Darryl K. Taft

According to a recent survey by Evans Data, more than 40 percent of developers polled who said they were working on service-oriented architectures also said they can finish a typical SOA development in three months. The Evans Data poll shows that this 40 percent figure represents more than twice as many developers as last year. […]

Despite an often tense relationship between leaders in their respective open-source communities, the Spring and JBoss leaders are now talking about a truce. Rod Johnson, chief executive of Interface21, the company that maintains the Spring Framework, told eWEEK that he would welcome an opportunity to work with JBoss. Johnson spoke with eWEEK just weeks after […]

Interface21, the maintainer of the increasingly popular open-source Spring Framework, is planning to go the way of the Eclipse Foundation and introduce a coordinated release of the Spring Framework and many of its related subprojects. In an interview with eWEEK, Adrian Colyer, chief technology officer at London-based Interface21, said the company is targeting the first […]

Microsoft has released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, which features fixes for user-reported issues. Service Pack 1 of the development platform also includes more than 70 improvements for common development scenarios, including new processor support for code generation and profiling, as well as performance and scale improvements in Microsofts TFS (Team Foundation […]

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, has announced an update to its JBoss Seam Web application framework. At the JavaPolis conference in Antwerp, Belgium, JBoss announced Seam 1.1, with new features that enhance the development of Web 2.0 applications through integration with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology, the company said. JBoss made the announcement […]

Google Inc has open-sourced its tool set for building Web applications, the Google Web Toolkit. According to a notice issued by Chris Ulbrich, a spokesperson for Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, the company has open-sourced the GWT 1.3 release candidate. Previous versions of the GWT were only partly open-sourced, Ulbrich said. In a Dec. 12 blog […]

BEA Systems will announce an aggressive virtualization strategy and product road map at its BEAWorld Beijing conference on Dec. 13. What BEA is focusing on is optimizing the operation of Java applications in virtualized environments, the company said. The BEA virtualization solutions will enable Java applications to run directly on a hypervisor, leading to performance […]

Eclipse is making inroads on Microsofts tools dominance in the European, Middle Eastern and African, or EMEA, region. A recent Evans Data survey showed that the adoption rate of Eclipse has more than doubled in the EMEA region, raising the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) as a challenge to Microsoft Visual Studio.Net among developers there. […]

IBM Research is working on a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of data and provide essentially infinite access to the Internet. Stefan Schoenauer, an IBM researcher at the companys Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., said IBM Research, as […]

Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). This new version of Suns Java platform is “an exciting release for us because its our first community release,” said Jean Elliott, director of Developer Marketing at Sun. The Java SE 6 release is the result of more than two […]

Microsoft has released its Microsoft Developer Network Wiki for developers. In a blog post on Dec. 7, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsofts developer division, said Microsoft has unveiled a release candidate of MSDN Wiki, which is part of the MSDN Library. MSDN Wiki is an effort to enable developers to help write […]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.—2006 has been a pivotal year for the open-source Spring Framework, but it is just the beginning of bigger and better things for the Java development platform and its keepers, said the founder of the project. Delivering a keynote speech at The Spring Experience conference here on Dec. 7, Rod Johnson, founder of the […]