Peter Zadrozny is CTO of StrongMail Systems, a leader in digital messaging infrastructure. Before joining StrongMail he was vice president and chief evangelist for Oracle Application Server and prior to joining Oracle, he served as chief technologist of BEA Systems for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Considering that e-mail
is the killer application
of the Internet, this
question seems rather
unexpected. After all,
every time we click the
send button, things seem
to work. After reading
this article you'll be
amazed at the journey
your e-mail goes through
and e...
I have always enjoyed
Scott McNealy's knack for
analogies, and this one
is really right on the
money: 'Open Source is
free like a puppy is
free. There are long term
costs and hassles, and
occasional cleanup jobs.'
As I have stated on
previous occasions, the
fact t...
We've all heard about the
simplicity and power of
the EJB 3.0
specification. And
because this has proven
to be true, we can't help
but think that
performance must be
rather poor. After all,
all that simplicity must
come at a price.
By Peter Zadrozny; Arthur Wang; Kevin Geminiuc; Robert Wales
After spending much of
last year learning to use
the Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL)
to orchestrate Web
Services and realize the
benefits of a
service-oriented
architecture (SOA), we
felt it was time for us
to climb down off the
bleeding edge of the
r...
For those of us who are
always looking to
optimize our code and
improve performance by
squeezing out a few
milliseconds here and
there, marshalling is one
of those areas that you
expect to be so bloated
that you would think you
could improve performance
many times...
It's almost impossible to
address the performance
of the JMS implementation
on the WebLogic Server in
a generic fashion.
Message size, acknowledge
mode, persistence mode,
and type of consumer are
just a few of the things
that can impact the
performance. Add the J...
One of the big
controversies of session
handling concerns the
performance difference
between storing session
state in an HTTP session
object and using a
stateful session bean. My
colleagues and I expected
that it would be more
efficient to store data
in an HTTP se...
In October 1999 12snap's
main goal was the
development and
commercial implementation
of the world's first
wireless shopping
platform for existing
mobile devices as well as
WAP-enabled phones. The
first application allowed
mobile phone users across
Germany to p...
It's interesting to see
that Europe is ahead of
the United States in at
least one technology area
- mobile telephones. Not
only are they ahead, but
I feel that the lead is
by a few light years,
although in reality it's
closer to 18 months (and
hopefully shrinking). ...