Let's all give a big JavaRanch welcome to Richard Monson-Haefel, the author of J2EE Web Services and new executive committee member of the JCP. Richard will be here to talk about his new book and answer your questions about web services. We will be giving away copies of Richard's book at the end of the week to four lucky winners. See the book promotion page for rules to win your copy of Richard's book.
Welcome Richard! I'm afraid I won't have much time to hang around myself, but please generate a nice backlog of interesting discussion for me to read afterwards
Thanks Thomas, for that warm introduction. I'll do my best to answer people's questions ... my posting tend to come in batches with long stretches (a few hours) where I won't be on line.