I work for IBM, where I am VP for Java Runtimes and Integration. Prior to this I was at Red Hat and JBoss CTO, leading technical direction and research/development. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Synchronous versus Asynchronous
Pat makes a very good point. Something that also drives me nuts. This has actually gotten worse in the Web Services world, where people continually talk about asychronous invocations, where they're really talking about synchronous one-way invocations. Believe it or not, there is a significant difference!
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