Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft is addressing the applications integration issue with a strategy that goes beyond the ESB standard, according to a paper the company has posted. ESB (enterprise service bus) is an emerging standard for integrating enterprise applications in an implementation-independent fashion, at a coarse-grained service level via an event-driven and XML-based messaging engine. The term is […]

LogicLibrary, a provider of software development asset management tools, announced Tuesday its membership in OASIS. In addition, Brent Carlson, Pittsburgh-based LogicLibrarys co-founder and vice president of technology, will serve on the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) SOA (service-oriented architecture) Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. OASIS officials said the recently announced SOA Adoption […]

NEW YORK—The Eclipse Foundation is looking to branch the Eclipse open-source development platform into several key areas, including life-cycle support, modeling, embedded systems, data management and systems management, a top official of the organization said. Speaking at the EclipseWorld conference here, Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said that in addition to projects […]

Two new methods of application problem resolution will find their way to market this week, targeting both service-oriented architectures and Java application server-based environments. IBM is expected to announce new software based on its Tivoli and WebSphere platforms and leveraging the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) to advance BPM (business process management) in SOAs. The […]

Oracle Corp. and Zend Technologies Inc. Monday announced the beta release of the Zend Core for Oracle technology for integrating the Oracle database with Zends PHP development environment. The Zend Core for Oracle technology enables developers to use PHP to develop applications in the Oracle environment. The beta version is available as a free download […]

Microsofts Professional Developers Conference is expected to be a coming out party of sorts for the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas. Primary among the new features in and new direction for Orcas will be advances in how the toolset handles data, sources said. Data becomes “cool” in Orcas, said a source familiar with […]

With a number of builds of its upcoming development tools suite out and available for developers to test, Microsoft has developed an uninstall tool to simplify the process of removing old builds from user machines. Microsoft Corp. has created a Visual Studio 2005 uninstall and diagnostics tool and is also putting together a troubleshooting tool […]

BEA Systems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to acquire Plumtree Software Inc. in a cash deal worth about $200 million. In a call with investors and analysts Tuesday afternoon, BEAs CEO, Alfred Chuang, said the acquisition of Plumtree was attractive to BEA largely because “the Plumtree portfolio has the industrys only cross-platform portal across both .Net […]

At its upcoming Professional Developers Conference next month, Microsoft Corp. will divulge more details about its Expression Studio suite of design and developer tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly code-named Avalon. Expression Studio will consist of a design tool code-named Acrylic, a developer-oriented graphics tool code-named Sparkle and other components that will be delivered […]

Progress has announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation and intends to base some of its tools on the Eclipse platform. Progress Software Corp., of Bedford, Mass., said it will base its tools on Eclipse—an open-source community committed to the implementation of a universal platform for the creation, integration and utilization of software tools. At […]

At its upcoming Professional Developers Conference next month, Microsoft Corp. is set to shed more details on its developer-oriented graphics tool, code-named Sparkle. Sparkle will be one element of the upcoming Expression Studio suite of design and developer tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly known as Avalon. Expression Studio also is expected to […]

WSO2, a startup focusing on open-source Web services, is expected to announce Monday a new project to create a Web services mediation framework known as Synapse and submit it to the Apache Software Foundations incubator program. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder, chairman and CEO of Colombo, Sri Lanka-based WSO2 (which means Web Services Oxygen), said his company […]