Cash in on components with WebGain Application Composer 2.0

Application Composer 2.0 allows developers to rapidly construct applications and Web services Web services may represent enterprise computing’s future, but nothing is new when it comes to developing those applications: Success or failure still hinges on having the right tools.…

Use Web services to integrate Web applications with EISs

Web services: A team player in the enterprise-information-system integration game Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless nights, and hair…

Java Product News (updated February 8, 2002)

Sun releases J2SE 1.4; iHub links .Net, Windows, J2EE, and XML; PolarLake launches Web services platform; and more Sun releases J2SE 1.4 February 8 — The final release of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4 is now available. Version…

All is not lost for privacy

There’s no need to make a bad problem worse Since I began writing about the flawed notion of imposing a national ID system in response to the terrorist threat, I’ve heard from a lot of people telling me that with…

How Edmunds.com got 55,000 pages into search engines

In my last two issues, I’ve written about steps that Google.com and other search engines are taking to downgrade the rankings of Web sites that use «doorway pages» and other tricks. Doorways are Web pages that have supposedly been optimized…

Sueltz’s day in the Sun

In response to criticism, Sun star argues the company isn’t ignoring XML but is restoring the natural balance with Java IN NOVEMBER I sent an open letter to Pat Sueltz, president of software products and platforms at Sun, about its…

Stepping up sales

Salesnet’s SFA service conveniently maps out a sound sales process THE CONCEPT OF Web-delivered applications continues to appeal to companies that find the low implementation and operating costs, care-free update cycles, and smooth integration with the emerging Web services model…

Taken out of context

Question today’s popular notion that your business should outsource everything but its core functions MANAGEMENTSPEAK: It’s a high-level model. TRANSLATION: It’s wrong. — This week’s anonymous contributor is right. ONE OF THE MOST popular games in the world of business…

Rocket science coming to an enterprise near you

The concept of treating the network as a single machine running a distributed OS has intrigued the processor-hungry IT community for years. The latest incarnation is grid computing, in which compute resources are aggregated across geographically dispersed locations to tackle…