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Create your own tests for Java/EJB code

A list of Web sights providing frameworks and libraries to help you build your own tests.

.NET and Java: No real integration yet

Given the lawsuits and general bad blood between Microsoft and Sun, most people are not banking on anything breaking on the .NET and Java integration front anytime soon.

IT still spending on portals

A single point of corporate access to structured and unstructured data appeals to cautious IT managers. This demand is attracting the attention of IBM, Sun and Microsoft developers.

Serenity through markup

Markup systems have enjoyed the sort of large-scale successes and longevity of deployments that have often eluded mainstream code.

UML 2.0 RFP scorecard

Elements focused specifically on real-time are being handled as part of a UML "profile" (The UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time)

Whither CORBA?

Now that a new silver bullet has appeared on the scene -- XML and its Web services cousin -- what's to become of CORBA?

Easy money?

Yesterday, the money went into stocks; today, it's housing. The same is true in IT organizations. Yesterday, ''strategic investments,'' like ERP, CRM, e-business transformation, knowledge management or zero latency were often green-lighted. Today, the conventional wisdom is that software projects must demonstrate tangible ROI. But how true is that?

Can CORBA & Web services live together?

Microsoft and others champion the coexistence of legacy CORBA and emerging Web services standards. Like COBOL, CORBA has become a part of the foundation of many IT shops.

The hot spot is hot

There has been an explosion in the demand for wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies that is driving growth in newer wireless markets, such as health care, education and corporate office space.

Web services in harmony

Developers will deliver new applications rapidly by using composite applications and orchestrations.

Are you ready for some UML 2.0?

In the middle of a heat wave, we sent a reporter to find out what's new in UML 2.0. He tells us that, while looking to avoid so-called second-system syndrome, UML 2.0 moves toward providing better code generation and component handling, business process modeling and other neat stuff.

Wireless in IT: Still a brave new world

The use of wireless applications in the world of IT still hasn't met the optimistic projections of the late '90s; but analysts still insist that increasing worker mobility makes a corporate spread of wireless inevitable.

The Right Java Tool for the Right Job

Our experts say developers can turn to Java servlets for smaller jobs, to Enterprise JavaBeans for complex projects and for some others, a mix of the two technologies.

Taming spreadsheet jockeys

The health of a data warehousing environment is inversely proportional to the number of spreadsheets used as data marts in the organization.

The Microsoft/IBM axis

Through the Web services series of specifications, Microsoft and IBM are working together to create the standards for communication that we need. These specifications are the future of Web services.

Comparing servlets and EJBs

This table compares and contrasts the servlets and EJBs, and provides a more detailed insight into how they stack up against each other using a set of objective parameters.

Web services architectures: Easier said than done

Web services can provide an open and interoperable development framework, but the technology requires an architecture unlike anything built before.

What's behind BEA's big bet on tools?

The company started life with the Tuxedo transaction monitor, then its WebLogic Java application server redefined the middleware market. Now BEA Systems will seek to entice a broader group of developers to work with Java.

Q&A: Eckerson measures state of data warehousing

Wayne Eckerson has been in the middle of the data warehousing business for years as director of education and research at the well-respected Data Warehousing Institute in Seattle. Wayne sat down over dinner recently with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan to answer some questions on the state of the industry.

.NET finds a home on the range

Needing a new application to track wild elk herds in the Rockies, the Colorado Department of Agriculture turned to a Web services architecture.