Paul Lipton is an Advisor and Senior Architect in CA, Inc. where he leads the CA Industry Standards and Open Source Program in the Office of the CTO. Paul has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DMTF and the Eclipse Foundation, and has participated in many other industry organizations such as OASIS and the W3C. Paul is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 to improve research collaboration. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering topics such as industry standards, SOA, open source, technical innovation, enterprise architecture, social computing, virtualization, Web services, management/security, governance, autonomic computing, Web 2.0, and many other emerging technologies.
Mae West said, "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one
I've never tried before." But, sometimes, when choosing between two equally
appealing options, the best policy is to take both. WS-ResourceFramework and
WS-Transfer, two new specifications for accessing XML representations of
resources through Web Services have been announced. Although it's not
uncommon to find competing specifications and standards in the world of Web
Services, this time we shouldn't be forced to make an exclusive choice
because WS-ResourceFramework and WS-Transfer can serve complimentary roles.
What do we mean by resource representation?
It's often considered to be the representation of the state of a resource -
state being one or more characteristics, or properties, associated... (more)
Significant investments in the successful management and administration of
many critical business systems have had mixed success over the years. In a
new, more competitive age of regulation and globalization, SOA promises much
in terms of business agility and efficiency, but how do we maintain
visibility, control, and appropriate governance of this new and much more
highly distributed se... (more)
Web Services orchestration, management, and security are among the principal
challenges facing implementers of Service Oriented Architectures. There is
still much confusion in the IT community about the standards themselves,
which are at various stages of maturity. Also, their relevance to enterprise
IT and how they might someday be able to effectively work together is often
unclear.
Th... (more)
My first thought, when I heard about .NET, was "Here we go again!" It sounded
like yet another attempt on the part of Microsoft to revitalize what appeared
to be a fading technology and vision. Increasingly, as a programmer and
architect, I was getting the impression that the exciting stuff was happening
in the Java universe. For example, there were innovative ideas coming out of
the ope... (more)
Do you want to understand our industry? Forget the big-name industry pundits
and think-tanks. Look to the great poets like Donne and Shakespeare. You
can't go wrong. The great poets can provide a long-term, human perspective on
how we think, dream, and scheme. That insight is useful even in the new world
of Web services and pervasive computing.
A better understanding of our own human natu... (more)
Paul Lipton is an Advisor and Senior Architect in CA, Inc. where he leads the CA Industry Standards and Open Source Program in the Office of the CTO. Paul has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DMTF and the Eclipse Foundation, and has participated in many other industry organizations such as OASIS and the W3C. Paul is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 to improve research collaboration. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering topics such as industry standards, SOA, open source, technical innovation, enterprise architecture, social computing, virtualization, Web services, management/security, governance, autonomic computing, Web 2.0, and many other emerging technologies.
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