Edify, Envision in CRM partnership
ENVISION TELEPHONY, A developer of contact center systems, and CRM vendor Edify will collaborate on joint marketing and sales opportunities involving Envision’s Click2Coach product and the Edify Electronic Workforce platform, the companies announced on Friday. Click2Coach provides quality monitoring, training,…
When it comes to good OO design, keep it simple
Feature-rich OO design tools fail where simple solutions succeed A former student of mine once blurted out the preposterous statement, “I can’t possibly do object-oriented (OO) design; I don’t have the money!” Inquiring further, it turned out that, in his…
Master the Jxta shell, Part 1
Gain hands-on Jxta experience with the interactive Jxta shell With many technology pundits hailing peer-to-peer computing as a key technology for tomorrow’s Internet, many Java developers have started showing interest in Sun Microsystems’ Jxta, a network computing platform that holds…
WebLogic Portal: Built on a firm foundation
BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 builds on app server strengths to ease B2C administration and B2B integration Facilitating B2B relationships across a web of supply chains and partners isn’t easy, and many organizations have turned to e-business portals in search of…
Pick up performance with generational garbage collection
Use the appropriate Java HotSpot VM 1.3.1 parameters to improve throughput Garbage collection (GC) reclaims the heap space previously allocated to objects no longer needed. The process of locating and removing those dead objects can stall your Java application while…
Combine the Session Façade pattern with XML
Apply the Session Façade pattern to J2EE-based applications The Session Façade design pattern is popular for developing enterprise applications based on J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). It not only enforces reusable application architecture design but also provides many advantages,…
A second chance for outsourcing
The emergence of Web services looks to be a life preserver for the foundering hosted application services business model THE COMING TIDE of Web services carries with it a second chance for ASPs and systems integrators to trim their sails,…
Secure Web services start with XML
A host of new standards will bolster authentication, authorization, encryption, and key management. Kerberos Kerberos is an authentication technology that uses cryptographic tokens to identify users and can be used to authenticate Web service users. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)…
Second standards phase emerges
After XML and SOAP, the next Web services standards wave will focus on security, reliability WITH THE CAVALCADE of companies behind Web services having more or less come to an agreement, the industry’s first foray into Web services standards is…
Tying the application knot
Web services support will be mandatory for enterprise applications vendors WEB SERVICES PROMISE to deliver an open, Web-based architecture to connect business processes, which could potentially turn upside down the way we think of, create, and use software. It’s reasonable…
