JAAS is based on the Pluggable Authentication Modules model and provides authentication and authorization services. Check out its many security benefits for Java applications.
BEA Systems used the stage of its annual user conference in San Francisco to disclose plans to turn its open-source Project Beehive effort over to the Apache Software Foundation.
BEA Systems is donating the application framework in its WebLogic Workshop Java development environment to the open source community, the company disclosed last week. All future development of the newly re-branded Project Beehive will be done in the open-source community by BEA engineers and community participants.
Various J2EE toolmakers have worked in recent years to ease the task of developing to the J2EE platform. Perhaps only a few of their advances have had much effect to date on EJB design, which is for some shops a key part of J2EE.
Tibco Software Inc. unveiled a new Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) offering for both IT managers and business analysts at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Service Summit this week.
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) recently began delivering release 1.0 of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 1.0), which is designed to provide a readily understandable, royalty-free notation for both business process design and business process implementation, according to the organization.
The official kickoff for J2EE 1.4, accompanied by the release of a free available J2EE Application Verification Kit (AVK), pre-announcements of J2EE 1.5, and the coming official release of the Java Studio Creator tool, is making for a busy spring at Sun Microsystems.
In an effort to help application developers to "help themselves," Sun has released a free test kit designed to verify whether an application is J2EE-compatible.
Sun Microsystems last week marked the advent of Version 1.4 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) at a press event in San Francisco that featured most of the big names in Java tools and application servers. A tools panel included representatives from Borland, BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun.
Sun Microsystems marked the advent of Version 1.4 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) last week at a press event in San Francisco that featured most of the big names in Java tools and application servers, who gathered to discuss the impact of J2EE 1.4 on their products and markets.
InfoPath SP1 and the new .NET 2003 Toolkit let you implement business logic behind InfoPath forms with managed VB.NET or C# code instead of JScript or VBScript event handlers.
The Middleware Company (TMC) and DevelopMentor, former rivals in the technology training game, are engaging in a kind of core-competency swap in an agreement they are calling a "community and training alliance."
Lewis Cirne founded Wily Technology in 1998. Wily tools support a range of app servers, and the JBoss open-source server has just been added to the mix.
Working for a banking corporation in acquisition mode, Scott Matthew, vice president, office of technology at Pacific Capital Bancorp (PCB), has become a strong advocate of Java and open-source software.
While they compete heatedly in application servers, but BEA Systems and IBM Corp. agree on at least one thing. They want to link Java with the Business Process Execution Language (BPEPL) for Web Services.
Oracle Corp. last week unveiled the first production release of the latest version of its Java and Web services development environment, Oracle JDeveloper 10g.
The continuing search for a gentler Java includes software vendors seeking to make it easier for IT shops still working with mainframes and green screen terminals to move into the new era of Web-based applications with GUI interfaces.
When the founders of Sonic Software Corp. got their hands on the Java Message Service (JMS) specification in 1999, they saw an opportunity to steal a march on new application server vendors that would sooner or later find a need for standard messaging middleware. The company is still in the lead, contends Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen.
At the beginning of this year, IBM veteran Tom Rosamilia was named vice president, worldwide data management and general manager of the Silicon Valley Laboratory (SVL). Rosamilia sees ways that lessons learned in developing MQ Series, CICS and other IBM legacy technology can be applied to the J2EE platform.
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft Corp., and Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO at Sun Microsystems Inc., agreed to bury the hatchet after many years of hostility. This ushers in a new era of cooperation with enhanced interoperability between software products,