Project Zero Blog

This is a bit of a reblog and an FYI. Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, CTO of WebSphere, and sponsor of Project Zero, blogs about “cultivating the future of WebSphere” over on developerWorks in his blog titled WebSphere: Into the wild BLUE yonder! Project Zero started as an incubator project and resulted in WebSphere sMash, so go see [...]

I am really pleased with the way Project Zero is shaping up. I especially like the way the web-based tools project is moving ahead a light speed. It looks like 2008 will be the year that we in IBM produce a product from the technology here on PZ.org. I wanted to take a moment and [...]

Over the Holidays, I had Floyd Marinescu from InfoQ drop in with video equipment in tow. Floyd does some really nice work, and asked me some decent questions regarding Project Zero and Restful SOA. It was kind of weird sitting in front of the camera with a bright light shining in my face… but after [...]

The ProjectZero Catalog – why write it, when you can re-use it?
I joke with my colleagues that the last piece of unique code was written in 1982 – Which, if I remember correctly, was the year after I started programming. I say this because at some level what’s old is new and what’s [...]

Authors: Kyle Brown, Gennaro Cuomo, Jason McGee
Extending the Reach of SOA with Web-Oriented Architecture
We’re in an interesting time right now in development for the Web. For the first time in several years we have a new set of technologies that are letting us look at Web development in a new and different way. Rather than [...]

Been getting quite a bit of questions about PHP’s place in PZ. Here are some questions and some answers…
Why PHP?
Three words… Agility, Content, Educated. Yes, PHP is the A.C.E. up our sleeve.
Agility. If JEE applications are optimized for “enduring value” (A.k.a. they are written to run forever) then PHP scripts [...]

Project Zero is now on Wikipedia, and we’ve created a Zero application to commemorate the event. In fact, it’s running right now on this blog post!
I have been enamored with Wikipedia.org since I found out about it a few years ago. It is quite the phenomenon and is one of the real poster [...]

One step towards ZaaS (Zero as a Service)
There’s been a great deal of buzz around the Software as a Service (SaaS) topic this week. Sharon Mertz from Gartner wrote that “SaaS revenue to reach $US11.5 billion by 2011”. On the Project Zero front, we are working on a couple of ideas that we [...]

Is it worth standardizing an agile platform for our generation’s dynamic web applications?
I first started thinking about this topic when I saw a Twitter from Redmonk’s James Governor.

 
my name for the new stack: RASA – rest, atom, scripting, agile….. does that work for you people?

My short answer to James is YES. [...]

Let me say a little more on REST
Folks have been asking me about why I’m so excited about REST. Specifically, I’m asked how REST can help one implement a Service Oriented Architecture. REST is a style of architecture that is best exemplified within the HTTP protocol. Project Zero follows this style of [...]