Darryl K. Taft

RESTON, Va.—Vendors supporting the Eclipse ecosystem are unveiling new products based on the open-source development platform. At the EclipseWorld conference here, XAware announced it is creating an open- source project and making available XAware 5, open-source data integration software that increases development teams productivity by making projects faster, easier and less expensive to build and […]

RESTON, Va.—A major overhaul of the Eclipse code base may be a long time off, but it’s on the minds of some of the leaders of the open-source tools platform. During a panel discussion at the EclipseWorld 2007 conference here Nov. 6, some of those leaders—including Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation—spoke hypothetically […]

Serena Software is offering a new free visual design tool to help developers better understand user requirements before they begin coding. Serena’s Prototype Composer, announced on Nov. 5, is a requirements visualization tool that enables business analysts to simulate how applications will look and function before developers begin to write code. The tool is free […]

MONTREAL—Microsoft is putting the “F” in functional programming with its F# language. F#—pronounced “F sharp”—is a functional programming language out of Microsoft Research that the company will productize to target developers dealing with concurrency and those in the financial, scientific and technical, and academic arenas. At the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications 2007 conference […]

Microsoft has committed to deliver the next version of its developer tool set and the underlying platform by the end of November. At the company’s TechEd Developers 2007 conference in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 5, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, announced that the company will release Visual Studio […]

Red Hat has plans to help Sun Microsystems advance the Java platform, particularly as it applies to open source. The Linux distributor announced Nov. 5 that it has signed Sun’s broad contributor agreement, which covers participation in all Sun-led open-source projects by all Red Hat engineers. Red Hat also announced that it has signed Sun’s […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has an interoperability play around Web services, and it’s taking shape in a lab here on the software maker’s campus. Greg Leake, Microsoft’s technical marketing manager for .Net, has set up what he calls the “.Net Framework/Application Server Lab” to test interoperability between .Net-based applications and applications written in Java and running on […]

As the power of mobile devices continues to increase, so, too, does companies’ desire to increase the number of applications running on them. Developers, in turn, are looking for the best platforms on which to build these applications in a market that’s rapidly changing.And companies are not just looking to create more applications for mobile […]

REDMOND, Wash.—As part of its ongoing strategy to deliver more service-oriented architecture enabling technology and guidance to its customers, Microsoft and some of its partners have announced new SOA offerings. For its part, Microsoft released the first public CTP (Community Technology Preview) of its MSE (Microsoft Managed Services Engine) to its CodePlex community development site. […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft says it wants to increase the number of people who use model-driven development by a factor of 10. In a keynote speech at the companys fifth annual SOA & Business Process Conference here, Donald Ferguson, a chief architect of Microsofts effort to simplify and extend the use of model-driven development, said he believes […]

REDMOND, Wash.-Considered late to the service-oriented architecture game, Microsoft is making its plans, if not its presence, known in a big way. The company plans to make SOA more accessible and useful to customers by no less than changing the very premise of business application modeling, it said during its fifth annual SOA and business […]

Microsoft has hired the creator of the SubSonic tool set and plans to use SubSonic as a key part of an upcoming platform. Rob Conery founded the open-source SubSonic project, which helps a Web site build itself, according to SubSonics Web site. Conery blogged about the hire Oct. 26, with a host of observers chiming […]