Timothy Dyck

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 […]

The next big wave in application design is out there, gathering momentum beyond the shallows of day-to-day IT. That wave is Web services—business logic or information made available using the XML (Extensible Markup Language)-based SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). In this package, eWeek Labs explains how Web services provide ways to lower costs and tighten […]

The U.S. Department of Energys Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative White computer was publicly unveiled last month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif. ASCI White, built by IBM, has taken top honors among the worlds fastest supercomputers. At 12.3 teraflops, the classified system beats the computing capacity of the worlds No. 2 system, also […]

In June, the World Wide Web Consortiums XML Query Working Group released a set of draft proposals for how a new XML query language, called XQuery, will work at the groups site (www.w3.org/XML/Query). In the middle of this month, Microsoft released a test implementation of XQuery for XML developers. The Microsoft site (131.107.228.20/xquerydemo) shows XQuery […]

The first public beta of Red Hat Linux 7.2 was just posted, and the biggest change for server use will be the operating systems default use of the ext3 file system, the next version of the Linux Second Extended File System. ext3 adds file journaling features to the file system, writing changes to disk in […]

Oracle Corp.s corporate strategy is to make its database be all things to all people, an approach that has produced the Swiss Army Knife of data management. In eWeek Labs tests of Oracle9i Database, we found a database that will probably do everything organizations ask of it and likely more besides. However, its also a […]

Given its critical nature to large organizations, the database market is appropriately slow to change. In fact, the big trend in the database industry over the past two years has been the bundling of existing technology into established database products. Oracle Corp.s everything-in-one-pot strategy with its Oracle9i Database is the biggest example. However, Microsoft Corp. […]