Darryl K. Taft

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced that its peer-to-peer technology, known as Project Jxta, has experienced strong adoption since its rollout nearly two years ago. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said more than a million developers have downloaded Project Jxta from the Sun Web site since it was introduced in February 2001. Sun released the […]

As XML becomes more ubiquitous, developers are finding that XML processing requires more horsepower than their servers can provide. Stepping in with new solutions to help accelerate XML content are DataPower Technology Inc. and Gluecode Software Inc. The pair will announce this week a deal in which the companies will co-market souped-up XML processing solutions […]

Sapient Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have jointly developed a new tool that automates key steps necessary in building applications and Web services based on the .Net Framework. The tool, known as BuildIt, automates many oft-repeated actions required to create applications, such as generating executables, and automates certain testing and application finishing procedures. Sapient did most […]

Capitalizing on the strengths of its heritage, IBM announced Wednesday that it will offer a CICS SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Technology Preview to provide connectivity to CICS mainframe applications via Web services. Bob Sutor, director of Web services for IBM, said the company will release its mainframe support for Web services as a CICS […]

IBMs newest software brand, Rational, has a challenging mission: making its tools—reputed to be complex and not for fainthearted developers—simpler to use. Thats according to Mike Devlin, former CEO of Rational Software Corp., now general manager of IBMs Rational division, in an exclusive eWEEK interview last week. IBMs acquisition of Rational closed Feb. 21. “How […]

Microsoft corp. has garnered a groundswell of support for the upcoming version of its flagship software development platform, Visual Studio .Net. Visual Studio .Net 2003, due to be released next month, has spawned dozens of complementary products that will be integrated with Visual Studio .Net or enhance developers experience with it. At VSLive in San […]

BEA Systems Inc. will open its eWorld Developer Conference in Orlando, Fla., this week with an eye on converging integration and application development into a single architecture around its WebLogic line of products. BEA will announce betas of 8.1 versions of WebLogic Platform, WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Workshop and WebLogic Server. The company will […]

Sybase Inc. is expected to announce Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0 on Tuesday. The Dublin, Calif., company is expected to make its announcement at the Giga Information Group Application Development and Integration 2003 conference in Orlando. Sybase will ship PowerBuilder 9.0 on March 24. Company officials said the new release is the foundation for its 4GLplus initiative, […]

Altova Inc. has been busy of late, making deals to propagate its XML technology amongst developers and to make the lives of XML users and developers easier, the company said. Beverly, Mass.-based Altova Friday announced a deal with Versim Technologies Ltd., of Birmingham, England, to deliver a plug-in for Altovas XML development tool, XML Spy. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced several initiatives around Web services management Monday, including the formation of a dedicated Web services management team within the company, a focus on Web services management in the Java environment, expansion of HP OpenView into Web services management, and a leading role in setting standards for Web services management. HPs chairman and […]