Mutterings

http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/1203/1/2/
The executive summary is that Vodafone and MS are partnering to create standards for the use of Web Services over a GSM network. I think this is a poor choice in the long run - tying it to the GSM network just means that the cell carrier will charge the hell out of it [...]

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Through my career, I’ve used pretty much every major Java app server: Weblogic, jboss, tomcat, dynamo, and resin. The only one I haven’t used is IBM’s Websphere, until now. Webify deploys all of its solutions on Websphere and DB2. And for the most part, Websphere is garbage.
Understand my viewpoint: to me the [...]

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I played around with the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI) a year ago when I was trying to come up with a solution to creating photo albums for my vacation pictures. I just wanted something to iterate through all pictures in a directory, create 16th sized thumbnails and an index page which can be [...]

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Support for both document-passing and RPC-invocation semantics in web services is the worst decision the WSDL developers ever made. It makes interoperability between different systems a living hell for developers and will cripple web services from being deployed widely until the industry settles on a common, well understood format.
Currently there are [...]

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