What is Eclipse? Officially, Eclipse is defined as an "open universal platform for tools integration." But in talking to some software industry leaders at EclipseCon, the Eclipse organization's first technical conference held at the Disneyland Hotel last week, a larger vision emerged
Asked for a State of Java 2004 perspective, Jamie Thomas, IBM vice president of development for the WebSphere Application Server unit, said 2004 will be the year Java standards allow J2EE and Web services to fit together "hand-in-glove."
Compuware Corp. disclosed last week that it has agreed to buy the supplier management portals and data messaging services of Covisint Inc., an ailing online auto services company originally formed by Detroit's Big Three automakers.
Sometimes the simple questions are the best - though it's not always the direct
answers that matter.
The Eclipse tools plug-in environment may succeed where other attempts failed to create a universal
framework because Eclipse can bridge open-source and Java community efforts, Red Hat Inc. CTO Michael Tiemann told attendees at EclipseCon today.
Application Development Trends recently took time out to reflect on the next technology paradigm. The results will provide food for thought and, perhaps, some impetus for
controversy for some time to come.
Asserting that one of the obstacles to creating Web services is the coding required, Novell Inc. is offering point-and-click Web services tools that are not beyond the scope of PC-savvy business users.
Borland Software moved late last week to expand its application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy by unveiling a new infrastructure management offering designed to bridge the gap between development and deployment.
A declaration of independence was issued for the Eclipse Platform with the announcement that the IBM-sponsored consortium for the open-source tools framework initiative is now a not-for-profit corporation.
Ottawa-based GridIron Software has
signed an agreement that calls for its XLR8 tools for building Grid software to be bundled with Adobe Systems Inc.'s After Effects Professional video toolset.
Storage software provider Veritas Software Corp., Mountain View, Calif., has agreed to acquire Ejasent Inc., a supplier of application virtualization technology for utility computing, for $59 million.
Moves discussed at last year's Lotusphere -- that promised an accelerated migration to Java (and J2EE) for Notes and Domino application developers -- appeared fuller fledged at this year's Lotusphere get-together.
News about smart cards underscores the
opportunities for software developers with the know-how to create applications for these
credit-card-sized slices of plastic embedded with microcontrollers.
OK, so it's rotten, evil software, and whoever wrote it should be flogged. But
what software development lessons can you learn from the latest uber-virus?
Microsoft Corp. joined business intelligence (BI) software maker Business Objects last week to reassure developers that popular reporting software from the recently acquired Crystal Decisions will continue to ship in both the
current version of Visual Studio .NET and the next release, code-named "Whidbey."
The recent LinuxWorld conference tried to answer the question of Linux's next moves.
Seeking to capitalize on the emerging market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in business process management, Tibco Software Inc. has disclosed plans to join forces with RFID provider Alien Technology, Morgan Hill, Calif.
Web-design software maker Macromedia's recent acquisition of help-authoring company eHelp Corp. bore fruit last week with the release of new versions of two eHelp products: RoboHelp and RoboInfo.
Embedding the Portal framework on the server side will extend Domino's reach to anyone with a browser or microbrowser. It will also enable integration of Domino and non-Domino apps in a consistent user interface on demand for any user
role, said Ambuj Goyal in his keynote.
Intel Corp.'s Sean Maloney, EVP and general manager of Intel's communications group, believes that another wave of users is coming -- about 5 billion of them -- and that those users will be drawn to the 'Net by broadband wireless technologies.