Application Development News & Articles


Borland tool said to link development, deployment

Borland Software moved late last week to expand its application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy by unveiling a new infrastructure management offering designed to bridge the gap between development and deployment.

Lotus development sets sites on Java Server Faces

Moves discussed at last year's Lotusphere -- that promised an accelerated migration to Java (and J2EE) for Notes and Domino application developers -- appeared fuller fledged at this year's Lotusphere get-together.

QA: Manes on mighty morphing services

Middleware expert Anne Thomas Manes has graced these pages before, most recently with an excerpt from her book “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide” [ADT, August 2003]. We caught up with her just before she held a webinar on the dynamic state of Web services platforms.

Do tools matter?

For 30-plus years developers have had a love-hate relationship with tools. Our experts offer their views on the state of development tools today and into the future.

Novell addresses ID management; shows off Ximian, SuSe buys

Last week, Novell debuted the latest version of its ID management software, Nsure Identity Manager 2. This week, the Provo, UT-based software maker is releasing version 5 of its exteNd suite for developing service-oriented Web applications.

Global eXchange dons HAHT for $30M

B2B e-commerce software and services provider Global eXchange said it will pay about $30 million for HAHT Commerce Inc.

IBM taps partner to get banking apps on WebSphere

IBM has disclosed plans to partner with i-flex solutions, a company based in India that offers financial application software to banks internationally. The move displays IBM's continuing focus on vertical solutions, demonstrated in a recent restructuring of the organization's sales portfolio.

In search of a gentler Java

J2EE complexity stemmed the growth of early Java tools. Now, an emerging breed of simpler offerings aims to give Visual Studio .NET a run for its money just as the next-generation Microsoft offerings increase complexity.

Rivals IBM, BEA set to reveal Java specs

Tomorrow, longtime rivals IBM and BEA will publish three new jointly developed Java specifications designed to increase application portability across both of their app server offerings.

Bridging the gap between .NET and J2EE

Borland Software last week released the latest version of Janeva, a tool designed to help developers build applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework that are integrated with software based on J2EE and CORBA.

Iona taps JBoss for new app server

Firm also unveils the Orbix Connect toolset for linking JBoss and other J2EE application servers with CORBA-based systems.

Borland hits 20, unveils life-cycle bundle

Borland Software Corp. cranked up the volume on its application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy last week at its annual user conference.

BorCon: Delphi 8 targets .NET

Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET Framework, released at the toolmaker's 14th annual BorCon event, is designed to enable Delphi developers to create .NET Framework-based applications and migrate existing Win32 Delphi applications to .NET.

Borland targets ease of use in next JBuilder Java IDE

Ease of Java deployment is a major objective of next month’s release of Borland JBuilder 9.

webMethods grabs The Mind Electric, two other firms

Middleware specialist moves to expand portfolio for Web services.

Sun, Microsoft can agree on Java

Companies extend license of Java Virtual Machine.

BEA launches third phase of security plan

Launch of BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security (WLES) first new product resulting from February acquisition of CrossLogix.

Many compilers, one IDE for C++ BuilderX

New IDE provides first time Unix support, allowing applications to migrate from Unix to Intel-based Linux.

Borland joins Together and .NET

Company has expanded its Together analysis and design tools with release of Together Edition for Visual Studio .NET.

Rack server vendor claims price/performance edge in benchmark

RackSaver claims that its servers have better price/performance than do servers from IBM, HP and Dell.