Darryl K. Taft

James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc., paid a visit to the Software Development Conference and Expo East last month, making a call for standards—and taking a few shots at Microsoft Corp. in the process. Gosling delivered a keynote address at the show here and spent a session with […]

Software development conference and Expo East provided a platform for announcing new tools to aid Web services development. OGIS International Inc., which delivers Java, UML (Unified Modeling Language) and Web services solutions, announced here last month its XGrotto Integration Platform and Directory, a system for finding and using Web services. OGIS, of Palo Alto, Calif., […]

ColdFusion MX users who are running the rapid server-scripting environment on Unix or Linux said they feel theyve been left out in the cold by developer Macromedia Inc. Problems with the San Francisco companys software on Linux have prompted hundreds of user complaints to the Macromedia Web site regarding server crashes and other anomalies. Bruce […]

Macromedia Inc. last week announced a new version of its multimedia authoring platform for building interactive content and applications for CDs and DVDs, kiosks, and the Web. Macromedia Director MX features include integration with the companys Flash MX product line, enhanced workflow support, Mac OS support, accessibility features and new debugging capabilities. Content authors will […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday announced new Java initiatives in the wireless space at the ITU [International Telecommunications Union] Telecom Asia conference in Hong Kong. For starters, Sun announced that the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0 standard has been completed and that the final MIDP 2.0 specification, along with the reference implementation, compatibility test suite […]

West Virginia will join Massachusetts in appealing the Microsoft antitrust ruling. West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced Monday that the state would be continuing its legal battle with the software giant. McGraw said although the U.S. District Court found that Microsoft violated federal and state antitrust laws, “the court largely sided with Microsoft in […]

Despite the Massachusetts attorney generals decision to appeal the ruling in the Microsoft case, other states that sought stiffer penalties against the software giant said they wish their colleagues well but will not pursue further litigation. Thomas Miller, attorney general for Iowa, who lead the dissenting states case against Microsoft, issued a statement saying: “Seven […]

Microsoft Corp. last week announced the final beta of its Visual Studio .Net 2003 product—formerly known by the code name Everett—and released its .Net Compact Framework. “With Windows .Net Server 2003 and Visual Studio 2003, Microsoft is delivering the ultimate developer platform,” said Dan Hay, a Visual Studio .Net lead product manager at Microsoft, in […]

A new development approach to Web services transport is giving users of the popular Simple Object Access Protocol pause and could place some at a development crossroads. SOAP came under scrutiny last week at the Software Development Conference and Expo East here as developers mulled the future of an alternative technology, Representation State Transfer, or […]

IBM this week will ship WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0, with new enterprise features including autonomic capabilities, additional Web services support and enhanced integration. WebSphere Version 5.0 will serve as the underlying platform for all of IBMs On Demand software and will tightly integrate with the DB2 database, Tivoli network management applications and Lotus collaboration […]

A new development tool kit for mobile devices announced by IBM last week moves Web services beyond business-to-business applications and software integration to connect a wide range of devices. The IBM WSTK (Web Services Toolkit) for Mobile Devices features developer tools and a Java run-time for building Web services applications that run on Palm OS-based […]

Macromedia Inc. Monday announced Macromedia Director MX, a new version of the companys multimedia authoring platform for building interactive content and applications for CDs, DVDs, kiosks and the Web. Company officials called the Macromedia Director MX a new generation of the Director product, which has been around for 14 years. New features in Director MX […]