Efforts of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to address the issue of interoperability have borne fruit recently with the release of important implementation guidelines for developers.
When selecting an enterprise BI platform, firms need to pay attention to architectural issues.
Review of new book on application development management.
J2EE was tearing up the charts when Web services appeared on the scene, and the Java community has reacted quickly. This rundown recaps key technical milestones.
Jnan Dash gives us his view of the real-time enterprise.
A look at software tools and technologies on the market.
The path to establishment or obscurity of many of today’s leading technologies may be defined in terms of whether they are accepted under the remarkable buzzword of “Web services,” or indeed whether or not people learn to see through the buzzword.
Oracle’s application business draws attention right now, but its evolving tools tactics are crucial to legions of developers grappling with data, Java and XML.
Like all good information technologies, virtual data warehouses never died. It is now re-emerging under a new guise and with a slightly new mission. Its new name: Enterprise Information Integration (EII).
The concept of a self-healing infrastructure is great, but how does that help the developer? Zohar Gilad maintains that the notion of on-demand or utility computing is "a more beautiful name for outsourcing."
Java and Web services get all the fanfare now, but CORBA was first with a host of crucial breakthroughs in distributed computing. It’s here, it works and this update tells you what’s next.
Sonic Software CTO Gordon Van Huizen discussed the business of integration in a recent interview with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan.
Oracle will begin a potentially big new push in Grid computing.
ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with Rebecca Dias, Microsoft product manager for advanced Web services, about the status of the technology in Redmond today and in the future.
Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to promote XQuery than BEA Systems.
Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan provides readers with a unique look at modeling issues around the industry.
Some of the world’s largest technology companies are spending huge sums to solve a problem that has been talked about for years -- providing computing resources on demand, and allowing automatic maintenance and updating of systems without human intervention.
IBM calls it autonomic, Microsoft calls it dynamic, Hewlett-Packard calls it adaptive -- if it works, developers may someday deploy their apps on “crashless grids” of computers.
The Department of Buildings updated its front end to make it easier to query information on building history or to check the status of a permit. A side benefit: reduction of long lines and better use of employee time.
A look at software tools and technologies on the market.