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Sean Rhody
Sean Rhody is the founding-editor (1999) and editor-in-chief of SOA World Magazine. He is a respected industry expert on SOA and Web Services and a consultant with a leading consulting services company. Most recently, Sean served as the tech chair of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East. |
Patent Absurdity By Sean Rhody Third time's the charm
this time. After two
aborted attempts to write
this column, I finally
was able to put pen to
paper (all right, fingers
to keyboard). I've been
really busy patenting the
two through 10 click
methods of buying on the
Internet. I'll shortly
... Jun. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,750 | A Brand New Façade By Sean Rhody Some trends you just
don't see coming, like
the return of bell-bottom
pants. They are
mysterious and leave you
wondering what people can
possibly be thinking
about. Other trends are
much more comprehensible
and when they start to
manifest themselves, you
tend to w... May. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,362 | They Might be Giants By Sean Rhody One of the frustrations
of editing a monthly
magazine, as opposed to a
daily newspaper, is that
I seldom get to scoop the
rest of the press. With
our lead times, breaking
news is more or less old
by the time you hear it
from me. So by now you've
heard that Corel has... Apr. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,504 | Going, Going GONE! By Sean Rhody I may be somewhat
unusual, but I've never
bought anything at an
online auction. I've seen
eBay, and one of my
friends sold some of his
collection of valuable
magazines (okay, comic
books) on eBay, but I've
never gone the whole
route and come home with
the goods. ... Mar. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,136 | To BEA or Not to BEA By Sean Rhody Yech. I hate that title
as much as you do, but it
stuck in my brain and I
can't get it out. Things
are going on in the
industry, and I think
this is an appropriate
time to cover them. We
were at the Java Business
Conference in December,
covering what appeared to
b... Feb. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 11,095 | Jack, Be Nimble By Sean Rhody Are you nimble enough?
That seems to be the new
buzzword in the Internet
world. Nimble.
Nimbleness. Nimbler. My
development team is
nimbler than yours. Being
nimble is the name of the
game today. It's not
enough to be good
developers, we've got to
be quick developers. Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,421 | The Rise Of Web Services By Sean Rhody Without a doubt, 2001 is
a rebuilding year. The
market is down,
especially the tech
stocks. The dot-coms
that were leading the
charge are now the dot
bombs that we're all
trying to distance
ourselves from. So it
might be easy to conclude
that the Internet
revol... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,582 | Web Services: It's
already here...but
there's a lot more
coming
Web Services Journal
covers the Next
Generation Web Service By Sean Rhody (San Francisco, January
17, 2002) WSJ traveled to
the West coast, to cover
the Next Generation Web
Services Conference
sponsored by InfoWorld
Media, which was held in
San Francisco. Web
services was the topic on
everyones minds at this
well-attended show, and
the... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 7,856 | Web Services: It's
already here...but
there's a lot more
coming
WSJ-IN Covers the Next
Generation Web Services
Conference i By Sean Rhody (San Francisco, January
28, 2002) WSJ-IN traveled
to the West coast, to
cover the Next Generation
Web Services Conference
sponsored by InfoWorld
Media, which was held in
San Francisco. Web
services was the topic on
everyones minds at this
well-attended show, and
... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 7,749 Replies: 1 | Dance Lessons By Sean Rhody Being left handed and,
therefore, left footed, I
once tried to take
dancing lessons so I'd
look a little less
ungainly at family
functions like weddings.
My father, who's
ambidextrous, makes it
look easy. Of course, I
always forget that when
he was growing up,
... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,137 Replies: 1 | The Past Through Tomorrow By Sean Rhody It's not often you get to
write an
end-of-the-millennium
column (once every
thousand years, last time
I checked). I thought
that a little reminiscing
about the past few years
might be in order,
followed by a brief look
in the crystal ball to
see what we have in st... Dec. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 9,933 | My Forte By Sean Rhody Here's an old joke. A guy
in a strange town needs
to get a haircut.
There're only two barbers
in the town, but the guy
doesn't know either of
them. Which one does he
pick? The answer is the
guy with the worst
haircut. Why? Because
neither barber can cut
his own ha... Nov. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,143 | Holy Wars By Sean Rhody When I was a teenager, my
parents taught me never
to argue about sex,
politics and religion.
Later on I also learned
that it's never a good
idea to argue with
drunks. Now I find myself
in the unenviable
position of having to
step into the middle of a
"religious"
debate. Oct. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 8,559 | Two to Tango By Sean Rhody Sometimes I think no one
reads the editorial.
Normally I receive maybe
no more than fifty
comments concerning any
editorial. I kid myself
that I do a good enough
job lining up the content
for the magazine that no
one has any complaints,
and that they post each
mon... Sep. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 8,936 | (Im)perfect Timing By Sean Rhody All right, I'm ready to
admit that I made a
slight miscalculation.
Not an error,
necessarily...just a
slight misjudgment when
it came to the timing of
something. Back in
January I made a set of
predictions concerning
the industry, as I'm wont
to do at the beginnin... Aug. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,450 | Testing My Patience By Sean Rhody I recently attended a
technical conference and
sat in on an interesting
discussion concerning
moving from traditional
testing to testing of
object-oriented systems.
As many of you know,
testing and quality
assurance is one of my
pet peeves. All too
often, groups o... Jul. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,062 | The XML Mambo By Sean Rhody Every so often I read
something that makes me
scratch my head and
wonder. Most recently
this phenomenon occurred
when I read an editorial
concerning Java and XML
in a Web development
magazine. The author
wrote that he thought the
concept of XML was easy
to underst... Jun. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 11,127 | Sybase PowerJ 3.0 By Sean Rhody Web-development of every
kind is one focus of
Sybase PowerJ 3.0 (see
Figure 1). In addition to
a complete Java
development environment,
PowerJ comes with a set
of tools that
differentiates it from
other Java IDEs on the
market. These tools are
PowerDynamo, a Web s... Jun. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 12,054 | New Technology By Sean Rhody The saying goes,
"Build a better
mousetrap and the world
will beat a path to your
door." The world
rewards innovation and
improvement. It likes new
things. This month's
focus is on new Java
technology. Given the
rapid pace of development
in our area, tha... May. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,680 | What's the Code? By Sean Rhody I remember the first time
I saw Jurassic Park and
watched as the little
girl proceeded to hack
into a UNIX system,
quickly taking control of
the entire park. I
couldn't help but laugh
at how unlikely that
whole scenario was, but
it does serve to
illustrate the way... Apr. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,807 | Stuck in the Middle with
You By Sean Rhody About a year ago, in a
magazine not too far
away, I wrote an article
called "Middle-Tier
Madness." A year and
several languages later,
we're back at the
middle-tier stage again.
Distributed computing is
one of my main areas of
interest, so my concern
wit... Mar. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 9,343 | Java and All That JiBE By Sean Rhody Java Developer's Journal
was among the many
exhibitors at the Java
Business Expo at the
Jacob Javits Center in
New York City. I was
only able to make it for
one day, but I managed to
pack a great deal of
interviewing, observation
and conversation into
that day, i... Feb. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,117 | New Year's Resolution By Sean Rhody Welcome to 1999. This is
typically the time I make
predictions about the
coming year. Next year
I'll get this issue out
and have a good laugh at
all the things I missed -
and the few I actually
get right. I'd be remiss
in my editorial duty if I
didn't make some
predictions. Jan. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 10,951 | Sudden Impact By Sean Rhody Every now and then I like
to step back from the
trenches and try to think
like a CIO. I was a CIO
at one time, so I can
actually do such a thing.
And lately, when I think
my CIO thoughts, I've
been thinking about the
impact that Java has made
on the Enterprise. Dec. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 10,713 | The Perfect Beast By Sean Rhody Build a better mousetrap
and the world will build
a better mouse. In the
beginning we had a
two-tiered architecture
(I count mainframes as
prehistory), and we could
figure out how to do
things with it.
Unfortunately, one of the
things we figured out was
that we ne... Nov. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 10,033 | Why Superman Works Alone By Sean Rhody Toward the end of the
last Batman movie, when
Robin is giving Batman a
hard time, George Clooney
gets fed up and says,
"This is why
Superman works
alone." While I'm
often tempted to think
along the same lines, the
reality of our business
is that we work... Oct. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 9,783 | I Told You So By Sean Rhody About two years ago a
colleague of mine named
Joe leaned over my
cubicle wall and said,
"Hey, I just
downloaded this new
language called Java.
It's pretty cool!"
At the time I can't
remember being very
excited about another
programming language. I
was ... Sep. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 9,539 | I Dream of JINI By Sean Rhody Picture this. You sit
down in your recliner,
tell it to go to the
"TV watching
position," then
address your desire to
your new 81-inch TV -
"Find me a rerun of
I Dream of Jeanie"
-and sit back to watch
Barabara Eden confound
Larry Hagman yet ag... Aug. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 9,705 | Beginnings By Sean Rhody Almost invariably, when I
write an article I know
pretty much what I want
to say, and the part I
have the most difficulty
with is the introduction.
This is my first column
as editor-in-chief of
Java Developer's Journal,
so while most of you are
familiar with our
m... Jul. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 10,420 | Adding A Middle Tier to
Your Java Code Using
Jaguar CTS By Sean Rhody Two Tier vs N-Tier
Client/server
applications, and even
Java applications that
call a database directly,
represent the original,
two-tiered application
architecture. This
architecture fits many
needs, but often there is
a penalty - the need to
redevelop or copy co... Apr. 1, 1998 12:00 AM Reads: 11,279 |
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