Joe Mitchko

To fully appreciate the power behind Workshop, you need to know a bit about Java Web Services (JWS), an up-and-coming standard in the J2EE world. Just as you can embed Java code in a JSP file and have it compile on the application server, Java code in a JWS file is compiled automatically into a Web service. JWS allows you to take standard method calls in a Java class and, by adding one or more Javadoc-based annotations, instruct the Web application server to expose the method as a SOAP-based Web service. Workshop allows you to map an XML element in the SOAP message to a specific method parameter. This allows the service to maintain its public contract (the underlying SOAP interface) while changing the implementation. Features The Design View, an integrated development env... (more)

Now I See the Problem

(July 21, 2003) - Just a few short years ago, I had my first experience with Web service technology while employed by a Silicon Valley dot-com company. At the time, the new technology seemed to me to be more like a solution looking for a problem. All right, you can use XML for remote procedural calls, but so what? I can specifically remember working on an advanced financial reconciliatio... (more)

JRun 3.0 by Allaire Corporation

One of the first things that crossed my mind after being asked to review JRun 3.0 was this: How could I objectively evaluate this product without being biased by my own experience working with a competing product? To give you a little background, all but one of the major Internet application projects I've worked on used this other product (which will remain nameless) as their Java applic... (more)

SiteSticky

In the increasingly fast-paced world of the Internet, myriad new Web sites seem to arrive daily, intent on gaining market share. Whether your site is involved in business-to-consumer sales, online services, or portal services, the name of the game is the same: try at all costs to retain users and give them the best customer service experience. Keeping content up to date and constantly add... (more)

Mindreef SOAPscope 1.0

While carefully sorting out junk mail in my inbox late one evening, I came across something that caught my attention. First of all, as product review editor, it is my duty and responsibility to give the subject line of any e-mail a quick once-over for Web service buzz words before I give it a heave-ho into the virtual trash bin. But this unsolicited parcel had something about it that mad... (more)