Sun Microsystems unveiled details of its plans to support Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) in its Java Enterprise System server software suite and Java Studio programming tools at last week's JavaOne conference. Enhancements to these products under "Project Kitty Hawk" will make it easier for developers to write "a new breed of enterprise software" around Java-based Web services, company officials said.
Pervasive? Maybe not yet. But wireless applications are here. Now development teams must sort through a variety of tools and languages to meet the corporation’s need to be mobile.
Flex delivers a very rich client dev tool on the first try. This tool and cross-platform RIA will only get better.
Despite what you may have heard, Office suites are still not a one-horse race, as this new Chinese import shows.
Compuware Corp. this week announced a major upgrade of its OptimalJ development environment. Updates are said to better unite analysis, design and testing processes.
Signs of tensions appeared in a JavaOne press conference at which Sun's McNealy asserted that its Java ally IBM wanted “to wrest control of Java."
As part of Borland's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach to providing optimization from development and testing through production, the company has announced a new version of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 for J2EE.
"This economy is growing at breakneck speed," Sun's Schwartz told his audience at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. He said it is fulfilling the original vision of Sun's founders that eventually "everything and everybody will be connected to the network."
On the first day of JavaOne 2004, Borland Software is announcing that it is joining Sun, Oracle, BEA and other vendors of the Java Tools Community (JTC).
Details that point to a more mature Java are in store this week as Sun Microsystems features a new version of the Java 2 Platform at JavaOne in San Francisco. </p>
Your J2EE and .NET apps must interact. This overview presents the standards and available technologies that can help you shape interoperable solutions.
Positioned as something of a RAD-environment, the software marks a departure for a company that has focused much of its tool efforts at nitty-gritty Java development.
Ilog has announced a new version of its Ilog JViews 6.0 component family that allows customers to separately buy some family members. As well, JViews 6.0 features new specialized components to support business process management (BPM) on the Java platform.
Business intelligence (BI) must be real-time as well as right time, and that means business activity monitoring (BAM) and business process monitoring (BPM) need XML, according to Anant Jhingran, IBM's director of business intelligence.
The Eclipse Foundation announces the availability of the latest version of the Eclipse Platform -- Eclipse 3.0 -- which adds an enhanced version of its Java IDE, a new rich-client platform, and the integration of Java Swing with the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit.
In July, customers will gather at IBM's annual developer conference in Grapevine, Texas, where the fuller integration of Rational products into the IBM world will be a prime topic.
While many Java toolmakers are members of Eclipse, which bills itself as "a community committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration," the newest member is also bringing Ada. Aonix, an international company with headquarters in San Diego and Paris, also makes Java tools, but it is porting its Ada95 tool suite to the Eclipse platform, said Jacques Brygier, the firm's vice president of marketing.
Aiming at the Java components market, Quest Software Inc. has released Quest JClass ServerViews 5.0, a set of server-side Java components for adding charts and reports to servlet, JSP and J2EE applications.
Fortify Software offers a high-end static analysis tool set dedicated to checking security issues.
Mike Milinkovich is the first executive director of the newly independent Eclipse Foundation. A spokesman for the Eclipse board of directors said the body selected Milinkovich, who most recently was a vice president for technical services at Oracle Corp., for his executive leadership abilities in both the technical and business fields.