Using Web services is one way to solve legacy integration issues—and save money.
Developers met with the challenge of integrating mainframe data with Web-based apps are finding solutions through SOA. Learn how one benefits company used the process to expand services to nearly 40 million customers.
EII may be a useful tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
With the increasingly common use of distributed software components in service-oriented architectures (SOA), it has become essential that the underlying hardware for such applications have a high degree of redundancy.
The most talked about and widely used integrated development environments are not the most popular among coders, the results of a recent survey suggest.
Microsoft, long the bastion of the closed source code model, has launched CodePlex, a collaborative software development portal.
F5, maker of the mega network switch BigIP, revamped its set of tools that can be used to build network-friendly applications.
Developers now have new tools for building bit-true behavior in C++ for algorithm systems and hardware; the new data types operate at simulation speeds up to 200 times faster than traditional bit-width specifications.
Reusable code, dev speed and low cost are often cited when enterprises opt for open source tools over their commercial counterparts. Support and maintenance are not.
While coding requests for new promotions, pay methods and merchandise continue to pour in and pile up, your developers don't need to burn the midnight oil.
Developers seeking to support a combination of data formats won’t have to look beyond XQuery 2.0, which will optimize the deployment and integration of XML, relational and legacy data.
Adobe Systems is using a tiered licensing strategy to get enterprise developers started on Flex 2 development of rich Internet apps.
Designed specifically for enterprise Web 2.0 app dev, ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 hit the market this week, bringing Web 2.0 LAMP technology to Java servers like Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Sun Java System Application Server and JBOSS.
The Eclipse Foundation is making history this week with the Callisto Simultaneous Release initiative, which coordinates 10 Eclipse project upgrades, including BI and reporting tools, a modeling framework, a Web tools platform, test and performance tools, integrated development environments, and the latest version of the Eclipse tooling framework.
When IBM announced its SOA Business Catalog, it took pains to highlight a SOA-friendly kit to help developers integrate PHP application front-ends with WebSphere, but the reality is that customers can and will tap the kit in a huge variety of different scenarios.
Appistry’s New Workload Management offers features it says bring real-time capabilities to grid computing though the company’s Enterprise Application Fabric. The additions enhance apps for three workload management policies and virtualize commodity hardware into a single system.
This week Platform Computing released a new software grid tool, Symphony 3, which virtualizes compute-intensive app services across varied IT resources to create a shared, scaleable and fault-tolerant system. And new features to Symphony’s modular grid structure is said to speed up the app dev process.
Creating more secure apps is a laborious process, as is justifying the related expenditures to senior management. To learn how companies can better facilitate such processes, we talk to Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, the chief security strategist of Wilmington, Mass.-based Security Innovation Inc., an application security services provider.
Your goal shouldn’t be to build an SOA, but to better the business in some way. Gartner analysts spell out where to begin the process.
IBM wants to make it easier for PHP developers to integrate their apps into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's giving them the tools to do it—free. The soon-to-be-released PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition is designed to move PHP into the heart of IBM's core SOA infrastructure.