http://www.soaprpc.com/ en-us vivekchopra@gmail.com 2006-11-13T11:12:43-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000057.html Sun today announced that it is releasing the Java source code under GPL 2. The JDK will be available for download from openjdk.dev.java.net, and (as of today) the HotSpot Virtual Machine and javac are available. The rest of the JDK... 57@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2006-11-13T11:12:43-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000056.html Funny stuff to quote from faced with that earnest consultant pushing their humongous SOA/ESB/TLA stack: www.soafacts.com. The one I like the best? "Guns don't kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people."... 56@http://www.soaprpc.com/ 2006-11-06T22:32:39-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000055.html Well, the JavaOne 2006 is just started and the keynote is underway with a new Sun CEO at the helm. Some interesting things: Sun announced that Java will be open sourced- "the question is how, not if". The key concern... 55@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2006-05-16T09:55:25-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000054.html I attended a Java by the Bay User Group meeting for the first time yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised by the wide range and quality of the presentations... the free pizza, courtesy Sun, wasn't too bad too!... 54@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2006-03-02T23:20:44-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000053.html Developing software in teams is not easy. Often you have to use components implemented by other developers, and a lot of time is wasted and nerves frayed in figuring out interface issues, and isolating defects. Over the years, I have... 53@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2005-12-02T13:37:42-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000052.html Who'd have thunk it- maps being the next battleground after search?It has the usual suspects fighting for mindshare- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and even Amazon (A9).... 52@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2005-08-08T16:12:41-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000051.html Once you start sending large volumes of data over a webservice invocation, you often run into performance issue. There are a range of techniques that can prove useful here:... 51@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2005-06-27T22:53:06-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000050.html In my recent book 'Beginning JavaServer Pages', I touch upon Web services in a project chapter. It is a JSP/JSTL/Web frameworks book, not a Web services book- so the treatment is introductory. In this introduction, I mention two application area... 50@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2005-03-02T12:00:42-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000049.html Yahoo joins the growing number of web sites exposing their API as Web Services. Their API is available from Yahoo Developer Network.... 49@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2005-03-01T17:15:54-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000048.html My new book Beginning JavaServer Pages just released! It was a lot of work - it weighs in at 3.6 lbs, and is over 1220 pages. Other than JSP development, it also covers frameworks, including web frameworks (Struts/Tiles, Spring, WebWork,... 48@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Announce 2005-02-27T21:49:24-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000047.html Google launched the 'Google Scholar' this week that searches for 'scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research'. I had earlier used CiteSeer for similar searches, however the results there... 47@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2004-11-18T11:33:37-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000045.html Google has introduced yet another interesting tool- a desktop search tool. There is a good review on it at O'Reilly Network. I just installed it, and have yet to play around with it. Some things I'm curious about, and... 45@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2004-10-14T10:30:05-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000044.html I recently purchased a hard case for my Sony PDA (PEG-TJ37) from a small company called Innopocket. It was pretty rugged looking and I was satisfied with it, till the small piece of metal holding the hinge together slipped out... 44@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2004-09-07T21:33:18-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000043.html A month or so ago, I was reading a Gartner handout for a conference, and came across an acronym they invented- SODA[1]. SODA (Service-Oriented Development of Applications), as Gartner defines it, consists of the following areas:... 43@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2004-08-30T16:15:50-08:00 http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000042.html In an earlier post, I had previewed gmail, and listed things that I liked, and what needs to be added. Well, since then much of it has been added.... 42@http://www.soaprpc.com/ Comment 2004-08-28T15:16:29-08:00