I blogged last week on submitting XQJ to the JCP for final approval. Yesterday, it successfully passed the Final Approval Ballot in the...

It would be unoriginal for me to submit some sort of apology for the delay between my posts, so I won't offer one. I'm unsure who would care if I neglected to include one anyhow. ^_^

One of the subjects that I have been doing a lot of business research into of late is one of the current...

In a previous post, I promised I'd explain how to avoid governing service consumers.  Now, let me say that not governing consumers is of critical importance because consumers just won't use a...

The XQJ specification (JSR 225) has been submitted to the JCP for final approval. The Final Approval Ballot lasts from February 19 until March 3. I'll keep you posted here.

Want to know more about XQJ, we have a...

Did you ever just need to get away for a quick, short break? Have you ever turned to your significant other and said, "why don't we take a short vacation this weekend to try something new and relax?"

Then, before you know it you're on a two week vacation, with tons of luggage,...

We have talked in the past about how you can use XQuery to deal with EDI message (transform a directory of EDI...

Jon Williams, blogging over at InfoWorld in his New York CTO blog, posted an entry on worthless process.  In it he talked about, for every process/project you need to think "will this make...

Looks like my previous posting on this topic was pretty timely.  Joe McKendrick (over at ZDNet) just today talked about SOA governance stifling agility.

In Joe's article, he asked the question of whether or not...

Last week I attended the Forrester Enterprise Architect forum and heard a pretty consistent cry from people walking around and stopping at the booth; "How do I implement SOA in a distributed...