Mike Gunderloy reviews Openmake 6.2 and SOAPscope 3.0
Crystal adds J2EE features and additional data connections in its continued quest for enterprise reporting dominance. Business Objects, the new owner, is sending a strong signal about its long-term viability.
Developers need lawyers. But to make good use of a lawyer, it helps to do your
homework. This book is a great start.
The new release of this Outlook-integrated news reader adds compliance with the latest standards and an array of online services and alternative delivery methods.
An innovative control that acts like a regular grid stoon on edge, the XtraVerticalGrid can be used in a wide variety of user interfaces.
.NET code is easy to compile. Dotfuscator helps protect your code from prying eyes.
XMLFox offers an affordable way to create XML schema files, though you do have to watch out for a few rough edges.
SOAPscope continues to be the best diagnostic tool for Web services developers. Visual Studio .NET integration just makes it even sweeter.
This third-party tool brings value to the SQL Server management table that the native Microsoft tools miss, including solid source code control and many shortcuts for DBAs and developers.
VisualScript provides an innovative and extensible environment for creating XML. Its drag-and-drop visual metaphor will make XML creation easy for power users and pros alike.
If you've outgrown your build system because your software is too complex, take a look at OpenMake. It takes the pain out of builds with a knowledge base of software types.
With code generation on a micro scale for users of Visual Studio .NET, Codify offers a way to integrate code generation into every day development.
Market share appears to be the choice over technology in the race to create a Business Process Modeling (BPM) standard; is bigger better?
Seeking a tool to help monitor its B2B and e-Commerce Web apps for security issues and system errors, EBSCO Industries, Birmingham, Ala., installed TeaLeaf Technology's RealiTea.
Longtime rivals IBM and BEA have published three
new jointly developed Java specs designed to increase application portability across their app server offerings.
Mike Gunderloy reviews Teamplate 4.0, PrimalCode
3.0 and Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.
Developers want more immediate feedback on rogue classes and calls that diminish performance. IT managers want to know the health of the enterprise.
When you first think of modeling, you might not think of .NET. But tools already support such methods, and a Microsoft design set alternative is brewing that will surely shake the software design tree.
Suppliers take app servers to the next level as the technology aims to become e-business cornerstone; some fear feature list will grow too long.