By Ajit Sagar  At my firm, Infosys Technologies, I have come across several clients who are actively trying to explore, consider, adopt, embrace, or become completely immersed in SOA. Here is a typical call I've received, where our client rep says, 'Ajit, we've got a very critical meeting with the CI... Feb. 26, 2007 04:30 PM EST Reads: 17,506 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar  The term 'architecture group' is a heavily loaded one. I've run into different scenarios at the various clients that have engaged us for consulting on their architecture strategy. In some cases, we have been asked to help seed and grow such a group. In other cases, we've been asked to ... Jan. 23, 2007 03:15 PM EST Reads: 22,270 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar  The entire premise behind the Web services paradigm is enabling access to loosely coupled services via the Web. In essence, Web services are based on a synchronous request-response type interaction. On the other hand, a client's interaction with a Web service can be synchronous or asyn... Oct. 27, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,670 |
By Ajit Sagar  Companies that decide to invest in SOA sometimes end up going to extremes - too little or too much. Too little happens when some stakeholder latches onto the buzzword and wants to get the benefits promised. However, the environment may be too conservative to invest in the infrastructur... Sep. 24, 2006 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 15,728 |
By Ajit Sagar  A few years ago, when Web services started out as a buzzword in the enterprise, the whole paradigm was associated with (and still is) associated with three concepts - SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Now, when enterprises are putting Web services into production, you will most likely see two out ... Jun. 13, 2006 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 19,436 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to design and implement Business Rules Engine based projects to service-enable your enterprise. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise applications with multiple dependencies. Jun. 6, 2006 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,424 |
By Ajit Sagar This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to design and design application leveraging Process Orchestration in the SOA initiatives. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise applications with multiple dependencies. Jun. 5, 2006 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,683 |
By Ajit Sagar  The feasibility of adopting new technology in the computing world is governed in large part, as it is in other paradigms, by the cost-benefit-risk equation. In the world of electronic computing, whenever a cost-benefit analysis is done, the benefit/risk of adopting open source solution... Apr. 10, 2006 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 15,108 Replies: 6 |
By Ajit Sagar  One of the biggest barriers to SOA adoption is fear of not meeting the high demands of the runtime environment coupled with the need to provide business agility. As more layers have been introduced by the components of the new technology stacks, the points of failure in distributed app... Mar. 6, 2006 11:45 AM EST Reads: 17,456 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar  Ask 10 people the question: What is SOA? You will most likely get 10 different answers. Chances are that in more than 50 percent of the cases, the word 'Web services' will be a part of the answer. Another 20 percent will talk about process orchestration, XML, integration, and so on. Al... Jan. 26, 2006 07:00 PM EST Reads: 17,773 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar  It never ceases to amaze me how ambiguity in the definition of simple terms can lead to design choices that have a huge impact on the success of projects. Recently I had a long discussion with a colleague at a client site, where we are in the process of assessing the artifacts that hav... Dec. 19, 2005 02:45 PM EST Reads: 17,989 Replies: 3 |
By Ajit Sagar  As the complexity of enterprise applications grows with the increased offerings in the Java platform, the management of the different building blocks that constitute the application also becomes very complex. The challenge in managing applications in the enterprise is posed from many f... Dec. 19, 2005 02:30 PM EST Reads: 28,573 Replies: 4 |
By Ajit Sagar  Last month I talked to a couple of vendors who are making new inroads in the services arena through open source offerings. Open source support in Web services is definitely very heartening. While the frameworks and utilities for implementing Web services in enterprise applications have... Dec. 7, 2005 01:00 PM EST Reads: 19,574 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar  It seems as though as soon as the open source community rallies around a technology, the IT industry starts taking it more seriously - and finds practical application for it. Ironically, although organizations like the concept, despite the maturation of the open source community in a v... Oct. 2, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 20,273 |
By Ajit Sagar  Over the last few years, Web services and SOA have made a lot of inroads into not only the IT departments of large enterprises, but also into the minds of the business owners of different LOBs (Lines of Business). SOA is more than Web services; it is the mantra for bridging the gaps an... Sep. 21, 2005 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 19,331 |
By Ajit Sagar  As organizations bravely venture into the world of Web services, they grapple with the age-old question - where do we begin? The main challenge that I have seen with key stakeholders looking to move towards the agile enterprise is solving the dilemma of which approach to take, top down... Aug. 26, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,472 |
By Ajit Sagar  At JavaOne this year, one of the biggest announcements (albeit this one had nothing really to do with Java) was the acquisition of SeeBeyond by Sun Microsystems. It looks like Sun is putting its cash, which it has plenty of, to good use. As we have seen over the last decade of Java, Su... Aug. 10, 2005 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,473 |
By Ajit Sagar  Over the last couple of years, the industry has rallied around SOA and its main realization platform - Web services. While many of the clients I meet are still wary about the adoption of new technology, integration dilemmas posed by the variety of software and hardware platforms has le... Aug. 2, 2005 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 23,147 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar  As SOA and Web services adoption in the industry is gaining more momentum, the need to get quick wins and to show the value of adopting new (or old) paradigms is weighed against the risk of facing the repercussions of slapping something together in a quick and dirty fashion and paying ... Jun. 28, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,934 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar  If we consider JavaOne as the event when Java was born, then June 27-30, 2005, will mark its tenth birthweek. A lot has happened since the language that was trademarked with dancing dukes made its appearance into the world of computing. In its current incarnation, the Java platform is ... Jun. 24, 2005 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,667 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself. I've been working with SYS-CON for about eight years now, across different publications, so when Sean talked to me about providing regular content for WSJ, I thought to myself, 'Cool.' I am also the enterprise editor for JDJ - so you shoul... May. 25, 2005 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,913 |
By Ajit Sagar A couple of months ago I got an e-mail inviting me to keynote an SOA/Web Services conference in Beijing. My immediate reaction was - 'Good. China has reached the stage where it's hosting international conferences on the subject.' Actually, 2005 marks the fourth time this particular con... Apr. 22, 2005 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,314 |
By Ajit Sagar China is second only to India these days when it comes to delivering global IT software services. How does a technology conference there differ from a North American one? Ajit Sagar, founding editor of XML-Journal and longtime editorial board member of JDJ, reports direct from Beijing ... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,744 |
By Ajit Sagar SOA is obviously the new buzzword of the day. Among the many acronyms, one that is seen very often is 'Same Old Architecture.' In many ways, this is true. The key differentiator between the paradigms that have been prevalent in the past and this new incarnation of 'service-orientation'... Mar. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,590 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar When I first got involved in the planning for a project that involved the migration of applications between versions of IBM's WebSphere product, I naively thought - 'This can't be that big a deal. After all it's just different versions of the application server. And the changes in the ... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 29,864 |
By Ajit Sagar This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to tackle a problem that is sapping the budgets of enterprise which have invested heavily in J2EE technology - the migration of enterprise applications . Dec. 14, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 3,615 |
By Ajit Sagar Life is not easy for today's enterprise application architects. In today's IT world, the architect not only has to design solutions for a plethora of interdependent systems (as is obvious from the job description and title), he or she also has to conform to the ever-evolving standards ... Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,003 |
By Ajit Sagar The six blind men who attempted to describe the elephant eventually described it only from their perspectives - the parts and not the whole. The same malady can be found lurking in one of the problems that faces many organizations that have adopted J2EE as their platform of choice: the... Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 24,342 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio host Ajit Sagar interviews Paul Brown, CEO of FiveSight Technologies, Inc. about the future of Java development as its divided between higher-level tools and core development. The interview also covered the important things to look for when aligning development best pract... Jun. 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,557 |
By Ajit Sagar In a large project, designing for performance often turns out to be a chicken or egg situation. In a J2EE project, this is even more evident. Typically when business and functional requirements are handed down to the technical team, the first step is to map the functional subsystems in... May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 23,474 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar My 2 1/2 year old son has a birth certificate on his door that says 'native Texan.' Now I've lived in Dallas for several more years than those he has covered in his short stint on this planet, but that doesn't make me a native Texan. I am in a strange state of flux right now. I am orig... Apr. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,301 |
By Ajit Sagar One of my recent clients had an entire suite of applications that was built on an in-house messaging framework. Several years ago, when not many Java frameworks existed in the market and J2EE was still a few years away, this would have been considered a good thing; today, any new devel... Mar. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,770 |
By Ajit Sagar If you wanted a home theater system, would you buy a shrink-wrapped solution - a preconfigured system from a single brand? Or are you one of those folks who would like to buy a TV from here, a receiver from there, and speaker from hither, and the amplifier from yonder? Because you can ... Feb. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,588 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar A colleague of mine is an easy target for anything that's free. I'm not talking about free from the perspective of 'unshackled' or 'independent.' Rather, I'm talking about the type of free that won't make his wallet thinner. To him anything that looks, tastes, or smells 'free' is the m... Jan. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,001 Replies: 3 |
By Ajit Sagar By the time you get this issue, Christmas will be around the corner. From the J2EE arena, what is on your wish list for the coming year? More sophisticated tools? All-encompassing solutions for your business? More J2EE-related jobs next year? A utopia where J2EE and .NET can live toget... Dec. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 18,551 Replies: 4 |
By Ajit Sagar When I first started programming, it was with a small company. Life was simple. I understood all the requirements, and knew all the aspects of the application and how to pull everything together. If I was working with a team of programmers, the projects were small enough that the team ... Nov. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,241 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar There's no doubt about it. Borland makes great products for developers. They're definitely expensive and usually complex but very powerful. I've been using JBuilder 6 for several months, and when I had the opportunity to review the latest version, I jumped at the chance. Oct. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,717 Replies: 9 |
By Ajit Sagar EJB 2.0 is testimony to the fact that the J2EE model has come a long way. You can do a lot of things with 2.0 that were tedious and error-prone in EJB 1.1. The Container Managed Persistence (CMP) relationship management alone makes it worthwhile. Just define all database access through... Oct. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,361 Replies: 6 |
By Ajit Sagar About three months ago, my two-year old son discovered the word 'cup.' He would call everything a cup, though he had no clue what a cup was. Finally we figured out a way for him to call a cup a cup we pointed to a cup every time he uttered the word. In my technological world of J2EE,... Sep. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,507 Replies: 2 |
By Ajit Sagar I'm sure you've heard many of the cannibal jokes. One of my favorites is a news flash in a cannibal tribe announcing the invention of the 'pressure cooker': 'We have news of a device that cooks a man within minutes, and even lets out a whistle when it's done.' Though technology brings ... Aug. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,620 Replies: 2 |
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.
