Friends and enemies
As with the school bully, it’s best to play nice with MS or else risk getting hurt THE high-techindustry is heading for another painful round of consolidation. While researching our Microsoft .Next report (go to www.infoworld.com ), I developed some…
The death of e-mail
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, but Microsoft won’t kill the messenger any time soon EVERY FEW WEEKS InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard broadcasts an e-mail suggesting one story or another on spam. Every few weeks I try…
The straight scoop
Getting clear information is a fine art that IT managers can master– if they don’t rely on technology alone MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Thank you for your insightful suggestion. TRANSLATION: There goes your next performance appraisal. — We thank this week’s anonymous source…
Open with caution
Readers report shrinkwrap agreements have migrated from software to books, complete with prohibitions on disclosure I SUPPOSE IT was inevitable. With sneakwrap terms showing up in everything from charity Web sites to pornographic spam, it was just a matter of…
You read my mind
NASA is working on innovative wireless UIs that draw on muscle movements and brain waves EVERY YEAR, IBM’S Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., hosts a day where scientists and technologists from various companies mix with the media and…
Altio builds rich apps that run on any browser
Founder and CTO Dave Levett talks about a new generation of XML-based collaborative apps CREATING A TRULY open graphical client that can interface with any system has been a long sought-after goal for the computer industry as whole. Although XML…
Empower RMI with TRMI
Transparent RMI simplifies distributed application development The Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) API provides us with a clean way to build distributed Java applications. The components that make up these applications communicate with each other by invoking methods on their…
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.…
