JP Morgenthal, formerly coeditor-in-chief of XML-Journal and chief services architect at Software AG, is currently President & CEO at Avorcor, Inc. He has been writing and speaking about XML since 1997 and is an internationally prominent authority on XML, with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing, and analyzing software and technology.
I've worked for Fortune 500 companies engaged simultaneously in 50+ of IT projects as well as small companies with one or two products and I don't believe there is a need for any organization to have a full-time software architect. Once the modeling is done, it is the work of coding an...
With the advent of computer storage, business has become increasingly more reliant on electronic information as a major source for maintenance and continued growth. The information we store electronically tells us what customers like and dislike, how much material to buy, and where we ...
Adam Bosworth, vice president of engineering of the Frameworks Division at BEA, recently sat down with JP Morgenthal to talk about his role in WebLogic. WLDJ: Tell us about your role at BEA. Adam: Basically, I make sure that we build what's necessary for J2EE to become usable by th...
In the world of automation, the ambiguous can be a beautiful thing or it can be a nightmare. To those responsible for delivering a solution, ambiguity leads to missed expectations, higher costs for delivery, and delays in completion. To those providing solutions, ambiguity leads to opp...
While I understand that technology adoption occurs in steps, moving from simple to more complex, I'm amazed by how many people in the computing industry still don't have an understanding of what XML is and what problems it enables solutions for. I'm even more amazed by the people who a...
The publisher of XML-Journal, SYS-CON Media, is always looking to widen and deepen its coverage of the i-technologies that are covered by its world-beating stable of publications.
Over the past few years there has been an emergence of registries due to the lack of organization of the World Wide Web. These registries provide a mechanism to centrally organize information in a way that makes it easier for both people and machines to locate the required sources of i...
Enterprise applications have really made significant strides over the past 10 years (especially in the past 4) to improve their ability to integrate into a larger corporate scheme. There was a time when the letters SAP invoked uncertainty on the part of non-SAP consultants as to what t...
In the past, mobile warriors were the only ones who relied on portable information technology. Since PalmOS, RIM, and WindowsCE devices penetrated corporate walls, it’s no longer unusual to have over 60% of corporate employees using PDAs and handheld devices for time management. ...
Messaging has been a part of computing from the minute that computers were enabled to persist data across invocations of process. It was inescapable that before long machines would be leaving messages for other computers, soon to be followed by people leaving electronic messages for ot...
At first glance, Scott Seely's book looks like it might answer a lot of questions that a developer might have with regard to building SOAP applications. However, once inside I believe most readers will have a split experience. Scott hits the basics as most engineers would, but drills d...
I can still remember the first time I met Dr. Charles Goldfarb (the father of XML and one of the creators of SGML). It was early 1998 and the specification had just become public. We were on an XML panel at a conference and were asked what we thought were the strengths of XML. Charles ...
It's my belief that in spite of peer-to-peer's (P2P) shortcomings, it has the possibility of dramatically improving real-time collaboration over the Internet. The ability for multiple users to simultaneously access and operate on a single concept or design will most likely prove to be ...
Two standards are emerging that could very well impact the way we conduct e-business in the future. These are ebXML (electronic business XML) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), the former a UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electroni...
XML can be thought of as the 'universal serialization of data.' It provides a flexible, open approach for modeling data and sharing messages among business partners (or systems) in a consistent manner. XML provides the ideal solution to messaging in a B2B e-commerce infrastructure sinc...
The term e-commerce (or e-anything for that matter) is now recognized by corporate executives and customers alike as denoting a new frontier. Here services like customer support, online purchasing and simple information retrieval can provide the gold standard of a global consumer soci...
Web Services is a term that is being used to define a set of technologies that exposes business functionality over the Web as a set of automated interfaces. These automated interfaces allow businesses to discover and bind to interfaces at run-time, supposedly minimizing the amount of ...
Currently hard at work, the Object Management Group (OMG) is preparing for a preproduction release of the CORBA 3.0 specification before year-end. Such a release will give CORBA ORB vendors an opportunity to implement new CORBA services and identify potential problems before the final ...
Leading members of the Object Management Group are colluding to ensure the ongoing success of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). On May 25, 1997, the gang-of-four ... IBM, Netscape, Oracle, and SunSoft ... submitted a statement of direction to the Object Management ...
Ka-Ching! That's the sound of Sun's cash registers ringing every time a cellular phone, pager, set-top cable box or host of other electronics equipment is sold. Java is an excellent enterprise software platform. It is the first real competition to the Wintel dynasty in over ten years,...
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JP Morgenthal, formerly coeditor-in-chief of XML-Journal and chief services architect at Software AG, is currently President & CEO at Avorcor, Inc. He has been writing and speaking about XML since 1997 and is an internationally prominent authority on XML, with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing, and analyzing software and technology. 
I've worked for Fortune 500 companies engaged simultaneously in 50+ of IT projects as well as small companies with one or two products and I don't believe there is a need for any organization to have a full-time software architect. Once the modeling is done, it is the work of coding an...
Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime ...
I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience ...
There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word 'Investing' in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having lo...
This book is an update of an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2000. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts ...
Reviewers overuse the phrase 'required reading,' but no other description fits the new book 'Ajax Security' (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from B...