Elements focused specifically on real-time are being handled as part of a UML "profile" (The UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time)
Microsoft and others champion the coexistence of legacy CORBA and emerging Web services standards. Like COBOL, CORBA has become a part of the foundation of many IT shops.
There has been an explosion in the demand for wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies that is driving growth in newer wireless markets, such as health care, education and corporate office space.
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET -- here's half a dozen new ways to build wicked-fast code.
In the middle of a heat wave, we sent a reporter to find out what's new in UML 2.0. He tells us that, while looking to avoid so-called second-system syndrome, UML 2.0 moves toward providing
better code generation and component handling, business process modeling and other neat stuff.
The use of wireless applications in the world of IT still hasn't met the optimistic projections of the late '90s; but analysts still insist that increasing worker mobility makes a corporate spread of wireless inevitable.
Our experts say developers can turn to Java servlets for smaller jobs, to Enterprise JavaBeans for complex projects and for some others, a mix of the two technologies.
This table compares and contrasts the servlets and EJBs, and provides a more detailed insight into how they stack up against each other using a set of objective parameters.
Web services can provide an open and interoperable development framework, but the technology requires an architecture unlike anything built before.
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.
Wayne Eckerson has been in the middle of the data warehousing business for years as director of education and research at the well-respected Data Warehousing Institute in Seattle. Wayne sat down over dinner recently with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan to answer some questions on the state of the industry.
Needing a new application to track wild elk herds in the Rockies, the Colorado Department of Agriculture turned to a Web services architecture.
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET-here are eight great new ways to build wicked-fast code.
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.
This article provides the principles, rules, and analysis tools to put a business case process into action in your organization.
Collaborative tools and accurate UML models promote reuse for the high-profile online brokerage.
All eyes are on BEA Systems Inc., which shot to the head of the application
server track on the back of good technology, a brilliant marketing strategy,
terrific execution, the bumbling of some competitors, and the inability of smaller companies like Bluestone, SilverStream and others to get away from the pack.
Users say the transition to .NET is mostly smooth so far, but Java appears safe for now.
Even though I know testing is work, and there
might be a specific feature or two in other languages I would like to use, I
still prefer developing and testing my applications in Java.
The hyperbole surrounding the Web services phenomenon appears to be reaching its peak; now IT developers must determine whether the technology can really be a key enabler for enterprise portals and application integration.