Application Development News & Articles


Sapient Unveils ALM Solution

The consulting and marketing firm now offers software to help companies with agile development.

Serena Offers Business Mashup Solutions

New products purport to ease mashup development for both IT and business users.

NetBeans Beta 2 Is Dual-Licensed

Latest release includes a licensing change that better supports open source Java development.

Microsoft Starts Talking Up UC Tools Strategy

Developer portal and tools released as part of unified communications efforts.

Software Production Management Benefits Cited in Survey

Study finds that SPM solutions help developers automate production and achieve lower costs.

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Coming Friday

Service pack will be released about a year after the server first shipped.

First Look: Popfly

Microsoft's new Web animation tool for nondevelopers is easy to use, and a potential hook into the Silverlight platform.

Telelogic Adds UML 2.1 Modeling to Architect Solutions

Two of the company's enterprise lifecycle management products now use the same modeling environment, allowing improved team collaboration.

SpringSource Adds Annotation Support to Java App Framework

The latest version of the Spring Framework for Java developers has been released.

Affero General Public License V3 Released

The new license applies open source principles to network-run software.

Nvidia CUDA Helps Bring Parallel Programming to the Classroom

Beta version, adopted by 20 universities, enables app development on graphics processing units.

Rails Yet To Make Dent in the Enterprise

Panelists at a recent QCon event praised the Ruby on Rails programming language, which currently lacks a track record in the enterprise.

Coverity Adds Java Support to OSS Scan Service

Users can check Java- and C/C++-based software for potential security and quality problems before compiling code.

GoldenGate 9.5 Boosts Data Management

Solution aimed at supporting mission-critical data in the enterprise.

IBM and Mainsoft Ink Deal To Integrate .NET Apps

WebSphere Portal will be sold with Mainsoft's .NET-Java interoperability solution.

Coming: Virtualization Validation Program From Microsoft

Redmond makes way for virtualization competitors.

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2008

.NET Framework 3.5 also released.

Genuitec Checks Eclipse Pulse

Company combines Eclipse IDE provisioning and products with social networking site.

Miko Says: 'Make SOA Real'

The Software AG exec added that companies can stay competitive if they adopt service-oriented architectures.

OASIS Ramps Up SDO Efforts for SOAs

The standards group formed a technical committee to foster the Service Data Objects specification, an approach for handling data in service-oriented architectures.