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... (more)

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 particul... (more)

A couple of days ago I attended and delivered a keynote about "Web Services and SOA - China 2005" in Beijing. As compared to technology conferences in North America and Europe, the attendance was modest. However, for an area that is rapidly growing in China, which is the next can... (more)

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-orient... (more)

If you do a search for "migrating J2EE application servers" on the de facto "re"search engine - Google - here are some of the results you'll get from your query: Migrating J2EE applications from Borland JBuilder to IBM WebSphere Migrating J2EE applications from WebLogic to WebSp... (more)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:00 P.M. - 5:50 P.M. 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 bet... (more)

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 stan... (more)

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 choi... (more)

  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 b... (more)

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 subsyst... (more)

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 a... (more)

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... (more)

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 yo... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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. I won'... (more)

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 t... (more)

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... (more)

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 b... (more)