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In this excerpt from his book J2EE Web Services, The Ultimate Guide, author Richard Monson-Haefel provides a comprehensive look at SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). Nov. 5, 2003

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My new role in the Java industry: Although I will remain a very intersected observer and occasional commenter, I will not continue to be a Java activist.
Posted by monsonhaefel on July 19, 2004 at 07:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (12)  

OpenEJB: The BEST way to test EJBs: If you're not using OpenEJB to test and develop, you're hurting your project.
Posted by monsonhaefel on June 11, 2004 at 09:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

My adventure in Self-Publishing: Self-publishing can work, but it didn't work out for me. Here's why ....
Posted by monsonhaefel on June 02, 2004 at 10:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

How Tomcat Works, the book.: There is a very good book on how Tomcat works.
Posted by monsonhaefel on May 31, 2004 at 20:11 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

My Apology to Bruce Tate:
Posted by monsonhaefel on May 22, 2004 at 22:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

A new deck of cards: I found a Job!: I'm now employed by The Burton Group
Posted by monsonhaefel on May 18, 2004 at 15:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

9 of Clubs Seeks a new Deck of Cards: Guess what? I need a job too.
Posted by monsonhaefel on May 06, 2004 at 14:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (15)  

JSR-241: Groovy – A New Standard Programming Language for the Java Platform: Creating a new, standard language for the Java Platform
Posted by monsonhaefel on March 16, 2004 at 05:23 PST | Permalink | Discuss (41)  

The New York Times on Amazon.com Fraud: The New York Times reports on Amazon.com's fraud ridden review process, but they missed the point.
Posted by monsonhaefel on February 15, 2004 at 20:22 PST | Permalink | Discuss (10)  

13 improvements for EJB: In my last blog entry I asked what we should do to make EJB better - this blog entry reports on your feedback.
Posted by monsonhaefel on February 09, 2004 at 03:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (15)  

You can make EJB better: What's right and wrong with EJB today? It's about time someone asked for your opinion, don't you think?
Posted by monsonhaefel on January 31, 2004 at 21:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (66)  

Open Source Developer: Will Work for Food!: The difference between open source developers and commercial developers is the pretty much the same as the difference between a starving fine artist and a fat and happy commercial artist.
Posted by monsonhaefel on January 21, 2004 at 23:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (23)  

Groovy, Baby!: Groovy is a cool, open source, Python/Ruby like Java compatable scripting language.
Posted by monsonhaefel on January 13, 2004 at 12:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

What's Richard Monson-Haefel up to in 2004?: For 2004, RMH is planning to write a paper and possibly a book on the J2SE, working on the JCP EC, JSR 220, and Geronimo, and consulting.
Posted by monsonhaefel on December 27, 2003 at 22:42 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Explicit vs. Implicit Programming Models for J2EE: J2EE needs an alternative, simplified set of component models and APIs.
Posted by monsonhaefel on December 16, 2003 at 21:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

IBM and BEA: Are they thumbing their noses at the JCP?: IBM and BEA are working within the JCP process - they need the JCP.
Posted by monsonhaefel on December 02, 2003 at 22:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

The Rebel Alliance: Apache / ObjectWeb Join Forces: Apache and ObjectWeb have agreed to collaberate on the development of J2EE facilites that can be shared between Geronimo and JoNAS. The first project they will collaberate on is JOTM, ObjectWeb's transaction processing manager.
Posted by monsonhaefel on November 18, 2003 at 13:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

The State of Geronimo: Today a subset of the Apache Geronimo committers (developers) gave a presentation on the "State of Geronimo" at ApacheCon. The most important announcement, from my point of view, is that Sun has approved Apache Geronimo's license for the TCK.
Posted by monsonhaefel on November 17, 2003 at 16:47 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

ApacheCon Hackathon: Rediscovering my religion.:
Posted by monsonhaefel on November 17, 2003 at 08:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Amazon.com reviews are a farce.: What if the reviews you used to choose a book from Amazon.com were fake?
Posted by monsonhaefel on November 16, 2003 at 11:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (12)