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Simon is a hands-on software architect and a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. Over the past 12 years, he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He's also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology.

Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. Using his architecture experience, he founded the Coding the Architecture website, delivering content for the growing community of hands-on pragmatic software architects. He has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a number of high profile software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and actively maintains a public blog.

Most recently, Simon has set up itjersey; a web-based community for information technology in Jersey.

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1	What is a software architect? I've been talking through the role profile for software architects recently and I'm going to publish a revised version soon. In the meantime, I thought that it's worth clarifying exactly who the profile is aimed at. Although there might not be a common ...	10-Apr-2008 19:30:00
2	Is Enterprise Architecture the next step? Following on from Role titles across the world, I wanted to present a diagram that I've had in my head for a little while but never got around to putting on paper. I think architecture at the application and system level is pretty well defined, with an ...	18-May-2007 11:28:13
3	Comparing webapp frameworks : WebWork Like Struts, WebWork is a framework that is fairly established within the J2EE webapp space although it's interesting that I've only ever come across two types of WebWork users - those that have never heard of it and those that love it. WebWork, like ...	24-Mar-2006 23:03:44
4	Comparing webapp frameworks : Stripes Stripes is a relatively new web application framework that's been built with a couple of things in mind - simplicity and the adoption of new technology. In Stripes, you won't find any complex XML configuration files and, refreshingly, the distribution ...	10-Mar-2006 14:07:45
5	Comparing webapp frameworks : Wicket Guillermo Castro has posted a Wicket implementation of the webapp comparison that I started a while ago. It's an interesting read and the contrast with most page/request based webapp frameworks is amazing. In summary, Guillermo says: Wicket, in my ...	09-Mar-2006 09:56:26