Birali Hakizumwami
Birali Hakizumwami is currently working as an application architect. His areas of interest include Web services, grid computing and software architecture, design and development. Birali has more than twelve years of industry experience and has been involved with J2EE since its inception.
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Building Enterprise Services with Drools Rule Engine Publish Date: Jan. 17, 2007
Weaving complex business logic into application code makes developers deeply responsible for understanding and maintaining that logic, and means that every change in a company's processes requires a recompile and redeploy. Using a rules engine like Drools offers an opportunity to split the rules into their own files, potentially editable by the subject-matter experts instead of developers. Birali Hakizumwami shows how this approach can be made to work for financial applications like mortgage underwriting systems.
Constructing Web Services with the Globus Toolkit Version 4 Publish Date: Oct. 19, 2005
Grid computing allows you to combine processing, storage, databases, and other resources across a network, hiding the details from callers. As Birali Hakizumwami shows, the Globus Toolkit makes this easier by exposing the grid as a normal web service.
