Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft and a group of partners were set last week to release a new Web services specification, which will help provide Web services interoperability and support for occasionally connected devices and systems, sources said. The specification, called WS-Discovery, is supported by Microsoft, Canon, BEA Systems and Intel. The companies were set to announce the specification […]

A small but growing software company is rolling out a major upgrade that lets developers build standards-based Java and .Net applications with no coding. Kinzan Inc. this week will release Kinzan Studio & Server 4.0, a development and deployment environment that lets developers build enterprise applications through an assembly model by simply linking components in […]

IBM Corp. has released a set of tools, based on the Eclipse open-source development platform, aimed at helping developers build autonomic features into their applications. David Bartlett, director of autonomic computing at IBM in Hawthorne, N.Y., said the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit features tools, usage scenarios and components and is built to work with the […]

Microsoft Corp. and a group of fellow-travelers are planning to release a new Web services specification late Tuesday, which will help provide Web services interoperability and support for occasionally-connected devices and systems, sources said. The new specification is called WS-Discovery and is supported by Microsoft, Canon Inc., BEA Systems Inc., and Intel Corp. The companies […]

As the Web services Interoperability Organization turns 2 this month, the group is looking forward to releasing new drafts and tools. Since establishing a base set of specifications for creating interoperable Web services in the past year, the group is now looking at how it will handle attachments and security. WS-I now offers developers the […]

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the approval of two Semantic Web technologies as standards. Janet Daly, a spokeswoman for the W3C, of Cambridge, Mass., said the approval of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C recommendations is likely to be one of the W3Cs most important announcements […]

In a move likened to the cellular phone industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced a promotion around its Java enterprise development platform where it will provide free hardware to developers who subscribe to the companys Java-based enterprise development tools. Under the promotion announced Tuesday in San Francisco, Sun officials said developers who sign up for […]

The Eclipse open-source development platform entered a new era last week. At the first Eclipse developer conference here, leading Eclipse developers praised the newly independent Eclipse organization and offered glimpses of things to come in the next version of the platform, 3.0. Erich Gamma, Java Development Tools leader for Eclipse, and John Wiegand, Eclipse platform […]

Compuware Corp. Monday announced a new version of its OptimalJ Java development system and outlined its vision for helping developers build service-oriented, model-based enterprise applications. Detroit-based Compuware released OptimalJ 3.1 along with support for Web services security, enhanced legacy integration capabilities and support for testing different application servers in the OptimalJ environment. Mike Burba, product […]

A new Web services application benchmark formula under development by an organization known more for its hardware and database benchmarks is giving some large software companies fits. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp., of Warrenton, Va., is expanding its reach into applications and crafting a new benchmark called AppPlatform. The benchmark, which software buyers would use […]