Application Development Trends' News


IBM and Novell Team on Open Source App Server

Companies rev up the open source application server market with partnership deal.

Microsoft Releases Vista Updates To Public

Fixes expected to be part of SP1.

VMware Releases Virtualization Software for Mac

Fusion joins growing list of virtualization products for Macs.

'Rosario' CTP Surfaces

Blogger describes community technology preview of latest Visual Studio Team System.

Build AJAX Security With JSON

AJAX-era security requires tossing out a lot of what you thought you knew about security, starting with Same Origin Policy.

Microsoft Web Server Threatens Open Source Leader

IIS makes big gains on Apache in last month.

SQL Server 2008: Some CTP 2 Ins and Outs

Redmond omits anticipated policy management enhancement in latest release.

Tibco Ramps Up Open Source AJAX

Company donates its message bus technology to OpenAjax Alliance.

Crosstalk: Opinions From the Open XML Debate

Microsoft's OOXML format, newly embraced by Massachusetts' IT Division as an open standard, produced divided views along the way toward approval.

Delays Hit Next Version of Office for Macs

Ship date slips into early 2008.

SOA Bangers and Mashups

Hyfinity's RIA mashup tool helps U.K. agencies quickly assemble services, without having to code in most cases.

Mass. Approves Microsoft Office Document Format

The state had originally said "No" to Office.

SourceLabs Unveils Enterprise Java OSS

Company's open source software (OSS) product offers break from proprietary solution lock-in.

Vista Fixes Released, Then Removed

May be officially released on 'Patch Tuesday,' Aug. 14.

Microsoft Issues Web Access Tool for TFS

Tool for Team Foundation Server, while not finalized, includes a new management capability.

CA's Dev Tool Supports SOA and Legacy Systems

Solution uses models for rapid application development.

Cisco Outlines Java-Related Flaws

Older versions of company's enterprise Unified Communications products face potential tie-ups.

Deki Wiki Hayes: It's a Wiki and a Platform

Open source solution combines collaboration tool with application development capability.

BPM Learns To Play With SOA

New tools and initiatives such as BPMN, BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask provide a start at marrying BPM's business acumen with SOA's IT-savvy.

Build Enterprise SOA With Rich Metadata

Model-driven business process platforms provide the best path to enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOA). It's all about the metadata.