Charles Stack

For decades, IT professionals have put up with the headaches of managing a complex and rigid enterprise architecture that has become a Petri dish for the too-familiar misalignment between IT and the business. Enter service-oriented architecture (SOA), which promises to create app... (more)

Reusable software components - when properly built, promoted, and tracked - deliver an enormously productive alternative to traditional "built-from-scratch" application development. The benefits are real, tangible, and ultimately reflected in the bottom line for those organizatio... (more)

The JavaBean component model presents entirely new ways of developing software. Once a component interface is specified, the actual implementation can be accomplished by another programmer down the hall, across the country or anywhere in the world. This allows outsourcing of soft... (more)