Richard Deadman is a consultant in distributed Java systems with interests in meta-information and dynamic business logic. He received his Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and jumped from Smalltalk to Java in 1995. Since then, Richard has lead large Java enterprise development teams, given talks on XML, published several articles and contributed to a book. He lives with his wife and four children in Ottawa, Ontario. He can be contacted at rdeadman@deadman.ca or through his web site at http://www.deadman.ca
Of course, TAPI still has a niche and is indeed embedded into many PC modems,
but its track record against its original goals is, shall we say, modest.
Some would say that it never saw the Internet coming. Of course, technology
development is almost Darwinian in the way it casts off also-rans. VRML
promised us the world and is much cooler than HTML; Microsoft’s Blackbird
would give us our information superhighway; JSDT would revolutionize
application collaboration; Network PCs, BeOS, BetaMax…
With the Java Community Process starting approximately 150 Java API
definitions now, it shouldn’t be surprising that not all of these will
succeed. InfoBus 2.0, for instance, was withdrawn. Of course, success can be
measured in different ways, and for some APIs even narrow adoption is
appropriate. That said, some are bound to fail when judged against their
original goals. Obvi... (more)
Richard Deadman is a consultant in distributed Java systems with interests in meta-information and dynamic business logic. He received his Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and jumped from Smalltalk to Java in 1995. Since then, Richard has lead large Java enterprise development teams, given talks on XML, published several articles and contributed to a book. He lives with his wife and four children in Ottawa, Ontario. He can be contacted at rdeadman@deadman.ca or through his web site at http://www.deadman.ca
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