A Conversation with Graham Glass- January 29, 2003 Graham Glass, the chairman and chief architect of Addison, Texas-based The Mind Electric was formerly CTO and co-founder of ObjectSpace. InfoWorld Test Center Lead Analyst Jon Udell asked Glass about GLUE, TME's popular, Java-oriented Web services engine, and GAIA, a forthcoming product that aims to simplify the deployment and management of large-scale systems comprising many SOAP endpoints. Full story at InfoWorld.com ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2003/01/29.html#a587 Technology of the Year: Open source- January 29, 2003 Notable Axis adopters in 2002 included Macromedia, whose ColdFusion MX made Web services accessible to CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) developers. Macromedia's Glen Daniels became a major contributor to Axis, and Sam Ruby credits him with key architectural and performance enhancements. Later in the year, Sonic Software joined the Axis project and is now looking to weave asynchronous messaging capability into the engine. It was a great year for Axis and another milestone for open source. Full..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2003/01/29.html#a586 Technology of the Year: XML Web services- January 29, 2003 Since Web services and XML ran a one-two finish in 2001's contest, it's fair to ask which part of the Gartner hype cycle best characterizes XML Web services in 2002. Some observers regarded 2002 as the dreaded trough of disillusionment, and in some ways that was true. But we think last year also marked the beginning of a steady march up the slope of enlightenment. Full story at InfoWorld.com ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2003/01/29.html#a584 The interactive intermediary- January 13, 2003 The scriptable DOM (Document Object Model) was always an intoxicating idea. Mobile scripts that lived in Web pages -- and could inspect and modify their hosts -- seemed rich with possibility. But when I saw the gymnastics those poor scripts had to perform in order to detect and adapt to browser versions, I recoiled in horror. There was no way I was going to use, or recommend, such a fragmented technology. Recently, though, my LibraryLookup project has reacquainted me with the world of...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/webServices/2003/01/13.html#a571 |