In-Depth Features


Richard Soley, OMG: On modelers, code generation, Web services and CORBA

ADT's Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan talks with the OMG's Richard Soley.

A new component realism emerges

Realists dismiss noise surrounding J2EE and .NET to concentrate on more important hurdles on the road to a true distributed component model -- like licensing, reuse, testing and Web services.

Aligning IT and business goals

Align IT and business goals through the use of common metrics and performance indicators to get both sides of the "technology divide" speaking the same language.

Workflow fits the bill

Not all teams are alike, so the solutions they may choose to enhance collaboration can be as varied as the teams themselves.

Status update: The real-time enterprise

This is something of a hardscrabble era in which "technology vision" takes a back seat to practical accomplishment. Still, the idea of tighter, low-latency app integration holds promise.

Look at storage issues before you leap into XML

Organizations can avoid missteps by first selecting the right storage model for a project: a DBMS, a content management system or a native XML store.

From the field: Data warehouse implementations

A look at how four organizations handled their data warehouse implememtations.

Data Insight

Articles concerning the value of data warehouse systems, as well as the tools and technologies used to build, implement and maintain them.

Delivering high-quality data

TDWI estimates that data-quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion each year. But new strategic initiatives, such as CRM, business intelligence and supply-chain management are sounding a wake-up call to top executives. Many are learning the hard way that data-quality problems can sabotage the best laid strategies and expose errors to a much broader, and critical, external audience.

Data Insight

Articles concerning the value of data warehouse systems, as well as the tools and technologies used to build, implement and maintain them.

Data Insight product guide

A guide to available data warehousing products on the market.

Extending the testing process

As testing responsibilities shift from software engineers to non-programmers, toolmakers scramble to simplify and integrate tools used for different stages of the testing process.

Representative testing tools

A listing of some of the testing tools available on the market.

Web services and portals

Need a portal standard? Relief may be in sight with the emergence of Web services and the work of the industry group OASIS, which is attempting to define a standard, Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP), that will allow the plug-and-play of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other intermediary Web applications.

Testing Web services: Even more complex

Using components as part of a Web services architecture is a much younger concept, and one that most shops are not yet employing on a mission-critical basis.

Testing key to component quality

Component-based apps are only as good as the weakest link; testing can ensure the health of components no matter where they end up.

Create your own tests for Java/EJB code

A list of Web sights providing frameworks and libraries to help you build your own tests.

.NET and Java: No real integration yet

Given the lawsuits and general bad blood between Microsoft and Sun, most people are not banking on anything breaking on the .NET and Java integration front anytime soon.

IT still spending on portals

A single point of corporate access to structured and unstructured data appeals to cautious IT managers. This demand is attracting the attention of IBM, Sun and Microsoft developers.

What's behind BEA's big bet on tools?

The company started life with the Tuxedo transaction monitor, then its WebLogic Java application server redefined the middleware market. Now BEA Systems will seek to entice a broader group of developers to work with Java.