[Tech] Event Driven Architecture Standards

Event Driven Architectures (EDAs) are a important and rather recent trend in enterprise application design. However there is apparently still a lack on common standards in this field. It seems, that this discussion is just starting to move on.

Rober Covington created a compilation of current EDA and ESP related standards available on

http://soa.omg.org/SOA-docs/EDA-Standards.htm.

While reading through the standards my suspicion that there is a lack of a clear separation of events is still missing and leads to confusions. People tend to mix up events in sense of user interface events and business events that are in scope of esp and cep processing engines.