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New Approach to Cloud Security Needed

By Alf Pilgrim

rlebherz wrote: Alf, Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying. Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...

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SOA World Magazine

DreamFactory Suite from DreamFactory

By Ahmed Sako

The DreamFactory suite is a mature development and execution platform for crafting rich, event-driven interfaces. DreamFactory picks up the UI development 'gauntlet' with a thoroughly thought out metaphor, framework, and tools whose sophistication matches, and usually exceeds, that of ...

Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Linux

WatchIT Releases Linux Education Series

By Steve Suehring

WatchIT, a rich media company that produces education on demand, recently released a six-part series of interactive programs titled 'Linux Education Series,' targeted at executives and others who would like to learn about the Linux platform and the world of open source. The series cons...

Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

VERITAS I3 for J2EE

By Rob Halleron

Sometimes as J2EE application developers we feel like we are in a darkened room. We know that something is wrong with our application, but we have no idea where the problem is. Application performance management (APM) tools, such as VERITAS i3 for J2EE, has helped us 'turn on the light...

Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

SOA World Magazine

Oracle BPEL Process Manager

By Brian Barbash

Service-oriented architecture (SOA), while its underpinnings have been around for years, has recently become one of the most talked about topics in the IT industry. The interest in SOAs is largely due to the emergence of Web services and their ability to expose business applications th...

Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

XML Journal

Cape Clear Data Interchange 4.7

By Brian Barbash

No matter how advanced enterprise systems become, the sophistication of the tools available to build them, or the advances of architectural approaches and best practices from which to start, the life blood of any system is the raw data. Without the data, what's the point? Whether the s...

Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

JReport

By Dave Glende

The value of a single application platform that connects people, information, and systems, both within and across organizational boundaries, is self-evident. The critical component to developing such a powerful enterprise solution is selecting the right business-process automation tool...

Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

(Almost) a Dream J2ME Phone - the Nokia 6630

By Michael Juntao Yuan

On Symbian smartphones such as the Nokia 6600, reports Michael Yuan, the Java runtime does not integrate well with the underlying platform. However with the Nokia 6630, the first consumer phone from Nokia that supports JSR 75, things have finally changed, he says.

Jun. 24, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

ColdFusion Developer's Journal

CommonSpot 4.0 from PaperThin, Inc.

By Steve Drucker

CommonSpot Content Server, developed by PaperThin, Inc., has been simplifying Web site development and authoring since its introduction in 1998. On April 8, 2004, the newest generation, version 4.0, was released. Web Content Management products usually seek to empower nontechnical user...

Jun. 22, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Adobe Flex Journal

NeXTensio2

By Russell Stearman

As a developer who often finds myself with less time to develop projects than I would perhaps like, the lure of purchasing a plug-in that saves time on database creation is more than a little tempting. This is what the NeXTensio2 plug-in offers for PHP-driven systems that use Dreamweav...

Jun. 17, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

.NET Developer's Journal

Crystal Reports 10 Advanced Developer

By Doug Holland

Unlike other products that we've reviewed in .NET Developers Journal, Crystal Reports enjoys an almost unique relationship with Microsoft Visual Studio in that a copy of Crystal Reports has shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio since 1993.

Jun. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

SOA World Magazine

SOAPtest 2.5 from Parasoft

By Paul Kaiser

SOAPtest is a comprehensive testing tool geared to testing Web services. It provides unit, system, and load testing features and support for WSDL, WS-Security, and JMS, including asynchronous messaging. It also supports attachments, access to performance monitors, comparative reporting...

Jun. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

JFluid: A New Way to Profile Java Applications

By Gregg Sporar

Anyone who develops production applications eventually spends some time profiling. JFluid is an experimental new technology for profiling Java code. It was developed at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and can be a handy tool in your profiling toolbox.

Jun. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

WebSphere Journal

Meeting The Needs of Administrators and Developers

By Atul Andharia

WebSphere MQ, formerly known as MQSeries, is industry-leading middleware created by IBM Corporation. Due to its assured delivery of messages, data integrity and resource protection, time independence and message-driven processing, WebSphere MQ has become very popular as message-oriente...

May. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Wireless Developer's Journal

Welcome to WIPS

By Bob Hendry

Imagine having all of your data on you, whenever and wherever you go. Most of us use some sort of wireless technology to keep us looped into the wired world. The problem is that even with all the advances in wireless systems and devices, some fatal flaws remain.

May. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Wireless Developer's Journal

Is That a Desktop in Your Pocket?

By Ron Dennis

Two new products from DDH Software take us one step further from our desktops, but is remote access really that useful? DDH Software released two new programs recently, a Runtime for their venerable HandBase software and a truly new application, Mobile TS, which allows Palm users to co...

May. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Linux

Samba Update

By John Terpstra

It's fascinating that so much has happened since the last Samba Update. To those of us close to the action it seems that development just continues at a steady pace. This edition of the Samba Update update reports on the roadmap for Samba-3, the decisions made at the SambaXP Conference...

May. 18, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

ColdFusion Developer's Journal

Code Co-op Version Control Software from Reliable Software

By Selene Bainum

Question: Who needs version control? Answer: Every developer. Most people think of versioning control software as something that should be left to big companies and large teams. However, version control is a good idea for everyone.

May. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

JBuddy

By Ryan Cuprak

Just as the Web has revolutionized information distribution and retrieval, instant messaging is revolutionizing communication. Instant messaging is a powerful tool that few enterprises or application developers have fully harnessed. Despite its pervasive use by millions all over the wo...

May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

SOA World Magazine

Wisiba Web Service Management from Itellix

By Paul Maurer

There's a phenomenon I've witnessed again and again in my years building systems. I call it 'Guerilla IT.' Listen to my description and see if you've witnessed it inside your organization.

Apr. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Linux

EmergeCore's IT in a Box

By Mark R. Hinkle

EmergeCore's president and CEO, Dave Brown, learned that in the ISP business, reliability and value were keys to success for his customers. That's why he chose Linux as the operating system to power his IT in a Box IT-100. The IT-100 is a 'Swiss Army Knife' of Linux servers and service...

Apr. 19, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

UltraLightClient

By Peter Leitner

Remote Swing or server-side Swing - this is the most concise characterization of Canoo's UltraLightClient library (ULC). ULC offers server-side peer classes for Swing. For each Swing widget, there's a peer ULC class with essentially the same API.

Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

SOA World Magazine

Workstation Server Enterprise and Developer Editions from General Interface - Product review

By Ahmed Sako

As Web services become more prevalent in the application tier and Web application sophistication increases, alternative approaches to the traditional Web tier are being developed. The Workstation Server product suite by General Interface provides a refreshing standards-based alternativ...

Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

JAVA Developer's Journal

RetroVue 1.1

By Klaus Berg

It's unnecessary but true: a lot of Java programmers still debug by putting System.out.println() statements in their code to find out what the program is really doing and where the problems are. To overcome this antiquated approach I've tried several debuggers: Sun's JDB is free but cu...

Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT

Linux

Stalker CommuniGate Pro

By Mark R. Hinkle

CommuniGate Pro 4.1 (CGP) is a comprehensive e-mail platform that includes a variety of messaging services. First and foremost, CGP provides standards-based e-mail services, including SMTP, POP, and IMAP. E-mail can be accessed and sent via most any e-mail client or via a Web interfac...

Mar. 16, 2004 12:00 AM EST

.NET Developer's Journal

Araxis Merge 6.5

By Doug Holland

Once in a while every software developer will find himself or herself using a file-differencing program such as Windiff.exe, which comes with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment and its constituent languages, such as Microsoft Visual C#.

Mar. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EST

XML Journal

VorteXML Designer 3.0

By Ketan Petal

Datawatch recently released version 3.0 of VorteXML Designer. In addition to schema support, this new version includes several updates and features that further simplify the process of generating XML by enriching any text document.

Mar. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EST

ColdFusion Developer's Journal

CFX-Advanced VPS Hosting from CFXHosting

By Selene Bainum

There comes a time in the life of almost every developer when he or she needs to host a Web site. Unfortunately, not all of us can have a T1 running to our basement with a dual-processor Pentium 4 running our site. No, we developers - and businesses - must look elsewhere for help. Unle...

Mar. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST

SOA World Magazine

SOAPScope 3.0 from Mindreef

By Brian Barbash

Since WSJ last looked at Mindreef's SOAPScope back in July '03 (Vol. 3, issue 7), much has been added in functionality and features to benefit the package. New items include integration with Visual Studio .NET, integration with the WS-I testing tools, a new Graph View for looking at hi...

Mar. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST

JAVA Developer's Journal

IntelliJ IDEA 4.0

By Vijay Phagura

The integrated development environment (IDE) is a big part of the toolkit of a modern software developer. Java projects have complex development processes, especially if the project is going to be developed using open source and J2EE technologies. A smart and efficient IDE plays an imp...

Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST

SOA World Magazine

AmberPoint Express from AmberPoint, Inc.

By Brian Barbash

Not surprisingly, Web services management tools are quickly appearing to assist developers and system administrators alike with the maintenance of service-based applications. One such product is AmberPoint Express, a free Web services management and monitoring tool whose mission is to ...

Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST

WebSphere Journal

Jtest 5.0 from Parasoft

By Bhavesh Patel

Most developers would agree that software development is not as daunting a task as is efficient software development. We have seen teams that can design and develop software - and with automated development tools, IDEs as they are called, the software development process has become a l...

Feb. 27, 2004 12:00 AM EST

Weblogic Journal

Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner

By Jason Snyder

Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner is a leader in the performance-testing market. Its ability to create large volumes of data is legendary, and its ability to monitor the systems being tested provides great value. The J2EE Transaction Breakdown Diagnostics Module, LoadRunner, brings deta...

Feb. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EST

JAVA Developer's Journal

DevPartner 3.0.1 Java Edition

By Vijay Phagura

DevPartner Java Edition is a profiling tool from Compuware that helps developers envision the reality of their designs and implementations. It clearly shows the performance, memory, and code coverage of various modules in your project. If you always wondered how your particular impleme...

Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST

JAVA Developer's Journal

Droplets by Droplets Inc.

By Somnath Banerjee

Tired of using that Web access e-mail client? Going crazy filling out those expense reports using a clunky Web-based system? Missing the superior and responsive desktop application? You're not alone!

Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST

WebSphere Journal

Consolidating Legacy Data

By Brady Flowers

Every company that's been around longer than a few months has probably created or purchased many different systems dedicated to specific areas of the business. For example, let's say customer files were set up years ago using off-the-shelf software. The software had hooks for customiza...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST

WebSphere Journal

Developing Web Applications Using VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio Part 1

By Anita Huang; Tim deBoer

Your team has been assigned to build an end-to-end Web application. As a Java programmer, you need to focus on the code, to ensure that it can successfully call the required data. Your graphic and Web designers need to focus on the actual presentation to the user, to determine how best...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST

WebSphere Journal

WebSphere Advanced Edition 3.5

By Jim Milbery

Application servers are the one category of software product that seems to be on everyone's mind these days. No longer is there any doubt in my mind that n-tier applications are the future. Certain applications will benefit from a heavy-client architecture, such as desktop publishing, ...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST

WebSphere Journal

Developing Web Applications Using VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio Part 2

By Anita Huang; Tim deBoer

In the September Java Developer's Journal (Vol. 5, issue 9) we discussed the tools available in VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio for building and debugging Web applications. This month we demonstrate how to use these tools to build a simple Web site that allows users to access t...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM EST

Weblogic Journal

WebLogic Server 6.0

By Jim Milbery

Bill Coleman, Edward Scott, and Alfred Chuang must be looking at their September 1998 acquisition of WebLogic as the best money they ever spent. WebLogic's Tengah product was a little-known, Java-based application server when BEA made the decision to buy their way into the growing mark...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:48 AM EST

Weblogic Journal

Clustering the BEA WebLogic Application

By Dean Jacobs

Mission-critical Web-based applications customer self-service, distribution channel and supply chain management, online trading and banking must be deployed on a cluster of servers in order to provide scalability and high availability. Scalability means that servers can be dynamica...

Jan. 30, 2004 07:47 AM EST

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