Friday, March 22, 2002

Sun definitely needs them Steve Anglin of ONJava.com interviews Marc Fleury and Nathalie Mason of the JBoss Group in this article: Sun Needs Us. I think Sun is hurting themselves, although developers are moving to JBoss regardless of the certification status. The way to attract developers to play is by using free or low cost tools to get them started. By making JBoss seem like a dirty secret, they drive developers to look elsewhere and Microsofts free web services tools are readily available. If I had to wait for Sun's preferred partners to deliver a J2EE solution for the platform I use, I would still be waiting. Sam Ruby points to a short Jakarta article which suggests that Sun doesn't want open source efforts to impact the J2EE brand. This marketing double speak needs to be dealt with somehow. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] 11:37:06 PM

Bob Sutor on web services James Snell pointed to this CNet interview with Bob Sutor earlier this week and I finally got around to reading it tonight. I like his vision of web services. He also seems to see standard provisioning interfaces playing a significant part of web services going forward. Provisioning (or the way companies introduce services) will be very important -- as will systems management for Web services. The industry work in WS-I will help define this road map, and the standards organizations like the W3C and OASIS will make it real. Sadly, I have not been keeping up on the provisioning group at OASIS. [Snell's Blog] 11:04:05 PM

Living in a sea of change I have been dealing with a lot of changes lately. Moving to a new PowerBook, trying to get OpenBSD installed on the old PowerBook, bringing in a new DSL line at home. Keeping up with a while bunch of projects at work, including the final stage bug fixes for something I finished work on quite a while ago. I am ready for a vacation, so I'm looking forward to enjoying myself at JavaOne next week. Heck, I didn't even know about the upsets yesterday in the NCAA basketball tournament and I'm actually pretty interested in that sort of thing normally. If nothing else, I am going to spend the extra time next week getting up to speed on Axis and WSDL. 10:48:02 PM

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