What is it, exactly, that I do?

An aquaintance recently asked me that question, and for the umpteenth time, I realized that I didn't have an easy answer.

In the old days, I was called a programmer - then a programmer / analyst - then programmer / systems analyst. Now, programmers are "engineers."

So now I'm a "Senior Software Engineer": development team lead and manager for the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) portion of Sun Microsystem's Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Got that?

Here's the kind of stuff I look at while at work...