Dazed & Confused

The ServerSide has a tech talk with Ted Neward about WebServices. Check it out here, it’s worth the listen.

Article from IBM about handling events in BPEL here.
Via Carl.

I’ve been looking into scalability and high availability a bit. The more I read the scarier it gets. It’s pretty easy to think the available solutions will solve it all for you, but there’s still important considerations to be made. Found a couple of good introductions in JavaWorld. Although they’re a bit old, [...]

Wow, blogs can help your career. I never knew. We’ll I did. And I guess most people that follows blogging a bit knows. Especially within the high tech industry where the web/google/blogs are used as a main information source. I google for information that is pretty technical each day, and I probably find [...]

I stumbled upon Apache Jackrabbit tonight. I had heard about JSR-170, and could see some benefits, but this article got me thinking.
As I see it a fairly large corporation has a lot of content. By content I mean a lot of unstructured data as text. This might be stuff like:

Regulations
Information
Procedures
User handbooks
Tutorials
Screen instructions

And the list could [...]

This is probably old news, but check out this demo on how to build applications for the NetBeans platform. Seems pretty painless. I’ll have to search for a demo of the Eclipse RCP too.

Marc Logeman are having a fit over charactersets. And I agree.
We have been struggeling with character encodings in our system, and since we didn’t have any legacy data etc. we could just go for Unicode all the way. It took us a while to figure out though, and I’m not convinced I won’t do any [...]

Hehe, these are pretty alright. I am several of them myselfe, and I know others that fit nicely in to them too. Read it here.

Carl-Henrik has a pointer to a nice ESB comparison here.

Some good sound down to earth SOA advice can be found here. For once, it’s even coupled to some concrete technical advice.