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British Telecom Global Services Ignites wide-area SOAs

British Telecom hopes a new SOA product will persuade big businesses to experiment with distributed applications. Read more »

BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions

Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »

Oracle updates application server, Java tool

Oracle said on Friday that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development. Read more »

Modular eBay hopes to attract third party apps

eBay is rebuilding its technical infrastructure in a project that could lead to the e-commerce giant hosting applications from outsiders. Read more »

Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application

Developers will be able to create collaborative applications based on Office products, which Bill Gates claims will make them easier and more familiar for end users. Read more »

Hack turns iPhone into spy-phone

US security consultant, Rick Farrow, has used H D Moore's security testing tool, Metasploit, to crack the iPhone, which allows a hacker to do anything the iPhone user can, but remotely. Read more »

JBoss reaches certification landmark

The new version of JBoss Application Server claims to be the first open-source application server to be J2EE certified. Read more »

Windows Live offers Microsoft a quicker turnaround

Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes. Read more »

Mozilla previews e-mail program

Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released an e-mail application in another salvo on Microsoft's home turf. Read more »

BEA woos nontechies with new software

Facing slowing sales to its traditional customers, BEA Systems is trying a new route: pitching its software to nontechnical businesspeople frustrated by the slow pace of IT change. Read more »

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Introduction to the Mach-II application framework

Explore the power and flexibility of Mach-II--the first object-oriented application development framework built from the ground up specifically for ColdFusion MX. Read more »

Classifying and representing data in SOAs

Data management is a core requirement of service-oriented applications and in this article we show you how to classify and represent data using a few simple techniques. Read more »

A new aspect to programming?

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is an approach that has emerged out of object-oriented programming. Is it really an evolutionary methodology that has attracted plenty of hype, and is it something we've tried before? Read more »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »

Create singleton objects in .NET to improve performance

Explore how to convert your objects into single instance objects (a singleton) within the .NET Framework to improve performance and reduce resource usage. Read more »

Partial function application in Python

Python is not an inherently functional language, but with the help of the functools library you can write some programs in a functional style. One of the key tools do to writing functional code is partial function application, which is available through the functools module. Read more »

Could application servers be overkill?

Cape Clear CEO Annrai O'Toole says XML-based services don't require full blown app servers. Oracle vice president John Magee calls O'Toole's claims "fallacious." You be the judge. Read more »

Designing for application quality

Quality is such a ubiquitous goal in software engineering. Scott Withrow takes identifies a number of primary quality attributes for consideration in your project. Read more »

Mach-II vs Fusebox 4.1 for ColdFusion MX

Examine and compare the features of ColdFusion MX frameworks Mach-II and Fusebox 4.1 to determine which one is best for your style of application development. Read more »

Web services trends

Web services promise easier application integration, but will the mix of standards slow down their adoption? See what one expert says is in store for next-generation Web services. Read more »

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iPhone SDK makes public debut

From games to instant-messaging and business-oriented applications, Apple demonstrated practical uses of its software development kit. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi shares the highlights from the event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California Read more »

Blog (6)

Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »

Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »

PowerBuilder hitches wagon to .NET

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- The recent release of Sybase's PowerBuilder rapid application development tool allows users of the toolkit to deploy applications on the .NET architecture. Will it be enough to regain their footing in the enterprise tool space, against the behemoths of Visual Studio and Eclipse? Read more »

Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web. But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »

Enterprise Architecture has failed in a big way

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Most EA initiatives failed. My guess is that more than 90% never really resulted in anything useful. Read more »

Creating Web apps at iPhone Developer Camp

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- "Apple is not ready to have a developer community yet ... you have to be on the Apple happy list to be a developer," Christopher Allen said. "There has always been this tension with Apple and the developers' community." Read more »

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