Application Development Trends' News


Build Tools for .NET Applications

Thanks to the growing popularity of .NET, you can now choose among a wide variety of free and commercial tools to automate the build process for your .NET applications. Here's a quick roundup of the contenders.

Easier J2EE portals ahead

A player early to stake out the fast portal development space was Bowstreet. The company recently updated its offerings with Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere Version 5.7.

Looking forward to "Yukon"

We all know the next version of SQL Server is on the way. But do you know what you should be doing to prepare for it?

IBM, Akamai ship second grid package

Akamai Technologies Inc. and IBM have started shipping the fruits of a partnership that called for the building of software to make it easier to deploy J2EE Web apps built on IBM's WebSphere across Akamai's global computing platform.

Web site offers tips on 'drawing' XML

Developers as well as business users with little XML knowledge or experience can view samples of how to 'draw' Web services applications at a new Web site launched this month by SmartDraw.com

Start-up rethinks business rules software

Believing that business rules technology was missing the point by having programmers set up the business rules, Corticon Technologies has decided to approach business rules from a business analyst perspective.

New .NET tool teaches old Picks new tricks

Making applications based on the old Pick Systems platform available as Web services via Microsoft .NET is the goal of a new product under development at Raining Data Corp.

EMC grabs VMware for $635M

EMC this week continued its blitzkrieg move into the software business, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware Inc. in a cash transaction valued at approximately $635 million.

What's behind Microsoft's Whitehorse modeler?

Microsoft is set to update its modeling arsenal with software now known as "Whitehorse." It is oriented for "design for operations," allowing users to specify logical infrastructure requirements early in the development process, and to verify application settings against logical infrastructure.

PowerPoint Doesn't Make You Dumb

Microsoft-bashing may be fashionable - but is the tool really to blame for poor communications skills?

Bluetooth partners boost "Frequency Hopping"

Last week's Bluetooth Americas 2003 conference brought together some of the top players in the short-range wireless market to discuss the future of their industry. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) focused much of its attention on Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH), a new feature of Core Specification Version 1.2.

WS-I ships Web services best practices

The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization last week released its Sample Application 1.0, a set of use cases, usage scenarios and technical architecture intended to help define best practices for using the WS-I's Basic Profile 1.0, and to offer Web services developers some real-world examples to help with their own projects.

More developer guidance from Microsoft

Two new publications from the Patterns & Practices group tackle .NET-J2EE interoperability and performance issues.

IBM taps partner to get banking apps on WebSphere

IBM has disclosed plans to partner with i-flex solutions, a company based in India that offers financial application software to banks internationally. The move displays IBM's continuing focus on vertical solutions, demonstrated in a recent restructuring of the organization's sales portfolio.

CA tool monitors Microsoft MapPoint

Performance monitoring for Microsoft's MapPoint Web services is an early application of Computer Associates' (CA's) Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product announced this week.

CA move allows Web services to come of age: DataPower CTO

The new era of "complex, real-world XML Web service" is marked by Computer Associates' (CA's) announcement this week of general availability for its Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product, argues DataPower CTO Eugene Kuznetsov.

Sanctum and Mercury integrate security, QA tools

Web application security software vendor Sanctum Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., has announced a partnership with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Mercury Interactive Corp. to integrate security testing tools into the QA environment.

Update: Sun opts out of Eclipse - Updates NetBeans

Sun cited technical and organizational differences over the use of its own open source IDE framework, NetBeans, among its reasons for opting out of the Eclipse project.

Telelogic embeds task-based CM in Visual Studio .NET

Telelogic is now positioned to further spread Synergy, the company's task-based CM tool, as it is newly available in an embedded version for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

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