Darryl K. Taft

Makers of development tools last week rolled out products designed to facilitate the creation and deployment of Web services. At the TechXNY show in New York, Borland Software Corp., of Scotts Valley, Calif., unveiled Borland Enterprise Server 5.1, a Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.3-compliant application server with enhanced support for deploying applications as Web services, […]

IBM is adding enhanced business rules technology and self-healing capabilities to the next release of its WebSphere application server. The new business rules will enable users and analysts to make changes to applications without requiring the assistance of a developer, Donald Ferguson, an IBM fellow and chief architect of WebSphere, said during an interview at […]

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the availability of its Visual J# .Net tool at Microsoft TechEd Europe in Barcelona, Spain. Visual J# .Net is a Java development tool for building applications and XML Web services on the .Net Framework. Its release rounds out Microsofts language offerings within its Visual Studio .Net platform, including Visual C++ .Net, […]

The legal and marketing battle that flared to a fury this week between content delivery network providers Akamai Technologies Inc. and Speedera Networks Inc. is expected to continue to escalate into next week as Speedera plans to announce new contract wins with former Akamai customers. Though the two companies were already embroiled in a legal […]

The Open Source Development Lab Inc. (OSDL) Friday announced that it is making progress on the road to a Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL) specification, including a new white paper, a requirements definition and a new developer site. The OSDL said its Carrier-Grade Technical Scope White Paper, the Linux Requirements Definition V0.5, and the Validation Framework V0.5 […]

BEA Systems Inc., Intalio Inc., SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems Inc. have announced the publication of the XML-based Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) specification for application to application collaboration. The new specification, released Wednesday and made available for public comment at the companies Web sites, provides a foundation for delivering on the claims of Web […]

Moving ahead on promises made when they formed the initiative in April, IBM, Microsoft Corp. and VeriSign Inc. Thursday announced that they will submit the latest version of the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards for ongoing development. The WS-Security specification is a leading Web services […]

Questerra Wednesday announced the availability of its spatial data visualization Web service for the government sector powered by products and technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. and useful for homeland security and other applications. The Charlottesville, Va., IT services company, a subsidiary of MeadWestvaco Corp., of Stamford, Conn., made its announcement at the E-Gov conference in […]

The leader of a prominent Java user group Tuesday called on Sun Microsystems Inc. to deliver assurances that its stewardship of Java not turn into partisanship. Rick Ross, president of the 70,000-member Java Lobby said all the recent changes occurring at Sun give him pause over the prospect that the company could possibly begin to […]

Ilog Inc. is looking at its experience with business rules to make it a leader in the Web services space, said the companys head of research and development. Jean-Francios Abramatic, Ilogs senior vice president of research and development, said Ilog will leverage its expertise in business rules technology to get in on the hot Web […]