Darryl K. Taft

Several leading Java tool vendors are building an organization to link their respective frameworks in an effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net framework and Visual Studio tools. The group, to be called the Java Tools Community, was initiated by Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. and looks to create an interoperable Java […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced that the Java Community Process has approved the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Version 1.4 specification and the technology will be available on Monday. The Santa, Clara, Calif., company also announced that Apache.org and JBoss Group LLC have licensed the J2EE 1.4 specification and its accompanying Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) under […]

JBoss Group LLC, the company that provides solutions around the open-source JBoss application server, said it will indemnify its customers against any claims relating to copyright or patent issues. Bob Bickel, vice president of strategy and corporate development for the Atlanta-based company, said, “Were trying to make open source safe for commercial use.” Bickel said […]

BALTIMORE—The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Tuesday is expected to announce a new category of membership and new organizational members of the standards consortium. WS-I officials said the organization has created a new category of membership called associate members. New associate members include the Object Management Group (OMG), the Open Applications Group Inc. (OAGI) and […]

Borland Software Corp. last week announced a new version of its interoperability solution for .Net, Java and CORBA applications. Borland, based in Scotts Valley, Calif., announced Janeva 6, an upgrade to its solution for helping enterprises integrate new and existing software assets the company introduced in May. Officials said Janeva 6 offers connectivity between Microsoft […]

Macromedia Inc. is set to deliver the beta of a new Flash-based server and presentation-tier framework for building rich Internet applications, getting a leg up on Microsoft Corp., which is working on its own “Flash killer,” according to sources. San Francisco-based Macromedia will announce the technology, known as Flex (formerly code-named Royale), at its developer […]

BALTIMORE—Enterprises looking at Web services should pilot some projects, if they havent already, said analysts at a Web services conference here Monday. David Smith, vice president and research fellow at Gartner Inc. delivered a keynote presentation with several recommendations for Web services implementers at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit 2003 here. Among […]

The Liberty Alliance Project Wednesday announced Phase 2 of its effort to deliver specifications for federated identity and other security standards for Web services. The Liberty Alliance, a consortium of more than 160 technology-using and -producing organizations, published its Phase 2 specifications, which complete the Liberty Federation Framework and set the tone for the Liberty […]

Borland Software Corp. Tuesday announced a new version of its interoperability solution for .Net, Java and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) applications. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company announced Janeva 6, an upgrade to its solution to help enterprises integrate new and existing software assets, which Borland introduced last May. Janeva 6 offers connectivity between […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) Monday announced that some of its members have begun work on a new specification to handle asynchronous Web services. The new group, called the OASIS Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) Technical Committee, is working on extending the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to address the […]

As the Eclipse open-source development platform marks its second anniversary this month, IBM, its main sponsor, is putting more money, manpower and research into making the Java-based integrated development environment more attractive to developers and more of a competitor to Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio .Net. IBM and its Eclipse partners are leveraging Eclipse as the […]

TeamTrack version 6 from Serena Software Inc. is the first product to deliver on the companys next-generation framework for managing business processes related to application development. The TeamTrack upgrade, which was announced last week and is due later this month, is the first product that the San Mateo, Calif., company has released for its Serena […]