Eoin Lane, PhD (http://www.eoinlane.com/), is a Principal Technologist with Cape Clear Software. He offers advice and consultancy to Cape Clear clients in the design and implementation of Web services projects. Eoin worked previously at Valtech as a principle consultant. His career spans more than 10 years in the IT industry, focusing most recently on, object-oriented design, J2EE, and XML and Linux, with a particular interest in open source technologies