Lydian Trust is a mid-sized financial services company based in Palm Beach, Fla. Although it was only founded in 1999, its services, including private banking and wealth management, had expanded by mid-2002 to the point where it had outgrown its original IT systems built on Microsoft Windows .COM. John Studdard’s job was to move to the .NET platform with a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that would allow development teams to build Web services applications without having to worry about the basic XML-based standards or architecture.
At NxTrend Technology Inc., Web services allowed the company to continue to use its established transaction engine while putting on a most “modern” face for other systems, indicated Ross Elliott, vice president and chief strategy officer at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based supply distribution software house.
JDeveloper successfully integrates features for all development phases of J2EE and several related technologies into one environment. While it is an ideal solution for building apps built on top of Oracle’s database and application server, JDeveloper’s lack of broad support for other environments may inhibit its adoption.
Just as painters often take day jobs to support their art, so too must hackers take day jobs with companies writing less-than-beautiful software to make enough money to write the software they really want to write. A collection of 16 essays on computers and the people who program them.
A great - and free - way to make your .NET Mobile device development more effective than ever.
An IDE for the SQL Server developer and DBA, Speed SQL IDE Pro is getting more useful features all the time.
J2EE complexity stemmed the growth of early Java tools. Now, an emerging breed of simpler offerings aims to give Visual Studio .NET a run for its money.
Pivia offers a way to accelerate Web-based applications without any application modifications.
A new entry in the setup tools market, InstallAnywhere.NET offers a well-designed and comprehensive IDE for installing .NET applications.
Inject templated code into your .NET projects as fast as you can type with this no-frills product.
ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan heads out West to Grapevine, Texas, to find out what's new with IBM Rational. Here are his reports from the annual user conference.
The new version of Groove is more tightly integrated with Windows than ever before. It deserves a spot in any far-flung enterprise or extranet collaboration picture.
This open source project offers the prospect of making your .NET applications truly cross-platform. It's worth keeping an eye on.
Newly independent and under new leadership Eclipse readies for a new release of its highly regarded IDE. Look for Eclipse 3.0 on June 21.
No-muss, no-fuss solution for delivering SQL Server databases and updates to your customers.
Still in beta, the new Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition offers a peek at many of the innovative technologies coming in the next version of Visual Studio.
This site is trying to become the online hub for Web Services and SOA activity.
ADT reports from JavaOne 2004 in San Francisco with updates from Sun, Borland, Ilog and others.
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) requires developers to take a more holistic view of applications. ADT presents a free Webcast on MDA on July 13, featuring Mike Rosen, an analyst who knows more about MDA than almost anyone in the business.