MetaEdit+ lets you move a level up the abstraction chain to develop your own domain-specific modeling languages. It's an interesting way to streamline development in a specific domain.
A capable XML editor that goes beyond the basics, <oXygen /> is java-based for cross-platform usability.
WinDriver offers relatively painless device driver development across a variety of platforms. If you can't afford a full-time device engineer, this package may be the next best thing.
Altova’s xmlspy 2004 is highly recommended, especially for organizations in which users of varying levels of technical skill are working with XML documents.
Quotes from industry luminaries
Longhorn’s Indigo technology -- still years away from its first ship -- could mark Microsoft’s embrace of real interoperability with non-Windows systems.
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.
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.
Top computer makers, start-ups rush to build Grid technology and create standards they say can make “on-demand” computing a reality; are users ready?
Development managers must carefully implement design paradigms that can link all facets of a project; fundamental understanding of the core design is key.
How you manage your meta data is even more important than what you use to collect it.
A look at software tools and technologies on the market.
Solving technical and cultural issues won’t be easy, but using meta data repositories for large app integration projects could provide huge benefits
Business Activity Monitoring faces plenty of competition in the battle to become the next killer app for execs to get more information faster
Corporate developers have simultaneously lauded and trashed development tool technologies; what is the outlook for tools?
What exactly should those developing solutions view as “middleware”? The answer lies in an understanding of how vendors are approaching the software stack as a means of implementing SOA.
The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) from the OMG is meant to provide a common basis for meta models.
Need to write an application that runs on a Linux box? If all your experience up to now has been on Windows machines or mainframes, this book will let you come up to speed quickly on Linux tools and development concepts.
A listing of the major types of integration meta data, as defined by Gartner Inc.