Today's applications require faster and more frequent access to data at the mid-tier than ever before. This is due to a number of factors, including massive growth of data volumes and the extreme processing requirements that accompany such growth, the pressure from ever-changing busine

ICEsoft Technologies is a leading provider of standards-compliant, AJAX-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. The company's portfolio of enterprise level Java products includes ICEfaces, an AJAX application framework that enables Java EE appl

Kevin Nilson, the leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG, relayed to me the idea of creating an application in JavaFX Script that consists of a wheel that has the names of JUG attendees on it. The wheel would revolve and land on a name, who would then receive a prize. Today's

I am glad to introduce you to a new set of resources to help surface scalability and performance issues in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource to show you what it really takes to build services using today's leading

Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Eac

The common approach to securing applications is to try to identify and remove all of the application's security vulnerabilities at the end of the development process. However, this bug-finding approach is not only resource-intensive, it's largely ineffective. To have any chance of expo

So is O'Reilly actually condoning the hacking of the phones? O'Reilly has had a long and prestigious history as being the ultimate source for *nix manuals, including many books that became so dogeared I actually bought multiple copies, including dozens of 'in a nutshell' books. Back in

So it's kicking off an 'Enterprise Acceleration' initiative. It means to add products to its middleware portfolio, sponsor new open source projects, grow its partner ecosystem, and offer new enterprise-class performance and interoperability resources. It also means to buck up sales and

Advanced Modeling Concepts has released a unique Java security tool -AfterthoughtSoft-Secure, that allows Java developers (or security professionals) to add powerful Role-Based Access Control logic, 'after-the-fact' to 'existing' Java applications.

4 of our 6 first quarter projects have major components in Java ME. These are new applications, from companies who understand the porting issues and the complexities. This quarter is not particularly different from other quarters: we get far more work designing applications than design

Synchronica announced Mobile Gateway 3.5 with new back-end support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Sun Java Communications Suite 5. Mobile Gateway 3.5 also introduces support for the Java Content Repository (JCR) standard, allowing it to be integrated with third-party personal informat

Aonix and Green Hills Software have joined forces to enable commercial availability of the Aonix PERC Ultra Virtual Machine (VM) for Green Hills INTEGRITY to the embedded market. The companies have also formed a partnering agreement paving the way to jointly market the INTEGRITY RTOS a

With version 4.0 of PDFNet SDK, PDFTron expands its development platform offering by adding full Java support to the PDF library. The new Java interface exposes the underlying API as a set of Java classes to enable developers to integrate PDFTron's powerful PDFNet API into their Java a

SpringSource announced a technology partnership with GigaSpaces. The partnership enhances the integration of Spring and GigaSpaces, providing joint users and customers with the flexible programming Spring is known for with the high performance and scalability of the GigaSpaces middlewa

Deploying and migrating JavaEE applications is hard work. Specifically, it's work that's error-prone, repetitive, and time consuming because of the complexity of setting up or tweaking Web application servers. The result is lost man/hours, soaring costs, and potential problems associat

Metallect announced the availability of an early beta release of its new architecture modeling software, XMuddle for Java. 'The response from our alpha users has been overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to make the software available to a wider community earlier than originally plan

Some of the most scared people inside Yahoo right now have got to be the open source Zimbra crowd that Yahoo acquired last September for $350 million for its Microsoft-opposing enterprise-directed e-mail and calendaring, folks who just released their webby AJAX-based Collaboration Suit

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET technologies or less known (as yet) yet AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo...

It's unlikely, however, that Google, the target of the proposed merger, can do much of anything other than raise dust - like its move over the weekend to raise the specter of Microsoft's possible monopolization of the Internet and its illegal leverage into 'new, adjacent markets.' As t

During development, Java database migration a big deal because each engineer has two instances of the database, one for unit tests and another for running the application. We need an easy way to create a new, up-to-date database and update existing databases. Once a project has launche

Day Software announced that its Communique; Web Content Management Suite (CQ WCM) was selected by F5 Networks to power the latest version of F5's Ask F5 Portal. A powerful online knowledge portal created to help customers and partners find answers to their product and support questions

Wavecom announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anyware Technologies, an industry leader in machine-to-machine (M2M) client-server software solutions located in Toulouse, France. Anyware is a recognized leader in developing M2M software solutions for customers who us

Software Research has announced the general availability of a new subsystem in its eValid Website Test & Analysis Suite. eValid V8 introduces a powerful Programmatic Interface (EPI) that provides direct control access to all eValid functions and brings eValid as a test engine into the

Aonix celebrated a solid year of growth with the launch of a second French office devoted to professional services. The new office, centered in Toulouse, France?s heartland for aeronautic and space industries, will provide expertise in real-time and embedded solutions in Java and Ada l

VX30, a Java-based streaming video software company announced a new release of its market leading Java based media player. Unlike competitors, VX30 utilizes a zero client solution, meaning viewers will not have to install any additional software or plug-ins to receive a video stream. B

Rogue Wave Software announced the release of Rogue Wave HydraSDO for XML 2.2 and the next edition of HydraSDO for Databases. Rogue Wave HydraSDO data components automate the creation of high performance, service-oriented data services in Java and C++. The components enable developers t

Sun Microsystems announced that a division of Reuters, PLC has selected the Sun Java Real-Time System to develop and deploy market-facing services. The Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is a software product that provides a high-level development platform for creating applications w

Recursion Software announced the extension of its popular C++ Toolkit Suite to HP Integrity servers. The C++ Toolkits are portable, reusable class libraries for multi-threaded applications and are offered with complete source code. With library subsets for time, threading, streaming, n

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business requirements. Relying

'It is very important to me that Acquia has a marketing leader who understands the importance of growing and sustaining a community and who is passionate about the principles of open source software,' said Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert as Jeff Whatcott joined the company as

At today's market close Quest Software's market cap was $1.52B vs $1.44B for TIBCO, two similar size software companies, with a huge difference being TIBCO's name is being rumored to be the next SOA acquisition target, while no one even realizes the existence of Quest as a software com

JavaScript is the preferred computer language in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a new survey of developers in that region by Evans Data Corp. Over 60 percent of developers use JavaScript and that usage has outstripped all 3GL and scripting language use, including Java

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide an overview of Canoo's RIA technology as compared to its other European competitors. Upcoming AJAXWorld Conference is demonstrating a stronger interest and participation from delegates around Europe. Canoo an

Remember two odd years ago when Oracle went and bought InnoDB, the source of MySQL's crucial storage engine, and there for a heart-stopping minute or two it looked like MySQL was toast? Well, MySQL founder Monty Widenius says the company is moving along toward replacing its own MyISAM

Google doesn't like the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo any more than Microsoft likes the idea of Google buying DoubleClick. Today in a blog Google general counsel David Drummond said Microsoft?'s $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo 'raises troubling questions.' 'This is about more than

Sun is offering ten grants of US $11,500 - equivalent to several months of pay for developers in some countries - for the best NetBeans projects submitted by open source developers. Conceived as a means of increasing general awareness around the NetBeans project as well as rewarding go

Besides commercial Apache support, Covalent, whose founders helped develop the hysterically successful Apache HTTP Web Server, also sell enterprise subscription to its own Enterprise Ready Server, Hyperic HQ monitoring, Terracotta Java clustering and the WSO2 Web Services Application S

Android Location will what its lead developer Andres Rormoser calls 'a revolutionary social mapping service to change the way people use mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends.' It will facilitate real-world interaction between friends and put an end to frustrating missed co

To satisfy growing customer demand for numerical application development technologies for .NET and Java, and for advanced charting and graph visualization, Visual Numerics announced the availability of the IMSL C# Numerical Library version 5.0 and JMSL Numerical Library for Java Applic

Phurnace announced support for JBoss web application servers with the availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver 3.3. The latest release, available in mid-February, provides IT operations staff with the resources they need to decrease configuration errors, which is one of the