Application Development Trends' News


eBay courts developers

eBay has expanded its developer program to include members of a newly formed "affiliate tier," significantly broadening its support for builders of third-party applications for the eBay platform, executives told attendees of the annual eBay developers conference last week in New Orleans.

IBM turbocharges WebSphere with add-on

It is still in beta, but when it's fully cooked, a new software add-on expected soon from IBM will "turbocharge" its WebSphere application server, company officials say.

News from JavaOne: Borland joins JTC

On the first day of JavaOne 2004, Borland Software is announcing that it is joining Sun, Oracle, BEA and other vendors of the Java Tools Community (JTC).

J2SE - now Java Platform Standard Edition 5.0. - updated at JavaOne

Details that point to a more mature Java are in store this week as Sun Microsystems features a new version of the Java 2 Platform at JavaOne in San Francisco. </p>

Sun launches Java Studio Creator

Positioned as something of a RAD-environment, the software marks a departure for a company that has focused much of its tool efforts at nitty-gritty Java development.

News from JavaOne: Ilog JViews support BPMN, JavaServer Faces

Ilog has announced a new version of its Ilog JViews 6.0 component family that allows customers to separately buy some family members. As well, JViews 6.0 features new specialized components to support business process management (BPM) on the Java platform.

Transparency run amok

Some people at Microsoft are experimenting with letting the outside world see more of the development process. Could there be such a thing as too much transparency out of Redmond?

XML routers turbocharge Web services

Although development around XML and Web services continues to be primarily a software story, hardware, specifically the XML router, has a key role to play, according to Girish Juneja, co-founder of Sarvega Inc., Chicago.

Popkin moves on BPEL

Popkin Software has expanded its System Architect enterprise architecture and modeling toolset to include greater support for business-oriented process management, the company said at this week's DCI Meta Business Process Management conference in Boston. With the next version of System Architect (Version 10), due in July, the company will include integrated support for the XML-based Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).

BAM goes XML

Business intelligence (BI) must be real-time as well as right time, and that means business activity monitoring (BAM) and business process monitoring (BPM) need XML, according to Anant Jhingran, IBM's director of business intelligence.

Collaborative Classifier from Verity

Many a corporate Web portal has been tripped up by a need to classify content. Over the years, this has stubbornly remained a place where humans outshine machinery. In a new product that takes a new approach to classifying, search specialist Verity Inc. looks to better empower those humans in the organization that are most capable of classifying the content with which they work.

Q&A: A look at static binary analysis and better app security

ADT's Programmers Report occasionally looks at security issues from the point of view of source code analysis and better coding practices. We recently met with Chris Wysopal, vice president of R&D for @stake Inc., and thought he had a different take on this issue. What follows are excerpts from an e-mail interview.

Intel on how to deal with 'occasionally connected' environments

Jon Bork, Intel's director of cross architecture, has a solution: mobilize all of your applications from the get-go. "We have been telling ISVs that we believe mobilized software should be the only version of their software," Bork says.

TimesTen Targets the RTE

Few industry buzzwords have maintained the kind of traction we have seen from the Real-Time Enterprise (RTE). The ideal of a system that allows managers to get information about their companies in real time for faster decision-making, improved performance management, and quicker reactions to change has captured the imagination of managers everywhere. RTE is an ideal that is fast becoming a competitive requirement.

AmberPoint revs up Web services management toolkit; lands more funding

AmberPoint is on a roll. As one of the few real leaders in the Web services management space, according to most of the analysts who cover this arena, the firm recently announced that it is making available a new release of its software.

Eclipse 3.0 released

The Eclipse Foundation announces the availability of the latest version of the Eclipse Platform -- Eclipse 3.0 -- which adds an enhanced version of its Java IDE, a new rich-client platform, and the integration of Java Swing with the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit.

Visual Studio, openness, and arrogance

Microsoft is sharing more information than ever before about coming releases. Is this just making it easier for developers to bite the hand that feeds them? Or is the sharing all one-way, with no listening?

IDC sees server growth, with Linux at one-third share in 2008

Enterprise server growth will continue throughout 2004, expanding worldwide spending for servers by 5% to $53 billion.

Macrovision buys InstallShield

Macrovision said the deal represents a $76 million cash transaction, with an additional payment of up to $20 million due, depending on InstallShield’s performance after the purchase.

Flashline aims to ease open-source transition

There's lots of talk these days about the growing presence of open source in the enterprise. Linux is everywhere, and many IT managers are feeling the pressure to get going with an open-source project. Yet for many, this is still uncharted territory.