I'm really enjoying my first JavaOne and one of the most enjoyable things has been hooking up with an old friend, Trey Drake, who I worked with soon after I started at Sun. Back then we created a UDDI server based on our Directory. It's still in the cvs tree, but Trey strongly discouraged me from resurrecting it, though I'm not very good at listening

Trey is now at Maximus and doing all kinds of cools stuff with REST and AJAX, which I'm only starting to get my head around. Anyway, we attended a session by Dave Johnson called "Java Technology and REST: Implementing the Atom Protocol", which was excellent. We both had the same idea afterwards, which was that this could be used to develop a server to support directory entry maintenance. He has promised to build something we can buy in a few months and I plan to hold him to it. He's the real java developer, but I'm starting to believe that NetBeans could make this easy enough that even I could tackle it.