teaching ruler for peace

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Another client. Another state. Another city. Another Marriott Residence Inn.I wonder how many other consultants are in this phase. In the last 2 years, I and my family have spent more than 14 months at the Marriott Residence Inn in Milwaukee, Dallas,

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As a US-hired consultant at Infosys, I have seen the other side of the offshoring model. Read on at my JDJ blog.

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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-12-29-ebay_x.htm was an interesting article published in USA Today on Dec 29. For some reason, while doing some research on technology trends, my mind went back to its contents.Kevin Maney use

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I've really benefited from reading other books in the Martin Fowler series. Somehow I missed this one. - it was published last year. Recently I was looking for a book to refer to while working at a client site for developing an architecture blueprin

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Overall CommentsThis is pretty good book that focuses on SOA from the point of view of business, not just technology. The authors provide a good insight into the history behind the evolution of SOA, guidance and methodology to develop and IT Strategy

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Not Just Another Cookbook!! Indian Home Cooking is a very chic cookbook and is featured in USA Today as one of the top 5 cookbooks for this Fall. Check it out. The cool thing about this book is that it is a very practical cookbook. It focuses

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I'd recommend this book not only for developers and architects working with IBM WebSphere, but also for those looking at J2EE best practices. Of course, the material is centered around IBM's products, but (refreshingly) this book tackles the is

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Typically when an architecture overhaul takes place, the first thing you do is capture the current state of the architecture (popularly termed as the "As Is" picture and the ideal future state of the architecture (porularly referred to as t

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Saw it this Friday. This has to be the best movie of 2004. It is very fast and keeps you at the edge of your seat. Yet, if you think back over the scenes after seeing the movie, there is very little action. But there is all of the suspense, intensity

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Today was a looooong day with all day phone calls between stakeholders in this WAS migration project. Addressing communication gaps, the objective of an initiative that takes a program level look at migrating several enterprise applications, question

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Just started  reading the  book "Better, Faster, Lighter Java" by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland from O'Rielly and Associates. Looks promising. Very refreshing to see someone address the side effects of the effect of the breakneck spee

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Continuing on my rant about app server migration (Migration Between Application Server Versions), to me one of the mysteries of the app server arena is Sun's own. I've never been able to figure out why Sun doesn't have a decent share of the app serve

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I haven't taken a detailed look at J2SE 1.5 and was sniffing around for some sources. If you haven't yet,  check out the article J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell by Calvin Austin. It is a great overview of J2SE 1.5, complete with code snippets in the appro

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 ... was definitely a great flick. Saw it last weekend, and then repeated the 1st 30 minutes again when we had gone to see "Anchorman" this weekend. My son dragged me into the Spider Man hall after we had finished with Anchorman. The litt

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Migration between versions of Application server versions is not trivial. There are several stakeholders involved in the migration, some of which are:Developers think of migration only in terms of migration of the application code.  Administrato

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At Infosys, this is the second assignment that I have been involved in regarding a migration of enterprise applications between app server versions (IBM WAS 3.5 to 5.x). The strategy and planning for such initiatives is very complex and requires pla

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Alan Williamson, of noted Java fame had explored some ideas for a new Java print magazine in his blog entry http://alan.blog-city.com/read/651755.htm.I wonder if it is time for a new Java Journal print magazine, without the 'D'. A lot of the develope

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I am currently in the process of reviewing the design strategy and direction for EJB adoption for a very large, techno-savvy, risk-averse financial client. As part of the review, I looked across the implementations that my company, Infosys, has done

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... is not an easy thing. Its almost a year since my last blog entry, and this is my first attempt to getting back into sharing ideas with the rest of the world. Currently I am in a 100% consulting job and the last year has consisted of several busin

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That smart little library developed by ObjectSpace (now JGL is owned by Recursion Software) when Java first came out with no real data structures except Hashtable and Vector? Smart move to take STL C++ Standard Template Library) and map it to Java. I

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... again!!   A lot of things have happened since I wrote my last blog a while ago. The family's gone through a major crisis - successfully, I've changed jobs to a 100% travel job - still getting used to it. Currently I hibernat

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Now here is a book review worth looking at. Found it at Amazon, for the book Distributed Computing with IBM(r) MQSeries. 9 of 42 people found the following review helpful: read more »

http://www.flashline.com/components/appservermatrix.jsp has a very recent comparison of J2EE application servers in the market. Intersting to note is that only about 50% of the servers support the2.0 version. IMHO, without the CMP and CMR supp

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