Hospice Service of Southwest General Health Center, Strongsville. Born Aug. 15, 1924, in Benscreek, daughter of Michael and Theresa (Hlavaty) Dzurenko. Preceded in death by parents; husband, Edward Kick, who died June 9, 1978; infant son, Thomas E. Kick; sisters, Mary Yingling, Ann Peters and Margaret Byler; brothers, John and Michael; and son-in-law, James Shandor. Survived by daughter, Judy Shandor, Strongsville, Ohio; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Sharon) Shandor, Brunswick, Ohio; and U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Gregory (Jaime) Shandor, Abilene, Texas; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Rita (Art) Coleman, Tennessee; Theresa Shandor, Michigan; and Joanie (Charles) Plishka, New Germany; and brother, Frank (Joann), Ohio; also numerous nieces and nephews. Vern was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Summerhill, and their Altar & Rosary Society. She enjoyed her career as an Avon representative for more than 40 years. Friends received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Charles O. Dimond Funeral Home Inc., South Fork, where the Rosary will be prayed at 3 p.m. Friday, followed by vigil for the deceased. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, by Father Leon Hont, OSB. Committal, St. Mary's Cemetery, New Germany. (www.dimondfuneralhome.com)


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Whether towns such as Los Gatos can ban medical marijuana dispensaries will be the topic of a high-stakes court hearing.
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether communities can prohibit these marijuana facilities in light of the 1996 voter-approved law legalizing pot for medicinal uses in California.
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Did the Marxist Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Plagiarize a White Nationalist Magazine?
It certainly looks that way. The other night I was reading my galley copy of Adam Kirsch's forthcoming essay collection, Rocket and Lightship. It's full of good stuff, but the best piece in it is about the Slovenian Marxist gadfly Slavoj Zizek. Zizek is a strange character: a social democratic dissident turned unapolegtic Leninist; a pop-culture loving obscurantist; a millionaire philosopher. He is also, Kirsch intimates, without quite saying as much, an anti-Semite.


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Based in Washington, D.C., the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 165,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide, and operates under the mission of advancing the creation, communication, and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives. In addition to being a membership organization for academics, practitioners, and psychology students, the APA publishes books and academic journals and fills an important public service role of educating the general public. "Our academic publishing area includes about 70 peer-reviewed journals, 60 books a year, and the PsycINFO database, which is like the National Library of Medicine's Medline for psychology, and contains three million records," explained Beverly Jamison, senior director of IT, architecture, and publishing solutions at the American Psychological Association. "In addition to the database, we provide a platform that distributes information to our members and the public and to university libraries that distribute our academic publishing products. Academic publishing is a key part of our business, delivering approximately 70 percent of our annual revenue, so availability is critical."
While the APA's flagship website, APA.org, is one of the primary means of communication and knowledge distribution within the APA community, an internal audit revealed that APA's web presence was not achieving its full potential. Previously, the web presence consisted of a series of non-cohesive web properties. The properties were built on a homegrown content management and e-commerce system that was more than 10 years old and integrated many diverse legacy technologies.
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A long-time open source proponent, the APA has been using a variety of open source solutions since the earliest days of the Internet.
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After using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a few years, the APA embarked on a project to integrate its disparate systems and web architecture.
"Like many organizations, the approach to integration was handled three different ways--by the public website, the association, and the academic publishing unit ," said Jamison. "When it came time to integrate the member services, the academic communication services, and e-commerce, we needed to address the challenge of integrating siloed pieces of software with legacy systems. The only solution that enabled us to keep the legacy systems while decreasing dependence on the deprecation, was to create synchronization. We needed a robust, web-facing system with e-commerce and registration functionality, as well as a member-access only section."
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Before selecting JBoss Enterprise Middleware, the APA embarked on a broad competitive evaluation in conjunction with its website redesign project. As part of that project, the APA evaluated identity management and e-commerce solutions, and the tools they would use for the integration. The APA needed a new solution to support high availability of applications and platforms--one that was also flexible in its support of web services, especially for planned future integrations with external systems and additional internal systems. The APA also needed to make key application services, including identity management and e-commerce, available as web services.
"We evaluated solutions across the board–from large commercial vendors to smaller integration tools--keeping in mind that the nature of the application stack and web services support were essential for day-to-day operations." said Jamison. "JBoss Enterprise Middleware not only met our support requirements and constraints, but was also able to manage the workload while guaranteeing service levels. An added bonus? It was the most economical option."
"JBoss Enterprise Middleware gives us a number of advantages compared to competing technologies in the market," said Shah. "The first is robustness, and the second is making our systems versatile. With JBoss Enterprise Middleware, our architecture is now expandable."
The APA turned to Red Hat to recommend a partner to work with them on the launch of the new APA.org, ultimately selecting Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and Preferred JBoss Certified Systems Integrator. Vizuri was selected to design the solutions architecture, encompassing the integration of the content management, control access, and the custom-developed APA applications.
"The relationship with Vizuri worked out extremely well," said Jamison. "Vizuri sent us two consultants who were engaged with us full-time when we were in a very intense mode, and they served us in a number of capacities. They acted as a true partner, participating in our architectural design, integrating those pieces, handling our deployment, and training our in-house technical team."
Working closely with the APA, Vizuri built a solution using JBoss Enterprise Middleware that better leveraged the APA's existing legacy solutions, reducing costs and avoiding unnecessary technical headaches. "When we came on board, the technical challenges were significant," said Joe Dickman, senior vice president at Vizuri. "We needed to have what's called an 'active-active sync,' so it was critical that the APA was able to utilize messaging to keep the systems in sync and to ensure that there was integrity between both systems."
The new solution was based on two primary JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, which includes JBoss Seam Framework, Clustering, Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging, and support for the popular RichFaces framework.
With this solution in place, the APA leveraged Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging to help synchronize and better leverage legacy assets, JBoss Clustering to ensure high availability, and JBoss Seam Framework to integrate the identity management system with the rest of the APA.org web ecosystem, creating a seamlessly unified user environment.
"Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging was probably the most critical to the synchronization piece," said Jamison. "JBoss Clustering was important for our ability to be robust, avoid downtime deployments, sustain failures in certain portions of the system, and be able to have a clean restart."
"We needed the identity management component to interface with our legacy systems, which required a queuing mechanism to enable messaging back and forth," said Shah. "For this, Java Messaging Queue, as part of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, was critical."
JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform has also emerged as the core foundation for APA's complex Digital Rights Management solution. "JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform provided us with an integration platform that was able to integrate at the glass," said Dickman "There were also new JBoss Seam Framework applications that were utilized by e-commerce and the publishing systems, while at the same time we were able to integrate legacy applications."
"JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform supports every authentication that comes through our high-traffic PsycNET site," said Jamison. "It also supports the e-commerce, all the way through the completion of the transaction when we assign digital assets to user profiles."
When the new APA.org launched using JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions, the APA achieved its initial goals of creating an engaging web experience, full of rich features and functionality. Among the biggest benefits that the APA has experienced with its overhauled website is an enhanced web presence.
"Single sign-on provides a number of benefits to our membership by allowing quicker and more nimble navigation between different sections of the website," said Jamison. "As our members move between our public website to the members-only section for information on upcoming conferences or APA governance, they can now sign in on any of those systems and be recognized as they move from one system to another."
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"What Red Hat provides to my customers is sustainability," said Dickman. "They are assured that the support costs they purchase are valuable investments, allowing them to direct savings into the assets they are doing for their businesses." As the APA integrates more internal and external services and applications via web services, they are considering moving to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) approach to manage rules via JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.
"As the organization evolves, our SOA will likewise grow, and we're envisioning applications that will use this architecture," said Shah. "As other applications move into our architecture, which is built on JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we'll expand our use of JBoss in order to deliver more services."
"We're also exploring using Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging for our disaster recovery, which is an option that I hadn't visualized when we first started working with the Java Messaging Queue," said Shah. "In that sense, Java has demonstrated itself to be highly versatile and flexible, and an environment that we can use for a variety of applications."
"As technology grows, our members, the academic community, and the public have increasing expectations for how and when information will be available to them," said Jamison. "It's critical for us to maintain agility and embrace new technologies and opportunities. We have found that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we get to experience the many benefits of open source, combined with the levels of support and uptime that we require."