Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences, JavaOne, and international conference. He has published more than 125 articles.
Welcome to 2002 J2EE. The year 2001 has been a learning experience for all of
us in the Java technology universe. The lesson has been a painful one - focus
on the business problem and apply technology to ensure the right ROI. About a
year ago, several folks were riding out the fantasy of paper money; options
would change their entire lifestyle. They were going to take a year off and
get back to work when they felt like it. Their requirements for cars and
houses had taken on a whole new dimension. They were asking the world to
excuse them while they kissed the sky. Then the bubble... (more)
It seems that the only constant in life is change - sometimes the change is
unexpected, unwanted, unwarranted. The tragic events of September 11 have
left their mark. As I sat down to write this month's editorial, my mind
wandered back to the way life was, and how it's changed for all of us.
At SYS-CON we felt that the best way to deal with the changes was to continue
business as usual, t... (more)
One of the salient aspects of the Java language is the control it gives to
developers for dynamically generating and reusing code. This allows the
language to offer Java programmers the ability to write code in which the
actual behavior is determined at runtime. Of the eleven buzzwords used to
define Java, this article is going to focus on the dynamic nature of the Java
programming langu... (more)
This month's discussion warrants a brisk walk down technological memory lane
to examine Java's humble beginnings. In its original incarnation Java, then
called Oak, was a language based on some of the features and syntax provided
by C++. Oak was the result of Sun Microsystem's mission to find a way for
consumer electronic appliances to communicate with each other. When Oak was
launched, ... (more)
Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences, JavaOne, and international conference. He has published more than 125 articles.
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Stephen Dukker
Irfan Khan
Matt Pollicove
Jeffrey Miller
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Dmitry Sotnikov
Eric Baldeschwieler
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Holly Hagerman
