Richard Soley

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business agility strategy. Repeat after me: Business. Agility. Strategy. There are so many technology-focused definitions of SOA floating around that it's difficult to remember that simple fact. SOA is focused on recognizing, precisely de... (more)

The operations of many large organizations rest on large applications that are characterized as "legacy." To increase flexibility or reduce costs businesses are looking to modernize these applications, for instance, via renovation, introducing an SOA architecture, or even re-impl... (more)

One of the most delightful parts of my job is to travel the world, sharing the Object Management Group's vision of integrated, interoperable systems with varying sizes of audience ­ from as few as 10 people to as many as 10,000 ­ in every corner of the planet. While the travel c... (more)

In the swirl of events around the announcement last year of the upcoming CORBA 3.0, the attention centered on the upcoming CORBA Component Model. While CORBA has existed in some form or another as an adopted technology of the OMG's open, neutral, standards-setting process since O... (more)

Even two years after its public debut, the Java juggernaut shows no sign of slowing. In fact, more than two years after its public debut, its popularity is still increasing. Businesses are in a headlong rush to move to Java to take advantage of the cost savings that applications ... (more)

A Capsule History of Active Webs The runaway success of the Web's HTML display language made everyone in the software community stop and take note. What was so exciting about this new technology? Was it the markup language itself? Couldn't be! HTML is just a stripped down version... (more)