Red Hat and MetaMatrix

I first came across MetaMatrix at JavaOne in 2002/2003 when at Arjuna and we did some work with them over the next year or so. This should be interesting.

New post on JBossTS blog

I just posted this on the JBossTS blog site.

Anyone know Chinese?

Apparently this is one of my articles in Chinese. Not knowing the language, I have to believe it, although I do wonder if this is a case of The Hungarian Phrasebook again.

TDM

It's been a while since I've really been able to blog and that's all down to lack of time. Towards the end of last year, as part of the reorganisation of JBoss under Red Hat I was made Technical Development Manager of our SOA platform. What that basically means is that I'm in charge of the technical direction, development and productisation of everything SOA within the company. I went from managing 2 groups to 7 over night, with all that entails. Pretty interesting, I have to say, but definitely a time sink!

Arjuna and the history of middleware

Wolfgang has written a great paper on the impact of research on middleware. Arjuna gets several references, although there are a few inaccuracies (e.g., Arjuna Technologies wasn't sold to JBoss). Well worth a read.

John Backus dies

Some sad news. It's been a long time since I programmed in Fortran but I was always impressed with it.

Red Hat and Exadel

This is interesting news in a number of ways. I think it's great news for our products and projects.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!

This just got pointed out to me through the minutes of the first day at the W3C workshop onWeb of Services. I must have missed this stirling move on the part of the TAG. I've mentioned before about sessions and Web Services and how WS-Addressing is not the right way of doing this, but WS-Context is better. Of course it's no surprise to see that contributions to this TAG effort are from heavy WS-Addressing users, but us WS-Context supporters need to be more pro-active.

Vinoski leaves IONA

I meant to post this last week but work got in the way. I first met Steve back in the early 1990's at a Usenix conference where we were both presenting. He'd recently joined IONA from HP and I knew of him because of his great work on ORB Plus, still one of the best implementations. We had several Guinness drinking sessions and he could easily drink most people under the table! We kept in touch over the years though I don't think I've drunk as much since! I wish him the best in his new job.

Red Hat and interoperability

I'm not sure if this got much publicity, but it's worth checking out. Interoperability with different vendors is very important. Web Services are a way of achieving some interoperability, but they're not the entire solution.

Memories

Ah, this brought back memories. I remember using Spring around 1991 and reading many of the Sun papers on the subject. It was very cutting edge for the time (and still today in many respects).

Update on Jim

I hope this is wrong and he turns up! It's good to see the community coming together to help the search.

Jim Gray lost at sea!

Just saw this (thanks Stuart). Fingers crossed that Jim's safe and sound!

Nice

I want one. This sounds interesting too.

Submit a paper

I forgot to mention, but Eric asked me to be on the program committee for the W3C workshop on Web Services for Enterprise Computing. The deadline is fast approaching, so if you've got a paper or a position on the topic, please submit it.

WS-Context progressing to standard

This dropped through the cracks, but I'm pleased to say that WS-Context has passed the TC vote to proceed towards a standard.

It's Christmas Time ...

In the words of Band Aid, "It's Christmas time ..." and I'm now officially on vacation (hence the time to write a blog entry!) However, it'll be a busy festive season for me. We're in the final stages of releasing the first GA of JBossESB in January; I'm a reviewer on the Web Services track for WWW 2007 (8 papers!); a reviewer for Dependability and Security in e-Government (2 papers); I'm finalising a new book proposal with a couple of friends; I want to submit a paper to HPTS 2007 (I'm on the PC too); I want to submit a paper to the W3C workshop on Web Services for Enterprise Computing (I'm on the PC for that too). Plus, I'm sure I'm forgetting something!

Anyway, all of this blog writing is taking me away from paper reviews! Back to the grind.

InfoQ article

A while ago I was asked by Floyd if I'd like to be another editor on SOA side of things, joining Miko and Stefan. Needless to say I was happy to be asked and agreed. Well here's my first article.

Not enough time ...

Been way too busy to breathe let alone blog! Major efforts at work around JBossTS and JBossESB, more standards related issues than I care to relate, plus a week SCUBA diving in the Red Sea. Now I'm at JBoss World Berlin, where I'm giving 3 presentations as well as copious meetings. Fun fun fun!

Problem solved!

A while ago I mentioned the problem I have with my family car: a Honda Prelude 2.2i VTEC. Nice car, but not very practical for the family. I love the 'lude, but something had to give: I didn't want to lose the car, but most places are too far for the rest of my family work walk to! Well I can now announce that I solved the problem: we bought a second car! A nice Subaru Impreza. :-)