Darryl K. Taft

Compuware Corp. on Tuesday will announce the availability of its new debugging and error prevention tool for the Intel Itanium family. The tool, DevPartner64, will enable developers using Windows XP 64-Bit Edition on the Intel Itanium processor family to more quickly develop high-quality applications and drivers and improve time-to-market of 64-bit software, said Peter Varhol, […]

Hitachi Computer Products America Inc. on Monday announced the release of its Quadrasis EASI Express application and Web services security solution. Quadrasis EASI (Enterprise Application Security Integration) Express is a rapid application security development version of EASI Security Unifier, said Harriet Goldman, vice president of professional services for the Waltham, Mass.-based Hitachi unit. EASI Express […]

Macromedia Inc. on Friday announced the availability of the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit, Volume One, a new tool to help developers create applications using Macromedias products. Macromedia officials said the kit, which is the first in a quarterly series, contains extensions, components and resources to enable Macromedia Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX and ColdFusion MX […]

In a move to establish itself as a key provider of technology for creating and editing Web Services, Cape Clear Software Inc. Wednesday announced a free editor for the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). The Cape Clear WSDL Editor delivers an environment for rapid WSDL development and supports both novice and experienced programmers, the company […]

BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced its BEA dev2dev Days tour, a global educational tour through which the company will target developers in the enterprise integration and Web services spaces. The dev2dev Days tour will kick off in Boston and Rome Sept. 24, and will visit 11 cities in the United States, Europe and Asia, […]

As base specifications for Web services standards begin to reach maturity, Microsoft Corp. and IBM, longtime partners in the arena, appear to be moving in different directions to fill proprietary needs. As a result, developers could ultimately be forced into one of several development camps. To date, the two companies have worked together to ensure […]

Microsoft Corp. last week took a step to advance Web services capabilities in announcing the availability of its WSDK technical preview. Web Services Development Kit provides tools developers need to build advanced Web services applications using the latest Web services specifications, such as Web Services-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments. WS-Security, jointly introduced by Microsoft, of Redmond, […]

BOSTON–The effort to standardize the Web services arena is but six to nine months from completion, but the work necessary to implement all the standards to create a totally services-oriented architecture is at least a year to two years away, according to one IBM executive. Robert Sutor, IBMs director of e-business standards strategy, demonstrated at […]

BOSTON—For the second day in a row at the XML Web Services One conference here, a keynote speaker got up and signaled the impending end to the Web services era, at least on a standards level. Don Box, an architect in Microsoft Corp.s developer division told an audience of Web services conference attendees Wednesday: “The […]

Swingtide Corp. this week announced its launch as a “quality of business” XML development company aimed at integrating XML data. Officials of the Portsmouth, N.H., company–which is headed by three former executives of Bowstreet Corp., an XML integration company also based in Portsmouth–said Swingtide protects, measures and maximizes companies XML Quality of Business amid the […]