Open Source Development News & More


Talend Enhances Open-Source Data Integration App

Version 2.0 of the free application now includes Java language generation and expanded ELT support.

Google Will Host Global Developer Event May 31

Google hosts event for developers of Web-based applications who use the company's open-source development kit.

Understanding XML Query Standards

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.)

Tapping the SaaS Potential

Robert Carr, Keep and Share's CEO, talks about the Web as a delivery mechanism for software and services. (Article courtesy of Redmond Developer News.)

SOA Report: GT Software Unveils Toolset

A number of companies released new products last week, supporting application development in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Here are some of those announcements to date.

OASIS Group To Foster SOA App Development

Open CSA group unites to speed application development through SOA specs.

Pay Attention to Eclipse

The technologies being developed under the eclipse umbrella have implications far beyond Java development.

Software AG To Acquire webMethods, Boost SOA Presence

Software AG is expected to gain a strong 'foothold' in the North American SOA market with the acquisition.

Crossing the Divide

Open source interoperability tools extend .NET applications to other platforms.

Zend Boosts PHP on Windows

Zend Technologies Ltd. collaborates with Microsoft to offer better PHP performance on Windows.

Tibco Releases Open-Source AJAX Test Kit

A test kit from Tibco that helps debug code used in asynchronous Web development has been released as an open-source tool.

SOA Software and Red Hat Partner To Support Web Services on JBoss

SOA Software and Red Hat are teaming up to give customers deploying Web services on the open-source JBoss application server a set of tools for governance, security, management and mediation.

Sun Provides Early Access to NetBeans Ruby Pack

Java developers are getting early access to the Ruby Pack, a new plug-in for the NetBeans IDE.

SOA Report: Mindreef Teams With ZapThink

Software companies continue to build alliances to further SOA (service-oriented architecture) environments at the enterprise level. Here are a few announcements to date.

Glassfish V3 Beta Geared to the Enterprise

Open-source Java application server offers better support for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.