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John Reynolds is a Santa Fe (as in New Mexico) based programming mentor who has been professionally developing software since 1980. His primary focus has been on software usability and usefulness, dating back to his involvement with Tandy's DeskMate graphical environment in the late 80's. Java is his current language of choice, superceding a long relationship with C++ and an early affair with the irrepressible FORTH.

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Service Oriented Mashups

What can Service Oriented Architects learn from...

What kind of CTO do you want to be?

When I was growing up back in the 60's, I wanted to be a CTO.

Hello... My name is John, and I am a java.net blogger

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Reynolds, John wrote:

"I'd like to get a java.net weblog account."

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 8:44 AM,...

Service Oriented Architects

In his XML Annoynaces blog, Micah Dubinko offers...

Can I call you back? - Asynchronous Web Services

Asynchronous Services are a fact of life, and a key requirement for successful SOA solutions. Doug Kaye summed it up well in his book, ...

Service Orchestration vs. Service Choreography

Do you know the difference between Web Service Orchestration and Web Service Choreography?

The distinction between WS-Orchestration and WS-Choreography is important to understand, but...

SOA/ESB Level Set

Building on my SOA Elevator Speech, I have created a set of level setting diagrams for discussing the use...

What do programmers really need to know?

Joel on Software recently posted the following observation:

"...there's nothing hard enough about Java to...

Big dreams on the longest night of the year...

December 21st is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. What better time to dream sweet visions for the...

Ja-va-saurus and the Asteroid

The Business Week article "Java? It's So Nineties" quotes Peter Yared as saying "Java is a dinosuar".

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Form Validation in an SOA context

This blog continues the classic client-side versus server-side validation discussion, but now adds another layer - web service "side" validation. How can you share validation logic across client-...

Paving cow paths - Service Component Architecture plans to smooth out the bumps

If you have the time, you might enjoy reading the joint whitepaper from BEA, IBM, Interface21, IONA, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, and Sybase on...

"I Agree" or "Cancel": We need more options

The recent Sony BMC rootkit fiasco confirms a sad fact...

Is Java the wrong language for business programming?

Business needs applications that can be maintained long after the original coder is gone. Java is a great language, but does Java's richness lead to unmaintainable code?

This thought was...

Solutions for the 3rd world that might make the 1st world jealous

Bruce Boyes's Blog, "The $100 PC in another guise?", and the comments that it generated got me thinking about...

AJAXOffice, the next big thing

Contrary to Jonathan Schwartz's "common sense" views, rewriting...

Beyond Java, but not beyond the JVM

Bruce Tate's views on Java are always noteworthy. Bruce has a low tolerance for things that don't quite make sense, and he's adept at capturing the essence of the problem in a clever phrase or...

How Beans side-tracked Enterprise Java

Sometimes a single word can really wreak havoc, and "Bean" is one such word.

My enthusiasm for Java took a distinct nose dive the first time I encountered the implementation details for the...

SOA: Real Meat, and Potatoes too

James Gosling's recent blog asks the question: "SOA: Buzzworld Whiplash or Real Meat?"

The answer...

How to keep your programming job

In Chris Adamson's blog entry "Why don't you get a job?", he suggests that

"In the future, you may...

Innovators and Remodellers

Jacob Hookam writes in his blog:

"Ruby on Rails: love it or...

Great Javascript resources

AJAX has rekindled my interest in Javascript, and much to my delight there are a lot of great library...

Decoupling client-side JavaScript components from server-side web frameworks

Michael Meehan's recent article,"Can Ajax be running partner of Web services?" got me thinking...

Is Simon Phipps' mailbox full?

In a CNet News.com article, Simon Phipps is quoted as saying: "If you think Sun is doing...

Straining the bath water (in search of lost babies)

Romain Guy's blog "...

Longing for an Integrated Maintenance Environment

We are blessed with many great IDE choices for...

Austin (as in Texas) Java Users Group meeting

It has been a while since I have attended an Austin Java Users Group meeting, but since java.net luminary...

GUI Builders Considered Harmful

Should we Beware the GUI Builder?

I came across this Hacknot blog entry today, and thought I'd like throw in my own two cents...

Faces and Flash?

I came across an announcement for

Democratizing Innovation

In response to an earlier blog entry, "zander" sent me a link to the downloadable copy of Eric Von Hippel's book Democratizing Innovation.

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