Rickland Hollar

Web services and the Grid are converging! The prospect of grid-based, commodity computers delivering run anywhere, anytime Web services across the Internet has hype-o-meters showing a speedy rise and marketing departments gearing up everywhere. Standards are still winding their w... (more)

W.C. Fields once said, "The practice of keyhole-listening is usually confined to hotels and boarding houses. It is absolutely indefensible to stoop so low. If the transom is not ajar, remember there are plenty of other rooms in the building." Hackers on the Web can take a similar... (more)

As a senior architect I always have a weather eye on evolving technologies in order to answer questions on how decisions made today will affect applications three to five years into the future. Occasionally, I hear or read a bellwether statement, one that makes me say, "I need to... (more)

To RPC, or not to RPC: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the control and dependency of coupling, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them? The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) offers two messaging styles: RPC (Remote ... (more)

The Internet makes it possible to deliver information almost instantaneously - anytime, anywhere - and is redefining the traditional boundaries around organizations and their IT systems. The Internet has turned buyers into sellers, sellers into buyers, and set new expectations fo... (more)