John Crupi

Enterprise mashups, one of the hottest Web 2.0 technologies today, could impact your SOA in a very positive way. But are you ready for them? How does an SOA architect prepare for this dynamic technology? Do you know what a mashup is and what value it brings to an enterprise? Can ... (more)

Some of us are ready for the Web 2.0 wave that is now breaking over us, and some of us are not. The McKinsey Quarterly just put out an insightful article, “Eight Business Technology Trends to Watch” (registration required), that outlines eight unique business trends that will be ... (more)

John Crupi's Blog Ok, ok, it's an overstatement. But the ROI of SOA is difficult, at best, to define and measure. Have you noticed that the press and blogosphere is filled with SOA implementers/analysts discussing the ROI of SOA and the idea that stand-alone SOA efforts are DOA?... (more)

About a year and a half ago JackBe issued a warning, ‘DIY Ajax = DOA Ajax’, that said writing your own AJAX widgets was dangerous to your health and your career. Today, with over a hundred open source and commercial AJAX toolkits and frameworks, we can safely say we w... (more)

Enterprises trying to improve business unit productivity and the reuse of IT assets continue to struggle. IT organizations have achieved some success by attacking these challenges with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but in most cases have still only exposed small portions o... (more)

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught ... (more)

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught ... (more)

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught ... (more)

Enterprises trying to improve business unit productivity and the reuse of IT assets continue to struggle. IT organizations have achieved some success by attacking these challenges with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but in most cases have still only exposed small portions o... (more)

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We're in the process of renovating our kitchen. In our kitchen design, we're actually constructing a new structure to extend the current kitchen. If any of you have gone through this, I'm sure you have lots of war stories. But, as my wife and I go through this process,  I keep se... (more)

Welcome to the first installment of the "Core J2EE Patterns" column by the Sun Java Center (www.sun.com/service/sunps/jdc). Every other month, we (Deepak Alur, Danny Malks, myself, and other architects from the Sun Java Center) will discuss various topics from our book, Core J2EE... (more)