Java & Eclipse


SOA Report: GT Software Unveils Toolset

A number of companies released new products last week, supporting application development in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Here are some of those announcements to date.

Report Reveals AJAX on the Rise

Number of AJAX developers jumped by 50 percent, year-to-year.

Pay Attention to Eclipse

The technologies being developed under the eclipse umbrella have implications far beyond Java development.

Crossing the Divide

Open source interoperability tools extend .NET applications to other platforms.

Planix Tool Takes on Build-and-Test Guesstimates

Planix, from ALTERthought, gives the best- and worst-case time scenarios for agile-development projects.

Tibco Releases Open-Source AJAX Test Kit

A test kit from Tibco that helps debug code used in asynchronous Web development has been released as an open-source tool.

SOA Software and Red Hat Partner To Support Web Services on JBoss

SOA Software and Red Hat are teaming up to give customers deploying Web services on the open-source JBoss application server a set of tools for governance, security, management and mediation.

JavaScript 'Hijacking' Vulnerability Not Expected To Dampen Enthusiasm for AJAX

A JavaScript-related problem has been found in AJAX-style applications, but it can be secured at the server side.

Sun Provides Early Access to NetBeans Ruby Pack

Java developers are getting early access to the Ruby Pack, a new plug-in for the NetBeans IDE.

Glassfish 3 Beta Geared to the Enterprise

The Glassfish V3 beta, an open source Java application server, offers better support for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.

ASP.NET AJAX Under the Hood

Scott Cate illustrates how to implement key features of ASP.NET AJAX to a packed crowd at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.

Glassfish V3 Beta Geared to the Enterprise

Open-source Java application server offers better support for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.

Oracle To Get Tangosol's Cache Technology

The pending acquisition will add distributed data caching capability and strengthen Oracle's SOA and data management middleware stack.

It's All in the Cache

There are advantages and disadvantages to today's application-tier caching techniques. Consider your data caching options for improving data-intensive application performance.

HP Gains AJAX Tool With Tabblo Acquisition

Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Tabblo Inc. will make it easier for consumers to print photos and other rich text from a Web browser. But the deal also gives HP some innovative AJAX technology.

AJAX Report: Parasoft Offers Test Suite

A number of companies announced tools to support enterprise applications using AJAX technology last week. Here are some of those announcements to date.

Microsoft Joins OpenAJAX Alliance

In a move that promises to facilitate interoperability of AJAX-based applications developed with different tools and frameworks, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance.

Java Analysis and Visualization Tools Announced

Quest Software has released a new Java code-checking tool; other Java developments include a visualization tool and NetBeans Ruby pack.

Eclipse Milestones Released for AJAX, Dynamic Languages

The Eclipse Foundation has announced three new project milestone releases that extend the open-source Eclipse framework to support AJAX and dynamic programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, and Tcl.

Use the Ruby on Rails Alternative

Take a more expedient approach for developing MVC Web applications than you might take using J2EE technologies.