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InfoWorld is carrying an article Incremental Open-Sourcing Java interviewing a Sun software CTO that says Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June -- but not the...

You're winning... Microsoft executive lauds open source | InfoWorld | News | 2006-07-19 | By Paul Krill [NOTE: I learned of this from Robin Cover's daily newslink email, and like his summary best. Below is a copy of his summary.]...

There's quite a lively discussion heating up over on InfoQ on the subject of ESB's--Concensus on the definition of an ESB, and ESB use cases are two of the forum topics that are going on over there at the moment....

I was recently interviewed by Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News, where he asked me a number of questions about what Progress and Sonic have been doing with new advancements in ESB technology - Here's how Vance describes the Interview...

Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI.

via Peter Saint-André, I discovered, MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere. The technology...

Alex Iskold described the Concurrent Document pattern here which explains how to load XML documents concurrently and how to know when all of them are loaded by having a loader that keeps track of what has been loaded and invokes...

ChannelXML Community Blogs | M. David Peterson : eXplorations, Episode #5: XML, Open Source, and The Bottom Line So Kurt has already provided an introduction short story novel that covers the content of this podcast quite nicely, no need to...

I'm teaching a course this week where the attendees requested some basic information on office file formats. People want to know how easy it is to convert from the kind of XML they generate into other purposes. So I loaded...

An interesting approach to reduce the response time while dealing with 3rd party data can be found here as a W AJAX pattern. This reminds me the Multi-Stage_Download pattern which quickly downloads the page structure with a standard request, then...

M. David Peterson and I host a regular podcast, eXplorations, and most recently spent sometime discussing the open source movement and the underlying "business case" for open source. Mark (the M. side of his name) usually tends to argue...

For years, the most frequent question people asked at conferences when I described myself as O'Reilly's XML editor was "when are you going to have an XQuery book?" My usual answer was "when it's cooked." XQuery isn't completely cooked yet,...

I've updated my 1999 diagram Family Tree of Schema Languages for Markup Languages to include the innovation coming from OASIS, ISO, W3C and other places since XSD came out. I put ASL in, but left out things like ISO Topic...

Bruce Perry's latest piece introduces GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, which is a kind of Java to Ajax compiler. It's a very interesting new development in the world of very interactive web apps.

Sonic ESB(R) has been ranked first in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) segment of Gartner Dataquest's latest report on the worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) market. The report, "Market Share: AIM and Portal Software, Worldwide, 2005," published June 9,...

I've just gone dual screen, and after two weeks I cannot imagine going back. Fantastic! Open Office always open on the right screen, Firefox/Thunderbird/Eclipse/Topologi/command shells in the left. This configuration makes it much easier to do research (cutting) in the...

According to the Burton Group's research, Prototype is the most used framework for Ajax development. In the survey of 488 Ajax developers conducted by Burton Group, the most popular libraries and frameworks ranked as follows: Prototype 26.6% script.aculo.us 19.5% DWR...

Russ has pulled together a FANTASTIC comparison overview of Blip Messaging and Email, // @author RussMiles.com - Home - Got email? I'd rather have a BLIP... At the heart of LLUP is the BLIP. The BLIP is a piece of...

We have been meeting with the SCA folks for a while and staying in close touch with its progression. We have finally made it official however and joined in the SCA effort. The list of companies collaborating in the development...