A lack of quality tools is stifling wireless developers, according to a new study released by Evans Data.
Personal Software Process and Team Software Process are intertwined methodologies
that offer formal processes for improving software quality and managing schedules.
SOA enthusiasts have been trumpeting a coming generation of composite applications—applications that are composed of multiple, independent, plug-and-play services.
Oracle disclosed details of the enhancements planned for the upcoming Oracle Application Server 10g release 3 at this week's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
ClearNova this week introduced ThinkCAP JX, a rapid application development platform that allows developers to build intuitive Web-based applications.
Kareem Yusuf, director of SOA product management with Big Blue, says he understands why developers, more than any other enterprise constituency, are skeptical about SOAs, composite applications and loosely coupled application architectures as a whole. It’s a healthy skepticism, he concedes.
Microsoft this week, at its Professional Developers Conference, released a slew of tools that focus on workflow and custom applications.
If Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich has said it once, he's said it a thousand times (to us, anyway): Eclipse is not just about Java.
Microsoft is counting on its developer base to help it compete with rivals Google and Yahoo in the search space.
It came and went last month with relatively little fanfare, but the release of the latest version of EclipseME, the open-source plugin for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, was big news for Java developers working in small spaces.
KACE today introduced a new management suite to help mid-size companies oversee all elements on their networks: from desktops and laptops, to servers, switches and routers.
Borland Software released this week an upgrade to JBuilder, Java integrated development environment, Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.
The result of the partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder reached earlier this year is that TopCoder’s components for Java and .NET are now stored in Logidex, LogicLibrary's collaborative SDA management solution.
Java tools undergo an extreme makeover...
Thanks to the influence of Eclipse's open-source tooling platform, the new face of the Java IDE will
resemble a lean plug-in environment rather than the traditional feature-stuffed tool suite.
CIOs are smitten with legacy apps again, but keeping decades-old behemoths running is extremely costly. IT departments rely on application portfolio management tools to ease this burden, so sales for APM tools skyrocketed 280 percent in 2004, according to a recent Forrester Research study.
It is axiomatic to say that testing and QA are the ugly stepchildren of the software development process. Everyone knows code quality is important, but so are features and deadlines. And when it's crunch time, testing and QA get short shrift.
The Logidex library creates and maintains an inventory of these assets and their relationships to each other, the company’s business processes and the technical infrastructure. Collaboration support within Logidex work areas allows developers, architects and business analysts to work together within a common context.
The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines of complex mainframe code written in the 1980s, and a staff of experienced COBOL programmers who had worked for the company for many years, Campus Partners faced a challenge.
Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quavadx, recently introduced a new version of its SourcePro C++ software that enables developers to build C++ apps that can be migrated from one platform to another as a company’s business needs change.
Some enterprises are developing hybrid, or interdependent, applications that have both conventional (client desktop) and embedded (mobile or wireless) components.