Sean Neville
JCP Executive Committee representative for Macromedia, EJB 2.0/J2EE 1.4 expert group member. Flash Remoting for J2EE/.NET architect.


Sean Neville is in software engineering at Macromedia where he's currently focused on Rich Internet Application development, particularly in the enterprise. He originally joined Macromedia to focus on the JRun J2EE application server and served as the architect of that product, focused on JINI-based clustering, Enterprise JavaBeans container architecture and a number of other features in JRun. He also served as architect for the Flash Remoting product. He sits on the JCP SE/EE executive committee on behalf of Macromedia and contributes to a number of JSR expert groups. In this interview, Sean talks about Rich Internet Applications, how they can be used to aggregate the business tier and enterprise applications using the client and looks at architectural approaches and technologies used for designing RIAs. He discusses how the J2EE Petstore was implemented in Flash, how the Flash Remoting product enables interoperability between J2EE and rich clients, and examines why vendors are trying to attract a new 'VB-style' group of developers. He also looks at changes that need to occur in the industry for RIAs to become mainstream.

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