Centerbeam taps new CEO
SANTA CLARA, CALIF.-BASED IT outsourcing company CenterBeam on Thursday announced the appointment of A. Kevin Francis as president and CEO. Francis is the former president, chief executive officer, and director of Accelio, a Canadian Web-enabled business process solutions company acquired…
MetroWerks hails dev tools for Java, C++
METROWERKS THIS WEEK is releasing a new version of its CodeWarrior Development Tools for Windows. The suite of tools provides an integrated development environment for C, C++, and Java applications, according to the company. Version 8 of CodeWarrior Development Tools…
Is WSDL the indispensable API?
WSDL could become your universal design view Web services combine the best aspects of component-based development with the Web’s ubiquity and easy access. Think of Web services as black-box functionality you can reuse without worrying about how the service is…
Eliminate JDBC overhead
A reusable, flexible SQL architecture tackles JDBC programming inefficiencies While developing a small suite of J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications for my company recently, I grew frustrated with the bloated process of executing and handling SQL calls. I…
A J2EE presentation pattern: Applets with servlets and XML
Enhance your Web interfaces with powerful XML-configured applet components In the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) architecture’s presentation tier, servlets and JSPs (JavaServer Pages) generally render data derived from the business logic tier as HTML for browser presentation. Implementing…
US Department of Energy signs on to J2EE
Create a secure single sign-on Web service for multiple n-tier Web applications As part of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) ongoing commitment to provide better products and services with increasing efficiency, the EIA’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) promised to…
Java Product News (updated May 24, 2002)
Sun integrates J2EE app server with Solaris; Coldbeans Software enlarges custom tag library; and more Sun integrates J2EE app server with Solaris May 24 — With the release of Solaris 9, Sun Microsystems adds the Sun ONE (Open Network Environment)…
ESI: Inching toward edge computing
Architects planning the future of edge computing should take a lesson from a recent industry initiative: Don’t make developers write special code to make their applications run at the edge. Known as ESI (Edge Side Includes), the initiative is an…
Apps on the edge
Moving applications from the datacenter to the edge has its challenges — but a layer of business logic is already making its way to the network perimeter WILL MISSION-CRITICAL enterprise business logic someday reside on distributed application infrastructures rather than…
Mobile applications make their move on the wireless edge
When Boeing’s Connexion in-flight Internet service begins its test rollouts this fall, it will give new meaning to the phrase “application delivery on the edge.” The project, designed to provide Internet connectivity and applications to passengers and crew at 30,000…
