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Michael A. Sick
Michael Sick, a member of the editorial board of both SOA Web services Journal and Java Developer's Journal, is an independent J2EE and SOA architect who helps his clients solve complex product definition and design problems. He has more than 10 years of experience in the construction of distributed information systems and network technologies, having held positions from senior developer to senior systems architect to VP development. His work has crossed many domains including insurance, defense, finance, graphics & imaging, membership management, travel & entertainment, and e-commerce. He holds degrees in geology and political science from Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. |
An Overview Of The Java
WSDP 1.5 By Michael A. Sick  It can be difficult for
developers, architects,
and managers to keep up
with new software
packages and releases.
This can be especially
true with fast moving
technologies like Web
services. This article
provides an overview of
the main technologies
that comprise t... May. 26, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 30,843 | How Does the DoD Use
Metadata to Make its
Massive Data Stores More
Visible? By Michael A. Sick The Department of Defense
(DoD) Discovery Metadata
Specification (DDMS)
describes the DOD's
preferred approach for
decorating data assets
with metadata. By
providing a common
convention for metadata,
the DoD is building a
common system for asset
discovery, search,... Apr. 26, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 15,340 | Dice Check By Michael A. Sick I recently completed my
first WebSphere Portal v5
install/implementation
for a moderately sized
healthcare company.
Typically, when I
consider new assignments
and new technologies, I
perform the 'Dice Check'.
The Dice Check consists
of some quick and dirty
researc... Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 8,980 | Service Discovery:
Perspectives on the Past,
Present, & Future By Michael A. Sick Service discovery and
identification is a
critical piece of the
overall Web services
puzzle. Existing service
architectures, such as
CORBA, JINI, and ebXML,
have all devoted
significant effort
towards making service
discovery available and
comprehensive. If Web
... Nov. 18, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 17,580 | Grids, Peers, Discovery,
and What's a GAIA? By Michael A. Sick This month WSJ focuses on
P2P architectures and
grid computing, two
topics that are gaining
momentum in our industry.
Over the past year or so
I've read many excellent
articles and books on
these topics. However,
getting a handle on what
P2P and the grid are can
b... Aug. 27, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 15,605 | Nothing Lost in the
Translation By Michael A. Sick Martin Fowler, of Extreme
Programming fame, states:
'Any fool can write code
that a computer can
understand. Good
programmers write code
that humans can
understand. Jul. 30, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 13,953 | Peopleclick and HR.NET -
How can Web services and
.NET work for developers
today? By Michael A. Sick Though often spoken of as
a technology of tomorrow,
it's important to
understand that Web
services are already
proving to be a key
component of some of the
products and projects of
today. This month's
article examines how Web
services and .NET are
becoming cri... Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 12,061 | Web Services @
Work:Gluing Web
Servicesto Baan By Michael A. Sick Web services is often
spoken of as a future
technology, yet it's
important to understand
that Web services is
already proving to be a
key component of the
products and projects of
today.In this article I
examine how Web services
has become an enabling
piece of Epi... Jan. 11, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,020 | Web Services: Building
Blocks for Distributed
Systems By Michael A. Sick Have you ever looked at a
child's toy and thought,
'I wish they had that
when I was growing up?' I
had that familiar feeling
while reading Web
Services: Building Blocks
for Distributed Systems
by Graham Glass. Having
pored over various
specifications, articles,
an... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 8,354 Replies: 1 | The Java Image Management
Interface By Michael A. Sick; Luke Gorrie If a picture is worth a
thousand words, what
words do you use when the
picture is in the wrong
format? Not exactly a Zen
koan, but a valid
question whose answer is
JIMI, the Java Image
Management Interface from
Activated Intelligence. Nov. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 14,342 Replies: 1 |
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