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Review: PDFtoolkit Professional

PDFtoolkit offers a COM-based infrastructure for manipulating Adobe Acrobat files.

Briefing: Business Services Network

Grand Central wants to be the switchboard for Service Oriented Architectures - and they just might succeed.

BAM hits the big time

Better decision-making -- fueled by more timely and accurate business intelligence (BI) -- is a key driver for companies scrambling to become real-time enterprises. Business activity monitoring (BAM) is being touted by many industry pundits as a linchpin in the real-time infrastructure.

Briefing: LightStreamer

Push technology isn't dead; if you want a way to send content to a browser, take a look at LightStreamer.

Briefing: CMSmx

A content management system for sites written in Flash, that itself works as a Flash application, CMSmx offers a way to open up Flash content to non-developers.

Briefing: XWall 3.0

This Web Services firewall now offers WSDL validation for developers, making it a product that both admins and programmers can love.

Briefing: X-registry

Infravio's X-registry offers a federated Web services registry designed to help you build a marketplace for service providers and consumers.

Review: Reflector 4.0

Reflector is an essential part of the .NET developer's toolbox - and it's even free!

Review: Ektron CMS300

Extron offers a browser-based CMS, complete with an excellent editing control, that should be able to handle most content management tasks.

Underplugged tools

There are plenty of tools - here's my current pick of some that could use a little more publicity, simply because they're useful to have around.

Sarbanes Oxley Overdrive

Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?

Briefing: InstallShield X

InstallShield adds online update and cross-platform compatability to its all-in-one setup building package.

Review: Newslook

Although it's still in beta, this Outlook-integrated NNTP newsreader is already worth a closer look.

Review: UltraEdit

This shareware editor packs a large number of features into a low-price package. Worth a look for your text editing needs.

Review: SpectrumSCM

SpectrumSCM offers an excellent value in cross-platform source code management

Book Excerpt: Best practices for building Service-Oriented Architectures

A hand-picked collection of best practices that address key issues faced by organizations in the implementation of SOA and Web services.

SAP development strategies: NetWeaver this way comes

SAP's plan is to ride Web services to the next plateau. NetWeaver, a new kid on the block, is the vehicle to get it there.

Plugging into SarbOx

Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?

Software architects: Working on a building

Some people, including author Thomas Mowbray, are seeking to formalize the calling of the software architect. The age of the software architect may be at hand.

A review of RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8

Mike Gunderloy reviews RMTrack 2.0 and Cape Clear SOA Editor 4.8