Application Development Trends' News


PKZip adds security, ports to new platforms

Maker of compression utility adds features to flagship product.

Web apps improving Native American health care

New technology helps deliver better health services.

Ecolab wins change management bet

A change of management methods pays off.

Web services cut state health costs

New application saves health care dollars.

Teleconferencing provider turns to XML

XML finds a place in communications.

OASIS approves XACML to drive authorization policy

Standards group approves a language as an open standard.

Oracle, Hitachi extend storage efforts

Two companies expand their partnership.

BEA brings Tuxedo to Web services dance

BEA reaches out to legacy applications.

Microsoft outlines Visual Studio plans

A preview of what's in the works for Visual Studio.

Model N looks to CSC for validation

New and veteran companies team up.

Borland readies Sidewinder

Borland's is showing off its Project Sidewinder IDE for the .NET Framework. It's not ready for prime time just yet, but when it is, the new developer tool suite will compete with Microsoft's VS .NET.

Web services invade wireless world

Microsoft believes technology is aligning to make 2003 the year XML Web services "take off" in applications for mobile devices, according to Steve Lombardi, technical product manager, Microsoft's MapPoint .NET.

XML reaches five-year mark with some surprises

To celebrate the fifth birthday of XMl 1.0, two members of the working group that developed the specification reflect on its birth and where it is now.

New DB2 tools spring from IBM initiatives

IBM's just unveiled DB2 Information Integrator family represents the fruits of several IBM initiatives, according to experts inside and outside of the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant.

Tool promises to shed light onto legacy 'black hole'

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.

BEA's XML Beans are cooking

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.

New BPM solution targets financial industry

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.

J2EE 1.4 delay won't slow Web services: developer

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 sets roadmap for Java cell phones

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the first of a series of roadmaps for future platforms to help vendors develop wireless services for mobile phones.

Meta Group: Linux is no panacea

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;