A sample chapter (provided courtesy of Addison Wesley) from David Luckham's book "The Power of Events : an Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Environments" is available on the informit web site.

Topics covered in this chapter include:
Events everywhere in our information systems:

• The Internet and the growth of global communication spaghetti
• Layers upon layers in enterprise system architectures
• Global electronic trade—understanding what is happening
• Agile systems—future reality or just a dream
• Can an open electronic society defend itself?
• The gathering storm—global coordination or global chaos

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originally Postedto cep.weblogger.com  by David Soul on 1/6/05; 1:10:50 PM in the CEP section.