January 31st, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in other
I’ve written a couple of articles for some magazine’s. Not many, just a couple. But every time i’m writing an article, i wonder why i do it. It’s not that i don’t want my articles to appear in a dead-tree magazine, but I’ve noticed that many magazines don’t make their content freely available on the [...]
January 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java
I was just going through the Grails 1.1 beta 3 release notes and found that Grails 1.1 is not only going to support Maven but also has Ivy support for those who prefer using Ant.
Good news in my opinion. I still use Ant quite a bit, on projects that are not standard enough to be [...]
January 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
So SOA is dead, Services are what we need to focus on according to Anne Thomas Manes? How is SOA not about Services? SOA means Service Oriented Architecture. Seems like Anne Thomas Manes is contradicting herself…
SOA is only dead if you interpreted SOA as creating Web Services and building composite applications with BPEL. And yes, [...]