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December 15, 2004
JBoss Plans Middleware
Stack in ’05
Open-source software vendor looks to drive innovation, mass adoption
J2EE application server maker JBoss Inc. this week is announcing a middleware system that the company says shows its continued work to innovate beyond its popular Java application server. The pieces are expected to come together next year. click for full story
Cryptoflex Smartcard a First For .NET World
Axalto targets Visual Studio developers
Smartcards, once enjoyed mainly by Java developers, have been opened up to .NET.
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Cassatt Looks to Make an Art
of SOA
Executive team includes leaders from Java companies
A group of software industry all-stars has teamed up for what it hopes will lead to championship infrastructure products for service-oriented industries.
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Sun Readies Next Core Java, Source
Sun Microsystems Inc. is offering a preview of the latest core Java implementation, and for the first time, it will release the source code as well as the binaries. click for full story
Fortify Strengthens Source Code Analysis Tool
Says version 3.0 finds more security flaws, does better job of recommending fixes
Fortify Software Inc. beefed up its source code analysis tool last month, which it asserts now enables developers to write “stronger” applications, more likely to withstand attack. click for full story
NeuLion Roars Onto SOA Scene
Former CA team creates platform for composite applications
There’s a NeuLion on the Savanna. And it appears that there’s plenty of food to go around. The company, founded by former Computer Associates International Inc. chief technology officer Nancy Li, is ready to claw out a piece of the expanding market for tools and platforms for creating and delivering composite, Web-based business applications.
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Sybase Shows More Signs of Life Cycle
PowerDesigner modeling tool manages requirements, displays impact of change
A survey of developers earlier this year showed that changes in requirements were responsible for 68 percent of project failure or cost overruns due to scope creep. click for full story
New From Versant: O/R Mapping Tool for .NET
Object-relational mapping tools are commonplace in the C++ and Java worlds. And as .NET applications move toward true object orientation, such tools are making their way into the Microsoft camp, too.
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IBM Updates Portal Offering
IBM Corp. last month released a revision of its WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms, adding features that the company says help orchestrate workflow, build new portals and manage Web content more easily. click for full story
Infragistics, Mercury Ally To Launch TestAdvantage
New tool to test presentation layer of .NET apps
Infragistics Inc. and Mercury Interactive Corp. have teamed up to develop a tool that aims to take the tedium out of testing the presentation layer of .NET applications. click for full story
InTellect Figures Out Software Woes
To help companies better understand how their software is running, Ottawa-based Klocwork Inc. on Dec. 15 is releasing InTellect, a software monitoring tool that it says provides key performance indicators from a software perspective. click for full story
Agitar Runs Inside Eclipse
Agitar Software Inc. has shaken up its unit-testing tool suite so that testers can iteratively switch between testing and developing. click for full story
ILOG Rewrites Rules for .NET
Offering works with Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Visual Studio
It’s a double bind for business rules vendors. Their software must meet the needs of two very different parties: developers, who build the application, and business users, who update the rules that tell the application what to do. click for full story
Serena Expands Software’s Dimensions
An enhanced issue replicator and tighter integration with Visual Studio .NET and Eclipse top the new features in Serena Software Inc.’s ChangeMan Dimensions 9.1, announced Dec. 6.
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Disputed Reports Say Microsoft Tops Embedded Market
A pair of research reports recently publicized by Microsoft Corp. show the company leading embedded markets once dominated by PalmSource Inc. and Wind River Systems Inc., and both of those companies are crying foul. click for full story
IBM’s ChipOS Breaks Away From Smartcards
When is a smartcard not a smartcard? When it’s a dongle, of course. With the addition in November of support for USB in its Java-based smartcard operating system, IBM Corp. gives developers the ability to build such applications as hardware-based security keys and other devices apart from the credit-card-sized form factor. click for full story
Real-Time Classics Prove They're Timeless
With Java, Linux and Windows pushing into embedded systems, the venerable RTOS vendors show they’ve still got what it takes
Going strictly by trade publications and press releases, one would think that the entire embedded systems market has been taken over by Linux, Windows, Java and other nontraditional embedded operating systems. click for full story
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