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Attawapiskat chief's hunger strike enters 3rd week as protests mount
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Published Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:25AM EST
Last Updated Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:47PM EST
As she enters the third week of her hunger strike, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she won't back down until the Canadian government agrees to address First Nations' struggles.
"We're living in Third World conditions right now and the prime minister says this is a great country…it's not," Spence said in an interview with CTV News.
"For us, he is not even responding and when you see that happening it's really dishonourable and disrespectful from him," she said of her attempts to organize a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the governor general and First Nations leaders.
Spence said she's not demanding a personal, face-to-face meeting with Harper, but wants his agreement to attend a summit with treaty chiefs.
Spence has been living in a teepee on an island in the Ottawa River since Dec. 11, subsisting on water, medicine tea and fish broth. She said she will continue her protest until Ottawa agrees to discuss First Nations rights and is willing to die for the cause.
"If this is my journey…then I'm going to go on that journey," she said.
The federal government has offered Spence a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and Senator Patrick Brazeau, who is Algonquin, but Spence has rejected those.
In letters to Spence, Duncan has urged her to end the hunger strike and reconsider meeting with him, given that she accepted a visit from Liberal MP Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.
New Democrat MP Charlie Angus also said he is prepared to travel to Ottawa to visit Spence on Friday.
"The Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary have made repeated efforts to reach Chief Spence to engage in discussion on the issues she has raised," Duncan's spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.
"We will continue trying to engage the Chief and other First Nation leaders to discuss how we can build on the progress we have made since 2006."
Spence has become the face of the growing Idle No More movement, sparked by the recently-passed Bill C-45, the omnibus budget bill. Movement organizers say the bill will speed up the process for aboriginals to surrender their reserve lands.
Activists are also protesting the new law because it includes clauses they say will cut the number of federally-protected waterways, jeopardizing the lands they rely on.
First Nations groups say the legislation was passed without sufficient consultation and that the government is preparing to remove power from band councils.
Protesters blocked a CN Rail line in Sarnia, Ont. for a seventh day Thursday, vowing not to leave until long after Harper meets Spence.
Ron Plain, a member of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation who`s acting as a spokesperson for the blockade, says their actions and the entire Idle No More movement is about more than securing more promises.
"Our position here in Aamjiwnaang is not just about getting a meeting with the prime minister; it`s about following through on the commitments that are made when that meeting takes place," Plain told CTV`s Canada AM from Sarnia.
"Last year, as you recall, Attawapiskat (First Nation in northern Ontario) was promised the world when everybody showed up at their door. None of those promises were fulfilled. What we are saying here in Aamjiwnaang is that we will keep the blockade up until we see that the promises that are going to be made are being fulfilled."
The week-old blockade is currently blocking a rail line that runs through Aamjiwnaang to several chemical and refining plants in what's been dubbed Chemical Valley. A court injunction has been issued to end the blockade, but Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley has said that so long as the demonstration is peaceful, police won't interfere.
Plain says the blockade doesn`t affect the agriculture industry not does it impact the public.
"The rail line where we are standing is illegally on our property. They don't have a permit to cross our road, and they need a permit from both the band and Indian Affairs Canada," Plain explained. "That's why we've chosen that spot to take our stand."
The blockade is earning a surprising amount of support from Sarnia residents, says Plain, noting many have come out to show their support, despite a snowstorm this week.
"It`s been really surprising," he said. "The member of Parliament from Guelph came by yesterday with hot chocolate and sweets. Complete strangers are dropping off Christmas presents. Someone came by dressed as Santa for the kids. The Sarnia Police are bringing us coffee and in fact, one sat down with one of the drums and for a few songs.
"So the mood of the people outside of the reserve and into the main population of Sarnia seems to be one of support."
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Peter Simons, 65, waiting for his flight to Paris, was stranded in the International Terminal E at Logan Airport on Feb. 8, but he did get a cot.
Senate President Therese Murray presented an award to Wilhelmina Melrose of the Mass. Senior Action Council in Roxbury during a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of Rosa Parks's birthday. Nine Massachusetts black women were honored for continuing Parks's fight for transit justice.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - How the National Football League's (NFL) San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens match up for Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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It is the Super Bowl of sibling rivalry as Baltimore's John Harbaugh faces younger brother Jim for the NFL title.
Fifty-year-old John, an outstanding tactician, has reached the postseason in each of his five seasons in Baltimore and won at least one game once he has gotten there. He is 54-26 in the regular season and 8-4 in the playoffs, an outstanding accomplishment with some teams that clearly overachieved. Key move that paid off: Replacing offensive coordinator Cam Cameron in December with ex-Indianapolis head coach Jim Caldwell.
Jim, 49, is more emotional than his older brother and has only been a head coach for two years but it is hard to argue with success: he reached the NFC title game a year ago and the next season he is in The Show. Gets points for the bold move of sticking with backup Colin Kaepernick after incumbent Alex Smith could have returned to the line-up following a concussion.
For the record, the Harbaughs have already met once: the Ravens beat the Niners, 16-6, in 2011.
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For sheer firepower, the edge goes to San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick, the second-year signal-caller who threw for 10 touchdowns and rushed for five more since entering the starting line-up as a midseason replacement for injured starter Alex Smith. He's athletic (6-foot-5, 233 pounds), dynamic and has the ability to steal the show. But he's only started a handful of NFL games and how he holds up on under the glare of Super Bowl Sunday is anyone's guess.
"Just because you haven't been in a situation before doesn't mean you have to feel pressure from it," Kaepernick insists.
The Ravens' Joe Flacco does not possess the explosiveness of Kaepernick, but has led the Ravens to the postseason in each of his five years in the league and won at least one game once he's gotten there. He threw a pedestrian 22 TDs and 10 interceptions in the regular season but is peaking at the right time, including a three touchdown, no interception performance against New England in the AFC title game.
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The Defenses
Led by the linebacking duo of NaVorro Bowman and Patrick Willis and Pro Bowl safeties Dashon Goldson and Donte Whitner, the Niners defense ranked third in the NFL this season, giving up an average of 294 yards per game. Throw in the franchise-record 19.5 sacks by Pro Bowl defensive end Aldon Smith and you have a unit worthy of lifting the Lombardi Trophy. SF ranked fourth in both rushing and passing defense.
Baltimore's numbers were not as eye-popping, ranking 17th overall in the NFL. But future first-ballot Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, one of the most inspirational players in the game, is retiring after the Super Bowl and will surely have the troops prepared. Four-time Pro Bowler Haloti Ngata anchors the line and former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Ed Reed the secondary. It is a unit not as young as it used to be but do not dismiss the value of experience.
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The Offenses
Kaepernick's versatility enables San Francisco's Pistol offense to run on all cylinders. Defenses cannot drop back in passing situations because Kaepernick could take off running. Four-time Pro Bowler Frank Gore rushed for more than 1,200 yards this season to anchor a better-than-average rushing game and long-ball receiving threats Michael Crabtree and Vernon Davis give Kaepernick plenty of options when he drops back to pass. The Niners averaged 362 yards during the regular season but 476 in the playoffs.
Baltimore's offense centered around dual-purpose running back Ray Rice (1,143 yards rushing, 478 yards receiving) for much of the season but Flacco has evolved into a big-play quarterback that can find big-time receivers Anquan Boldin, Torrey Smith or Dennis Pitta in the end zone on any play. Like the Niners, the Ravens' offense has shined in the playoffs, averaging 424 yards compared to 352 during the regular season.
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The Kicking Game
The advantage here clearly favors the Ravens. Well, probably. Ravens undrafted rookie Justin Tucker has been nothing short of phenomenal this year while his the Niners' normally reliable David Akers is struggling at the worst time. The unflappable Tucker nailed 30 of 33 field goal attempts (91 percent) this season, including all four from 50 yards and out. He calmly booted a 47-yarder in the second overtime to beat the Denver Broncos in the AFC divisional round.
The 38-year-old Akers opened the season with a record-tying 63-yarder against the Green Bay Packers but has since nearly shanked his way out of a job. But he is a six-time Pro Bowler and has been to the Super Bowl before, after the 2004 season when his Philadelphia Eagles lost to New England. He knows he is on the back nine of his career. "A lot of guys work really hard and they never get this opportunity," he said. "I've been here twice now, we lost the first one, and hopefully things will be a little bit different this Sunday."
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Special Teams
San Francisco better keep an eye — or perhaps 22 eyes — on Jacoby Jones, the Ravens' Pro Bowler who led the NFL in yards per kickoff return (30.7). This year he became the only player to have two kickoff returns of at least 105 yards in the same season (105, 108). If winning a title is not enough incentive, Jones, who tied Tennessee's Darius Reynaud for most returns for TDs with three, is a New Orleans native.
The 49ers ranked 31st in the regular season in defending kickoffs. Akers, who kicks off for the Niners, "has got a really strong leg," says Jones. "He can kick out of the end zone and that punter (Andy Lee, 48.1 average), he's a climber too. So you've got to be patient and wait on your opportunities." Sam Koch, with a 47.1 average, does the punting for the Ravens, while Tucker kicks off and does a better-than-average job putting the ball in the end zone.
Reporting By Steve Ginsburg; Editing by Frank Pingue


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Rocky Patel Cargo at must-go prices.
Never heard of Cargo? Understandable, only Central America has released more brands than Rocky Patel since 2005. Here's the skinny. While Rocky Patel is mostly known for his 90+ rated, award-winning blends, RP also creates a wide profile of wallet-friendly blends that'll please your palate as much as your bank account. Affordable, dependable, and rather delicious, Rocky Patel Cargo is like a cool drink on a hot summer day.
Despite Rocky Patel Cargo's modest appearance, this medium-bodied blend delivers full-flavored goodness in spades. Nicaraguan tobaccos are carefully combined in Cuban sandwich-style, then hugged by dark and oily Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut wrappers to produce a rich and creamy bouquet. Earth, sweet cedar, leather, and espresso bean linger on the palate just before a sweet series of gentle spices completes each puff.
I bought this when they were on sale for $24.99 and I tell you, these are the best I've smoked in awhile. Smoking one as we speak. 5/5 stars; no flaws.
This cigar has taken me by storm. It is my cigar of choice and beat out the RP Vint series for bang for the buck and honestly I love the smooth flavor and even smoke all the way to the end that it gives. My top 2.
These aren't good - even for the $40 promo price. Very bland taste and super-difficult to draw. My recommendation, spend your money on a quality cigar instead of quantity like I did. Basically any RP (besides this) would be a safe bet.
Picked up a mazo of these for cheap on a CI special. Wish I'd bought more. They are actually a good smoke - and better than some high-priced "premium" cigars. They are consistent in burn and flavor - the last third is the best. You can smoke 'em all the way to the end.
Pretty new stick smoker here and I ordered the Cargos to try and I can't get enough of them. Just ordered 20 more of the Churchills. I know they are backordered, but I don't care. Well worth the wait. I just hope they have more at a later date. Thanks CI.
I've bought these a bunch of times and have never been disappointed. You really can't beat them for the price. I compare them to Garo Double Habano or Maduro and Arganese Maduro. Great smokes for a couple of bucks per stick.
I've bought in the hundreds by now and have only had 1/2 dozen that were a problem. Then it was a thin wrapper and I continued to smoke until the binder came apart. A great everyday walking my dog and morning coffee smoke.
I bought a bundle for cold weather smokes. I've done it before with other brands and have learned you get what you pay for. These were a bit "harsh" for what is described as a medium cigar. Normally love the RP brand, especially a Decade with a nice scotch. I dumped half the Cargo's for taste, burn and overall quality. I'm done with economy cigars. If I want one or two a month in the winter, I'd rather keep a few good ones in the humidor. Just personal preference.
I smoke about 3 cigars when playing golf 4 times per week. Thus I look for the deals. And for $2 per stick I have not found anything better. I love the RP Cargo.
When I received them, the cigars had a pleasant smell and were well constructed. When I lit it up, immediately it had a pleasant smell and taste. The burn throughout the smoke was very even and had an excellent draw. The flavor changed about 3 times during the cigar but each flavor had pleasant tastes. I'd say they fit into a medium flavor category. Good rich flavor but not intense at all. I smoked it all the way to the end and it was still providing a consistent draw, burn, and taste. I've just finished my last one and can honestly say this is one of the better cigars I have ever smoked and at a hell of a bargain. Overall, I'd say this is an excellent cigar, not surprising since it's made by Rocky Patel and will most definitely be smoking more of them soon and will buy again in the future.
Awesome daily smoke! Got the Robusto on sale for $25 and couldn't be happier! Great price for a good cigar! Not the greatest I ever had but flavorful easy draw and no burn issues. I have smoked 10 of them so far so maybe I will have some of the issues mentioned but so far none.
Always liked RP, not too keen on Edge, love series 92 and 90. No long filler, so really small cut off cap. For $1 each, was not planning on liking this. RP in a Cuban sandwich with cigar clippings? Didn't need to worry. This has turned out to be one of my favorite everyday cigars.... I can live off these...waiting for another sale. Must stock up, my humidor can hold it. For those who haven't tried this, do yourself a flavor. Pun intended. Delicious flavor, not a harsh bite, didn't taste as peppery as I'd feared. Medium body, not too heavy. Good for morning coffee to eod. Best all around cigar to date. Thanks for the intro, guys.
Not too happy with these. Smoke fast and taste like a camp fire. Even after 2 weeks in the humidor.
There is a hint of flavor, but the tight draw is not worth the effort. I am always on the search for a good bargain cigar - these are not my taste.
I don't normally write reviews, but feel compelled to on this one. I tried because I am a fan of the Rocky Patel and was very interested in seeing if a cigar of this price would be good. I am impressed! I bought a punch based on the reviews I read and have used it on each cigar I smoked. Each one I have smoked has been a very pleasant experience. I have had none of the negative things people have complained about. While this is not my favorite cigar, it is definitely one I will keep in my humidor. It smokes like a much more expensive cigar. It is a very good smoke and at this price, I don't see how it can be beat.
This was a much better cigar than I had anticipated! Sometimes when you buy a "bargain" stogie, that's just what you get. This gem was not like that at all. For the price, this was a really tasty cigar. It only covered around 5 holes out on the course, so you better pack a couple to get through all 18. Happy smoking!
great cigar for the money its nice smooth taste to it not bad for a 30-45 min cigar when im on computer or even out for a drive in my van i even watch my favoite shows ive smoked 38 of them have 2 left i would hand them out to friends and i will buy again
Eh, not impressed. I was gifted a couple of these by a buddy, glad I didn't pay for them. I mean, they're not terrible but to me they're not great either. Now I suppose I'm a little skewed because I normally go for FULL cigars so of course the flavor wasn't what I really wanted but this just didn't impress me at all. I mean it's a cigar but nothing to write home about. I guess if you're walking the golf course & looking for something to burn that you won't care if you have to toss then this isn't too bad.
Just an irrating cigar ! Dosen't smoke properly and has no flavor ! if you want an inexpensive cigar that delivers decent burn and flavor I suggest the Black OPs . Consistantly good and a great smoke for the money !
These things are my favorite smoke yet. They taste great, smell good and draw easily. CI has Cargo as a "must go" or clearance/closeout all the time, but I'm hoping they keep hanging around.
Not a great cigar, certainly not up to RP standard, hence the cheap price....
Another few week in the humi and it just keeps getting better... Don't want to rave on, just came to say... " It's a no brainer" I just ordered some more and will keep these new bundles in my big box for later. Truly a premium flavor without breaking the bank. As for the few complaints I've read... Well I smoked a Cao Flathead...Perdomo Noir...and an edge in the last week that gave me a few bits towards the end, but none of the were as affordable as these with as much flavor. Thanks again CI
OK Y'all its been about a month...26 days.. And I'm back with a another report on these good tasting stogies. habano toro.. I have previously read ...bits in your mouth ...wrapper or other problems.. Shared one with a friend last night and neither stick had such problems. Yes this is a Cuban sandwich cigar but I have many in my box made this way including Perdomo... PI.. SOSA and other premiums. If you want the flavor of a expensive stick without the expense " This is one for you" . this cigar starts off with a nice spice or light pepper moving towards a creamy sweetness while holding onto the spice. Never a lingering aftertaste but a solid finish with every puff. A must as a everyday yargar or for those of you that want an affordable,flavorful experience. This is still one I will keep in my box.
Toro Habano - few weeks in the box and I have enjoyed it to the nub. Came to post a review and did not experience any of the problems posted. I clipped the end, and had NO problems with wrapper, bits or draw. Maybe because of the Habano or maybe the humi ... Just ordered a mazo of these and will post again in a few weeks.
Never been disappointed with any RP before now. I gave Cargo three chances and each attempt provided a smoke that was very difficult to draw, hard to keep lit, with little taste. I am giving the remainder ( 17 ) to people I do not know.
These are fantastic at the price for an everyday smoke. Will buy more of these.
Not your typical Rocky Patel but a great daily smoke. I purchased 2 mazo's (40 Churchills) on sale and they burned well, had a great draw and were more on the mild side than medium strength; somewhere in between. I would buy them again at $30/mazo. Strongly recommend that the cigars be punched rather than cut since the tobacco is loosely wrapped which makes for a great draw but also can produce a mouth full of clipping. A solid "B-" which isn't bad at all for the money.
These are great. I'm about half way through my first mazo, and I getting ready to order two more. No draw or burn issues, has aged well (I put them in the fridge-a-dor and accidentally forgot about them for three months), and taste pretty good. I like to smoke these while I am driving my truck and cannot devote complete attention to smoking. Never had a single cutting issue...just clip and light. Good tasty cheap stick.
I got a 5-pack in toro size for almost nothing (guess where). I was pleasantly surprised. The draw and burn were both perfect (I used a punch instead of cutter). The flavor was very similar to the Alec Bradley American Sun Grown. Kinda woody with nothing objectionable but nothing that really stands out. I was expecting this cigar to bust apart or do something weird since it's mixed filler but nothing like that happened. in fact, I smoked it down to the nub, which is rare for me even with much spendier cigars.
Don't waste your money!! I am disappointed every time I attempt to smoke one of these for the box I bought. Problems range from uneven burning, draw extremely hard, will not stay lit, and taste nasty, I have tried using a V cut, punch cut, and regular cut and have had them in my humidor for a couple weeks, hoping that would help. I am a huge Rocky Patel fan, but hope they are ashamed of putting their name and reputation on these.
I love Rocky Patel cigars, but I'm not a fan of the Cargo line, at least not the torpedo size that I bought. The problem I had was the draw. The first one was acceptable, but the next 2 or 3 had to be chunked. I decided to give them some time in the humidor, but that did not help. I finally figured out that cutting it just below the label helped on some of them. Out of my bundle of 20, I would say that maybe 10 were good without intervention, 5 were salvageable, and 5 were thrown out within a few minutes. Sorry Rocky, I hate it as much as you do.
At this price it's really not fair to complain about the quality or lack thereof of this cigar. As suggested, punch, don't cut. Otherwise you'll get a mouthful of tobacco clippings. There isn't much to say about the flavor profile because there really isn't one. A low end cigar that reaps the benefits of having the name RP behind it. In my opinion there are a lot better low end smokes out there that blow this one away.
I got real lucky and picked up 40 Toro's for $39.95. All I can say is wish I had bought 80. I smoked the last one the other day and now sniff,sniff gone too soon.....
Last night I had my third RP Cargo toro grande ... the first two had a very easy draw, had a light white pepper taste on the tongue which made them interesting and made me wonder what cigar the tobacco came from ... I saw in one description that the tobacco was clippings from the 15th Decade ... The first one I clipped and it held together well but after 4 inches the bits of tobacco started coming out in my mouth, so the second one I punched and had no loose tobacco at all ... very good smoke and draw ... the one I had last night did start unraveling/flaking about half way through which was annoying, but still I continued to like the smoke ... mild to medium. I don't know why, but the single toro size I've had did not seem to have the strength, the toro grande has had ... was very mild.
I thought I had put up a review of these, but maybe it was only on the banter. This is based on only a couple of the toro grande, and one of the toros. Both of the first, had a nice white pepper undertaste which continued all throughout the cigar that helped keep my interest. Both were nicely rolled, no burn issues, the draw was easy with lots of smoke volume, but with a lightness to it ... because it is mixed filler, it did not hold the ash for long, but that was no problem with me, just keep it in the ashtray and tap it. The first one I used a guillotine cutter, and had only started having problems with getting clippings/loose tobacco in my mouth after 4 inches were gone ... no big deal. The second one, I used a punch and it performed flawlessly. I don't like real spicy cigars, so as I said, the toro grande is mild to medium with just enough spice to keep things interesting. Really liked the cigar for it's price and performance, very much unlike any other RP I've had (somewhere I saw a write up which said they use the clippings/leftover tobacco from the 15th Anniversary cigar for this. The one toro that I've had performed well but was so mild I barely tasted anything ... now this is only one cigar and that was straight off the truck without any humi time. I doubt that it would change much, but I could be wrong. I am surprised that the toro would differ at all in flavor from the toro grande. Again, both sizes performed well, having excellent construction, in my limited experience with them.
Well I recently tried a Cargo cigar, its was actually pretty good. It's not a cigar I would pass out for black tie affair, but its great for the golf course, poker game, or Friday night party. This is a great middle of the road cigar that I will always have on stand by in my humidor. I do suggest that you use a punch instead of a cutter, they seem to mess up a bit with a cutter but this may just have been me or my cutter.
I feel blessed to have got a box of these for a real bargain $39:99. After ordering them I was reading some mixed reviews on other sites and was wondering how these were going to turn out to be. Well I need not have worried, just as all of Rocky's other fine offerings these were no disapointment. Right from the doorstep I eagerly opened the box and disapeared outside with my cutter, lighter and cigar. I had read there some mixed fillers in amongst the long filler in these cigars, so I was carefull when clipping the end to only clip it about half of the diameter. This cigar lit easily, had a nice easy draw, burnt perfectly for about 45 minutes of tasty pleasure. Rocky scores again, these are a fine cigar especially for the price I paid. As a bonus the box is pretty neat as well.


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Services typically are required to run for a long time and hence should run in their own thread. Such services can be invoked by any number of clients who want to connect to the service, invoke a few methods on the service and finally release the service, probably to serve more clients or close down.
Here, I would like to introduce you to the concept of connecting to a remote service and the kind of support provided by the android platform for the same.
We have earlier seen how local services can be created and used. The difference between the two mainly is that the local service runs in the same process as the application that started it and hence the life of the local service is dependent on the life of the said application while remote service can run in its own process. This causes a challenge of inter-process communication. If one process wants to communicate with another process, the object that is passed between the two needs to be marshaled.
For this purpose, Android provides the AIDL (Android Interface Definition Language) tool that handles the marshaling as well as the communication.
The service has to declare a service interface in an aidl file and the AIDL tool will automatically create a java interface corresponding to the aidl file. The AIDL tool also generates a stub class that provides an abstract implementation of the service interface methods. The actual service class will have to extend this stub class to provide the real implementation of the methods exposed through the interface.
The service clients will have to invoke the onBind() method on the service to be able to connect to the service. The onBind() method returns an object of the stub class to the client. Here are the code related code snippets:
The AIDL file:
package com.collabera.labs.sai;
interface IMyRemoteService {
int getCounter();
Once you write this AIDL file (.aidl) in eclipse, it will automatically generate the Remote interface corresponding to this file. The remote interface will also provide a stub inner class which has to have an implementation provided by the RemoteService class. The stub class implementation within the service class is as given here:
private IMyRemoteService.Stub myRemoteServiceStub = newIMyRemoteService.Stub() {
public int getCounter() throws RemoteException {
return counter;
The onBind() method in the service class:
public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
Log.d(getClass().getSimpleName(), "onBind()");
return myRemoteServiceStub;
Now, let us quickly look at the meat of the service class before we move on to how the client connects to this service class. My RemoteService class is just incrementing a counter in a separate thread. This thread is created in the onStart()method as this gets certainly called whether the service is connected to by a call to startService(intent).Please read the lifecycle of a service if this needs more clarity. Here are the over-ridden onCreate(), onStart()and onDestroy()methods. Note that the resources are all released in the onDestroy()method.
public void onCreate() {
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
super.onStart(intent, startId);
serviceHandler = new Handler();
serviceHandler.postDelayed(myTask, 1000L);
Log.d(getClass().getSimpleName(), "onStart()");
public void onDestroy() {
serviceHandler = null;
A little explanation: In the onStart() method, I created a new Handler object that will spawn out a new task that implements the Runnableinterface. This thread does the job of incrementing the counter. Here is the code for the Task class – an inner class of the RemoteServiceclass.
class Task implements Runnable {
public void run() {
Log.i(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Incrementing counter in the run method");
An object of this Taskclass is passed to the serviceHandler object as a message that needs to be executed after 1 second. The Taskclass implements the run() method in which we repeatedly post the same message to the serviceHandler. Thus, this becomes a repeated task till all the messages in the serviceHandlerqueue are deleted by calling the removeCallbacks()method on the serviceHandler in the destroy()method of the RemoteService class.
Note that the onDestroy()method thus stops this thread and set the serviceHandlerto null. This completes the implementation of the RemoteServiceclass. The complete code is downloadable here.
Now coming to the client class - Here, for simplicity sake, I have put the start, stop, bind, release and invoke methods all in the same client. While in reality, one client may start and another can bind to the already started service.
There are 5 buttons one each for start, stop, bind, release and invoke actions. A client needs to bind to a service before it can invoke any method on the service.
Here are the start and the bind methods.
private void startService(){
if (started) {
Toast.makeText(RemoteServiceClient.this, "Service already started", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.collabera.labs.sai", "com.collabera.labs.sai.RemoteService");
started = true;
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "startService()" );
An explicit intent is created and the service is started with the Context.startService(i)method.
Rest of the code is to update some status on the UI. There is nothing specific to a remote service invocation here. It is on the bindService()method that we see the difference from a local service.
private void bindService() {
if(conn == null) {
conn = newRemoteServiceConnection();
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.collabera.labs.sai", "com.collabera.labs.sai.RemoteService");
bindService(i, conn, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "bindService()" );
} else {
Toast.makeText(RemoteServiceClient.this, "Cannot bind - service already bound", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Here we get a connection to the remote service through the RemoteServiceConnection class which implements ServiceConnection Interface. The connection object is required by the bindService()method – an intent, connection object and the type of binding are to be specified. So, how do we create a connection to the RemoteService? Here is the implementation:
class RemoteServiceConnection implements ServiceConnection {
public voidonServiceConnected(ComponentName className,
IBinder boundService ) {
remoteService = IMyRemoteService.Stub.asInterface((IBinder)boundService);
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "onServiceConnected()" );
public voidonServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) {
remoteService = null;
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "onServiceDisconnected" );
The Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE ensures that a service is created if one did not exist although the onstart() will be called only on explicit start of the service.
Once the client is bound to the service and the service has already started, we can invoke any of the methods that are exposed by the service. Here we have only one method and that is getCounter(). In this example, the invocation is done by clicking the invoke button. That would update the counter text that is below the button.
Let us see the invoke method:
private void invokeService() {
if(conn == null) {
Toast.makeText(RemoteServiceClient.this, "Cannot invoke - service not bound", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
try {
int counter = remoteService.getCounter();
TextView t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.notApplicable);
t.setText( "Counter value: "+Integer.toString( counter ) );
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "invokeService()" );
} catch (RemoteException re) {
Log.e( getClass().getSimpleName(), "RemoteException" );
Once we use the service methods, we can release the service. This is done as follows (by clicking the release button):
private void releaseService() {
if(conn != null) {
conn = null;
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "releaseService()" );
} else {
Toast.makeText(RemoteServiceClient.this, "Cannot unbind - service not bound", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Finally we can stop the service by clicking the stop button. After this point no client can invoke this service.
private void stopService() {
if (!started) {
Toast.makeText(RemoteServiceClient.this, "Service not yet started", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.collabera.labs.sai", "com.collabera.labs.sai.RemoteService");
started = false;
Log.d( getClass().getSimpleName(), "stopService()" );
These are the basics of working with a remote service on Android platform. All the best!
Addendum (updated on 6 Jan 2011) – based on many questions related to Remote services. If the client accessing the remote service is in a separate package or application, it has to include the .aidl file along with the package structure as in the Service provider.
I have written a sample remote client in a completely different application, while the remote service is the same one provided above. You may download the client app here.


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"Everywhere I go, I still get asked about that wreck," the 20-year-old from Elk Grove said of last month's multi-car last-lap Daytona International Speedway wreckfest.
It's hard to forget. Larson was in a battle for a top finish as NASCAR's Nationwide series headed toward the checkered flag. Cars got sideways. Larson, in his first race in the series, found himself airborne.
He hit the catch fence and portions of his car went into the stadium seats, injuring 28 people.
It was definitely a noteworthy start for a driver who has won in everything else he has attempted to race, including last November's prestigious USAC Turkey Night Grand Prix midget car race at Perris Speedway and last year's NASCAR K&N East series title in his rookie season.
"It will change," Larson said. "I hope not everybody knows me as the guy who wrecked at Daytona for the rest of my career. It will just take time. I have to go out there and run well.
"Hopefully me running well, people will forget about it and start remembering me for running up front and battling hard."
Larson, who is racing for Turner Scott Motorsports and has a development deal with Chip Ganassi, hopes that thought process starts to change a little more today in the Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club Speedway. Two-lap qualifying is scheduled to start at 10:35 a.m. with the 150-lap race scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
He is ninth in points, 49 behind series leader Sam Hornish Jr.
The Sprint Cup and the Nationwide series regular drivers certainly have been questioning Larson. He won the Battle at the Beach, the Late Model all-star race that was moved from Irwindale Speedway to a four-tenths of a mile track on Daytona's backstretch, by bumping C.E. Falk III on the final corner of the final lap to win a wreck-filled race.
"It's been new," he said of the criticism. "My whole career I've always been the kind of guy who everybody likes. After the Battle at the Beach I got a lot of criticism for it. It doesn't affect me at all. I kind of shrugged it off and moved on.
"I do not think too much about good talk or bad talk. I just go out there and race and try to change people's minds."
After not-so-hot finishes at Phoenix and Las Vegas, Larson drew praises for the way he finished second to Kyle Busch at Bristol Motor Speedway last week.
"You certainly want to win races the right way," Busch said after that race. "Coming up, running races in the Nationwide Series, Cup Series, I didn't win a lot, but the ones that I did; there's a way of going about things. There's the way I did it and the way (Brad) Keselowski did I; ruffling a lot of feathers.
"I think a lot of people have been looking at (Larson) to try to see whether he was going to be a wrecker or a checker. He didn't get the checker. That will come. If you're driving into the corner and driving into the back of me, I'm going to be here for a while. He's not going to have fun dealing with me every week. Right now, I'm going to race him as hard as he raced me but just as clean as he raced me."
Larson said he gained more respect after that race.
"I keep trying to do the best I can," he said. "I'm still taking it one race at a time and having a blast at what I'm doing right now."
His heavy racing schedule apparently has not changed, either. He won two East races and had eight Top 5s and six midget races last year.
After going through his first practice session in his first appearance on the 2-mile oval, he left to go to Stockton 99 Speedway, where he raced in a World of Outlaws race before returning to Southern California early this morning.
After racing today, he will race in Outlaw races in Merced, Antioch and Calistoga before getting back into his Nationwide car.
"Switching back between the cars for so many different race cars for three years or so, I've gotten used to it," he said. "It doesn't take me a whole lot of time to adapt jumping between each car. At first there is a little difficulty with weight difference and power difference and racing dirt versus asphalt. Bu when you do it as much as I do it, you think about it when you jump into difference cars. Your body and your brain knows what to do to adapt."
Until Friday, the only previous time Larson had been at Auto Club Speedway was for an IndyCar race, and he said he was so young he barely remembers it.
"I'm a true rookie," he said. "I'm not the type to go out and ask other drivers for advice. No one has come up to me and given advice about this track."


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A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Peter Schiff was Ron Paul's economic advisor and we are trying to convince him to run for U.S. Senate! We are looking to have our current logo (http://www.schiff2010.com) re-designed.
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About two months ago, my daughter was baptised. We're LDS and our children get baptised when they turn 8 if they choose to. It's such a great time, and there are so many things that we want our children to be able to remember about this moment, but they're still pretty young. There's alot about my baptism that I don't remember, and I wanted to do whatever I could to help Halli remember hers.
My friend had a great idea to create a baptism book, that friends and family could sign, and where the kids could write down their own memories of the day. Such a wonderful idea, I was totally on board!
So, that's what I did, just made a cute little book for her to keep. I love a great personalized keepsake that is filled with love from everyone who is a part of your life! Hopefully she'll really appreciate it.:)
I've also left some spaces to add pictures from the big day so that everything is in one place for her.
I absolutely love reading what she wrote about how she felt that day! Love how kids think!


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Can you hear it? The incessant, never-ending whirring of the transfer rumour mill is gathering pace with the January window now less than two months away.
As is always the case in the run-up to the re-opening of the market, the rumours linking players with moves away from their respective clubs is already reaching fever pitch.
Will they go? Will they stay? - these are questions are already being pondered by supporters and managers alike as the new year draws ever closer.
Here, GMS pinpoints 15 players from the top five clubs who have already been or could well be subject to intense transfer speculation who should ignore the rumours and stay in the Premier League.
Please feel free to comment on our choices. Which of these stars do you think will stay in the English top-flight?
Which players do you feel will eventually leave?
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- Contents - e-ifc No. 15
March 2008
- Editorial
- Research Findings
- Evaluations of K availability in selected soils from Lebanon
- Mapping spatial and temporal potassium balances in Brazilian soils of south-west Goias
- Research work from Argentina: Wheat varieties and management practices for disease control
- Research work from Argentina: Wheat: yield response to chloride fertilization on different cultivars and its effect on foliar disease severity
- Research work from Argentina: Nutritional evolution of drip irrigated peach (Prunus persica L.) trees
- Research work from Argentina: Seasonal variation pattern of nutrients in blueberry plants grown in the northern Buenos Aires province
- IPI Events
- New Publications
- K in the Literature
- Clipboard
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Research work from Argentina: Wheat: yield response to chloride fertilization on different cultivars and its effect on foliar disease severity
J. Castellarín, H.M. Pedrol, L. Ortis, M.C. González, M. González, and O. Rosso
Exp. St. Oliveros INTA. Santa Fe.
An extract from the original, edited and translated by R. Melgar
An experiment was performed to study the yield response of wheat to KCl application and its effects on foliar disease severity in different varieties varying in phytosanitary behaviour. A field trial was conducted in Oliveros, Santa Fe province, evaluating grain yield and disease incidence on a factorial designed experiment with six wheat varieties, (Don Mario Onix, Baguette Premium 13, Baguette 11, ACA 304, Don Mario Cronox and INIA Sirirí), four levels of KCl (0, 30, 60 and 90 kg K2O/ha), with and without fungicide treatment (Pyraclostrobin, 133 g/l + epoxiconazole, 50 g/l).
Fig. 1 and Table 1 show that all tested wheat varieties differentially benefited from fungicide application (Fig. 1), and also from increased levels of KCl (Table 1). Yield response to KCl was on average increased between 5 to 13 per cent. However, at best it could reach even a 20 per cent yield increase. Except for Baguette 11, all other varieties responded best to the highest level of K applied (90 kg K2O/ha). On average, there was a significant yield response to KCl application, with best yield achieved with the high KCl rate (90 kg K2O/ha; Fig. 2). Response to KCl in some cultivars did not relate to foliar disease as measured by percentage of severity. However, the infection and the incidence of disease was rather low. The yield increase due to KCl differed according to the cultivar. Response to fungicide application varied depending on fertilization treatment. Increasing KCl rate resulted in a decreased response to fungicide.
Results suggest that fertilization with KCl, even at K levels in soil, as high as 1.3 meq/100 g soils, benefits yield of various wheat varieties and provides a promising alternative and complementary means of controlling foliar diseases in wheat.
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Happy Valentine's Day to you incredibly wonderful women. May you love yourselves with abandon today...and every day.
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Happy Valentine's Day to you incredibly wonderful women. May you love yourselves with abandon today...and every day.
6 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM
Thank u. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say happy valentines day to u too. & I love your quote. So true!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2014 at 8:11 AM
49 days post DDay and I it looks like I am coming out of the affair fog. I'm also Sleeping a little better and getting my appetite back some.ReplyDelete
It's time to stop following him around, crying (at least in front of him), making plans and dreaming. Time to stop asking questions about her and the affair, time to stop asking him how he feels. Time to stop hoping, expecting, waiting for affectionate emails, calls or texts that indicate that he's thinking about me. Time to look after me and the girls. Time to get back to doing things I want to do regardless of if he participates or not. The first thing on that list is a destination race which will take the place of the couples race I asked (or according to his version of events -forced) him to do with me a few months ago, which had to be canceled (luckily for him) because of he was supposed to have surgery (which was postponed).
Instead I'm going to run a race in a city where he took her on one of their trysts (someplace we've vacationed for years, both as a couple and with our kids) and booked myself into the hotel they stayed in when he took her there a few months ago (where, again we've stayed multiple times as a couple and a family).
I am going to reclaim the places that meant so much to me and where we have made memories. She got my sloppy 2nds with these trips - staying in the same hotels & eating at the same restaurants we always frequent when CS and I went there-
as she will see if she is trolling my blog and social media sites like I'm sure she is.
Another reason I did this and the main reason why I'm doing this NOW is because I couldn't deal with Valentine's Day, and based on how little affection he's showing and how it almost feels like he's been doing everything but actually saying, "I don't want to spend time with you", and what would have surely been a letdown of major proportions. I spent all last week vacillating between tears and rage, and if I'm going to be in that state again, might as well do it in a luxury hotel somewhere prepping for a race and not further degrade myself by doing it in his presence. - MYR
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2014 at 8:38 AM
49 days is still so fresh....I hear and feel your anguish...I have read it's a 2-5 year year recovery or sentance depending on how I'm feeling at any given moment ; )
I too know that feeling of reclaiming...last night we went to a Valentine's party that had been a tradition with a large group of friends. The last party was in 2011. One of the couples husband had a major health issue and now 3 years later we were all together again...celebrating ...3 years ago my husbands affair was just getting started. I was starting to feel him pulling away and after a few glasses of wine whispered in my friends ear "my husband doesn't love me anymore" . Long story short I would find out in November 2012 what was REALLY going on. A 2 year affair with some girl who liked him in high school! In that 2 year period we would 'celebrate' our 35th wedding anniversary and throw the most beautiful wedding for our daughter...although I can't RECLAIM that wedding I can and HAVE reclaimed our anniversary and last night I reclaimed that party...NO ONE knows except the friend whose ear I whispered in that night 3years ago...she and her husband are 'friends' of our maatiage and I thank God for them everyday because there is no judgement just love and support...they have both been married before and 'LIVED' a life shall we say.
I think the first year was about survival. The second feels like reality. As hard as this is I got my big girl pantries on and I am moving FORWARD. We made a choice on Dday to fight for us.and that's what we are doing. It can be a lonely battle but thanks to Elle and her blog I can feel hope. I know there are many strong women here who with there words can give me the encouragement I need on any given day that YES I/We can survive this. So go and start your reclaiming today!
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2014 at 10:47 PM
Valentines day was hard. The whole week. It's been three and a half months and this week took it's tole on me. It's now the last day in February and I still feel like we aren't back in a good place. It's so hard. My husband didn't even have sex with the OW. He had an emotional affair with a 22 yr old girl he worked with. It turned physical right before I figured things out. (Kissing and making out). It feels like things will never be easy or normal again. We are finally going to see a therapist. We have to drive 70 minutes one way to see him, but my husband finally sees we need it. We have been married for 10 years and have 5 children. He admitted to having a porn problem off and on our whole marriage. It's so hard to get past the lies and betrayal. While I was managing our household and driving our children to and from school and activities, he was off in lala land not caring about me one bit. It's just heartbreaking. I feel like I'm all alone not being able to talk to many people about it. It's the craziest situation to be in. I have to pretend every day that all is okay as best I can for my children's sake. It feels like I'm living a lie when I'm around friends, family, and people at church and they ask how I am. I can't tell them how I really am! I am so grateful for this blog. It helps me so much when I can read that others are feeling like I am feeling and others have come out the other end of the tunnel that seems more like a black hole. To know that you wonderful ladies are happy again is wonderful to read. Thank you for sharing. :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Three-and-a-half months no doubt feels like a lifetime...but it's really such a short period of time when healing from betrayal. Your husband's porn problem has likely created other issues within your marriage that will take some unravelling. I'm glad you're going to see a therapist. Can your husband find a program to help him with his porn addiction? He might even be able to find something online.Delete
That feeling of isolation is excruciating and is the reason I created this site. It's crucial to be able to share your story, get support for your pain and validation for your feelings. You can let your children know that you're going through a tough time without telling them any details. It gives you some freedom to not have to wear a total mask and it's not bad for kids to know that parents are human and sometimes struggle. Watching you cope and come through it will remind them when they inevitably struggle that it's part of life.


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Last month, when I did my first ever DDR3 memory round-up I was shocked when I saw that Corsair didn't bring a product to the market that was competitive with the other brands. Corsair kept telling me to hold my horses as they were still waiting for the right combination of parts to come to market before they released their high end DOMINATOR series for DDR3. A couple weeks ago a Corsair DOMINATOR kit arrived and we were told to put it through the paces on the various DDR3 motherboards that we have. The kit that Corsair sent out for review is the Corsair TWIN3X2048-1800C7DF G DDR3 1800MHz CAS 7 DOMINATOR with Airflow Fan. If you can say that seven times as fast as you can, then you are more 1337 than I am!
The past two weeks have flown by and to be honest we spent too much time benchmarking and overclocking this memory kit, but that is okay as it was the most fun we've had in a long time. The 1800MHz DOMINATOR CAS latency 7 memory kit has been designed to be the ultimate over-clocking DDR3 solution from Corsair and boy did this turn out to be the truth. Before we get into the details of this new Corsair Dominator memory kit, be sure to read our previous DDR3 memory articles to make sure you know what the changes in DDR3 are and how it performs compared to DDR2.
If you feel you have a firm background on DDR3 modules and what the performance level was on various kits, then let's take a look at what Corsair has been working on since June and see if it was worth the wait.
The DDR3 memory kit we will be looking at today from Corsair is one of the very first 2GB 1800MHz CL7 memory kits that use highly screened Micron ICs that have been found to offer great timings and high clock frequencies. The Corsair Twin3X2048-1333C9DHX memory kit that we reviewed last month was built using Qimonda memory ICs and with 9-9-9-24 timings it was found to have the loosest timings of all the memory kits involved in the roundup. Fast forward one month later and Corsair now has a kit running with 7-7-7-20 timings at 1800MHz! Not only have the memory timings gotten tighter, but the clock frequency has increased by more than 400MHz. This just goes to show how important it is to have the right engineers in place to select the right memory ICs!
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In the fall of 1960, Howard Knaack began building jobsite storage tool boxes in a small, one-room shop in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Mr. Knaack's main outlet for these boxes was a tool supply distributor owned by his partners named Brock Tool Company. In 1962, Mr. Knaack began setting up a nationwide distribution network of contractor supply houses. In 1968, Knaack LLC. moved to its current location at 420 E. Terra Cotta Ave., in Crystal Lake, Illinois, with a new 16,000 sq. ft. facility.
In the late 1960s, Mr. Knaack was looking to expand his product offerings to the contractor trade andrecognized the need for a high-quality truck tool box. In 1968, Knaack LLC. purchased the rights to build WEATHER GUARD® Truck Equipment, a truck tool box line consisting of approximately 10 different models, from a sheet metal contractor in St. Louis, Missouri. He continued to build these boxes in St. Louis until 1971, when Knaack LLC. doubled its manufacturing capacity. The new addition included the first wash system to clean the steel and a bake oven to bake on enamel paint required on the WEATHER GUARD® Boxes. In 1973, the entire line of WEATHER GUARD® Tool Boxes was redesigned with features needed by the contractor markets that they served. Many of these innovations soon became the standard in the industry and were eventually copied by other truck tool box manufacturers.
Always looking for new products, Hi-Side Boxes, UnderBed Boxes and van equipment items were introduced in the mid-70s. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the company expanded product offerings in the truck and van storage equipment lines. In 1981, a powder coating system was added to its facility for WEATHER GUARD® Product Lines, making the company one of the first in its industry to offer the benefits of a TGIC Polyester Powder Coating. Also in the early '80s, gas pistons were added to WEATHER GUARD® Truck Boxes, making them easier to open and close, therefore being safer to use than previous versions or competitors' models.
In the early 1980s, major additions were made to the WEATHER GUARD® Truck and Van Storage Equipment lines. In truck equipment, saddle boxes, super lo-side boxes, and super side boxes were added to the truck equipment line along with an expanded line of underbed boxes and truck ladder racks.In van equipment, the line was expanded to include knockdown shelving, small and medium size parts bins, expanded ladder rack offerings and also an expanded bulkhead offering. This product expansion enabled the company to expand its base of users to include municipalities, utilities, fleets, etc. The business grew dramatically through the 1980s along with its distribution base and end users. The product offerings also grew significantly with the introduction of aluminum saddle boxes and the market's switch to aluminum.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
SAP's Emerging Cloud Platform Strategy
Keep in mind that what I'm sharing here is not SAP's own messaging around its cloud strategy. Rather, it is my interpretation of where SAP is going and what it needs to do to be successful.
SAP Has a Proliferation of Cloud AssetsOver the past few years, SAP has been at work rolling out a number of cloud services. The most well-known is Business ByDesign (ByD), a full-suite ERP system, written from the ground up for software-as-a-service (SaaS). This was an enormous development effort, and it went through two development iterations until 2011, when it was ready to scale in production. SAP now has over 1,000 customers running ByD.
Following initial delivery of ByD, SAP also began rolling out its line-of-business applications. These were built on the ByD cloud platform to meet the needs of specific business functions, such as sales force automation (Sales OnDemand) and expense reporting (Travel OnDemand). There are others, also.
Then in 2011, SAP acquired SuccessFactors, a well-respected cloud-only HRMS vendor. This greatly increased SAP's stature as a SaaS provider, but it also added another set of cloud assets and executive leadership to the mix. Further adding to the complexity: SAP is in process of acquiring Ariba, the venerable provider of supplier networking services.
From Cloud Applications to a Cloud PlatformIn my view, the current situation has led to a number of problems. First, SAP's cloud portfolio is largely a collection of unrelated systems, and several different cloud platforms. There has been no common architecture, and no integrated product roadmap.
Second, the rest of SAP's product porfolio is not standing still. Specifically, SAP has been making large investments in its in-memory database technology (HANA), and it has acquired and developed an impressive array of mobility applications and mobility platforms. All of these products have cloud-delivery aspects.
Third, SAP lacks a single extensible cloud development environment. (ByD does have a PaaS capability, for partners only, but it is limited to ByD.) Customers and partners don't just want cloud apps, they want the ability to extend those apps and build new applications that can interoperate with them. In other words, they want PaaS (platform-as-a-service) in addition to SaaS.
SAP's emerging cloud strategy addresses all of these issues: it embraces all of SAP's existing applications as well as its database and mobility platforms, and it gives customers and partners a development environment to build upon and extend these services.
Here are key aspects of SAP's cloud strategy, as I see them:
The Netweaver Cloud runs in SAP's own data centers (including those gained through the acquisition of SuccessFactors). There are a number of other features, such as identity services and document services, which I won't go into in this post.
- Everything as a Service. Behind the scenes, SAP has been rearchitecting its SaaS offerings to be delivered as web services. For example, it has broken up ByD functionality into 32 "honeycombs," so that no two of them share a common database. Rather they communicate via messaging. SAP has taken the same approach with its line-of-business applications. In fact, all of SAP cloud applications will be deployed as web services, including its mobility and database offerings. I have to believe this also includes SuccessFactors. SAP will now be able to sell individual modules (e.g. Finance), or a complete suite, or combinations in between.
- Platform-as-a-Service. SAP has built a PaaS capability, now referred to as the SAP Netweaver Cloud (earlier code-names included JPass, Neo, and Project River.) It is intended as a multi-language/multi-framework platform. It is primarily a Java-platform, but its open nature also allows development in a variety of other languages, such as Spring and Ruby. Furthermore, it allows developers to access all of the SAP cloud applications, database services, and mobility services that are now accessible via web services (see point #1). It even allows applications to access SAP on-premises systems such as SAP ECC, CRM, and HCM. Conceivably, therefore, the Netweaver Cloud could be used for customizations/extensions of SAP on-premises systems that have been traditionally done with ABAP coding.
- Ecosystem. The SAP Netweaver Cloud can be used internally by customers or their system integrators, and it also can be also used by third-party developers to build new applications for sale on the SAP Store. This facilitates the growth of SAP's developer ecosystem.
The Pluses and the MinusesThere are several things I like about SAP's emerging cloud strategy.
On the other hand, there are some aspects that give me concern.
- Integration. SAP's is finally integrating all of its cloud assets into a single platform. If successful, nearly anything SAP delivers should be available and accessible through Netweaver Cloud.
- Openness. Netweaver Cloud does not use a proprietary language, like Salesforce.com's APEX. Use of public development languages, such as Java and Ruby, facilitates adoption by developers and also works against lock-in to a single platform. Likewise, the PaaS makes use of open source projects from Apache and Eclipse, which should further facilitate adoption by developers.
- Availability. Netweaver Cloud has already been released to customers, and it is scheduled for general availability at the end of this month. A free 90 day trial is already being offered. This puts SAP out ahead of Oracle, whose Oracle Public Cloud is still in controlled availability (though hopefully there will be announcements at Oracle's Open World conference next month).
Regarding that last point, on the other hand, my research at Computer Economics shows that PaaS is a technology that is still in the early adopter phase. Most organizations are still buying individual SaaS applications and have not yet made a strategic commitment to cloud computing as a platform. They have hybrid systems: some on-premises, and some in the cloud. Of course, there are exceptions: these are the early adopters that embrace cloud computing not only for SaaS applications but for PaaS as a development strategy. Nevertheless, the majority have not yet seen the vision. Therefore, if SAP can quickly make its cloud strategy clear and deliver working product, it may still have a shot at being a major player.
- Will Customers Understand It? The cloud-only providers have one great advantage: simplicity. Everything Salesforce.com builds is on its Force.com platform. Likewise, enterprise cloud leaders such as NetSuite and Workday grew up with single platforms. Their platforms are relatively easy to explain and easy to understand. SAP, on the other hand, has a variety of on-premises and cloud systems. Furthermore, it has built or acquired a variety of database products and mobility applications and platforms. The SAP cloud platform must now deal with all of these products. It's not easy to explain, as witnessed by the difficulty SAP's own team had in communicating it with our group of tech bloggers. If the bloggers struggle with understanding it, what hope does SAP have to make the message clear to customers or prospects?
- Will Developers Adopt It? Developers are a key to success in cloud systems, just as they are in mobility applications. Salesforce.com already has a large and enthusiastic ecosystem of developers for its Force.com platform. Microsoft has an enormous ecosystem of development partners, for whom Microsoft's cloud platform (Azure) is more-or-less an incremental step in using existing Microsoft development tools. Will SAP's current population of partners readily embrace Netweaver Cloud, or will they be content to continue development in the SAP tools they have been using for years?
- Is SAP Too Late? Salesforce.com's PaaS was first introduced in 2006 (I wrote about it at the time, here). NetSuite has had CloudSuite for years. Microsoft has already rolled out and continues to refine its Azure PaaS. SAP is only now rolling out Netweaver Cloud. Though SAP denies this, I do believe that its cloud development efforts in recent years have taken a back seat to its database and mobility development efforts. So now, SAP is playing catch-up. SAP has a lot of work to do to be perceived as a cloud leader.
Here are some reports from other bloggers who were at this event:
Disclosure: SAP paid for part of my travel expenses to this event.
- Vijay Vijayasankar: SAP Needs A Better Cloud And Platform Story, And A Good Story Teller
- Jarret Pazahanick: SAP Briefing - Cloud, Mobility and HCM
- Fellow bloggers Vijay Vijayasankar, Jon Reed, John Appleby, and Harald Reiter: Video discussion on SAP Cloud, Mobility, and Database Strategy
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Labels: Azure, cloud, Force.com, Microsoft, NetSuite, Netweaver Cloud, PaaS, SaaS, Salesforce.com, SAP, Workdayby Frank Scavo, 9/23/2012 07:08:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
Reader Comments:I guess I get it now. Your example
NetSuite/Azure opened my eyes.
SAP's discussions at the event
don't support they're anywhere
close to Azure/Netsuite.
Thanks for writing this blog.
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The New Orleans newspaper wonders aloud if the schedule is too much for the Dawgs. My favorite part of the piece includes this exchange about the more animated, more emotional Mark Richt:
The icy Richt demeanor, one forged as offensive coordinator at Florida State and then honed as the sole play-caller at Georgia, had a chance to melt when he turned over game-day signals to offensive coordinator Mike Bobo. Untethered at last, Richt realized he could show more emotion on the sideline.Like I've said numerous times. Let "Nice Richt" do the press conferences, but let Evil Richt out of the cage for game day. Man, we'd never lose.
Despite the obvious success against Florida, Richt said the new persona had some critics. After he'd spent "two or three games getting in the ear of officials, " he said one of them looked at him with astonishment during a game and said he thought Richt was a class act.
"I am a class act, " Richt said he barked back.
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