Groovy MDM

I’ve been writing, implementing, and now selling enterprise software for quite awhile, and I’m still perplexed by the complexity of it all.  Does it all really need to be this difficult?

I don’ think so.  Powerful scripting languages and new web 2.0 tools and technologies can radically simplify software development.  So I began to wonder, can I create robust, enterprise applications without coding at all?  I’m taking up that challenge.

I will build applications with zero programming.  Trivial little demo applications at first, of course.  But I intend to tackle increasingly sophisticated requirements and use cases. My tools are the Groovy scripting language and two familiar enterprise software packages from IBM, namely WebSphere sMash and InfoSphere Master Data Management Server.

But first, what exactly do I mean by “zero programming”? I can still write some code, of course, just not application code.  Building reusable, general purpose components and services is still fair game. Zero programming means the next guy who comes along can create his own app by configuring what’s already been built.

I’m ready to begin.

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