Quotes from industry luminaries
Middleware expert Anne Thomas Manes has graced these pages before, most recently with an excerpt from her book “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide” [ADT, August 2003]. We caught up with her just before she held a webinar on the dynamic state of Web services platforms.
For 30-plus years developers have had a love-hate relationship with tools. Our experts offer their views on the state of development tools today and into the future.
Top computer makers, start-ups rush to build Grid technology and create standards they say can make “on-demand” computing a reality; are users ready?
Development managers must carefully implement design paradigms that can link all facets of a project; fundamental understanding of the core design is key.
How you manage your meta data is even more important than what you use to collect it.
Solving technical and cultural issues won’t be easy, but using meta data repositories for large app integration projects could provide huge benefits
What exactly should those developing solutions view as “middleware”? The answer lies in an understanding of how vendors are approaching the software stack as a means of implementing SOA.
The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) from the OMG is meant to provide a common basis for meta models.
A listing of the major types of integration meta data, as defined by Gartner Inc.
Longhorn is the next major version of Microsoft's Windows operating system for consumers. These architectural models show how everything fits together.
Market share appears to be the choice over technology in the race to create a Business Process Modeling (BPM) standard; is bigger better?
Seeking a tool to help monitor its B2B and e-Commerce Web apps for security issues and system errors, EBSCO Industries, Birmingham, Ala., installed TeaLeaf Technology's RealiTea.
Longtime rivals IBM and BEA have published three
new jointly developed Java specs designed to increase application portability across their app server offerings.
Developers want more immediate feedback on rogue classes and calls that diminish performance. IT managers want to know the health of the enterprise.
When you first think of modeling, you might not think of .NET. But tools already support such methods, and a Microsoft design set alternative is brewing that will surely shake the software design tree.
Suppliers take app servers to the next level as the technology aims to become e-business cornerstone; some fear feature list will grow too long.
Fidelity Information Services' Nancy Landau describes her company's effort to have testers work more closely with enterprise monitoring teams to find process changes that could help bridge the gap between development and
operations.
Thomas Kurian, senior VP of development in
Oracle's app server group, sees parallels between the evolution of the app server and the database.