The emergence and rapid proliferation of business rules management systems (BRMS) over the past couple of years is strong evidence that IT/business alignment is a front-burner issue. These software tools, designed to automate business-rules decision making in enterprise IT applications, are fast becoming a must-have.
Is the World Wide Web evolving from a collection of Web sites into a full-fledged computing platform—the so-called Web 2.0? The recent resurgence of interest in Ajax is one for the Web-as-a-platform-model column.
The current Java IDE war appears to be about stealing features and copying the way other IDEs do things. The result could eventually be a bland, homogenized landscape.
Borland Software released this week an upgrade to JBuilder, Java integrated development environment, Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.
The result of the partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder reached earlier this year is that TopCoder’s components for Java and .NET are now stored in Logidex, LogicLibrary's collaborative SDA management solution.
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.
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The ServiceMix project team has released ServiceMix 1.0, an open-source enterprise service bus and SOA toolkit built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache license.
Wily Technology has released Wily 6, a solution for monitoring the availability and performance of Web applications as they cross from browser to backend.
Cloakware has expanded language support for its Cloakware Security Suite to include C, C++ and Java, extending the range of code that can be protected from reverse engineering when the software is stored on a disk, and against tampering when the software is stored on disk or running in memory.
Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz has been talking up the company’s Open Media Commons initiative, an open-source community project developing a royalty-free digital rights management standard. Schwartz is calling for immediate cross-industry collaboration in developing an open, safe and business-friendly approach to the free creation, duplication and distribution of digital content.
The Apache Derby development community has released Apache Derby 10.1.1.0. Derby graduated from the incubator in July and is now a subproject of the Apache DB project.
Here's a statistic worthy of a doubletake: According to Exadel, every Fortune 1000 firm has downloaded its tools—at least to kick the tires.
Justsystem, one of Japan’s largest software companies, is making its first foray into the U.S. market with an integrated XML development, runtime and authoring environment and two toolkits.
New features were recently added to Sleep, an embeddable scripting language for Java applications. Developers use Sleep to design domain-specific languages for their applications.
IBM is participating on a limited basis in Project Harmony, the Apache Software Foundation's effort to create a compatible, independent implementation of Java Standard Edition 5 under the Apache License.