About Water

The Water language had it origins in 1998 when the founders of Clear Methods, Christopher Fry and Mike Plusch, recognized both the potential and the limitations of XML and Web services. They set about creating a new platform to enable businesses to capture the economic benefits of Web services and XML without the inherent limitations and complexity of traditional Web services development. The first version of Water was released in 2001 to run on Java virtual machines. A Water compiler has since been developed to enable to fast, cross-platform Water language execution. In 2008, the language is being expanded to run on clients within the browser.

Mike Plusch and Christopher Fry are the creators of the Water Language. Aubrey Jaffer is the project manager for the Water compiler.

Mike Plusch has over ten years of industry experience building platforms and complex Web applications for organizations including Digitas, Harlequin, and Bowstreet, a pioneer in Web services. He is the co-inventor of the Water language and ConciseXML. He has developed a broad range of applications for financial services, travel, retail and manufacturing. An accomplished author, Plusch has written two books and contributed to numerous books and articles on Web services, including Water: Simplified Web Services and XML Programming, Wiley; and Water Programming, Mike Plusch and Christopher Fry. Plusch holds two degrees from MIT, one in Management and one in Computer Science.

>Mike's Weblog

Christopher Fry has over twenty years experience as an architect in language development and artificial intelligence. He is the co-inventor of the Water language and ConciseXML. Fry was the architect and major contributor to the development of several software languages. He has also authored numerous related publications in the journal Communications of the ACM.

>Fry's Weblog

Aubrey Jaffer is an active volunteer at the Free Software Foundation and Senior Software architect for Clear Methods, Inc. He  initiated, organized, coordinated and coded several large, multi-author software projects encompassing over 70,000 lines of Scheme code; 45,000 lines of C source; and 35,000 lines of TeXinfo documentation. His publications include: "SIMSYNCH Digital Circuit Simulator Reference Manual". Version 1c2, November 2007.

• "FreeSnell Thin-Film Optical Simulator". Version 1b6, November 2007. • "SCM Scheme Implementation Reference Manual". Version 5e4, November 2007. • "JACAL Symbolic Mathematics User Manual" Version 1b8, November 2007. • "SLIB Scheme Library Reference Manual". Version 3a5, November 2007. • "WB B-tree Library Reference Manual". Version 2a1, November 2007. • "Algebra and the Lambda Calculus". Dr. Dobbs Journal, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 1993.