Right out of the gate, I will let everybody out there know that I only know Lisp from configuring my Emacs environment. Lately, I have been reading many articles and blog entries regarding Lisp along with Python and Scheme. This blog entry from Bill Clementson, Lisp is for Entrepreneurs, really got my attention. Over the [...]
Archives for January 2006
Jini – An SOA for the LAN
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of presenting on Jini at the Seattle Java Users Group meeting. During the presentation I found myself speaking about the importance of mobile code in developing an SOA solution. Attempting to define SOA in an explicit way seems to be a daunting challenge. Most of the definitions that I [...]
Presentation on "The Jini Landscape" to SeaJUG Tomorrow
Tomorrow night I will be presenting “The Jini Landscape” to the Seattle Java Users Group at 7pm. If you are in the Seattle metropolitan area, please stop by. I am anxious to find out the level of Java community interest in Jini and the questions that will arise from this topic. Also, if you have [...]
Maven Jini Plug-in Version 2.0 Released
The Maven Jini plug-in has been released at version 2.0. Installation instructions may be found at http://maven-jini-plugin.jini.org/. The 2.0 release allows a users to: Archetype for Jini service project creation Starting/Stopping of Jini starter kit services: Reggie, Mahalo, Phoenix, Fiddler, Norm, Mercury, Outrigger, Browser, and HTTP daemon Configurable RMI runtime: JRMP, JERI, or JERI/JSSE Configurable [...]
Perspective on Maven 2.0
The Maven version 2.0 release is definitely an advancement for business-driven software development. Many organizations struggle to keep up with all of their IT projects and the high cost of maintenance due to differing project build, documentation, design, and deployment processes. Maven is a great tool to help alleviate these costs by creating structure across [...]
