Ajit Sagar

In my teens I was an avid reader of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason books. You may be familiar with the TV series also. Last week my mom, who is visiting us here in the U.S., made an interesting observation when she was going through one of Gardner's books. She said: "You know... (more)

They say no man is an island. For J2EE I would say no platform is the universe. Sometimes folks misunderstand the promise of J2EE. It won't replace every other development paradigm. J2EE application servers won't make all other deployment and runtime environments obsolete. And Ja... (more)

Q:  Molly, could you please tell us about your role at XMLSolutions and now at Vitria? [Vitria acquired XMLSolutions in May.] A: As training manager, I am responsible for allocating resources for XML training engagements that are conducted internally, externally, and for business... (more)

Typically, when a new technology is introduced in the computing world, it's first met with skepticism. This is followed by the hype that presents it as the solution to all computing problems. Over the course of the next few years, the technology is applied to real-world business ... (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 tw... (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 ... (more)

I spent the last weekend childproofing our house. You see, my 11 month-old son has been in India for the last three months with his grandparents. We are going there this weekend to pick him up. I've heard he now moves around speedily and is not easily fooled by an adult's tricks.... (more)

I just got back from JavaOne in San Francisco this weekend. My humble opinions on the conference are presented elsewhere in this issue of JDJ. As expected, one of the main themes of JavaOne this year was the J2EE platform and related technologies. Over the last two years, since S... (more)

This year's JavaOne revolved around three major themes ­ Web Services, wireless and small devices (J2ME), and J2EE. There was an air of euphoria around Web Services. This was similar to the atmosphere surrounding XML a couple of years ago. There were more examples of actual proto... (more)

  SYS-CON Radio host Ajit Sagar interviews James Gannon of Parabon Computation. Click here to listen {interview in MP3 format} ... (more)

Folks, before I tell you about the exciting events that are taking place in the SYS-CON-XML community, I'd like to take a moment to introduce the new editorial board for XML-J. These well-known leaders and experts in the XML industry are going to take this already fine publicatio... (more)

As Alan Williamson, JDJ's editor-in-chief, mentioned earlier in this issue, JDJ 2.0 is a total redesign of JDJ; our intention is to reflect the developments in the Java platform as closely as we can. Some of you may be familiar with my role in JDJ - I wrote a column, E-Java, and ... (more)

I'm on a trip to the holy land, Jerusalem, and writing this editorial from my hotel room, which overlooks the old city. As always, I find myself drawing parallels between what I experience in life and what I come across in technology. Various landmarks of the old city have been ... (more)

No application server worth its salt has any staying power in the market today if the vendor offering it doesn't have the acronym "XML" in its white paper. This is true. Don't just take my word for it; go to any of the existing app server vendor sites and search. If you find that... (more)

CFDJ: The biggest news of the year for Allaire and Macromedia is the merger. What are the reasons for uniting these two companies? Lynch: The merger of Macromedia and Allaire mirrors what's happening in Web development today. Creating the best user experience on the Web requires th... (more)

A couple of weeks ago I participated in several technical meetings to define the next phase of the architecture of our current products. As usual, any initiatives for a new architecture include requirement considerations for open APIs, platform independence, and loose coupling be... (more)

I spent most of last week helping our company host one of our Japanese partners for business and technology discussions. Part of my responsibility as an architect is to help figure out how our architecture and product line can be used in different scenarios. To do this for a comp... (more)

Last year Sun came out with a new set of design guidelines for building enterprise applications using enterprise Java APIs. These APIs are available as a set of documents called the J2EE Blueprints. They include architectural design guidelines for developing enterprise applicatio... (more)

Welcome to XML-J 2001! Thanks to your support and readership we've successfully completed the first year of this magazine - our circulation has doubled every month since our first issue in March 2000. This validates several beliefs on which this magazine was started. One was that... (more)

In the software industry today as we address the interenterprise and its business problems, the solutions to these problems are becoming increasingly complex. They span several tiers of distributed systems and involve several disjointed applications that must somehow talk to each... (more)