Online stores are the new, next-generation, "revolutionize the world as we
see it today" way of doing business. In the context of business transactions,
online stores use the global Internet to facilitate purchase and sale of
goods and services. The ability to support online sales is an essential
component of the new e-commerce paradigm for Internet-based businesses today.
Putting together an enterprise-level application for an Internet store
involves design and integration of various technologies that play specific
roles in a distributed computing environment. A distributed topology is a
prerequisite for building such Internet applications since the Internet is
inherently distributed in nature.
Due to the plethora of alternative technologies available in the computing
arena today, designing an enterprise application involves choosing between
technologies based on f... (more)
I used to be a regular presenter at SYS-CON's tech.conferences. After a
hiatus of a few years, I thought of presenting at the Cloud Expo conference
in New York. I was wondering which track to participate in. You see,
although, Infosys Limited, the company I work for, has a very large Cloud
practice, I belong to a space which is more of a consumer of what Cloud
offers. To me Cloud and Big Data are the plumbing for the house that we build
for clients. I have helped incubate one of the strategic focus areas within
Infosys - digital transformation, which is powered by Cloud.
The a... (more)
This month the Java platform segues into the new millennium. These are very
exciting times; 1999 was a crucial year in the acceptance of Java in the
enterprise as one of the key drivers of e-business. It's ironic that applets
the components of Java that helped propel it into the mainstream of
Internet applications currently occupy a backseat in the vehicle that
propels Java into the 21st century. During the year gone by, the focus was on
server-side Java, as predicted last year by several industry pundits more
precisely, on Java in the middle tiers of distributed computing.... (more)
We live in a world where abstraction is the name of the game. I used to be an
avid reader of Asterix comics, and thinking of abstraction reminds me of a
couple of panels in the "Obelix & Co." comic book. A Roman emissary tries to
explain to the (simpleton) Obelix the intricacies of Roman economy in simple
words: "Make much menhir, get much gold," or something to that effect.
I don't mean to say that we developers are simpletons. But, as my colleagues
in marketing say, the presentation needs to be "dumbed-down" for the
appropriate crowd. As an enterprise architect, I don't want to ... (more)
Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition
by Nicholas Kassem,
Enterprise Team
Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-70277-0
J2EE Technology in Practice
Rick Cattell, Jim Inscore, Enterprise Partners
Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-74622-0
This month I review two books, both of which are valuable sources for
developers and architects building enterprise applications using J2EE
technologies.
If you're familiar with the J2EE Blueprints from Sun, Designing Enterprise
Applications with the Java2 Platform, Enterprise Edition is the official
"Java Series" book from A... (more)