After 18 months of “hard work,” the proposed Java Business Integration (JBI) specification was released for public comment on Wednesday, Sun Microsystems announced.
Tony Nadalin, distinguished engineer and chief security architect for IBM, started working on Java security models with colleagues from Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s, and says that work is now paying off for Java developers.
IBM is collaborating with Sharp Corporation in Japan to develop a high-capacity flash memory card equipped with IBM's Java Card Open Platform (JCOP) OS, the two companies disclosed last week. The 1-megabyte IC cards represent a big step up in storage capacity from conventional 16 to 32 KB cards, said Angus McIntyre, IBM’s product line manager for embedded Java products.
The perpetual software license is slipping as subscription and utility models gain market traction among both software makers and their customers, according to a new industry survey released last week.
Programmers don’t have a reputation for being the most sociable types in an organization, but don’t tell that to Tremaine Smith, assistant director of the audit division for the State of Washington’s Department of Revenue. Smith recently completed a business intelligence (BI) project with a team made up of in-house programmers and consultants from HP Services in which socializing, he believes, was a key to success.
"Security is no longer an afterthought:" That's a phrase we hear a lot these days, but its significance isn't often fully appreciated. If security has ceased to be an issue that comes up only after an application has been built, then it must be getting baked in much earlier in the development process--or at least it should be.
And that means – here's the significant part -- that more than ever before, the security onus is falling on the shoulders of developers.
Many of the large system vendors like to describe grid computing as a kind of Lego-style building block model for the data center that allows organizations to mix and match servers, storage, applications, and I/O. That’s an analogy that works for TopSpin Communications, says the company’s marketing VP, Stu Aaron. “Think of TopSpin as the flat green piece that you build your Lego cities on top of,” he says.
For businesses that want J2EE Web applications without going through the development lifecycle, Akamai Technologies this week announced the availability of on-demand Web applications.
As promised, a week after releasing a new version of WebSphere, IBM announced a new integrated toolset that draws heavily on its Rational technology.
It's time to stop thinking of Web services as emerging technologies, say industry watchers at the Yankee Group.
There are definite pluses, including ROI savings, and productivity and performance gains, in moving legacy Cobol mainframe apps to Microsoft Windows servers, says Leo Theberge, CIO at a Canadian book club.
Systems that can retrieve snapshots from a photo database and display them on a notebook PC screen may seem almost trivial to an IT manager setting priorities for application development. But to Judge Charles Francis, chief judge, second judicial court in Florida, it is serious business when it comes to criminal law.
Lightweight approaches to developing software have been around for years, coalescing in early 2001 under the term "agile" with the publication of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development," and influencing virtually every phase of the software development life cycle. The primary focus of agile development has been, not surprisingly, developers and their use of an evolving set of principles and practices. But what about project managers? Is there a way to apply agile practices to their part in the process?
Seeking to provide programmers with the open-standard, copyright-free, event-processing equivalent of SQL, iSpheres announced last week that it has developed the Event Processing Language (EPL).
If there's one lesson to be learned from this month's set of Microsoft security
patches, it's that letting data into your system is rife with danger.
Finding that the majority of coders using its Java server are working with Eclipse, Systinet is coming out with a set of tools specifically designed for the popular open-source IDE.
A group of technology vendors that includes AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, last week published a new Web services specification designed to simplify network administration across a range of devices. Dubbed Web Services Management (WS-M), the spec describes how to use Web services as a remote management access protocol.
Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay Eastman Kodak $92 million to settle an intellectual property dispute between the two companies, Sun disclosed last week. The announcement came just days after a federal jury found that Sun had infringed on three of Kodak's object-oriented software patents when it created Java.
Positioning its NetWeaver platform for enterprise Java applications, SAP plans to offer a "virtual machine container" in 2005.
Totally rewriting legacy logic for Web-enabled applications is risky business, says Gorge Altanirano, project manager for Antargaz, a French supplier of bottled gas for rural home owners and farmers in France.