No one involved in Web development needs to be reminded of the continued
rapid changes in the industry. Even with the current financial downturn,
driven by the burst of the Internet bubble, innovation is still happening on
many fronts. Nowhere is this truer than in the evolving area of Web services.
Feeling overwhelmed by yet more change, I recently decided to do something I
usually never do and subscribed to several Web services-related mailing
groups. In this case, some SOAP-related lists would do the trick, especially
since SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is one of the key elements of Web
service-related architecture. Not long after I signed up, the mail started to
trickle in. Actually, it was a flood.
Browsing through several dozen e-mails, I got the sense that i... (more)
We often like to assume that most corporate IT organizations have kept
somewhat up-to-date with all of the various technological innovations over
the years, and have done so in an incremental manner. However, the reality of
the situation is quite different. You may (or may not) be surprised by how
many IT organizations do not necessarily ride the "bleeding edge" wave for
one reason or an... (more)
Rarely does a software product meet the expectations of each and every user.
First of all, if it did, I guess there wouldn't be any need for further
releases. We all have a wish list of sorts - if only this software program
could do this or if only that could be better. Most of the time, you just
grin and bear it, keep such thoughts to yourself, and accept the way it works
until the next... (more)
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)
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)
Joe Mitchko is the editor-in-chief of WLDJ and a senior technical specialist for a leading consulting services company.
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