Developers building Eclipse-based apps will have sturdier shoulders to lean on later this year. At EclipseWorld, IBM announced new software that’ll support the building of open source IDEs.
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006.
The Eclipse Foundation kicks off its EclipseWorld Enterprise Developer Conference in Boston this week with some hot survey numbers: Sixty percent of 384 respondents queried for Evans Data's 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise Survey say they're using the open source, Java-based platform as their primary IDE.
The building blocks for speedy biz app development just got more inclusive. A tool that lets .NET developers envision their apps during the programming process, now integrates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
According to the Yankee Group, 60 percent of businesses cling to legacy software for four to six years. Research fellow Laura DiDio says that’s because enterprises are concerned with the cost of migration. But should they be?
Oracle's latest version of its SOA Suite offers substantial upgrades to the January 2006 release. The key enhancement, available now to developers in a preview, is integration of all components into a "cohesive" platform.
A day in the life of a developer is just a few clicks away with a software analysis solution that displays what, when and how long they’re working on projects. But reps say this is more than Big Brother knocking on developers’ doors.
Oracle has just released a new version its free, browser-based app dev tool: Application Express 2.2. Known internally as APEX, the tool has been integrated with all editions of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database Release 2.
It’s a challenge to bring the mainframe into the modern age of service-oriented architecture but there’s a huge payoff once the job is done.
Skeptics might have scoffed when Business Objects SA announced plans to develop a version of its ubiquitous Crystal Reports reporting tool for Eclipse, but—as savvy industry-watchers note—there is a certain undeniable logic to this move. After all, the development world isn’t an Eclipse-only enclave.
Web services can be a tangled web indeed when developers are responsible for building them with legacy data. But move over mainframe experts, a new solution eases the process for users working within any dev environment.
Whether apps are accessed strictly within an enterprise or developers need to share Web-based docs with outside parties, one content sharing platform is using AJAX technology to enhance search and browse features for its on-demand service.
Companies are already using Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX features, a few even in production environments. Microsoft reports more than half a million downloads of the free "Atlas," now available as a Community Technology Preview, with Go Live license.
By modernizing instead of replacing legacy mainframe apps, Tulsa County in Oklahoma improved access to county property records and legal documents and saved an estimated $300,000. However, cost-savings was only one element: Using Software AG’s ApplinX improved customer relations and cut development time.
Call it a classic clash of the coders. The place and prizes of a growing programming contest were unveiled this week, now Google just needs its participants--programmers who can back their swagger with skills.
Ward Cunningham, best known as the inventor of the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb), is currently the director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation. Find out what he's up to and what he thinks of current application technologies.
Model-driven and event-driven architectures are two technologies expected to have a big impact on developers over the next decade. And while many IT professionals are in the dark about much of Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies,” these architectures, along with AJAX apps, have very bright futures.
Almost a year ago, BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG and four other vendors all put aside their respective differences—in public, anyway—to form an informal SOA advocacy alliance, Open SOA. Presumably, the alliance will offer the same terms to Microsoft Corp., which—not surprisingly—remains a prominent hold-out.
A glaring spotlight is now focused on vulnerabilities inherent in a key enabler of the new breed of dynamic Web pages. Demonstrations at last week's annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference employed Web-page-embedded JavaScript to attack corporate servers.
The final release of open-source AJAX4jsf framework 1.0 is now available. The project extends the benefits of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) functionality to component framework JavaServer Faces (JSF), which supports UI development for J2EE applications.