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Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap and product strategy.
Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.
Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is also a former editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author of the WS-Transactions set of specifications and co-chair of the WS-TX technical committee at OASIS. He is also co-chair of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) Policy Working Group and a member of the Eclipse and ObjectWeb Boards.
A frequent speaker at industry and company events and contributor to popular journals and Web sites, Mr. Newcomer is the author of the best-selling Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman). His newest book, Understanding SOA with Web Services, written with Greg Lomow, was published by Addison Wesley in December 2004. | 