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.
Sun Microsystems Inc. roll out its first radio frequency identification (RFID) software product and Sun officials said the new Java System RFID Software is designed to simplify the integration of RFID data into enterprise information systems and to reduce the complexity of managing the massive amounts of data expected to result from the proliferation of this technology.
The lack of widespread use and the long learning curve for EJBs has prompted Sun and its partners in the JCP to work on simplifying the EJB model in its next iteration (Version 3.0) in an effort to make the technology more mainstream.
Various J2EE toolmakers have worked in recent years to ease the task of developing for 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.
There is a growing recognition -- even among the Java faithful -- that it is necessary to simplify the technology to win converts. This will happen with the next version of EJB, Version 3.0.
Over the years, there has been some criticism leveled at the JCP, from things taking too long to various pieces of the Java pie being dominated by a few large vendors (notably Sun and IBM). The JCP is aware of these issues and is working to help smaller companies and individuals take on leadership roles.
Raytheon’s development team uses WRQ’s Verastream to encapsulate host logic and data via Web services.
Mike Gunderloy reviews SpectrumSCM 2.0 and StateCoder
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.