Summer conference highlights
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eADT at
LinuxWorld: Beyond the OS
The West Coast
edition of the bi-annual LinuxWorld conference opens this week in San
Francisco. More than 190
exhibitors are showcasing their wares this year -- 55
more than last year, according to Warwick Davies, group VP at show
organizer IDG World Expo -- and attendance is expected
to match last year's numbers of between 10,000 and
11,000. |
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At IBM Rational Conference: IBM rolls out Workplace tools
IBM Rational lifted the lid on improved developer technologies, including
a new diagram navigator for Rose; support for UML 2.0 capabilities, including
diagram sequencing, client remoting and management for ClearCase; as well
as faster UI building with JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Read
more |
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At JavaOne: Project Kitty Hawk kicks off Sun SOA strategy
Sun Microsystems unveiled its plans
to support SOAs in its Java Enterprise System server software suite and Java
Studio programming tools at the JavaOne conference. Enhancements to these
products under 'Project Kitty Hawk' will make it easier for
developers to write 'a new breed of enterprise software' around
Java-based Web services, company officials said.Read
more |
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Integration brokers are increasingly
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Microsoft and BEA, according to analysts at the Burton Group.'Integration broker
functionality is moving straight into the application platform,' said James
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At TechEd: Ballmer discusses Visual Studio
2005 Team System, app life cycle
At Microsoft TechEd, Steve Ballmer discussed the next release of Visual Studio
2005, which will include a version known as ''Team System.'' The toolset is
intended to reach out beyond developers to include more workers involved with
the application life cycle. To read more, click
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At BEA eWorld: BEA's SOA vision: 'Liquid
Computing'
BEA Systems' chief exec Alfred Chuang kicked off the ninth annual eWorld user
conference in San Francisco by officially rolling out his company's Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) strategy, which is based on BEA's vision of a 'fluid
enterprise' enabled by a set of products and services collectively dubbed
'Liquid Computing.' To read more, click
here.
At Gartner Summit: When BPEL meets Java
Many of Gartner's predictions of Web services are pretty far out in time, some
relating to technology we may not see until 2014. But one trend, the mapping
of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to programming languages, most
notably Java, is happening now. 'Expect BPEL mappings to specific language
to happen rapidly throughout 2004 and 2005,' Daryl Plummer, sector general
manager at Gartner, told attendees at Gartner's Application Integration and
Web Services Summit. To read more, click here.