Application Development Trends' News


Big Blue Announces Java Framework for Data Replication, Synchronization

IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.

Survey Says SOAs Are a Hit with Enterprises

Just in case you weren’t paying attention: webMethods released on Monday the results of a survey that reveals SOAs and Web services are catching on with global 2000 companies.

Pacific Edge Announces Governance Software for Project Management

Pacific Edge Software recently introduced new IT governance software that allows companies to develop products for project portfolio management.

A Cluster by Any Other Name Is Not a Grid

Have you noticed how lately, when the conversation turns to distributed computing, grid and cluster are used as synonyms? These two words do have different meanings, Donald Becker reminds us.

Compuware Ups Support for Viz Studio ’05 and Eclipse

Compuware said on Monday it will introduce a new version of Compuware DevPartner Studio that will integrate with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Forum Systems Targets SOA, Web Services’ Security

Forum Systems recently introduced its Unified Policy Management application, which creates, manages, deploys and governs service-oriented architecture security policies and Web services.

JBoss Drools over SOA

The popular open-source Java business rules engine known as Drools will soon become part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, says Pierre Fricke, JBoss's director of product management.

Oracle Releases Enterprise Supply Chain Products for PeopleSoft

Oracle yesterday released PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) 8.9 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management (SCM) 8.9.

Quest Automates Operational Management for Java Apps, Portals

Quest Software yesterday introduced software aimed at helping IT teams monitor their production app environments for better problem resolution, performance management and availability management.

Google, Sun Form Multi-Year Partnership

Google and Sun Microsystems joined forces to promote and distribute each other's technologies, the two companies disclosed this week

Mozilla Sets up Developer Center

Mozilla, the Firefox Web browser creator, launched this week its public beta of the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), aimed at providing developers resources for building Web sites and Web applications for all Web browsers.

Developers Access Semantic Web with New Altova Tool

Altova this week introduced a Semantic Web development tool that enables developers to graphically create and edit in Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language.

Wireless Developers: “We Need Better Tools!”

A lack of quality tools is stifling wireless developers, according to a new study released by Evans Data.

Oracle Touts Portlet Factory for SOA Development

Oracle recently introduced new software that it says will help organizations integrate and interact with information extracted from enterprise business applications and pull it into service-oriented architecture-based enterprise portals.

Microsoft SQL Server is Retooled and Ready for Release

The next-gen SQL Server is Microsoft’s most feature-rich database offering to date, boasting almost completely retooled business intelligence innards, including a revamped ETL capability (the new SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS), enhanced OLAP and data mining capabilities, and a version 2.0 release of Microsoft Reporting Services.

Content Management’s Changing Story Line

Historically, content management represented a safe market for small and medium software suppliers. “The ongoing joke in the content management industry was that it consisted of Documentum and the Seven Dwarfs,” says Richard Medina, principal consultant at market research firm Doculabs.

Popularity of Enterprise IM Continues to Grow, with Hackers

Attacks on instant messaging systems used by enterprises and consumers are escalating dramatically, according to the third-quarter report from The IMlogic Threat Center, a consortium that provides threat detection and protection for IM and peer-to-peer (P2P) apps.

Flashline Rolls Out Governance Platform for SOA

Flashline recently introduced a new platform that it says manages and governs the entire chain of relationships—from corporate objectives to business services, applications, Web services and components.

IBM Expands its SOA Management Practice

IBM Global Services recently brought two new partners into its SOA Management Practice and added to its governance and Web services management capabilities.

IDC: Departments Must Work Together to Tackle Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other regulatory requirements are causing massive headaches for companies. But these headaches may get worse—and expensive—if companies’ departments don’t start working together.