Neon Systems Inc., Sugar Land, Texas, last week unveiled a monitoring/management tool designed to shed light onto the 'black hole' of legacy mainframe processing connected to distributed applications based on J2EE and .NET platforms.
Java application server leader BEA recently took a step toward addressing the problems of developers who are trying to write Java apps that use XML with the launch of XML Beans, presently available as an online technology preview.
Dallas-based Fuego Inc., a developer of business
process management software, last week unveiled Fuego for Banking, the first in a planned series of industry-specific business process management solutions.
Sun Microsystems last week disclosed its decision to delay the release of its J2EE 1.4 spec until this summer. Developers predict the move won't slow the shipping of Web services
slated to be completed this spring.
Sun Microsystems has unveiled the first of a series of roadmaps for future platforms to help vendors develop wireless services for mobile phones.
The rush to Linux in some corporate IT operations is based on faulty lines of reasoning, according to a recent report compiled by analysts at Meta Group;
At this week's VSLive in San Francisco, security specialist Sanctum Inc. announced an automated security testing suite for application developers -- AppScan Developer Edition (DE) 1.5 -- that can integrate with Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET.
Talking about business forms and purchase orders isn't all that sexy, but establishing standard schemas for the electronic versions of
such documents is a critical business issue.
Market research firm Meta Group Inc., Stamford, Conn., predicts that what it calls the enterprise portfolio analysis (EPfA) tool market will grow from $85 million in 2002 to $540 million by 2005.
Swingtide Inc., a Portsmouth, N.H.-based start-up, has unveiled its initial product line aimed to stem "XML service creep" and provide a knowledge base for designing Web services and Service Oriented Architectures
(SOAs).
A series of private talks between Sun and Microsoft recently ended after several weeks during which the two, at a judge's direction, negotiated to place the Java virtual machine inside shipping copies of Windows operating systems.
According to Ron Schmelzer at ZapThink LLC, Web
services will become an important technology in content management systems.
Following in the wake of Sun, which offers a simple, free version of its app server packaged
with its Solaris OS, BEA has spawned an initiative to drive entry-level adoption
of its app server.
Linux software supplier MontaVista Software has added instant messaging capabilities to the embedded version of its operating system via a deal with Finnish instant messaging (IM) software maker Movial.
The application and operating system levels are the places to focus on when detecting and blocking hacker attacks, said the founder of Sana Security Inc., a new technology company pledged to provide better computer security.
At Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla., Lotus managers talked about what is in store for Domino and Notes specialists, as the Lotus platform continues to become a more intrinsic partner with IBM's other middleware offerings.
LogicLibrary has recently initiated a QuickStart program to push forward Web services
initiatives.
Borland moved last week to improve the tools available to customers who are beginning to pursue .NET application development. The company became the first to license the .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) from Microsoft.
Ambuj Goyal gave a rousing keynote talk at the annual Lotus users forum that
featured the unveiling of the unit's so-called Next Generation or 'Next Gen'
products, which he said were based on open standards.
Many developers working on Web services applications may never have seen a
working IBM 3270 terminal with its pre-Windows PC display limited to bright green phosphorous letters and numbers. But they, along with their older COBOL brethren, still have to deal with 3270 issues when integrating legacy systems to Web applications.