Jim Waldo's Weblog

There is a raging debate about OSGi and Jini, yet again. Which isn't necessary or helpful. The two technologies are very different applications of similar design philosophies, and should not be see...

For the first time since 1989, I'm attending OOPSLA. Some things have changed, others have not. Here are a couple of reflections...

After a long absence, I'm back. With some explanations about why I've been gone so long...

In which, against my better judgement, I try to figure out what everyone means when they talk about XML...

More on objects and networks, but this time I try to make my own opinions clear, if not coherent...

If object models are tied to languages, then there are some real implicatons to how we do distributed computing (and how we make objects persistent). If this is indeed the case, then why are we so ...

Having realized that I didn't get the essence of blogging, I resolve to post with greater regularity and with less guilt. Heaven help us all...

I've been thinking about objects recently. One of the questions I've been thinking about is whether or not one can make sense of objects in a language-independent way. Herein are some reflections, ...

Some reflections, not on the current election, but on the process of voting (and the electronic tallies thereof) on this, the eve of our doing it again...

Having had some experience in the recent past with the way intellectual property law is handled in the courts, I'm of the opinion that there must be a better way...