Open Source Development News & More


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.

ActiveState Beefs Up Perl Dev Kit

ActiveState has released a new version of its Perl development kit to create self-contained executable files for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms.

Securent Teams With OASIS on Open Source Access Control

Securent has decided to implement XACML 2.0 in its Entitlement Management Solution as part of OASIS' standardization efforts.

Microsoft Joins OpenAJAX Alliance

In a move that promises to facilitate interoperability of AJAX-based applications developed with different tools and frameworks, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance.

Minnesota Event To Support Open Source

Open source software is the subject of a forum series, starting on March 23, at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College.