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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.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

A couple of not so obvious facts around REST/HTTP

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While composing an entry on QCon I came across a couple of factoids around REST/HTTP that I had thought obvious but when I mentioned them a...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Beautiful Code

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Just back from QCon London and taking the day off (another one of those "use 'em or lose 'em" days). I'll say more ab...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Distributed Java Project

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While doing the project migration for C++SIM/JavaSim , I came across another old project of mine: a distributed Java framework. Back when Ja...

C++SIM/JavaSim

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Back in 1990 my friend Dan McCue and I were doing work on replica management and a way to compute the optimum number and location of repli...
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JBossWorld recap

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It's been a couple of weeks since I got back from JBossWorld Orlando . Enough time to blog, but not enough spare time to blog! So while ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Vista Woes

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So far I've managed to avoid having to use Windows Vista. But I've heard the rumours of problems over the past 12 months . Given th...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Are IONA's days numbered?

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I've been involved with IONA in one way or another for the best part of 20 years, so although this announcement is no surprise, it'...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

SOA Patterns Announcement

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Some interesting work on SOA patterns .
Thursday, January 24, 2008

DOA 2008

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When I was asked to give a keynote at DOA 2007 I was also asked to be a co-chair on DOA 2008. We've been working to get the PC finalise...

TIP is deprecated

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'Nuff said.
Thursday, January 17, 2008

QCon London

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Stefan invited me to present at QCon London this year. I'm looking forward to it, and particularly to catching up with Steve (who ow...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Extreme Transaction Processing

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I've been meaning to write something about Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) for a long time, ever since I first read the Gartner re...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Adobe and SOA

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Not many people associate SOA with Adobe , with they should. For a start, my friend Duane was chair of OASIS SOA-RM (still the only standa...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

A response to Greg

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I started to write this as a comment to Greg's posting , but it got too long. I think Greg still misunderstood me, though looking back ...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Oh no, not again!

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There have been only two occasions when my Mac has let me down badly: the first was last Christmas when the disc died. The second was (is!) ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

REST, SOAP, WS-* and SOA: Oh My!

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I've been involved with the Web Services versus REST debate in one way or another for the best part of 8 years now. Having also been in...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Hmmm, Web 2.0 features on my blog

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While reading my friend Greg's response to my recent posting on transactions and SOA (really on transactions and scale), I noticed th...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Large-scale distributed transactions

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I've been working with transactions for quite a while and in the area of large-scale (numbers of participants, physical distance) since ...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Close call!

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I've given a few keynote speeches over the years and this year is no different: as well as YR-SOC earlier this year, I'm also givin...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Evolve or die

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It's a shame when someone isn't allowed to change their opinions over time without a backlash. In many ways scientific ideas are a ...
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