Tech Initiatives

This blog is devoted to my search in the information technology realm. Most things IT related including java, web services, Service Oriented Architecture, and software development processes. Any opinions expressed on this site are in no way whatsoever intended to represent those of my company. Collin Smith

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

SOA - A Planning and Implementation Guide For Business and Technology

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I recently finished reading Service-Oriented Architecture - A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, written by Eri...

Friday, June 15, 2007

JavaServer Faces!

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I have been interested in an open source platform to launch a web site. I had heard the about jsf as a J2EE framework. One is the lifecycle ...

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Reading RSS feeds with Java

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If you were interested in incorporating RSS feeds into your java code you might want to have a look at Project Rome which is an open source ...

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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships

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I just finished Ross Dawson's "Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships". I found it useful in understanding more of th...

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Service Oriented Architecture

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I finished reading Enterprise SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama). It seems to be one ...

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

Missing the coolest job ever!

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I joined the French Foreign Legion in 1994 and served 5 years there. Legionnaire number 185565! C'est la vie! I miss those days. The spa...

ActiveBPEL Vendor Selector Visio Diagram

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I would publish a diagram of the Vendor Selector Application that I build using the ...

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Collin Smith: Calgary, Alberta, Canada; I am a software developer working at an Oil Company in Calgary Alberta. Recently completed a Master's Thesis for the application of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) to SOA implementations.

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