Application Development News & Articles


Microsoft Rejects Latest Open Source License

GPLv3 causes rift between Microsoft, Novell.

Microsoft Releases New CTP for ADO.NET Entity Framework

Release features changes to Object Services, Query and the Entity Data Model Wizard in Visual Studio.

W3C Releases Web Services Protocol

The new WSDL 2.0 protocol adds standardization and better interoperability for Web services and service-oriented architectures.

Windows Plans on the Wane for Developers

A survey found a decline in the number of North American developers who say they are targeting Windows.

BPM: Is It SOA's Reason for Being?

A service-oriented architecture makes the business case by enabling something else, and that something could be business process management.

Massachusetts Considering Microsoft's New Document Format

Open XML acceptance would open door to Office documents.

Layer 7 Virtualizes SOA Security Solution

The company's XML firewall product gets an added distribution boost via virtualization.

Expanding the Team

Microsoft's roadmap for Visual Studio Team System promises richer collaborative development. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News, July 1, 2007.)

Windows Communication Foundation

The skinny on Microsoft's programming model for messaging. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News, July 1, 2007.)

Waterfalling Forward to Agile

Manage the transition to agile processes. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News, July 1, 2007.)

Hacker Defaces Microsoft U.K. Web Page

A SQL injection attack is the likely culprit.

A Peek Inside Google

Working at the search giant isn't what it's cracked up to be, ex-employee says.

Progress Adds New Features to ObjectStore

The company's object data management solution now features an AJAX-based application monitoring tool.

Surgient to Support New Microsoft, VMware Virtualization Offerings

Lab management application to be released in August.

JBoss Tools Project to Get Exadel Plug-Ins

Red Hat adds Exadel Eclipse plug-ins as an open source resource through its JBoss Tools project.

Windows Server 2008 CTP Released

Web Server Core role is included.

Eclipse's Second Synchronized Project Release

Find out what's in store for this year's synchronized Eclipse project release.

Bluewolf Teams With Google on Business Apps

Consulting company looks to provide change-management support to organizations implementing the Google Apps product suite.

Terracotta Adds to IBM WebSphere Support

Latest release of open source Java scalability solution runs on the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.

Mule ESB Partner Program Launched

Program seeks to build partner community around open source enterprise service bus technology.