Watch for J2EE standard specs to lose luster as leaders IBM and BEA try to lock customers into WebSphere and WebLogic with proprietary features. Now it is .NET vs. IBM vs. BEA.
Keith Brophy, CTO at Robertson Research Institute, Saginaw, Mich., has been working on a Web services application whose objective has special relevance -- saving lives.
Are you looking for something new to gain advantage over competitors? Application integration could be your vehicle for driving new and innovative information and business processes.
A great - and free - way to make your .NET Mobile device development more effective than ever.
A new entry in the setup tools market, InstallAnywhere.NET offers a well-designed and comprehensive IDE for installing .NET applications.
Inject templated code into your .NET projects as fast as you can type with this no-frills product.
This open source project offers the prospect of making your .NET applications truly cross-platform. It's worth keeping an eye on.
No-muss, no-fuss solution for delivering SQL Server databases and updates to your customers.
With Visual Studio 2005 finally at the beta 1 stage, it's time for the
mainstream developer to take a look.
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
Your J2EE and .NET apps must interact. This overview presents the standards and available technologies that can help you shape interoperable solutions.
Enterprise server growth will continue throughout 2004, expanding worldwide spending for servers by 5% to $53 billion.
Developers need lots of skills, including logical thinking, the ability to plan,
attention to detail, and so on. But did you ever stop to think about the
importance of sneakiness in the developer world?
Microsoft’s failed discussions on a merger with SAP AG did not prevent the two companies from trying to knit together .NET and NetWeaver.
Sometimes it seems like developers can turn anything into a battle to the death.
Take the apparently-simple matter of coding standards, for example. Why do we
keep fighting about these things?
A visual build tool matched to the Microsoft tool chain, VisualMake offers a good way to automate building your Visual Studio .NET projects.
You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools.
Visual Studio 2005 Team System was announced on Monday, and now the pundits will
be
scrambling to tell you what to think. I don't know what I think myself yet, but
here are a few preliminary thoughts.
Reflector is an essential part of the .NET developer's toolbox - and it's even free!
Micro Focus, Rockville, Md., and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to a joint effort aimed at helping IT organizations migrate mainframe applications onto Windows-based systems.