Two companies expand their partnership.
BEA reaches out to legacy applications.
A preview of what's in the works for Visual Studio.
New and veteran companies team up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.