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Ajit Sagar
Ajit Sagar is a principal architect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he's been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences, JavaOne, and international conference. He has published more than 125 articles. |
SOA in the Small By Ajit Sagar  At my firm, Infosys
Technologies, I have come
across several clients
who are actively trying
to explore, consider,
adopt, embrace, or become
completely immersed in
SOA. Here is a typical
call I've received, where
our client rep says,
'Ajit, we've got a very
critic... Feb. 26, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 13,498 Replies: 1 | Architecting For SOA By Ajit Sagar  The term 'architecture
group' is a heavily
loaded one. I've run into
different scenarios at
the various clients that
have engaged us for
consulting on their
architecture strategy. In
some cases, we have been
asked to help seed and
grow such a group. In
other cases... Jan. 23, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 18,173 Replies: 2 | Service Synchronicity By Ajit Sagar  The entire premise behind
the Web services paradigm
is enabling access to
loosely coupled services
via the Web. In essence,
Web services are based on
a synchronous
request-response type
interaction. On the other
hand, a client's
interaction with a Web
service can ... Oct. 27, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 11,905 | How Much SOA? By Ajit Sagar  Companies that decide to
invest in SOA sometimes
end up going to extremes
- too little or too much.
Too little happens when
some stakeholder latches
onto the buzzword and
wants to get the benefits
promised. However, the
environment may be too
conservative to invest ... Sep. 24, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 12,056 | SOA Web Services Journal
- U Don't Deploy It By Ajit Sagar  A few years ago, when Web
services started out as a
buzzword in the
enterprise, the whole
paradigm was associated
with (and still is)
associated with three
concepts - SOAP, WSDL,
and UDDI. Now, when
enterprises are putting
Web services into
production, you will mo... Jun. 13, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 15,166 Replies: 1 | Applying Business Rules
Engines in SOA
applications By Ajit Sagar This session will provide
guidelines, best
practices, and a
methodology to design and
implement Business Rules
Engine based projects to
service-enable your
enterprise. The
implementation areas will
apply to large enterprise
applications with
multiple dependencies. Jun. 6, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 12,412 | Applying Process
Orchestration in SOA
Applications By Ajit Sagar This session will provide
guidelines, best
practices, and a
methodology to design and
design application
leveraging Process
Orchestration in the SOA
initiatives. The
implementation areas will
apply to large enterprise
applications with
multiple dependencies. Jun. 5, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 9,006 | SOA Web Services Journal
Editorial: "Opening SOA" By Ajit Sagar  The feasibility of
adopting new technology
in the computing world is
governed in large part,
as it is in other
paradigms, by the
cost-benefit-risk
equation. In the world of
electronic computing,
whenever a cost-benefit
analysis is done, the
benefit/risk of adoptin... Apr. 10, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 12,354 Replies: 6 | But Will It Work? By Ajit Sagar  One of the biggest
barriers to SOA adoption
is fear of not meeting
the high demands of the
runtime environment
coupled with the need to
provide business agility.
As more layers have been
introduced by the
components of the new
technology stacks, the
points of fail... Mar. 6, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 13,658 Replies: 1 | SOA Web Services: "Ruling
Out Services" By Ajit Sagar  Ask 10 people the
question: What is SOA?
You will most likely get
10 different answers.
Chances are that in more
than 50 percent of the
cases, the word 'Web
services' will be a part
of the answer. Another 20
percent will talk about
process orchestration,
XML, inte... Jan. 26, 2006 07:00 PM Reads: 14,052 Replies: 2 | Using Services By Ajit Sagar  It never ceases to amaze
me how ambiguity in the
definition of simple
terms can lead to design
choices that have a huge
impact on the success of
projects. Recently I had
a long discussion with a
colleague at a client
site, where we are in the
process of assessing th... Dec. 19, 2005 02:45 PM Reads: 14,360 Replies: 3 | Managing the Stack in
Java Platform By Ajit Sagar  As the complexity of
enterprise applications
grows with the increased
offerings in the Java
platform, the management
of the different building
blocks that constitute
the application also
becomes very complex. The
challenge in managing
applications in the
enterpris... Dec. 19, 2005 02:30 PM Reads: 24,796 Replies: 4 | Open Source SOA Web
Services: Openly Managing
Web Services By Ajit Sagar  Last month I talked to a
couple of vendors who are
making new inroads in the
services arena through
open source offerings.
Open source support in
Web services is
definitely very
heartening. While the
frameworks and utilities
for implementing Web
services in enterp... Dec. 7, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 16,425 Replies: 2 | Open Servicing By Ajit Sagar  It seems as though as
soon as the open source
community rallies around
a technology, the IT
industry starts taking it
more seriously - and
finds practical
application for it.
Ironically, although
organizations like the
concept, despite the
maturation of the open
... Oct. 2, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 16,906 | SOA Web Services Journal
Editorial – SOA
Makes for a Strange
Bedfellow By Ajit Sagar  Over the last few years,
Web services and SOA have
made a lot of inroads
into not only the IT
departments of large
enterprises, but also
into the minds of the
business owners of
different LOBs (Lines of
Business). SOA is more
than Web services; it is
the mantra fo... Sep. 21, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 16,098 | One Little Service
Jumping on the Net... By Ajit Sagar  As organizations bravely
venture into the world of
Web services, they
grapple with the age-old
question - where do we
begin? The main challenge
that I have seen with key
stakeholders looking to
move towards the agile
enterprise is solving the
dilemma of which approa... Aug. 26, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 13,394 | The G.E. of Software By Ajit Sagar  At JavaOne this year, one
of the biggest
announcements (albeit
this one had nothing
really to do with Java)
was the acquisition of
SeeBeyond by Sun
Microsystems. It looks
like Sun is putting its
cash, which it has plenty
of, to good use. As we
have seen over the l... Aug. 10, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 13,508 | Phasing in SOA and Web
Services By Ajit Sagar  Over the last couple of
years, the industry has
rallied around SOA and
its main realization
platform - Web services.
While many of the clients
I meet are still wary
about the adoption of new
technology, integration
dilemmas posed by the
variety of software and
har... Aug. 2, 2005 10:30 PM Reads: 19,369 Replies: 2 | Distributing Excellence:
SOA Web Services By Ajit Sagar  As SOA and Web services
adoption in the industry
is gaining more momentum,
the need to get quick
wins and to show the
value of adopting new (or
old) paradigms is weighed
against the risk of
facing the repercussions
of slapping something
together in a quick and
dir... Jun. 28, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 18,937 Replies: 1 | BPM: Too Much or Too
Little? By Ajit Sagar I'd like to take a moment
to introduce myself. I've
been working with SYS-CON
for about eight years
now, across different
publications, so when
Sean talked to me about
providing regular content
for WSJ, I thought to
myself, 'Cool.' I am also
the enterprise editor fo... May. 25, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 18,409 | SOA, Web Services, and
GDM By Ajit Sagar A couple of months ago I
got an e-mail inviting me
to keynote an SOA/Web
Services conference in
Beijing. My immediate
reaction was - 'Good.
China has reached the
stage where it's hosting
international conferences
on the subject.'
Actually, 2005 marks the
fourth ti... Apr. 22, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 16,910 | Report From Beijing: Web
Services and SOA In China By Ajit Sagar China is second only to
India these days when it
comes to delivering
global IT software
services. How does a
technology conference
there differ from a North
American one? Ajit Sagar,
founding editor of
XML-Journal and longtime
editorial board member of
JDJ, report... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,384 | SOA, MSOA, and Java By Ajit Sagar SOA is obviously the new
buzzword of the day.
Among the many acronyms,
one that is seen very
often is 'Same Old
Architecture.' In many
ways, this is true. The
key differentiator
between the paradigms
that have been prevalent
in the past and this new
incarnation of... Mar. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 19,741 Replies: 1 | Take Two Patterns and
Call Me in the Morning By Ajit Sagar Life is not easy for
today's enterprise
application architects.
In today's IT world, the
architect not only has to
design solutions for a
plethora of
interdependent systems
(as is obvious from the
job description and
title), he or she also
has to conform to the
... Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 19,445 | The Blind Men, the
Elephant, and App Server
Migration By Ajit Sagar The six blind men who
attempted to describe the
elephant eventually
described it only from
their perspectives - the
parts and not the whole.
The same malady can be
found lurking in one of
the problems that faces
many organizations that
have adopted J2EE as
their p... Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 20,977 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
FiveSight Technologies,
Inc. By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio host Ajit
Sagar interviews Paul
Brown, CEO of FiveSight
Technologies, Inc. about
the future of Java
development as its
divided between
higher-level tools and
core development. The
interview also covered
the important things to
look for when aligning ... Jun. 10, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 11,657 | The Proof Is in the
Concept By Ajit Sagar In a large project,
designing for performance
often turns out to be a
chicken or egg situation.
In a J2EE project, this
is even more evident.
Typically when business
and functional
requirements are handed
down to the technical
team, the first step is
to map the fu... May. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 19,975 Replies: 2 | How EE Is Your J2? By Ajit Sagar My 2 1/2 year old son has
a birth certificate on
his door that says
'native Texan.' Now I've
lived in Dallas for
several more years than
those he has covered in
his short stint on this
planet, but that doesn't
make me a native Texan. I
am in a strange state of
flu... Apr. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 17,013 | Living Inside the Box By Ajit Sagar One of my recent clients
had an entire suite of
applications that was
built on an in-house
messaging framework.
Several years ago, when
not many Java frameworks
existed in the market and
J2EE was still a few
years away, this would
have been considered a
good thing... Mar. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 15,462 | Integrate My Environment By Ajit Sagar If you wanted a home
theater system, would you
buy a shrink-wrapped
solution - a
preconfigured system from
a single brand? Or are
you one of those folks
who would like to buy a
TV from here, a receiver
from there, and speaker
from hither, and the
amplifier from yo... Feb. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 17,216 Replies: 1 | TCO for Linux and J2EE
Projects By Ajit Sagar A colleague of mine is an
easy target for anything
that's free. I'm not
talking about free from
the perspective of
'unshackled' or
'independent.' Rather,
I'm talking about the
type of free that won't
make his wallet thinner.
To him anything that
looks, tastes, or ... Jan. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 18,521 Replies: 3 | 'Tis the Season for
Amalgamations By Ajit Sagar By the time you get this
issue, Christmas will be
around the corner. From
the J2EE arena, what is
on your wish list for the
coming year? More
sophisticated tools?
All-encompassing
solutions for your
business? More
J2EE-related jobs next
year? A utopia where J2EE
... Dec. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 16,038 Replies: 4 | eXtreme J2EE By Ajit Sagar When I first started
programming, it was with
a small company. Life was
simple. I understood all
the requirements, and
knew all the aspects of
the application and how
to pull everything
together. If I was
working with a team of
programmers, the projects
were small... Nov. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 18,788 Replies: 1 | Complex Relationships By Ajit Sagar EJB 2.0 is testimony to
the fact that the J2EE
model has come a long
way. You can do a lot of
things with 2.0 that were
tedious and error-prone
in EJB 1.1. The Container
Managed Persistence (CMP)
relationship management
alone makes it
worthwhile. Just define
all d... Oct. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 15,763 Replies: 6 | JBuilder 7.0 Enterprise
Edition By Ajit Sagar There's no doubt about
it. Borland makes great
products for developers.
They're definitely
expensive and usually
complex but very
powerful. I've been using
JBuilder 6 for several
months, and when I had
the opportunity to review
the latest version, I
jumped at the chance. Oct. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 19,438 Replies: 9 | Verifying Java for the
Enterprise By Ajit Sagar About three months ago,
my two-year old son
discovered the word
'cup.' He would call
everything a cup, though
he had no clue what a cup
was. Finally we figured
out a way for him to call
a cup a cup we pointed
to a cup every time he
uttered the word. In my
techno... Sep. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 15,077 Replies: 2 | Talking About My
Generation By Ajit Sagar I'm sure you've heard
many of the cannibal
jokes. One of my
favorites is a news flash
in a cannibal tribe
announcing the invention
of the 'pressure cooker':
'We have news of a device
that cooks a man within
minutes, and even lets
out a whistle when it's
done.' Tho... Aug. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 14,915 Replies: 2 | Team Spirit By Ajit Sagar Here's a short pop quiz:
Have you ever built an
application in J2EE and
taken it through the
entire product life
cycle? Or, for that
matter, any distributed
computing application? If
the answer is 'Yes,' then
answer this one: Have you
handled all the facets of
the... Jul. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 13,704 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Improv Technologies By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio interviews
Joe Brookman, Chief
Marketing Officer of
Improv Technologies. Jun. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,757 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Richard Hale Shaw By Ajit Sagar SYS-CON Radio interviews
Richard Hale Shaw of the
Richard Hale Shaw Group. Jun. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 7,879 |
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