Java’s top guns
<em>JavaWorld</em> honors the leading Java technologies in the 2002 Editors’ Choice Awards A tradition since 1997, the JavaWorld Editors’ Choice Awards (ECA) honor companies, organizations, and individuals for developing groundbreaking, valuable tools that advance the Java platform. This year, vendors,…
Real-time Java takes the stage
Introducing the JavaNator March 26, 2002 — If you managed to sit through the entire opening keynote address at the JavaOne Conference and Expo on Monday morning, you would have caught the first glimpse of a new demo from Sun…
The JavaOne grapevine, Part 1
Daily updates from the 2002 JavaOne Conference floor March 26, 2002 — Here we are again, back at the JavaOne Conference in beautiful San Francisco — a little earlier than usual, but the weather has been perfect and promises to…
The challenges and opportunities of disruptive technologies
Web services bring a significant opportunity for innovation and leadership All technologies are disruptive. Good technologies are disruptive because they work, forcing the enterprise to re-engineer the business process or, in extreme cases, reinvent it. Immature or ill-conceived technologies are…
IBM, iPlanet, Oracle brew fresh Java
JavaOne show serves as launch platform for new Java, Web services offerings IBM, IPLANET, AND ORACLE will attempt to move their respective Web services strategies forward at JavaOne this week, unwrapping new products to offer developers a smoother way to…
Sun exec sees focus shifting to clients
What’s next for Java: Consistently running Java on PCs, cell phones, and devices March 25, 2002 — Providing a consistent way to run Java programs on PCs, cell phones, and other client computers is the next hurdle in evolving Java,…
BEA gets partners for Workshop tools
Software vendors pledge support for WebLogic Workshop March 25, 2002 — BEA Systems has announced support from about a dozen software vendors for WebLogic Workshop, its Java development framework released in beta last month. BEA announced at the JavaOne conference…
Platform or language
Debate rages about whether Java is actually a programming language or an application platform. Sun Microsystems maintains that it’s both and that the two parts, when taken together, result in a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Although…
Truly noteworthy
Version 6 enhancements give Notes and Domino shops reason to cheer THERE’S AN OLD joke that claims the way to recognize a pioneer is by the arrows sticking out of his back. That’s certainly been the fate of Lotus Development…
A service to lean on
Grand Central CTO offers mediation service to help companies manage multiple integrations GRAND CENTRAL IS trying to carve out a space as a neutral third-party service dedicated to handling transactions among multiple companies. As part of that strategy, Grand Central…
