Dan Romanchik asked Paul Raymond, VP in charge of requirements management products at Telelogic, to share his views on managing requirements.
Efforts of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to address the issue of interoperability have borne fruit recently with the release of important implementation guidelines for developers.
When selecting an enterprise BI platform, firms need to pay attention to architectural issues.
J2EE was tearing up the charts when Web services appeared on the scene, and the Java community has reacted quickly. This rundown recaps key technical milestones.
Jnan Dash gives us his view of the real-time enterprise.
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).
Oracle’s application business draws attention right now, but its evolving tools tactics are crucial to legions of developers grappling with data, Java and XML.
The concept of a self-healing infrastructure is great, but how does that help the developer? Zohar Gilad maintains that the notion of on-demand or utility computing is "a more beautiful name for outsourcing."
Java and Web services get all the fanfare now, but CORBA was first with a host of crucial breakthroughs in distributed computing. It’s here, it works and this update tells you what’s next.
Oracle will begin a potentially big new push in Grid computing.
Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to promote XQuery than BEA Systems.
IBM calls it autonomic, Microsoft calls it dynamic, Hewlett-Packard calls it adaptive -- if it works, developers may someday deploy their apps on “crashless grids” of computers.
Most major software suppliers are waiting on the XQuery standard to be finalized before they ship any related products. An update from IBM, Oracle and some smaller vendors.
The still-developing standard for querying XML documents is garnering more support from vendors. But it will likely be a while before most shops have to deal with it directly.
Oracle must deftly compete with IBM, SAP and Microsoft. But right now, Oracle head Larry Ellison’s touch is far from deft.
Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.
For many reasons, enterprise application security is an inefficient and expensive model. Obviously there''s no such thing as a completely secure application, but enterprises must target an acceptable level of risk.
Users find value -- and challenge -- in the handy markup language that could.
As they become intrinsic to software development within the enterprise, software configuration management tools meet new capabilities.