Trading on the edge
Enron’s story serves as a warning — good technology can’t fix bad business IN THEIR DRIVE TO TAKE Houston-based Enron from a sleepy, regional gas pipeline company to a billion-dollar energy provider, Enron executives knew they needed the best in…
Mail policies made simple, seamless
Omniva effectively enforces retention policies without disrupting existing infrastructure ANYONE IN BUSINESS will confirm that it’s one thing to create a policy and entirely another thing to enforce it. This is especially true when it comes to e-mail. Most enterprises…
Mapping the integration universe
Use a message broker and Web services to rethink your approach to application and systems integration As we pass through new periods of information technology, we carry forward application artifacts from previous periods with us. Depending on the age of…
BindView simplifies security
CEO Eric Pulaski argues the need to reduce the complexities and cost of managing security WITH THE ADVENT of Web services, vendors that specialize in security are being asked to rise to new heights in terms of capabilities and performance.…
Product Snapshot: Tifosi 2002
Tifosi 2002 leverages a component model to integrate enterprise applications August 16, 2002 — In early August, Fiorano Software released Tifosi 2002, a peer-to-peer services integration platform that builds, deploys, modifies, and debugs business processes. The platform includes Tifosi Peer…
Yes, you can secure your Web services documents, Part 1
XML Encryption keeps your XML documents safe and secure Web services! Chances are you’ve already developed some Web services yourself, or at the very least have heard something about them. While people have put forth numerous Web services definitions, the…
Jini’s relevance emerges, Part 1
Sun’s Rob Gingell discusses Jini’s role in the future of enterprise computing Rob Gingell (pronounced “jingle”) is Sun Microsystems’ chief engineer, a position that gives him oversight of all of Sun’s developments and directions. Born in the Washington, D.C. area,…
Java’s secret weapon
Revisiting the Jini vision A recent New York Times article (“Unfazed by Defectors, Sun’s Chief Charts Next Era,” John Markoff (May 3, 2002)) asked Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy about the company’s plans to increase its software offerings’…
Java Product News (updated August 16, 2002)
TogetherSoft acquires WebGain Studio; Borland adds unit-testing tool to IDE; Metrowerks opens new development center; and more TogetherSoft acquires WebGain Studio August 16 — TogetherSoft will assume full support of all WebGain Studio products, which include the VisualCafé Java IDE,…
Java Tip 130: Do you know your data size?
Don’t pay the price for hidden class fields Recently, I helped design a Java server application that resembled an in-memory database. That is, we biased the design toward caching tons of data in memory to provide super-fast query performance. Once…
