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Re-energizing COBOL with Java

IT units have a slew of options for Java-enabling legacy COBOL applications; the choice is a difficult one, but the result can dramatically improve ease of use.

Meta data repository architecture techniques

Over the next few years, many companies will have the unenviable task of completely rebuilding their data warehousing systems. Why?

.NET & Beyond: Confronting .NET myths

Many misconceptions about .NET revolve around the issue of Web services. It is worth the effort to clear things up, says David Chappell.

Web services: The next big thing?

Software developers rush to transform Web services from concept to solution. A look at the strategies of key IT suppliers.

Standards turf wars scale back

Tony Baer: "In development organizations, the intensity of vendor competition tends to politicize technology decisions. Today, choosing between Java and Microsoft technologies often equates to picking sides in a gang war."

TP Middleware keeping up with mainframe revival

IT needs CICS, IMS, Tuxedo and the rest to be joined with the so-called "new middleware" -- J2EE, .NET and Component Transaction Monitors -- to get Web-based transaction processing where customers want it.

Programmers Report -- Q&A with Brett McLaughlin

Editor at Large Jack Vaughan talks with Brett McLaughlin, an Enhydra strategist at Lutris Technologies and the author of "Java & XML, Second Edition" from O'Reilly. In this Q&A session, Brett offers his views on how well Java and XML work together. <br>

Project Management: Old IT hand plays new tune

Emerging tools focus new features on the needs of corporate developers; as the market matures and splinters, the integration of process and project management tools finally begins.

Q&A: James Rumbaugh, A modeling champion

James Rumbaugh jointly developed UML with Grady Booch and Ivar Jacobson. Rumbaugh recently discussed the future of UML with ADT.

Personalization reality does not meet promise

Customized content is slow to catch on due to complex software, scattered data and cost issues. But there are bright spots looming on the horizon as suppliers learn from mistakes.

The quest for component reuse carries on

Hard economic times and a drive toward Web services pushes IT to deliver on the promise of reusability; but for many, the Holy Grail of component development remains very difficult to find.

Wireless Storm Brewing?

IT builds myriad apps for a multifaceted mobile workforce ranging from execs downloading e-mail to retail stock checkers to field technicians; but multiple operating systems and a lack of standards could cause short-term problems, experts say.

Tuning into .NET

Microsoft has always targeted its technologies at a wide audience of developers. Now, .NET tools are coming into view that may match or surpass tools and methods long used by the competing Java developer community.

The.NET Earthquake hits IT

Microsoft's unveiling of .NET this month promises to shake up the Windows development world. The new environment requires a long learning curve for developers, but Microsoft promises that the effort will reap huge benefits.

The quest for component reuse carries on

Hard economic times and a drive toward Web services pushes IT to deliver on the promise of reusability; but for many, the Holy Grail of component development remains very difficult to find.

WSDL and the Wild, Wild West

Uche Ogbuji notes rapid turn over in development in the wake of XML. But the Wild West atmosphere is a sign of problems.