From SOA World Conference & Expo 2005 East
(April 17, 2005) - This month's Web Services Edge Conference -SOA World
Conference & Expo- marks four years since the first detailed W3C note on the
Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and nearly five years since the first
public specification of SOAP.
You may be wondering, why hasn't the uptake of Web services matched the bold
predictions made when it was first launched? There are certainly more
developers thinking about Web services with the advent of service-oriented
architectures (SOA). However, the number of successful public We... (more)
This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the official launch of Java
technology. It seems like only yesterday. No doubt there will be celebrations
similar to the five-year anniversary, so I thought I would take this
opportunity to step back in time and track Java's course.
In January 1996, less than a year before that first launch, the first full
developer kit, JDK 1.0.2, was released... (more)
You may have heard the news that Sun has opened the doors for its employees
to start blogging, including the most famous employee, the COO. Blogging
obviously isn't new, and many companies have already gran-ted individual
users the opportunity to go ahead. However, the open floodgate - simply to
fill in your details on a Web page, press a button, and start posting - is
proving an interes... (more)
I recently upgraded my home network to use 802.11g. The prices for routers
and PC cards have fallen throughout the year, but unfortunately the support
has only marginally improved in that time and, after many re-installs, my
network wasn't working. I eventually had to resort to probing the card to
find out the exact chipset to get my Linux box up and running. It's fine now,
but I found i... (more)