Articles by JP Morgenthal

SOA Viewpoint: The Software Architect's Dilemma

Sun, 25 May 2008 09:45:00 EDT

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 and testing that truly takes the full-time effort. Once underway, 100 hours a month of time is enough for any architect to respond to most needs of all ongoing projects.

That's Classified Information

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 spend our money. Typically all this information is stored and accessed directly through applications.

A Conversation with Adam Bosworth

Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 the rest of us - on top of WebLogic Server. Whether it's building the user interface in the portal strategy, or building the overall development environment, WebLogic Workshop will make it easy for every reasonable developer to use.

Johnny Got Stuck in the Washing Machine

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 are still using XML as a data format for systems integration.

Transactions Aplenty

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 opportunity.

Where Does XML-J Fit in the IT Spectrum?

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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.

An XML Framework for Registry Development

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 information.

Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration

Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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 these systems did. Back then, most integration was done primarily through the underlying data model and information on the platform was scarce, especially on the SAP Web site.

Building End-to-End Palm Applications Using Java

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 EST

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. Indeed, Franklin-Covey, one of the world’s largest providers of time-management tools, adopted the medium and made it a large part of their overall toolkit.

The World of Enterprise Messaging

Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:00:00 EST

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 other people. Messages are a critical component of enterprise computing and they come in all sizes and volumes.

SOAP: Cross Platform Web Service Development Using XML

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:00 EST

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 down directly into the minutiae without first setting up context for the reader.

A Season Of XML

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 EST

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 discussed the merits of XML with regard to many document-processing capabilities, as this was a key focus for the creation of SGML/XML. I discussed the merits of XML for messaging and distributed computing.

Peer-To-Peer: Stop, Look And Listen

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 00:00:00 EST

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 a big win.

Comparing ebXML And UDDI

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:00:00 EDT

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 Electronic Business)/OASIS- sponsored initiative whose charter it is to create a single global electronic market. UDDI, however, is a vendor-sponsored initiative led by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba.

Eliminating Redundancy in XML Using ID/IDREF

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00:00 EDT

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 since it enables a loosely coupled design that can significantly lower a partner's barrier to entry.

Conquering the E-Commerce Landscape with XML

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:00:00 EDT

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 society: instant gratification.

Where Are Web Services Going?

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 EST

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 static preparation that is needed by other integration technologies. The question is, 'Do Web Services solve the business problem they propose to solve?'

CORBA 3.0 Update

Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 EST

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 release in the first half of 1999.

The Java-tization of CORBA

Sat, 01 Nov 1997 00:00:00 EST

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 Group to provide missing Java-like functionality to the Object Management Architecture (OMA), of which CORBA is the key component. This proposal highlights three key elements of the distributed object computing marketplace: .

Money from Java

Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00:00 EDT

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, but Java is about much more than enterprise software development. In fact, Java is about only enterprise software development as much as a Corvette is about a Sunday afternoon drive.