Oracle has just released a new version its free, browser-based app dev tool: Application Express 2.2. Known internally as APEX, the tool has been integrated with all editions of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database Release 2.
It’s a challenge to bring the mainframe into the modern age of service-oriented architecture but there’s a huge payoff once the job is done.
Skeptics might have scoffed when Business Objects SA announced plans to develop a version of its ubiquitous Crystal Reports reporting tool for Eclipse, but—as savvy industry-watchers note—there is a certain undeniable logic to this move. After all, the development world isn’t an Eclipse-only enclave.
Web services can be a tangled web indeed when developers are responsible for building them with legacy data. But move over mainframe experts, a new solution eases the process for users working within any dev environment.
Companies are already using Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX features, a few even in production environments. Microsoft reports more than half a million downloads of the free "Atlas," now available as a Community Technology Preview, with Go Live license.
By modernizing instead of replacing legacy mainframe apps, Tulsa County in Oklahoma improved access to county property records and legal documents and saved an estimated $300,000. However, cost-savings was only one element: Using Software AG’s ApplinX improved customer relations and cut development time.
Call it a classic clash of the coders. The place and prizes of a growing programming contest were unveiled this week, now Google just needs its participants--programmers who can back their swagger with skills.
Almost a year ago, BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG and four other vendors all put aside their respective differences—in public, anyway—to form an informal SOA advocacy alliance, Open SOA. Presumably, the alliance will offer the same terms to Microsoft Corp., which—not surprisingly—remains a prominent hold-out.
The SCO Group announced a developer program and key partnerships with Microsoft, Palm and Day-Timers for its EdgeClick mobile app platform this week. SCO is pursuing app mobilization after a slowdown in UNIX server sales and a costly, ongoing legal battle with IBM.
.NET developers just got a leg up in the content management arena with Quantum Art's QP7.4 content application server, which is designed for graphical creation of lightweight Web apps and includes a Microsoft Visual Studio ™ integration module.
Mainsoft has great .NET to Java technology that is tapping a market in enterprises.
Forrester Research characterizes the Office 2007 system as a “serious” app platform that offers enterprise developers another option for building customized Windows clients and collaboration applications.
Transitioning from legacy content management systems has never been easy, but developers are singing the praises of a company just beginning to market its solution to North America. And its use of XAML reduces development time.
Promising speed, new language features and upgrades, Python is just weeks away from releasing the final version of its 2.5 software.
eBusiness Applications is taking the JavaScript coding out of the equation for enterprise developers building rich Internet applications. Last month, EBA released an updated version of its data grid component.
The most talked about and widely used integrated development environments are not the most popular among coders, the results of a recent survey suggest.
Appistry’s New Workload Management offers features it says bring real-time capabilities to grid computing though the company’s Enterprise Application Fabric. The additions enhance apps for three workload management policies and virtualize commodity hardware into a single system.
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An Evans Data Corp. dev survey released this week revealed that Asian developers are implementing Java EE 5 at a rapid rate. But results also show the continued strength of .NET apps, sparking a competitive market in the region.
Compuware’s Vantage now offers full-time monitoring and root cause analysis for .NET apps, rounding out the company’s Web services solution by enabling end-to-end, transaction-level support for hybrid .NET and Java apps.