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Peter Zadrozny
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.

Is Your E-Mail Being Delivered?
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...
Zadrozny on Scott McNealy: "Open Source is Free Like a Puppy is Free"
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...
The Performance of EJB 3.0
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.
BPEL To The Rescue: A Real-World Account on SOA Web Services
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...
The Cost of Marshalling
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...
JMS Performance Notes
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...
HTTP Session Object vs Stateful EJB
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...
Mobile Auctions with 12snap
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...
Light Years Ahead
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). ...


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