Ted Farrell addresses the challenges of SOA-based implementations.
App developers saw the largest jump in salaries
compared to other IT staff positions covered in the
survey for the second year in a row.
See what products won in development, architecture, and platform categories.
Your management system must ensure that the business processes running and exposed as services in the SOA live up to expectations. Paul Lipton shows you the way to effective SOA management.
Java tools undergo an extreme makeover...
Thanks to the influence of Eclipse's open-source tooling platform, the new face of the Java IDE will
resemble a lean plug-in environment rather than the traditional feature-stuffed tool suite.
At Java Pro Live!, IBM's Lee Nackman spoke of the convergence of Java, Eclipse, and SOA and how aligning business goals with IT projects reflects the collapse of communication barriers worldwide.
Ira Heffan discusses the issues you should consider when reviewing open source licenses.
Patterns are not a panacea, but they can improve productivity and quality. Peter Varhol offers five practices that can help you integrate patterns into your development efforts successfully.
For a number of reasons,
enterprises are doing far
less building and much
more buying today. The
consequences of this
transition have blurred a
once-clear ROI picture.
Bill Gates led a keynote team that demonstrated new technologies in data access, Web development, and more.
Learn some tips for building and deploying rich, flexible, and personalized applications quickly and efficiently through a portal.
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.
Many enterprises, and IT teams specifically, are implementing sophisticated risk-mitigation strategies that let them better understand and more effectively manage the risks they face.
Businesses are relying on data visualization software to wring greater value from their data,
get a better handle on their operations, satisfy customers and stave off competitors.
Some enterprises are developing hybrid, or interdependent, applications that have both conventional (client desktop) and embedded (mobile or wireless) components.