Microsoft taps enterprise apps
General Manager Charles Fitzgerald talks about a ‘centrifugal’ apps model and the company’s upcoming CRM play AS GENERAL MANAGER of Microsoft’s .Net Strategy Group, Charles Fitzgerald has a front seat perspective on how the company’s tools, server, and client initiatives…
Java Product News (updated September 13, 2002)
Teamstudio for Java audits Java apps; JProfiler points out performance bottlenecks; Coldbeans adds more tags to library; and more Teamstudio for Java audits Java apps September 13 — Teamstudio has introduced an audit tool for testing, debugging, and documenting Java…
BEA releases ‘world’s fastest’ JVM
JRockit 7.0 optimized for Intel architecture September 9, 2002 — BEA Systems has released JRockit 7.0 for Intel hardware, which one company official termed the “world’s fastest” JVM. Version 7.0 focuses on manageability, performance, and support for Intel’s 32- and…
A look at the Composite design pattern
Treat primitive and composite objects the same way The other day I was listening to National Public Radio’s Car Talk, a popular weekly broadcast during which callers ask questions about their vehicles. Before every program break, the show’s hosts ask…
Product Snapshot: DT/Studio
Embarcadero enhances ETL tool with real-time capabilities September 13, 2002 — Earlier this year, Embarcadero Technologies entered the ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) tools market with its launch of DT The developer of such cross-platform database tools as DBArtisan (for…
All that JAAS
Scalable Java security with JAAS Have you ever needed to create a login authentication mechanism for an application? Odds are, you have, and probably more than once, with each new implementation being close, but not identical, to the previous one.…
Back in the XML soup
XPath and XSLT power document-oriented Web services At the XML Web Services One conference in Boston last month, I spent most of my allotted time in an all-day W3C/OASIS seminar on Web services security. But I couldn’t help ducking out…
What, if anything, do we owe our employers?
‘Doing your best’ may not be enough Most people, and employers in particular, like to think that employees owe something to the people who sign the checks, but just what is it that we owe our employers ethically? Many people,…
E-biz tech review: An adapter for every outlet worldwide
No need to carry bulky array for power conversion Don’t be tempted to buy one of those bulky bags of adapters that supposedly fit your laptop’s power plug into the outlets of every country in the world. A much better…
Qualys is proactive about network security
VP Gerhard Eschelbeck discusses the company’s ASP model for protecting against intruders ASSESSING A COMPANY’S networks for vulnerabilities is a key part of the overall security market. Qualys’ QualysGuardWeb service provides an ongoing picture of network exposures to help administrators…
