ADVERTISER
LINKS
 
activePDF
 
Alexsys
 
Altova
 
Amyuni Technologies
 
Automated QA
 
Axosoft
 
Business Objects
 
Codejock Software
 
ComponentOne
 
Coverity
 
Data Dynamics
 
Developer Express
 
dtSearch
 
Dundas
 
Dynamsoft
 
Hewlett-Packard
 
IBM
 
Imagix
 
Infragistics
 
InstallAware Software
 
InterSystems
 
iWay
 
Kovair
 
LEAD Technologies
 
McObject
 
Microsoft
 
MKS
 
No Magic
 
nsoftware
 
Parasoft
 
Pegasus Imaging Corp
 
Perforce
 
Prezza Technologies
 
Programmer's Paradise
 
Programming Research
 
Rally Software Dev
 
Red Gate Software
 
ScaleOut
 
Seapine
 
Serena
 
Software FX
 
Sparx Systems
 
Swell Software
 
Syncfusion
 
TechExcel
 
Telerik
 
UrbanCode
 
WANdisco
 
Xceed Software
 

 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 

 

The Item You Are Were Looking For Cannot Be Found!
We recommend utilizing our search funtionality to help you locate the item you were looking for.
 
Top Stories DISABLE AUTO REFRESH
AS OF 7/20/2008 5:34PM EST
Yahoo's management has enlisted a new ally in its proxy battle against billionaire investor Carl Icahn, in the form of its third-largest shareholder, capital management firm Legg Mason.
7/18/2008 3:46PM EST
 
Chipmaker AMD, which challenged industry giant Intel but couldn't recover from that company's counter-punch, announced yesterday that CEO Hector Ruiz is out, having been replaced as CEO by company president and COO Dirk Meyer.
7/18/2008 8:30AM EST
Spread for SharePoint presents SharePoint List View in a spreadsheet that provides customizable views and may be integrated with Web service data. It comes in both Standard and Professional editions.
7/17/2008 5:00PM EST
 
Microsoft's Essentials series of Windows Server products will become available in November, bringing with it a price increase for Small Business Server, as well as a new mid-market product.
7/17/2008 3:00PM EST
The integration of MySQL into Sun Microsystems is largely completed. Although the release of MySQL 5.1 has been delayed due to recently found bugs, MySQL officials welcome the added engineering support from Sun to make 5.1 a quality database product.
7/17/2008 1:29PM EST
 
Application Security Solution is an add-on for Parasoft's life-cycle quality tools. It detects security defects, such as cross-site scripting flows and SQL injection, and maps data flow logic.
7/16/2008 6:00PM EST
Protocol Buffers is a binary interface description language that Google uses for data interchange as a more efficient transport than XML. The company has released the protocol under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
7/16/2008 4:00PM EST
MORE NEWS  
 
 
 
Road To Java EE6
THE ROAD TO JAVA EE6

Java Business Integration 2.0 Takes Shape
When the original Java Business Integration 1.0 specification was released, some in the development world mistook it for an enterprise services bus....

Web Beans Specification Percolating
New JSR will bring EJB to the Web while bypassing all the middlemen...

JSR 317 Persistently Improving
JPA 2.0 will offer better mapping and modeling of object relations....

JSF 2.0 Faces Up to Its Configuration Troubles
Sometimes, the cure for one’s woes is a hard look in the mirror. JavaServer Faces is facing up to its own configuration problems with JSR 314, the specification for JSF 2.0...

 
RESOURCES
OPINIONS & COLUMNS
This 300-page guide is written to assist you in developing new applications that run in both Oracle and Postgres Plus environments...
Two new technology based approaches have emerged that allow ISVs to deter piracy and gather intelligence on their specific products’...
 
I'm not sure who coined the phrase "second coming" to refer to the release of the iPhone 3G. But sadly for Apple, while the new smartphone handset may have delighted the million-odd customers who were able to receive one, last Friday's iPhone 3G launch left a left of potential customers bitter and angry.

SOA standards are everywhere, but before you embrace one, take a closer look at how many companies are following it and what exactly makes up this standard. You could be buying into a flawed, worthless standard.

The GPL v3 turned one year old last month, and already shows some signs of promise, though it still has a long way to go before it can reach v2's caliber. Also, Symbian just might turn out to be the next Eclipse.

Relational databases are still widely used today, but it still poses problems for those in database administration. What difficulties are they running into and what can they use to make things easier?

 
MORE RESOURCES   MORE OPINIONS  /  MORE COLUMNS 
 
EMBEDDED NEWS WEBINARS

With a release to original equipment manufacturers due before the end of the year, Microsoft is previewing the successor to Windows XP Embedded, which includes features such as the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

A new service from DeviceAnywhere allows users to manipulate a virtual Palm phone as if they were actually holding it, allowing them to test a device without exposing design features.

 

Wouldn't it be useful for your business partners or clients to reuse that "pay with credit card" Web service you...

MORE EMBEDDED NEWS      MORE WEBINARS     
 
 
TEST & QA REPORT
ECLIPSESOURCE
 
Since its acquisition of Mercury Interactive in 2006, Hewlett-Packard continues to lead the pack in terms of tools for software testers, according to a report from Forrester Research released last week. But is QuickTest Pro the best functional testing tool available?  
I'll admit there's a certain irrelevancy about reporting "the first Russian company to join Eclipse." But hey, it's been somewhat of a slow news cycle this time around; I suppose everyone's been busy implementing and integrating since last month's Ganymede release.  
 
A desk sign of a respected co-worker years ago read, "Organize, prioritize, succeed." That simple three-step plan has stayed with me ever since--its simplicity is its strength.  
Summer has arrived in the U.S., and with it the Eclipse developer's summer reading list. Thanks to IBM for some great ideas.  
 
Capability Maturity Model Integration is a method by which organizations can measure the effectiveness of their business processes and work toward improvement.  
As we anticipate summer and the warm weather, beaches and holidays, another event most Eclipse users look forward to is the latest official release of Eclipse. The release this year is named Ganymede.  
 
Last week I told you about ten cost-saving tips from the U.K. and presented the first five. Here are the remaining five. They're from Martin Adcock, managing director of London-based software quality management solutions consultancy Experimentus.  
The Eclipse Foundation and its development community have once again successfully released dozens of interoperable projects and 18 million lines of code.  
 
The sagging economy, fuelled by rising fuel prices, has hit businesses hard, and everyone's looking for ways to offset their new top-line cost-- energy.  
This week we'll take a look at some opinions about what's new in Ganymede-version projects, compliments of Dzone.  
 
MORE TEST & QA  
 
  MORE ECLIPSESOURCE
 
     
WEBINAR ARCHIVES

Risk management processes and great quality assurance demands have elevated the need for a realistic security and robustness assessment of...
 
BZ RESEARCH STUDIES
Get this study and others covering: Java, Eclipse, . NET, Defect Tracking & Build Management, Database & Data Management.
 
 
 
Executives of Intel and Sun Microsystems report progress in their 18-month-long partnership, in which Sun servers now use Intel processors and Sun's Solaris operating system is optimized for Intel processors, including the soon-to-be-released Nehalem processor.
7/16/2008 12:45PM EST
PreEmptive Solutions has introduced a portfolio management tool for .NET applications aptly named Application Shelf Life. It sets end-of-life milestones in absolute or relative time, and it can perform some security and maintenance tasks.
7/14/2008 2:00PM EST
 
UPDATED STORY: The Borland Management Solutions is a collection of programs designed to improve a company's existing application life-cycle management infrastructure. The company says that it provides the best end-to-end ALM in the market.
7/14/2008 8:30AM EST
DXperience v2008 vol. 2 introduces new Windows Forms controls and includes across-the-board changes to existing components, including the eXpressApp business application Framework. DevExpress also released a beta of ASPxHTML Editor v2008 vol. 2 suite for ASP.NET.
7/11/2008 5:00PM EST
 
The open-source Web service framework provider WSO2 implemented OpenID and SAML 2.0 in its Identity Solution 1.5. The framework complements its existing information card support and has components that can plug into Apache HHTPD and Java Web servers.
7/11/2008 3:00PM EST
The Imaging Source has added DOCX to the list of supported formats in its TX Text Control .NET 14 word processing control. DOCX is Microsoft's implementation of Office Open XML.
7/10/2008 2:58PM EST
 
The descriptions of sessions at Microsoft's upcoming Professional Developers Conference indicate that Microsoft is adding native features that have roots in .NET's functionality to Windows 7.
7/10/2008 8:30AM EST
Two months after Agitar Software ceased operations, McCabe Software swooped in and purchased its assets. McCabe says that it will continue customer and product support for Agitar's unit test tools.
7/9/2008 3:20PM EST
 
Microsoft is hedging its bets on billionaire investor Carl Icahn's campaign to replace the Yahoo's board of directors with a slate that is more open to dealing with Microsoft.
7/9/2008 4:00PM EST
UModel Version 2008 Release 2 allows the drawing of business processes as Business Process Modeling Notation workflows, and it includes extended language support for Java and .NET.
7/9/2008 2:00PM EST

 
 
 
RESOURCES
SPECIAL REPORT
This paper is a guide for senior business and software development managers to assess their software protection needs given the...
The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven...
 

UML has undergone much criticism throughout its existence, but recently the tide has turned in its favor. Now UML is modeling human functions and tasks, making it easier to work with.  
 
Toolmakers are increasingly looking to reach out to others when dealing with complex SCM offerings instead of trying to develop one lone standard. Although this is a challenging task, SCM providers have come up with some steps to ease the process.  
 
MORE RESOURCES   MORE SPECIAL REPORTS  
 
 
 
 
Krugle introduced yesterday its Enterprise 2.3 code management appliance, which focuses on simplifying maintenance tasks. Version 2.3 does so, the company said, by identifying software to be fixed that is repeated across multiple platforms.
7/9/2008 10:43AM EST
VMware president and CEO Diane Greene, who led the EMC subsidiary as it became nearly synonymous with system virtualization, has been replaced by EMC Cloud division boss Paul Maritz. VMware chairman Joe Tucci noted Greene's contribution to the creation and development of VMware.
7/8/2008 4:47PM EST