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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 »

Zope launch next-generation application server

The open-source organisation has released the first version of Zope X3, which has been completely rewritten to improve the architecture. Read more »

Microsoft shows Singularity with OS from the lab

Microsoft used its annual TechFest gathering of research lab technicians in Redmond last week to launch a new prototype operating system called Singularity. Read more »

Amazon chief: Web Services ready for takeoff

Launched five years ago, Web Services business "is an investment," says CEO Jeff Bezos. Read more »

Gates: XML and SOAs are the future

Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman. 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 »

Software as a service hits sweet spot

So say the vendors... but are they right? Read more »

BEA looks to new products for licence growth

BEA Systems is looking to new products to stimulate licence revenue and allay concerns about the company, according to its CEO Alfred Chuang. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

IBM brings relational XML tools to mainframes

IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments. Read more »

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Commonly used architectural patterns in Java applications

This article uses two patterns, layering and partitioning, to illustrate the importance of the relationships between the packages that compose your applications. Read more »

Are you ready for 64-bit architecture development?

Many chipmakers have announced desktop-ready CPU chips based on 64-bit architecture. Will such desktops lead to a migration to 64-bit architecture development in the coming year? And, more importantly, will you be ready for it? Read more »

Use application architecture to reduce redundancy

A reader expresses his frustration after discovering that an application he is working on has already been developed in another sector of his company. Tom Mochal offers keys to avoiding redundancy. Read more »

Application Design: Writing design documents that cannot be stolen

Explaining the architectural design of your application solution to customers is a fine art. Write your design documents with an eye toward protecting your competitive advantage. Express your architectural solution without revealing the details. Read more »

Development architecture saves time

The establishment of a detailed development architecture will provide your organisation with decision making guidance. Such a framework can guide decisions concerning the application development life cycle, reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Read more »

Flexible software architectures on rise

A long-established concept called a "service-oriented architecture" will give businesses better return on their IT dollars and keep the software industry vibrant, analysts say. Read more »

Know your clustering architectures

In this article Builder.com explains the meaning of scalability and availability in EA and explore different architectures for achieving them. Read more »

Enhance reuse by embracing a service-oriented architecture

Thinking of your apps strictly in terms of components can limit your reuse options. Find out how to increase your options by defining applications as services. Read more »

Architectural standards in a .NET environment

One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »

How to design a service-oriented architecture using Web services

If you're a consultant preparing for the Web services revolution, this is the advice that will make you the architect and most trusted adviser on the project. Read more »

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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 »

AJAX applications and security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »

NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »

Confirmation: Vista is about nothing

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? Read more »

Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. 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 »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

What to Expect in Java SE 7

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At the Sun Tech Days Australia Conference last week, I attended Chuk-Munn Lee's presentation "Java SE 6 Top 10 Features and Java SE 7". Here are some features we can expect to see in Java SE 7. Read more »

You need to be smart

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- One of the most popular buzzwords in software development agile. Today everyone wants to be agile. That is good! However, being agile is not enough. Read more »

Buffer Overflows still an issue

[blogs:] -- Developers are saying they've heard enough about buffer overflows and they knwo how to prevent them. Ok, then why are we still seeing them? There is still unmanaged code out there, and we still need to pay attention to how we write it. Read more »

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