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Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software
David Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Progress Software Corporation (Sonic) . Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the enterprise service bus (ESB), Service Oriented Architecture(SOA), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As director of engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led the development effort for SonicMQ(r), which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging. He has extensive experience in distributed computing, including JMS and MOM, CORBA, COM, EJB and Web application server infrastructure. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters. Chappell is well noted for authoring the Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly), Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World. Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java(tm) Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community" in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine "Top 10 IT leaders" award for "casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry".
The most recent 12 of 107 entries filed under this blog.
October 23, 2006
Software Development
The ESB-CON II virtual conference that I wrote about here is now available for replay. To recap, ESB-CON II features descriptions and case studies of SOA projects that are based on experience with act
October 23, 2006
Software Development
I recently published an article in Enterprise Systems Journal on the subject of SOA and meeting the needs of business. It's called "SOA: Its the Business that Matters">/a> and can be found at http://w
October 13, 2006
There's a great article in Baseline Magazine on the current state of adoption of Web Services Management platforms. It includes several case studies and references of organizations that are using them to govern their SOA deployments.
October 10, 2006
Software Development
I have been intently following a blog thread that was initially started by the "Other" David Chappell. David's initial posting SOA and the Reality of Reuse sparked a small flurry of responses, and res
July 27, 2006
Software Development
We have been meeting with the SCA folks for a while and staying in close touch with its progression. We have finally made it official however and joined in the SCA effort. The list of companies collab
July 21, 2006
Software Development
Sonic ESB(R) has been ranked first in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) segment of Gartner Dataquest's latest report on the worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) market. The report, "M
July 20, 2006
Software Development
There's quite a lively discussion heating up over on InfoQ on the subject of ESB's--Concensus on the definition of an ESB, and ESB use cases are two of the forum topics that are going on over there at
July 20, 2006
Software Development
I was recently interviewed by Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News, where he asked me a number of questions about what Progress and Sonic have been doing with new advancements in ESB technolog
June 16, 2006
Software Development
Horrific blog by an ex Microsoftie on possible reasons for Vista’s slippages . Comments such as An architectural diagram of Windows would suggest there are more than 50 dependency layers (never mind that there also exist circular dependencies) are enough to set any software developer’s hair on fire.
June 16, 2006
Software Development
I got a chuckle this morning from the SciFi Channel Battlestar webpage.
June 16, 2006
Software Development
Hacking Yojimbo bookmarklets so that new items are added with flags. A nice tip from Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings.
June 16, 2006
Software Development
It serves me right for writing a blog post such as ‘ How to avoid losing 150M Euro ‘. Just to show you I get things wrong on projects, here’s three mistakes that I made (and should have known better). They all come from a Sales application that we’re doing for a client.