Web Services, SQL, XQuery
Mark Volkmann talked about J2EE's Web Services APIs at St. Louis Java Users Group tonight. Slides will be posted soon. Watch this space.
SAAJ, XML-RPC, JAXR, WSDL, UDDI, SOAPEnvelop, Axis, DIME, doc/literal, etc., ...
Update: The presentation slides are here.
Jason Hunter posted on the XQuery mailing list an interesting article on the commoditization of SQL by Jim Melton of Oracle.
Jim's future has XQuery in it.
Jason Hunter also let slip that he's working on an XQuery book for O'Reilly.