Almost every industry today has B2B exchanges that enable businesses to improve the efficiency of some process or communication with customers, partners, or suppliers. The open and public exchanges that exist today will be replaced tomorrow with Web services, which allow direct communi...

Not so long ago I read a great article from a senior level developer, who wrote that as we mature we learn when to look for available libraries before we rush in and build our own. He was referring to the plentiful number of open source projects that exist. Well, there are certainly pl...

(October 22, 2002) - Before we begin this week's column, I wanted to take a moment to set some expectations about what I will be writing about in this column. My goal is to keep you informed what is going on at the JCP and report on some of the JSRs. At times I will cover details about...

(October 25, 2002) - One area that I have taken a real interest in over the last year is component-based development. Currently, there is a JSR (# 159) named Java Process Component API. The status of this JSR has not reached Public Review yet. I recently had an e-mail thread with Mark ...