Ajit Sagar

It seems as though as soon as the open source community rallies around a technology, the IT industry starts taking it more seriously - and finds practical application for it. Ironically, although organizations like the concept, despite the maturation of the open source community in a variety of platforms and technologies, adoption of open source products in large organizations is still an uphill battle. The good news is that mainstream vendor products are now based on a combination of open source technologies, and so mature products from the community are finding homes in many corporations. One of the greatest values provided by open source is the ability to think outside the "standards" box. We have all seen history repeat itself as standards are proposed, modified, argued about, and change ownership. Some get divided, and some merge. In the end, although technolo... (more)

Service Synchronicity

The entire premise behind the Web services paradigm is enabling access to loosely coupled services via the Web. In essence, Web services are based on a synchronous request-response type interaction. On the other hand, a client's interaction with a Web service can be synchronous or asynchronous. When application functionality is exposed in the form of Web services, one of the dangers in designing the architecture of the service layer is that the designers tend to think from the perspective of service consumption only. In other words, the focus is on "who is going to call me" and no... (more)

JT Router: Let Your Clients Tunnel Their Way Across The Internet

Consider an Internet client that wants to connect to a site which allows access only to trusted clients. Consider a trusted client that has access to the site. Wouldn't it be great if the trusted client could relay the Internet client's data to the restricted-access site? In other words, it could act as a "channel", or a "router", for a restricted site. This article describes JTRouter - a multi-threaded Java program that acts as a tunnel for socket communication between an Internet client and a remote server. JTRouter allows a machine to initiate as well as accept Internet conne... (more)

Reflection & Introspection: Objects Exposed

One of the salient aspects of the Java language is the control it gives to developers for dynamically generating and reusing code. This allows the language to offer Java programmers the ability to write code in which the actual behavior is determined at runtime. Of the eleven buzzwords used to define Java, this article is going to focus on the dynamic nature of the Java programming language. One of the salient aspects of the Java language is the control it gives to developers for dynamically generating and reusing code. This allows the language to offer Java programmers the abil... (more)

So What? - It Seems That JavaOne Isn't Just Nerd Nirvana Anymore... This Is A Good Sign.

Yes, I was in San Francisco last month - but unlike the other 25,000 pilgrims, I wasn't fortunate enough to pay full homage to the Mecca of Java: JavaOne 2000. Instead, I was trapped in somewhat less than invigorating business meetings. I was also in a hurry to get back to Dallas to my wife and my brand new (two-week old) baby boy. However, I did manage to sneak out for a few hours on two separate days to the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco to sip from the Java technology cup.... Although my impressions of JavaOne this year are based mainly on this brief interlude, I've... (more)