Timothy Dyck

If finding bugs in distributed applications feels more like luck than anything else, Casts Cast Application Mining Suite 4.0 may be something to try. This source code and database schema analysis package provides impact analysis and code dependency reports, as well as a graphical display of how distributed components interact. I used the software to […]

Do something. Do anything. Thats the message we have for organizations committed to Microsoft Corp.s IIS Web server. When eWeek Labs went looking for ways to brace Internet Information Services flimsy walls, we found several methods in addition to manual hardening. These include Microsofts free IIS Lockdown and URLScan tools and three higher-end products: eEye […]

Samba, the Windows-compatible file and print server, takes a major manageability step forward with Version 2.2.2, providing new flexibility for administrators who want to use Unix servers as Windows file servers. The open-source Samba (downloadable from www.samba.org) also makes it easier than ever before to integrate Unix workstations into a Windows environment. The 2.2.2 update, […]

As much as we think software and business-process patents are harmful to the industry as a whole, patents are core to the R&D processes of many companies. Aurigin Systems Aureka Silver lets companies discover what their competitors are trying to patent or have patented, as well as find out which other patents cite their own […]

There arent a lot of changes in the newest update of Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Linux, but the biggest change—the addition of a journaling file system—is an important advance for the operating system. eWEEK Labs tested final code of Red Hat Linux 7.2, which starts shipping next week and costs $60 for 30 days […]

As I was testing BEA Systems WebLogic for a Review in the Oct. 1 issue, I learned about PentaSafe Security Technologies VigilEnt Security Agent for BEA WebLogic, the first app server security auditing tool Ive seen. I installed Release 1.1 of the tool, which started shipping at the end of August, and let it run […]

The increasing sophistication in the application server market is easy to see in the latest releases of IBMs WebSphere 4.0 Advanced Edition and BEA Systems Inc.s Web-Logic Server Premium Edition 6.1. WebSphere 4.0, which started shipping in August, and WebLogic 6.1, which started shipping at the end of June, both provide sophisticated engines for building […]

In what was otherwise an unfortunate cinematic accident, the 1995 movie “Johnny Mnemonic” shows some pretty cool scenes of Keanu Reeves using his hands to manipulate data. Three students at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley (bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shollar/fingeracc/fingeracc.html), have put some fact to that fiction by building a motion-sensing glove that can […]

When considering application servers, J2EE-compatible products are the top of the line—its easy to spend $50,000 on just the server software. However, a number of less-expensive—or even free—offerings have emerged that provide Java 2 Enterprise Edition features without the big price. The latest of these is Lutris Technologies Inc.s Lutris EAS 4, which costs just […]

Idoox will plug a big feature gap in Sun Microsystems Forte for Java development tool with its upcoming Web Applications and Services Platform (or WASP) Lite 3.0 and Advanced 3.0 tool kits. Both provide Java-based libraries, enabling Java code to use SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). Both seamlessly plug into Forte for Java 3.0s development […]

When building and deploying OBDC-based applications, IT staff must make sure needed Open Database Connectivity drivers and vendor-supplied client libraries are also installed before the application will work. Merant Solutions DataDirect Connect ODBC 4.0, which shipped this month, simplifies that application deployment process by removing the need to deploy vendor-supplied database connection libraries for Oracles […]

Like any new ecosystem, web services need a rich support structure to survive. Microsoft Corp. hopes its .Net architecture, bred for this new environment but with no experience in the wild, will be a fitter competitor than Sun Microsystems Inc.s Sun ONE, which is based on Suns established Java platform. Key parts of this IT […]