Application Development Trends' News


ClearNova Revamps RAD Platform with AJAX

ClearNova this week introduced ThinkCAP JX, a rapid application development platform that allows developers to build intuitive Web-based applications.

Developers Receive Another API Gift

SRC recently released a set of tools for developers that add business intelligence functionality to the Google mapping application programming interface.

SOA Fatigue: It’s the People and Processes, Stupid

Large-scale service-enablement is a doomed enterprise for one important reason, some codejockeys argue: bureaucratic infighting.

Internet Attacks Shift Focus to the Desktop

Symantec released yesterday its Internet Security Threat Report, for the first 6 months of the year, in which the company says Internet attackers are more frequently targeting desktops rather than enterprise perimeters.

New IBM Portal Focuses on Strategy Execution

IBM recently released a beta of an executive portal called IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, which allows executives and other members of an organization to monitor their own goals and objectives, link objectives to others in the company, and explain how one objective relates to an organization’s overall strategy.

Microsoft Fine-tunes Software Assurance Program

Microsoft has upgraded its Software Assurance maintenance offering, with eight new benefits for deployment planning services, training and support.

Vendors Introduce SOA Maturity Model for Businesses, IT

Sonic Software, AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet this week introduced a model intended to guide businesses that are evaluating service-oriented architecture.

IBM’s SOA Evangelist Touts Ad Hoc App Dev Vision

Kareem Yusuf, director of SOA product management with Big Blue, says he understands why developers, more than any other enterprise constituency, are skeptical about SOAs, composite applications and loosely coupled application architectures as a whole. It’s a healthy skepticism, he concedes.

Big Blue Bulks Up SOA Efforts

IBM this week announced new and enhanced software to help enterprises respond to their ever-changing processes through service-oriented architecture.

Microsoft Introduces More Tools for Developers

Microsoft this week, at its Professional Developers Conference, released a slew of tools that focus on workflow and custom applications.

Gates Shows Off New Office, Vista Versions

Bill Gates put the spotlight on new versions of Microsoft’s Office applications and long-awaited operating system at the company’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week.

Eclipse CDT: Reshaping the C/C++ Tools Market

If Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich has said it once, he's said it a thousand times (to us, anyway): Eclipse is not just about Java.

Microsoft Relies on Developers to Keep Pace with Google, Yahoo

Microsoft is counting on its developer base to help it compete with rivals Google and Yahoo in the search space.

SOA Design Should Be "Intentional"

To get the broader benefits of service-oriented architecture—reuse, agility and runtime governance—companies need to design their SOAs deliberately.

Analysts Divided over Oracle, Siebel Merger

Larry Ellison finally bagged troubled Siebel Systems for $5.85 billion, but analysts question how Oracle’s latest acquisition fits into its future product strategy.

Sun Dubs China "Java-Powered"

Sun Microsystems' China strategy continues apace this week at what is being billed as the largest-ever developer conference in that country.

EclipseME 1.1.0: Big News for Developers in Small Spaces

It came and went last month with relatively little fanfare, but the release of the latest version of EclipseME, the open-source plugin for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, was big news for Java developers working in small spaces.

Red Oak Opens Legacy Composer to Java Development

Red Oak Software today introduced an Eclipse-based version of its Legacy Composer to help developers integrate legacy applications across enterprises and eventually integrate these apps into service-oriented architectures.

JavaChina 2005

JavaChina 2005, running this week, is reportedly drawing 10,000 Chinese Java jocks to Beijing for two days of workshops, breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and to hear Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Java progenitor James Gosling hold forth in keynote presentations.

ILOG Rules for .NET 2.0. Brings BRMS to Microsoft Shops

The emergence and rapid proliferation of business rules management systems (BRMS) over the past couple of years is strong evidence that IT/business alignment is a front-burner issue. These software tools, designed to automate business-rules decision making in enterprise IT applications, are fast becoming a must-have.

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