By Ajit Sagar Here's a short pop quiz: Have you ever built an application in J2EE and taken it through the entire product life cycle? Or, for that matter, any distributed computing application? If the answer is 'Yes,' then answer this one: Have you handled all the facets of the application on your o... Jul. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,640 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio interviews Ken Rutsky, VP of Product Marketing from Actional Corp. Jun. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,078 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio interviews Richard Hale Shaw of the Richard Hale Shaw Group. Jun. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,546 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio interviews Joe Brookman, Chief Marketing Officer of Improv Technologies. Jun. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,447 |
By Ajit Sagar Some years ago I did all my coding in vi, then later in Emacs. I still believe these are great editors; I just don't use them anymore for Java development, especially J2EE application development. I'm much more productive if I use an IDE whose sole purpose in life is to facilitate prod... Jun. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,732 Replies: 9 |
By Ajit Sagar I'll never buy a Casio watch again. Not just because they break down - that's just the luck of the draw - but because of their extremely poor service. I've spent months trying to get my $200 watch back from their service center, but to no avail. It isn't the money that matters; it's th... May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,127 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar Although I've been following EJB 2.0 very closely, it was only recently that I walked into a project that was the perfect venue for its new features, such as the much enhanced container-managed persistence and local interfaces. And Enterprise JavaBeans, written by Richard Monson-Haefel... May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,169 |
By Ajit Sagar Sun's seventh annual JavaOne conference was held March 25-28 at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. This was the sixth Java conference I attended and it was interesting to compare it with the previous shows. May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,359 |
By Ajit Sagar The XML landscape has been changing at the speed of light in the last couple of years. The rapid evolutions and new additions to the XML universe have increased in frequency even as the technologies and markets around it have consolidated. Add new paradigms such as Web services to the ... Apr. 18, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,594 |
By Ajit Sagar You want to develop a new business application based on your particular business problem. You get a software team to pull together the right mix of technologies to build the required software components. You choose an architect to capture your business requirements and to define the ri... Apr. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,002 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Patrick Smith, Director, DeployDirector Product Management, Sitraka Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,117 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Peter Mahoney, Senior Director, ATG Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,001 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio host Ajit Sagar interviews Daniel Selman, Staff Engineer, BEA, regarding his 3D book. Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,959 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Ken Rugg , CTO and VP of Development, eXcelon Mar. 26, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,675 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Marc Fleury, President, The JBoss Group Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,143 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Greg Chase,Senior Product Manager, FastObjects by Poet Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,907 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Host Ajit Sagar interviews Steve Wilkes, Principal Technologist, AltoWeb Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,702 |
By Ajit Sagar A large part of business application development deals with abstracting the software components and services that enable the implementation of industry domain-specific business processes into a design environment that is used to model the design of the business process itself. One of t... Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,904 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio host Ajit Sagar interviews Ted Lewis, President and General Manager, esmertec, inc. Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,855 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Greg O'Connor, President, Sonic Software Corporation Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 6,424 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Ron Alepin, General Manager; Simon Azriel, Product Manager; and Paula Negron, Product Manager; Fujitsu Software Corporation Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,003 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Alan Armstrong, Director, New Product Mangement, Sitraka Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 6,065 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Tom Mulvehill, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Precise Software Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,425 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Frank D. Greco, CEO, Crossroads Technologies, Inc. Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,525 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Peter Barth, Director of Global Marketing, SAP Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,146 |
By Ajit Sagar SYS- CON Radio Host Ajit Sagar interviews Greg Stachnick,,Jtest Product Specialist Mar. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,656 |
By Ajit Sagar By the time you get this issue, JavaOne will be around the corner. Or you picked up this issue at the conference itself. This is JavaOne’s seventh year – and for J2EE, it seems that the middle-tier component wars are over, with J2EE clearly emerging as the winning platform ... Mar. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,050 |
By Ajit Sagar Have you ever been called an XML developer or XML programmer? While processing XML in programs has become a common task for computer programmers, XML is used only in the context of some other programming language environment, such as Java, C++, and Web programming languages. We've all ... Feb. 22, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,907 Replies: 1 |
By Ajit Sagar In a tough competitive market one of the biggest challenges vendors face is what message to put around their product to distinguish it from their competitor's. The question of which features to focus on is a tough call. The dilemma is paradoxical. With the emphasis on standards, all ve... Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,632 |
By Ajit Sagar Last year marked another significant period in the evolution of new technologies. Some of these evolutions reflect the various changes that we've seen in the economy. We saw Web services gain momentum, but skepticism still looms regarding the business models to which they'll eventually... Jan. 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,351 |
By Ajit Sagar 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 fant... Jan. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,085 |
By Ajit Sagar Recently I did an analysis of Verticalnet's ontology-based tools. It's interesting that as soon as you say the word ontology, people start wondering what they are and what they're good for. I went through a learning process this myself recently and would like to share my findings with ... Dec. 28, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,815 |
By Ajit Sagar I just got back from the Web Services Edge/XMLEdge conference hosted by SYS-CON Media in Santa Clara, California. Although attendance was lower than usual, this wasn't unexpected and the show was quite well received by both vendors and attendees. Look for the XMLEdge show report later ... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,153 |
By Ajit Sagar To help cut the cost of travel in today's economy, I flew ATA from Philadelphia to San Francisco last weekend. You know, if you live within the constraints defined by these airlines, it's not really a bad way to go. Of course, you travel in a full plane (and I mean packed to the brim),... Dec. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,113 |
By Ajit Sagar As a DP manager looking for educational opportunities for a large and diverse development staff, I found Jim Milbery's article on online XML courses in XML-Journal [Vol. 2, issue 8] quite enlightening. I agree with the conclusion that online courses work better for overview-type classe... Nov. 20, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,156 |
By Ajit Sagar 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 ... Nov. 20, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,652 |
By Ajit Sagar Last week my wife and I decided to test out a new restaurant on the basis of a friend's recommendation. In retrospect, I can definitely say that it was one of the worst Indian restaurants we've ever dined in. We were impressed by the name, which indicated that we were in for a deliciou... Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,786 |
By Ajit Sagar Online Learning I just want to say thanks for the kind words in the article on carriglearning's online course offerings ['Gleaning Useful Lessons,' Vol. 2, issue 8]. I didn't realize at the time that you were reviewing the course for publication! Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,314 |
By Ajit Sagar First things first: I'd like to take a moment to reflect upon SYS-CON's JDJEdge Conference in light of the tragedy that shocked America on September 11. The best way to deal with a terrorist act is to not give in and allow it to disrupt everyday activities. To that effect, JDJEdge took... Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,352 |
By Ajit Sagar I recently got the security card for entering our Pennsylvania offices. The badge attaches to a hook that's linked to the string that goes around my neck so I can carry the badge at all times. I'm sure you know the type of setup I'm talking about. The JavaOne badges handed out this yea... Oct. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,318 |
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.
