Darryl K. Taft

The Eclipse Foundation has extended its reach into the open-source and broader Java development communities by joining a trio of organizations: the Java Community Process, the Object Management Group and the Open Services Gateway initiative Alliance. “Eclipse is in the process of joining the JCP, OMG and OSGi Alliance,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of […]

Sun Microsystems is encouraging developers to throw everything including the kitchen sink into evolving the Java language. While Sun has announced its plans to open-source its Java technology, the company plans to maintain the sanctity of the standard language while enabling developers to experiment on bringing new features to Java, said Peter von der Ahe, […]

When USinternetworking needed a solution to help with its plans to foster more software reuse and to better support regulatory compliance, it turned to a service-oriented architecture, and for the foundation of that SOA infrastructure, the company turned to Oracle. USi, an ASP (application service provider) based in Annapolis, Md., and a wholly owned subsidiary […]

TIBCO Software, a leader in AJAX, Web services and service-oriented architecture technology, is teaming up with the Direct Web Remoting project to extend event-based SOA to the browser, the principals involved said. Moreover, Palo Alto, Calif., company announced that it has become a sponsor of DWR, a popular AJAX communications library. Through this sponsorship DWR […]

It seems Java creator James Gosling is back in the middle of a language debate … well, sort of. In recent posts on his blog, Sun Microsystems Fellow Gosling said he has never been happy about language debates. Yet, Gosling is no novice when it comes to such debates, having taken flak for comments he […]

A team of AJAX experts is working on a new capability to enable Web applications to work offline. Brad Neuberg, a San Francisco-based software architect and programmer, said that he, along with the support of some developers at SitePen, of Palo Alto, Calif., is working on the Dojo Offline Toolkit, a small, cross-platform, generic download […]

LAS VEGAS—VeriSign and Adobe Systems will collaborate on integrating Adobe Flash technologies with VeriSigns recently introduced peer-assisted content distribution technology, setting a new standard in the delivery of high-quality video content, officials of both companies said. At the Consumer Electronics Show here, the companies shared plans to integrate existing products and services and jointly develop […]

LAS VEGAS—The Consumer Electronics Show here is a zoo, a madhouse, an absolute mob scene; its also the place to go to see the latest in electronics and computer gadgetry available now and in the future. I had to leave a very good NFL football wild-card playoff game to go see Microsofts Bill Gates kick […]

According to a recent survey of more than 200 online retailers, less than 20 percent of them are using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML techniques to build out their sites, and only about 6 percent use advanced AJAX techniques. The survey, conducted by Brulant, an online systems solutions building and marketing company, during October and November […]

Lattix has announced Lattix LDM 3.0, which lets managers, architects and developers visualize, specify and maintain the architecture of a complex enterprise software system through models. With its LDM (Lightweight Dependency Model) technology, Andover, Mass.-based Lattix ushered in a new approach known as the DSM (Dependency Structure Matrix), which uses dependencies to create an accurate […]

Microsoft has opened registration for its Mix07 conference, which is aimed at bringing Web developers, designers and the advertising community together to look at new business opportunities around Microsofts next-generation Web technologies. Mix07 will be held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas April 30 to May 2. The conference will be Microsofts second Mix […]

Big Sky Technology is putting its marketing muscle behind the open-source, Java-based Groovy language to take the project to a 1.0 version and beyond to ubiquity. Jay Zimmerman, president of Denver-based Big Sky, said the company is funding the development of Groovy and has secured the services of Jochen Theodorou, the chief Groovy contributor. Big […]