By Arthur Ryman The gurus at Gnu point out that the 'free' in 'free software' is used in the sense of 'free use' rather than 'free beer'. Turns out that they need to expand this meaning to include actual 'free beer' at selected points in the lifecycle of many Open Source products. One such event is ra... Oct. 21, 2006 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,033 Replies: 3 |
By Arthur Ryman EclipseWorld was recently held in Cambridge, MA, overlooking the Charles River down the road from MIT. The view of the Boston skyline was spectacular and the fresh river air provided a pleasant contrast to the exciting, but marginally breathable, Manhattan atmosphere of last year's eve... Sep. 18, 2006 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,034 Replies: 1 |
By Arthur Ryman  I'm pleased to announce that WTP 1.5 shipped on schedule on June 30 as part of the Eclipse 3.2 Callisto simultaneous release. WTP is part of this ten project mega-release, a first for the Eclipse Foundation, and a sign of things to come. As the Eclipse family of projects becomes more h... Jul. 12, 2006 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 13,816 Replies: 8 |
By Arthur Ryman Unlike last year's event, there was no keynote speaker from Sun. Nevertheless, Sun's presence was noticed last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I'd like to mention a few high and low points here. Mar. 27, 2006 05:00 PM EST Reads: 11,037 Replies: 1 |
By Arthur Ryman  The Apache Woden project is a reference implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The project is looking for help so here's a great opportunity for Java developers to contribute to the advancement of a major new Web Services standard. Her... Jan. 26, 2006 05:00 PM EST Reads: 18,448 Replies: 3 |
By Arthur Ryman The bits for WTP 1.0 were baked last Friday and are cooling off now in preparation for their 'official' release on 2005-12-23. However, if you have a pair of oven mitts handy, feel free to download it now and munch this tasty snack over your Holiday break. Unless we discover some late-... Dec. 21, 2005 06:45 PM EST Reads: 12,845 Replies: 3 |
By Arthur Ryman This conference is without a doubt the most well-organized software gathering I've ever attended. The logistics are ably handled by Wayne and Peggy Kovsky and family. There is virtually zero marketting hype here - no sponsors or demo booths, just solid technical talks. Oct. 26, 2005 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,490 Replies: 1 |
By Arthur Ryman  The Eclipse Open Source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (see http://eclipse.org) is rapidly gaining popularity among Java developers primarily because of its excellent Java Development Tools (JDT) and its highly extensible plug-in architecture. Extensibility is, in fact, one o... Oct. 19, 2005 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 91,606 Replies: 6 |
By Arthur Ryman The recently created Web Tools Platform Project extends Eclipse with a set of open source Web service development tools and APIs. This talk gives an overview of the project and focuses on its Web services support. Dec. 15, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 5,161 |
By Arthur Ryman; Luc Chamberland Since the mid-'90s we've seen the quality of Web programming paradigms mature at an astonishing rate: from static pages with animation, CGI-based programs, and JDBC connectivity to back-end relational databases and servlets processing requests on application servers. We commonly hear a... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST Reads: 17,227 |
By Joe Winchester; Arthur Ryman Essential to the development of complex systems are tools that help the developer locate, analyze, and fix problems. Debuggers provide support for this by letting a developer inspect the internal state of a program at runtime, as well as suspend and resume execution statement by statem... Mar. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,820 |
By Arthur Ryman; Luc Chamberland Since the mid-'90s we've seen the quality of Web programming paradigms mature at an astonishing rate: from static pages with animation, CGI-based programs, and JDBC connectivity to back-end relational databases and servlets processing requests on application servers. We commonly hear a... Nov. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,375 |
Arthur Ryman is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Development Manager at the IBM Toronto Lab. He is currently the lead of the Web Standard Tools subproject of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project. His previous development projects include Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and VisualAge for Java. He is a member of the W3C Web Services Description Working Group and is an editor of the Web Services Description Language 2.0 specification. He is a co-author of the book, "Java Web Services Unleashed".
