Darryl K. Taft

The Web Services Interoperability Organization has released WS-I Sample Application 1.0, a set of Web services designed to give developers an early look at how that WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 supports interoperability in real-world scenarios. WS-I Sample Application 1.0, made available last week at the XML Conference & Exposition here, features technology and cases developed […]

PHILADELPHIA—The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Wednesday announced the availability of the WS-I Sample Application 1.0, a set of Web services that serve as proof that the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 supports interoperability in real-world scenarios. The WS-I Sample Application 1.0 features technology and use cases developed by 10 companies that are members of WS-I […]

Four days after posting a note to a community site specifying its intent to retire a number of its flagship products as a result of the Sun Java lawsuit, Microsoft Corp. has decided to extend the cut-off date by a week. On Monday, Microsoft posted a new note to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) community […]

PHILADELPHIA—With XML adoption widespread in the industry, vendors exhibiting at the XML Conference and Expo 2003 here are offering solutions to make it even more palatable for users and developers. Snapbridge Software Inc. released the beta versions of its Snapbridge FDX Information Server Developers Edition and Snapbridge XStudio XML development tools, said Benjamin Chen, chairman […]

Oracle Corp. Wednesday is expected to announce the release of its Oracle Application Server 10g, the companys first application server to support grid computing. “Were releasing the first grid-capable application server this week, the Oracle Application Server 10g, which includes nearly 600 new features,” said Robert Shimp, vice president of technology management at Oracle. “Its […]

The organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems last week approved the UBL 1.0 beta for public implementation testing. Jon Bosak, chairman of the Universal Business Language technical committee at OASIS and a distinguished engineer and XML architect at Sun Microsystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., said the UBL 1.0 beta package is intended […]

Wind River Systems Inc., which makes proprietary embedded operating systems and development tools for creating embedded applications, has joined two open-source consortia. Wind River, of Alameda, Calif., last week announced it has joined the Eclipse Consortium and the Open Source Development Lab. The Eclipse Consortium, of Raleigh, N.C., is the open-source tools platform sponsored by […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has made an overture to Java developers in what amounts to the “open sourcing” of a key Java upgrade. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has agreed to open the alpha builds of its long-awaited J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition), code-named Tiger, to developers for testing much earlier than anticipated. Sun was […]

Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday released its new Web-services-management solution, the Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management. The system was launched into beta during the summer. Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president of Web services at Islandia, N.Y.-based Computer Associates, said the company is responding to demand from its customers for a Web services management solution. “The […]

Microsoft will phase out a slew of products as of December 15, citing its 2001 legal settlement with Sun Microsystems over Java as the impetus. Among the products that Microsoft will no longer make available to customers through any of the Microsofts sales channels are Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and a number of versions […]