Within five years, it's likely that all software development will be based on one of two virtual-machine technologies: Sun's J2EE, which is based on its JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and Microsoft's ...

At the beginning of this year, IBM veteran Tom Rosamilia was named vice president, worldwide application and integration middleware development, IBM Software Group . He now heads IBM software ...

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The latest J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification, version 1.4, makes Web services a core part of the Java enterprise platform. A set of JSRs (Java Specification Requests) in the ...

Java tools vendors are pushing products that aim to reduce or mask the complexity of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition development environment. But it’s not clear to what degree J2EE’s complexity has been ...

IN TODAY’S competitive marketplace, organizations are facing the difficult challenge of providing a broad range of electronic-business services while keeping costs down in the face of ever-compressed ...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data from the energy industry on nearly 80 survey instruments, managed by several program offices. In 1996, realizing all these surveys shared many ...

It is more than eight years since IBM's purchase of Lotus, and the path of Lotus tool solutions has taken a new turn. Moves discussed at last year's Lotusphere -- that promised an accelerated ...

Launched in October, Wakesoft, based here, is unveiling its formal systems integrator program at JavaOne 2002 this week, with eight initial partners, mainly small to midsize integrators, already ...

JBoss expanded its professional open-source strategy on Monday with new versions of key products delivering support for the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification. Atlanta-based JBoss Inc. announced ...