I have a love/hate relationship with J2EE. I love the idea of standards that
we can all use in our development to improve interoperability, ease
integration issues, create a pool of skilled developers, etc. I hate the idea
that I have to wait years for the standards to evolve and become usable. And
I hate having specs that seem to work well in theory but have no practical
implementation behind them. This brings me to the JSF specification.
How long have we heard about JSF (JavaServer Faces) and how it will make it
easier to build Web pages? Why did it take more than two and a half years to
come up with JSF, which is essentially an event model for Web pages? And it
happened at a time when Microsoft was coming out with major innovations (a
debatable point, I concede) and h... (more)
Solving complexity has been a continuing goal of application architects &
developers since we started writing programs. While SOA techniques do a great
job at standardizing the interface between systems and BPEL attempts to
standardize the logic flow between services, they tend to break down when
systems become overly complex and uncertainty is introduced into the system.
An Agent-Orient... (more)
As the push to Web-based computing gains momentum, the variety of available
tools, standards, techniques and languages gets increasingly complex. In
implementing a Web strategy, IS managers must make some hard decisions on
issues that include: supported browsers, ISP selection, Web server platform
and OS, application server platform and OS, object architecture standards,
client-side comp... (more)
So, what is going on in the world of Web services? I'm looking at a ton of
analyst reports saying Web services won't be mainstream for another two or
three years. One firm says that only 16% of companies will use Web services
this year. I suppose it comes down to your definition of Web services. Which
is another question I get a lot-what is a Web service? Some people have a
very broad de... (more)
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My dad is a DBA. However, he doesn't design large databases, he doesn't write
extremely elaborate multiselect SQLs (I don't think he's ever read a Joe
Celko book), and he certainly doesn't care about the latest, greatest news in
the wo... (more)
Steve Benfield is CTO of Agentis Software. A technology marketeer and strategist with 20 years of software entreprenuerism experience, he is both a gifted writer and a technical visionary, a combination of qualities that made him the perfect choice of Editor-in-Chief for SYS-CON Media's inaugural publication 12 years ago, PowerBuilder Developer's Journal. Steve's proven ability to determine marketing and technology strategies that align with market needs led to successful stints at SilverStream, where he started as technology evangelist and ended as CTO, and at ClearNova where he was CTO.
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