Darryl K. Taft

A new development tool kit for mobile devices announced by IBM last week moves Web services beyond business-to-business applications and software integration to connect a wide range of devices. The IBM WSTK (Web Services Toolkit) for Mobile Devices features developer tools and a Java run-time for building Web services applications that run on Palm OS-based […]

Macromedia Inc. Monday announced Macromedia Director MX, a new version of the companys multimedia authoring platform for building interactive content and applications for CDs, DVDs, kiosks and the Web. Company officials called the Macromedia Director MX a new generation of the Director product, which has been around for 14 years. New features in Director MX […]

James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc., graced the Software Development Conference and Expo East 2002 with his presence this week, addressing a wide range of issues from Suns software strategy to Web services to embedded Java to open-source software. Gosling delivered an evening keynote address Wednesday at the […]

Mindreef LLC on Tuesday announced at the Software Development East 2002 show, in Boston, the availability of Mindreef SOAPscope Personal 1.0, a new Web services diagnostics system for developers. SOAPscope Personal 1.0 features a logger and viewer for finding and troubleshooting problems in such areas as performance and interoperability, said Jim Moskun, a co-founder of […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the final beta of its Visual Studio .Net 2003 product—formerly known by the code name “Everett”—and released its .Net Compact Framework and a new Web service with Kinkos Inc. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft made the announcements at the Comdex show in Las Vegas. “With Windows .Net Server 2003 and Visual Studio […]

Flashline Inc. Tuesday announced a new adapter that integrates the companys reusable software components platform with IBMs WebSphere Studio Developer Tools. Cleveland-based Flashline announced the adapter at the Software Development Conference and Expo East 2002. Cathy Lippert, Flashlines vice president of product management, said the integration of the companys Component Manager Enterprise Edition (CMEE) with […]

Microsoft Corp. recently gave developers a sneak peek at some of the latest Visual Studio .Net advances, which range from additional security to support for “generics” that ease coding. Company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates discussed in a speech the programming tool advancements, as well as the companys move toward standards compliance for […]

Oracle Corp. last week announced it has submitted a Java Specification Request to the Java Community Process for a new API to enable standards-based extensions to work with any Java integrated development environment. Ted Farrell, architect and director of strategy for application development tools at Oracle, said that if accepted, the JSR—known as JSR 198, […]

Apple Computer Inc. enhanced its support for Web services with the announcement last week of WebObjects 5.2, the companys Web services software development platform. Bob Fraser, Apples product manager for WebObjects, described WebObjects as a suite of tools and frameworks for building Web services and Java server applications. Fraser said WebObjects 5.2 enables developers to […]

When Java was the cool, new thing back in the 90s, IBMs emerging technologies SWAT team helped developers navigate the technology. Now that team, called jStart, has a new focus: Web services. The jStart program began in 1997 as a way to bring IBM customers up to speed on Java, said David Sink, program director […]