Darryl K. Taft

In the latest salvo in the Web services platform wars, Microsoft Corp. this week will announce that a major security company has found its .Net Framework better than IBMs WebSphere for building and deploying secure Web applications and services. The report, prepared by @Stake Inc.—and commissioned by Microsoft—said both platforms provide the necessary tools and […]

With the JavaOne Java developers conference next week, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has made several moves recently to strengthen the Java fellowship, including making changes to the process of standardizing Java technology. Most recently, Sun and the JCP PMO (Java Community […]

With the JavaOne Java developers conference just around the corner in June, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has made several moves recently aimed at strengthening the Java community, including making changes to the process of standardizing Java technology. Last week, Sun, the […]

The standoff between Sun Microsystems Inc. and The JBoss Group LLC over Java 2 Enterprise Edition compatibility continues, with both sides pointing fingers. Although both Sun and JBoss had signaled a willingness to come to terms on the issue of J2EE compliance, “its a bit stalled and [Sun is] back to stonewalling us,” said Marc […]

Two Web services management software suppliers announced new products last week, approaching the issue of managing Web services from two perspectives. Both Swingtide Inc., of Portsmouth, N.H., and Blue Titan Software Inc., of San Francisco, unveiled new Web services management solutions, with Swingtide offering a more passive solution and Blue Titan delivering a more active […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards last week announced the ratification of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Version 2 as an OASIS open standard. UDDI, the most broadly supported Web services standard, allows users to publish, find and use Web services. OASIS officials said members of the OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee […]

Corporate developers are getting more collaboration capabilities in their development tools, thanks to acquisitions by Serena Software Inc. and CollabNet Inc. Serena, of San Mateo, Calif., which last week agreed to buy TeamShare Inc. for $18 million, sells change management solutions that automate changes to enterprise code and content. With TeamShare, a Colorado Springs, Colo., […]

The Object Management Group will meet in Paris next week to vote on Version 2.0 of Unified Modeling Language, a language that supports analysis and design in a variety of tools and promises to open new horizons for developers. The first UML 2.0 specifications were adopted as OMG standards in March—covering Infrastructure, Object Constraint Language […]

Word of Sun Microsystems Inc. trying to take on Microsoft Corp. in its own development tools back yard first leaked in March, and now the Java company is shedding more light on the matter as its JavaOne developer conference approaches next month. “We think we should go where the developers are sitting,” Rich Green, vice […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has announced the ratification of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Version 2 as an OASIS open standard. As an OASIS open standard, UDDI Version 2 enjoys the highest level of support as a standard for use in Web services systems. UDDI enables users to publish, […]