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Eric Newcomer
Eric Newcomer is Chief Technology Officer at IONA, in which role he is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as its product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. He leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning.

More on the Software Assembly Question - Do Design Patterns Help?
One aspect of the debate over software productivity and assembly is whether or not visual tools can help. I think that they do - visual abstractions can be very meaningful - but I do not know of any visual system that actually solves the complete problem (i.e none...
SOA Viewpoint: Have We Got It All Backwards with Software Assembly?
Back in the 90s I was on a big project to standardize enterprise software. We wrote a few papers about it, and a chapter in a book. We often used the 'Henry Ford' analogy, which relates to the impact standards for interchangeable parts had on hard goods manufact...
SOA Web Services Journal: SCA Update
This week the new SCA website went live and in addition to an update on the work we've completed since we kicked it off in January, we announced new partners, including Cape Clear, Interface21, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software (formerly Sonic Software), Re...
Thinking in Services: Why Successful SOA Requires a New Way of Thinking
SOA is all about an approach to IT-a design encompassing all IT assets, and the design has to be mapped to technology. Historically, companies used CORBA or messaging systems such as WebSphere MQ to implement their SOA designs. Today, the preferred SOA infrastruct...
Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: This Year's JavaOne Announcement?
Sun has been regularly and consistently challenged to make Java more relevant (e.g. to XML and Web services) and more open (i.e. release control of the JCP and/or open source Java) but so far what we have seen amount to half measures at best.
Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: "Two Years Before the Blog - Comments/Pings Off"
I started blogging about two years ago with this entry, which was typed during the initial WS-CAF face to face meeting. This might give you some idea of what attending these type of committee meetings is like. Everyone around the room with laptops out, surfing the...
Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: A Great Definition of "Software Architecture"
During a conversation over dinner with SOA Web Services Edge speaker and SOA Web Services Journal author, Eric Newcomer, Microsoft MVP Beth Massi defined software architecture in a way that resonated strongly with Newcomer. Here he shares it with readers of his blog.
"Thinking in Services": Why Successful SOA Requires a New Way of Thinking
SOA is all about an approach to IT - a design encompassing all IT assets, and the design has to be mapped to technology. Historically, companies used CORBA or messaging systems such as WebSphere MQ to implement their SOA designs. Today, the preferred SOA infrastru...
Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: RPC vs Doc Literal
One example I use to illustrate the difference is one that I learned during those long XML Value conference calls and meetings. One of the XML folks from IBM used the analogy of HTML frames to illustrate the point about processing only what you understand of the d...
Eric Newcomer's SOA Blog: SYS-CON.TV SOA Panel Out
An easy blog entry to write. The SOA 'Power Panel' article and video are up on the SYS-CON site. If you get a chance to watch, let me know what you think, both of the content and the form.
The Integration Challenge
In the early days of business computing, little attention was paid to the concept of sharing application logic and data across multiple machines. The big question faced by an organization was how to develop computer systems to successfully automate previously manu...
So You Want An SOA with Web Services
There is no question that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is quickly becoming one of the hottest trends in enterprise computing. IT departments are inundated weekly, if not daily, with the claims and marketing messages of vendors announcing myriad technology a...
WS-CAF: Standardized Web Services Transactions and Composite Applications
Who better to explain about the Web Services Composite Application Framework - a collection of three specs designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination - than Eric Newcomer, co-author of WS-CAF?
Keynote Panel: Asynchronous Web Services: Unlocking the Promise of Mobile Productivity
Learn how to take advantage of the proliferation of mobile and wireless devices, in this insightful panel discussion.
Can Software Cross the Standards Divide?
No standards movement in the history of the software industry has garnered as much attention or support as Web services. After the previous decade's failed attempts to reach unity, the industry has lauded the promise of more flexible, open, and interoperable softw...
Web Services Edge 2002 East Keynote Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA, Cites Data Independence as Prime Benefit of Web Services; Security
(May 17, 2002) - WSJ recently caught up with Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer of IONA, and spent a few moments discussing trends in the industry. A member of the XML Protocols and Web Services Architecture working groups at the W3C, Eric is a respected i...

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