After winning the early test tool battle, Mercury takes on industry giants in systems software. Can it maintain focus as it grows?
Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.
JAAS is based on the Pluggable Authentication Modules model and provides authentication and authorization services. Check out its many security benefits for Java applications.
A hand-picked collection of best practices that address key issues faced by organizations in the implementation of SOA and Web services.
Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?
SAP's plan is to ride Web services to the next plateau. NetWeaver, a new kid on the block, is the vehicle to get it there.
The biggest sea change in software in years occurred when IBM bought Rational Software at the end of 2002. ADT Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken tracked down Mike Devlin, the man charged with making the merger work, at Rational's offices in Lexington, Mass.
A sampling of recently released automated testing tools
For Charles Schwab, testing has long passed the "fad" stage to become convention in the IT unit; some observers caution users to beware of overpromises.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines already employs software to improve its corporate governance initiatives.
InfoPath SP1 and the new .NET 2003 Toolkit let you implement business logic behind InfoPath forms with managed VB.NET or C# code instead of JScript or VBScript event handlers.
Practical uses of XML, Web services, Java and other technologies in the service of practical applications that help businesses, government agencies and the people they serve are key trends emerging from ADT's 2004 Innovator Awards.
Noel-Levitz is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Tools & Technologies category.
The Directorate of Medical Materiel for the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the E-business Application Development category.
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) provides access to its front-line services via a Web services-based, data-exchange layer.
Montgomery County Children Services is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Application Management and Deployment category.
The EPA's Office of Technology, Operations and Policy is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Processes & Practices category.
Fairfax County Public Schools is ADT's Innovator Awards Winner in the Web Services category.
The U.S. Army's Community and Family Support Center is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Processes & Practices category.
LexisNexis is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Tools & Technologies category.