Java Product News (updated August 9, 2002)
Manning publishes Ant development book; Advanced Systems enhances conversion tool; and more Manning publishes Ant development book August 9 — Java Development with Ant by Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran describes powerful and creative uses for Ant. The book shows…
So many J2EE books, so little time
Find the best J2EE book for your purposes When it comes to J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), you don’t know a hill of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Don’t worry, you’ll find plenty of reading material to give you a hand.…
Enterprise application integration using J2EE
Learn EAI and integrate your applications with Java During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well individually, they created information islands.…
Compuware unveils tool for Microsoft .Net platform and Windows
COMPUWARE ON WEDNESDAY introduced DevPartner Studio 7.0 Professional Edition, a suite of tools for building applications and Web services based on Microsoft Visual Studio .Net and Visual Studio 6.0. Version 7 features code review, automated error detection, performance analysis, distributed…
Borland announces Delphi tool upgrade
BORLAND ON TUESDAY announced Borland Delphi 7 Studio, featuring preview capabilities for the Microsoft .Net framework and support for Web services and model-driven development. Delphi developers can develop skills for .Net and prepare applications for the platform without abandoning existing…
Readers want more on small-business success and failure
Great interest in benefiting from search engines The results are in from my semi-annual poll on What Readers Want. And the answer is: E-Business Secrets readers want more on real stories of success and failure (both of which can be…
IBM bolsters WebSphere Commerce search
IBM ON MONDAY announced expanded search capabilities for its WebSphere Commerce platform with the integration of search and navigation technology from Littleton, Mass.-based EasyAsk. The advanced search tools are designed to turn basic commerce-related search queries into revenue-generating opportunities by…
W3C releases encryption recommendations
THE XML ENCRYPTION Working Group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released two revised candidate recommendations, one entitled XML Encryption Syntax and Processing, and the other entitled Decryption Transform, W3C said on Friday. According to the W3C, the…
Financial weight
Members of the CTO Network look outside their own company when setting staff compensation levels In setting compensation for direct and indirect reports, CTOs balance staff salary history and outside market research. Source: www.infoworld.com
WorldCom woes
In wake of the WorldCom fiasco and the investigations in the ailing telecom industry, CTOs are making contingency plans THESE DAYS, EITHER Dayne Sampson, vice president of IT at Emeryville, Calif.-based Internet search company Ask Jeeves, or someone on his…
