Darryl K. Taft

Oracle Corp. announced last week that the latest version of its application server has passed the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition compatibility test suite and is now J2EE 1.4-compliant. Steve Harris, vice president of Oracles Java Platform Group, in Redwood Shores, Calif., said that J2EE 1.4, “broadly speaking, is J2EE plus Web services” and that […]

Microsoft will use next weeks VSLive/SpeechTek/Microsoft Mobile Devcon conferences in San Francisco to emphasize its message that Visual Studio is the single, unified development platform around which developers should rally. The trio of conferences, which kick off Wednesday with a keynote address by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, will be a launchpad for a handful of […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization has released its testing tools for measuring Web services interoperability with the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. At its WS-I Spring Committee Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, the WS-I Wednesday released final versions of its tools, which consist of the Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer. The […]

Oracle Corp. on Wednesday is expected to announce that the latest version of its application server is compliant with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Officials at the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said the company plans to announce that its Oracle Application Server J2EE Developer Preview has passed the compatibility test suite and is now J2EE […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday announced that it has published two key pieces of the Speech Interface Framework— VoiceXML 2.0 and the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification. Officials at Cambridge, Mass-based W3C said VoiceXML 2.0 is targeted at combining Web-based development and content delivery with interactive voice response capabilities, while the Speech Recognition […]

IBM is slated to announce new developers and customers for its ISV Advantage for Industries and SMB programs. At the PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, IBM announced that it will invest $1 billion this year in ISV programs, as well as its new ISV Advantage for Industries program. This week the Armonk, […]

The stewards of Java the Java Community Process Program Management Office and executive committees—last week announced a new version of the JCP: 2.6. JCP Version 2.6 features enhancements to the process that enable more developers to get involved in the creation of JSRs (Java Specification Requests) earlier in the process, according to JCP officials. Aaron […]

Whether or not, or how, Sun Microsystems Inc. decides to open-source Java, the company appears to be seriously considering the issue. In addition to an impending meeting with IBM, which challenged Sun to develop an open-source implementation of Java, Sun, in Santa Clara, Calif., has been in contact with open-source advocate Eric Raymond on the […]

Actional Corp. has announced new Web services performance and availability monitoring features known as “watchdogs” for its Web services management framework. Officials at the Mountain View, Calif., company said it has included the Actional watchdogs technology in its Actional Looking Glass Web services management server and console. Actional, a Microsoft Corp. partner in the Web […]

Microsoft Corp. users, developers and partners are tired of product delays but said they are willing to wait for the companys newest database and development tools platforms—if it means better software as a result. Officials for the Redmond, Wash., vendor said the next upgrades of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, and of Visual Studio, code-named Whidbey, […]