Service-oriented architectures are expected to have a stronghold over future apps but those implementing the integration process today continue to encounter uncertainties from the corporate world.
What impacted the Java community most this year? See who the JCP recognized as outstanding innovators in its fourth annual awards.
We have yet to agree on a sharp-edged definition of "Web 2.0," but many of the technologies coalescing around this loosely defined, hyper-hyped buzzword—everything from Web services, the Ajax Web development technique, and service syndication, to wikis, tags, podcasts, and even blogs—should begin figuring into every IT leader's business strategy.
In fact, say Gartner analysts, all revenue-generating channels should be operating in a Web 2.0 architecture by 2008.
Headline-grabbing news at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, which wrapped up on Friday, was CEO Jonathan Schwartz's announcement that Sun Microsystems would release its industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source license—eventually.
Another attention grabber was Sun's new Operating System Distributor's License for Java that allows Linux and OpenSolaris distros to repackage JDK binary bits as appropriate for those open-source operating system platforms.
Open-source application integration software is getting accolades from end users who previously spent “weeks and weeks of man hours coding integration tools and utilities to process data.”
Apparel manufacturer The Marena Group had relied on in house programming talents to exchange orders and product information data with business partners. Jitterbit changed all that.
If anything can put the brakes on the best-laid plans of business process automaters, it's that people and processes change.
Rally Software Development announced the availability of Rally Agile Team and Rally Agile Pro, two editions designed to give software development teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in short, rapid iterations.
HP has introduced what it claims is a first-of-its-kind collaboration studio for simulating face-to-face business meetings across long distances.
Sun said on Tuesday that it has launched the NetBeans WorldTour, an initiative for distributing and sharing the NetBeans software worldwide.
On Tuesday, Fujitsu Software announced the release of Interstage Business Process Manager Studio (IBPMS), a graphical process modeling studio.
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and GM announced on Tuesday a collaboration to create a business process improvement model for companies looking to source information technology capabilities from third-party suppliers.
IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony have chipped in to create Open Invention
Network (OIN), a company that acquires patents and offers them royalty-free
to promote Linux.
When Dr. Gautam Shroff met CollabNet cofounder Brian Bellendorf in 2003, Shroff's company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), was in the market for tools to help with internal management of its increasingly distributed software development activities. Neither expected the meeting to turn into a partnership.
IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.
Big Blue packed in more than 175 new collaboration features and tools, such as a Web services design element, automatic monitoring tools and visual indicators, to the latest release of its Lotus Notes and Domino messaging platform.
Borland Software released this week an upgrade to JBuilder, Java integrated development environment, Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.
Software development
managers have discovered
that the right tools and
techniques can make
globally dispersed teams
nearly as effective as under-one-roof, traditional teams.
Nine commercial distributors of Debian-based products have formed an alliance to maintain a set of essential programs, or packages, that will serve as a common foundation for each member’s distribution.
The thing about a knowledge management solution is, it’s tough to get hard data to demonstrate ROI. Even when you know it’s working, how do you quantify the value of technology that allows you to make the most of the experience, skill and expertise your enterprise already has?
Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks may have more to do with personnel than with technology.