Sun Microsystems said it will make its application server available for free on HP-UX, Windows, AIX and Linux. -June 19
While Sun Microsystems works as hard as any vendor to enable
next-generation Web services middleware architectures, company
scientist James Gosling that Web services are
not really new. -[WEEK OF JUNE 3, 2002]
Java continues to thrive in enterprise computing. Here lies a sampling of recent ADT excursions in spaces of the Java kind.
Borland Software Corp introduced JBuilder 7 at Borland's BorCon 2002 developer conference in Anaheim, Calif. The product brings a number of useful enterprise development capabilities to the Java world. -May 20
AvantGo this week released
M-Business Server 5.0 Application Edition, which supports XML Web
services, DOM and dynamic HTML. It enables use of VisualStudio
.NET, and programming languages such as C# and Java. -May 15
Stanford University junior Daniel Wright wins the 2002 Sun Microsystems Inc. and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.
One of the biggest problems with Web services, said David Chappell and Tyler
Jewell, is explaining it -- that is, pulling all the pieces together into a
coherent and hype-free description of what Web services are and how developers
can create and deploy them.
A slew of vendors, including host Sun Microsystems Inc., used the JavaOne
platform to pushed to extend the Wireless Revolution. -Apr. 2, 2002
Sun has outlined several plans for Web services during, including the availability of the second early access release of the
Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP). -Apr. 2, 2002
Notes on reflective designing/developing.
Sybase Inc. turns to longtime tools rival Borland Software Corp. in an effort to gain a foothold in the Java development tool battle.
Poet Software and other vendors have launched an interactive Web community for educating users about Java Data Objects.
Sun Microsystems has filed suit against Microsoft Corp. for what Sun described as anticompetitive acts. -March 9, 2002
BEA head Alfred Chuang launched his company's seventh annual developer conference, eWorld, last week with the unveiling of a Java RAD tool for Web services. -Mar. 4, 2002
IT units have a slew of options for Java-enabling legacy COBOL applications;
the choice is a difficult one, but the result can dramatically improve ease
of use.
Software developers rush to transform Web services from concept to solution.
A look at the strategies of key IT suppliers.
Tony Baer: "In development organizations, the intensity of vendor competition tends to
politicize technology decisions. Today, choosing between Java and Microsoft technologies often equates to picking
sides in a gang war."
Editor at Large Jack Vaughan talks with Brett McLaughlin, an Enhydra
strategist at Lutris Technologies and the author of "Java & XML, Second Edition"
from O'Reilly. In this Q&A session, Brett offers his views on how well Java and XML work together. <br>