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AmberPoint, expanding its footprint in the Web services and SOA management arena, unveiled a SOA Validation System to test and validate services against a complete set of dependent applications. The SOA Validation System uses message traffic collected from the runtime use of SOA applications to test a service for functionality More...

Sep 27, 2005

In many respects, SOA is an evolution of the fundamental tenets governing component-based development (CBD). It also represents a quantum leap in bringing business and information technology into closer alignment through a set of SOA services grounded in business goals in support of business processes. While SOA services are visible More...

Sep 15, 2004

November 2004 [ Go back to The Month in Review main page ]

What does every IT professional want for the holidays? More Web services news, tips and advice, of course! And we know just where to find it. Browse our best content from November. It's all on one page for easy browsing and reading. Happy Holidays!

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Dec 1, 2004

Management vendor AmberPoint Inc. has strayed from its core business of enterprise Web services management and built a developer's version of its AmberPoint Express product that will be integrated into Microsoft's upcoming Visual Studio 2005 .NET development environment.

The new product will enable developers to monitor Web More...

Jul 12, 2004

ILOG JViews 8.5, the latest version of the Java-based graphics display technology, adds graphing features for Eclipse developers working on Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and supports additional frameworks for Ajax.

Increasing use of Eclipse for RIA development and deployment led ILOG to embrace the Eclipse Graphical Modeling More...

Dec 8, 2008

Oracle's $7.4-billion offer to buy Java-originator Sun Microsystems re-arranges the enterprise Java landscape, but does not greatly disrupt the status quo, according to users and analysts.

If completed, the deal would give Oracle far more control over Java standards. The company gained much greater prominence in the Java arena just last More...

Apr 20, 2009

VMware acquired enterprise Java application developer SpringSource yesterday, suggesting the virtualization provider intends to become more involved in application development.

"What is most interesting is the talk about Java as a cloud or a platform as a service," said Stephen O'Grady, analyst with Red Monk, in an e-mail interview. "[ More...

Aug 12, 2009
Skyway Software restructured Skyway Builder, an open source code generation tool for Java EE that works with the Spring Java application framework, into five separate editions. Skyway Builder Community Edition remains unchanged, while Skyway Builder Enterprise Edition is now divided into four specialized products. Skyway More...
Nov 5, 2009

At Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Summit this week, EA and mobile software vendor Sybase announced a partnership to move its PowerDesigner product from enterprise modeling to also handling IT planning.

The company has partnered with EA and IT planning vendor Troux to harness its experience in enterprise IT planning and More...

Oct 7, 2009

At Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Boston last week Red Hat Inc. released a new version of its portal platform, which supports numerous open-source standards, including such lightweight Web application tool sets as Seam, Spring, Ruby, Groovy and PHP.

Support of these varied Web application frameworks for portal building is another step More...

Jul 1, 2010

Just weeks after suing Google for patent infringement related to that company's use of Java technology and the OpenJDK, Oracle Corp. pledged to roll out new versions of the very same Java Developer Kit. OpenJDK releases, still adhering to the original Sun Microsystems' defined licensing model, will serve as the basis for Oracle JDK 7 and More...

Sep 21, 2010

Don't call it a tipping point yet, but price is starting to become less important for open source software adoption.

As usage has grown over the past year, functionality, ease of installment and interoperability have become increasingly important for those entering and expanding inside of the open source arena.

"What has transpired just More...

Jul 18, 2005

BOSTON -- New business requirements and emerging technologies are rapidly transforming data integration, according to the opening keynote presentation at the third annual Global Integration Summit.

Data integration techniques are changing significantly as companies move toward interaction systems, service-oriented More...

Jun 2, 2006

Back in October, SearchWebServices.com solicited its readership to submit 50-word definitions of a service-oriented architecture. The responses came in from an array of readers, ranging from enterprise developers and IT managers to analysts and vendor representatives.

Our original intent was to produce a specific definition of SOA More...

Jan 12, 2005

Above All Software last week unveiled the Above All Composite Application Platform 4.0, which is designed to simplify the process of mining services, data and business logic from different systems and then visually refining these elements into business services. New features in version 4 include Knowledge Packs for applications More...

Sep 26, 2005
This is the third and final part of a series focused on how service-oriented architecture is changing the financial landscape of the software industry. The change in how software is being adopted and packaged was the topic in Part 1 of the series. How vendors are experimenting with different pricing and packaging models to better fit More...
Apr 13, 2006

June 2002 [Go back to: The Month in Review]
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Jul 1, 2002

Market Analysis

Liberty Alliance touts early plans
The Liberty Alliance, consisting of Sun, AOL, General Motors, Nokia, Vodafone, Mastercard, Visa, and just about anyone else you could care to mention, bar Microsoft, this week revealed initial plans for its web identification program. This version, number 1, hopes to address the problems More...

Jul 18, 2002

Market Analysis

Yesterday we looked at Sun Microsystems server offerings. When it comes to software, McNealy made a number of interesting points. As might be expected the Sun CEO was keen to point out how popular Java is compared to Microsoft's .NET and pointed out that he is convinced that Java will continue to be found close to the heart of More...

Mar 4, 2003

Market Analysis

The OMG marches on
The Object Management Group (OMG) is undoubtedly one of the most successful standards bodies that the IT industry has seen and it has done considerable work in furthering the cause of standards in general, as well as defining particular standards such as CORBA and UML.

Last week, the OMG had a major More...

Apr 7, 2003

An essential component of most e-businesses, messaging middleware permits communication between applications, much in the way that e-mail permits communication between people. Successful enterprises must be able to integrate and exchange data effectively and efficiently across disparate systems and are using products like More...

Sep 24, 2001

Market Analysis

Grid computing enters new arenas
One of the most talked about areas of IT in recent months is Grid Computing. This week one of the heavyweight vendors promoting the area talked about how the solutions are evolving and the exploitation of information via the use of Grid solutions by commercial organizations.

The idea More...

May 7, 2003

BEA is hoping to leverage some of the work it's been developing through its WebLogic Workshop Web services development tool (previously known as Cajun), into a standard abstraction layer for Java J2EE. It wants to establish a framework that will help developers not skilled in Java.

At the JavaOne show this week, the company will be More...

Mar 25, 2002

Product Review
Overview of the BindStudio ebXML modeling tool from BindSystems

Quick Guide: BindStudio * What is it:
Stand-alone modeling tool.

* You would use it for:
Modeling of public business processes according to UMM (UN/CEFACT Unified Modeling Methodology) and ebXML specifications.

* When:
You pursue an ebXML-based business process More...

May 6, 2002