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'Healthways offers a menu
of services, and we
needed a modular,
'plug-and-play'
architecture in which we
could easily turn
capabilities on and off
to meet each health plan
sponsors' criteria,' said
David Jarmoluk, director
of enterprise
architecture for
Healthways, a leading
provider o
Reminding people of how
its backing was the
making of Linux, IBM, to
no one's surprise, has
thrown its support behind
cloud computing, that
delicious nexus of every
chi-chi buzzword
technology currently in
vogue: Web 2.0, rich
Internet applications,
software-as-a-service,
SOA, grid com
Cognos has been begging
to be harvested for ever
so long and Monday
morning IBM Software
plucked it from the tree
and put it in its basket.
IBM is paying $58
dollars-a-share cash, a
total of $5 billion
American greenbacks for
the Canadian BI company,
expecting it to
contribute to its I
Here are my thoughts on
this. I was expecting
Alfred - who is known to
be an arrogant and
incompetent CEO - to run
away from Larry as fast
as he could. But this
movie usually ends as
follows. First, history
repeats itself. By that I
mean that Alfred should
remember Larry's
PeopleSoft h
I asked what she did for
a living. She said she
was a software engineer
working with SOA. I did
not think about my plane
ride much until I arrived
in San Francisco to
attend the SOA World
Conference & Expo this
past Monday and Tuesday.
The first day of the
conference as I walked
into t
Nortel and IBM plan to
offer a software-based
foundation that brings
together business
applications and
processes with the latest
unified communications
and collaboration tools
such as click-to-connect,
presence, location and
Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP). This new
foundation is
The three-year-old Dojo
Foundation has put out
version 1.0 of Dojo, an
open source JavaScript
toolkit for AJAX
development meant for
building rich Web 2.0
applications without
proprietary plug-ins or
single-vendor solutions.
The widgetry makes use of
Google Gears, Google's
solution for
Egenera, which claims
it's the archetype
Virtualization 2.0
company to VMware's
Virtualization 1.0 - and
is going put its PAN
Manager software on other
people's hardware to
prove it - has convinced
Fujitsu Siemens, which
OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame
servers, to put PAN on
its own industry
In an unusual move, BEA
says it's giving activist
stockholder Carl Icahn
confidential information
that it can't give other
people 'cause it's, well,
confidential and is
supposed to prove to him
that the company is worth
more than the $17 a share
($6.7 billion) that
Oracle offered for i
Watching VMware stock and
its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with
envyWatching VMware stock
and its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with envy - so
green in fact that it's
gonna try taking VMware
on b
Red Hat, which has made
its fortune displacing
Solaris, is now going to
collaborate with Sun to
advance open source Java,
which Red Hat is
particularly partial to
given its JBoss
investment. This is the
third time this year that
Sun has laid down with
one of its enemies. It
also cut d
Apache Tuscany provides
an open source services
infrastructure for
building SOA solutions.
It's based on emerging
Service Component
Architecture (SCA)
specifications. With the
Tuscany implementation of
SCA, application
developers can easily
create or reuse services
in different languag
By Tony Carrato; Chris Harding; Chuck Shriver; Ruo Bo Huang
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) has
been discussed as an
important architectural
style for the last few
years. Organizations have
started to develop
service-oriented
solutions and many are
now leveraging services
in their production
environments. SOA
introduces new technical
comple
Since its emergence, Web
Service technology has
gone a long way towards
perfecting itself and
finding its right
application in the real
world. With the maturity
of the specifications,
Web Service technology,
with its power of
interoperability, is now
the major enabling
technology of SO
Let's consider the pages
of a traditional
corporate Website. They
include an 'about me'
page, a contact page, a
careers section, and
probably a page with news
and press releases. The
words look good on paper,
and, more than likely, a
committee gave the final
sign-off on the site's
cont
What I am going to do in
this regular column is
feed my habit by
highlighting some of the
books I am reading, and
(mostly) enjoying. (I
will only rarely write
negative reviews; it's a
rare book that I 'do not
put down gently but throw
across the room with
great force' after all.)
Geeks
I will be attending the
Ajax World Conference
next week in Santa Clara.
I will also be at the
opening reception on
Monday and the conference
party on Tuesday. Over
the weekend Jesse Liberty
blogged about this as
well 'If you are going to
be at AJAXWorld, look for
me on Twitter, and let
SourceLabs announced the
availability of SASH 2
complete with a major new
milestone - integrated
support for Apache
Tomcat. Comprised of the
most widely deployed open
source Java technologies
used by the Global 2000,
new SASH 2 is a robust
platform that simplifies
the development of en
SYS-CON Events announced
today that 'AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
West' main sponsorship
opportunities are now
sold-out! Limited number
of expo and event
sponsorship opportunities
that are still available
are expected to be
completely sold before
the end of the month. The
new spons
I will be teaching a one
day Bootcamp course on
Ajax at the AJAXWorld
Conference in Santa
Clara, California on
September 23, 2007.
Details are at http://aja
xbootcamp.sys-con.com I
will be expanding the
Ajax construction tools
section from the Ajax
Bootcamp I taught in New
York at the S
The inaugural iTVCon -
Internet Video Conference
& Expo (November 12-13,
2007) is building out its
program and the
Conference Advisory Board
is busy sorting through
the hundreds of proposals
for technical and
strategic sessions that
have been coming in.
Final deadline for
proposals is
Web 2.0 is one of the
hottest things on the
consumer Web, but where
does it fit in the
enterprise? What's the
business value and how
can developers use new
Web 2.0 mashups to bring
value to the
line-of-business users?
You'll hear all of this
and more from Rod Smith,
IBM Fellow and Vice
CodeGear's Chief
Evangelist, David
Intersimone, ably
assisted by Mike Rozlog,
showed delegates to
SYS-CON Events' inaugural
Real-World Java Seminar
why developers using
Eclipse continue to turn
to Borland for tools to
make their lives easier.
Making the announcement
at this morning's
'Real-World Java Seminar'
presented by SYS-CON
Events in New York City,
CodeGear from Borland
Corporation unveiled a
set of specialized
plug-ins for the Eclipse
open-source development
platform: JGear.
Java developers are
coming from far and wide
today to attend the first
ever 'Real-World Java'
Seminar, a one-day event
being presented by
SYS-CON Events in New
York City.
I'll be speaking at
SYS-CON's Real-World Java
One-Day Seminar in New
York City next Monday,
August 13. Despite the
fact that it's August, it
looks like they have
lined up an interesting
panel of speakers for the
day, including sessions
by Yakov Fain on using
Flex with Java (that'll
be
David Boloker is a
Distinguished Engineer
and Chief Technical
Officer for Emerging
Internet Technologies in
IBM Software Group.
Previously, he held the
position of Chief
Technical Officer for
Java Technologies in
Software Group. He is
recognized in and outside
IBM as a technical leader
The Eclipse JavaScript
Development Tools (JSDT)
is an open source
component of the Eclipse
WST (WebTools) Project.
JSDT provides some of the
most powerful JavaScript
development capabilities
available anywhere. It
can be used by both
developers using AJAX,
and by AJAX library
developer
Terracotta, a provider of
infrastructure software
for enterprise Java high
availability and
scalability, has
announced the Terracotta
Partner Network, a group
of existing and new
highly skilled
integration partners that
will work closely with
Terracotta to deliver the
benefits of Terra
AJAXWorld 2007 West will
take place on September
23-26, 2007, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center,
in Santa Clara,
California, and will
offer a new dedicated
'iPhone Track.' Another
dedicated track will
offer a comparative
education opportunity for
conference delegates on
emerging RIA
A seasoned Java
professional has to know
more than just the syntax
of the Java language.
Java EE offers a set of
standardized technologies
for enterprise
development. A number of
open-source frameworks
such as Spring or
Hibernate are widely used
in a variety of Java
applications. Famil
Writing custom
serialization code may
seem easy to start with,
but maintaining it can
quickly turn into a
nightmare, especially as
your application grows
and you have more and
more state to manage.
Keeping track of what has
to be serialized and
moved around the Web
cluster can be a rea
IBM says it is
foreswearing enforcement
of a bunch of patents it
holds that might be
necessary to implement
upwards of 150 standards
designed to make software
interoperate. It says it
is granting 'universal
and perpetual access' to
the IP to both commercial
and open source
developers,
Companies who do not take
steps to assure the
quality of the code they
are developing can face
nasty surprises late in
the process. Code quality
involves more than
testing, but requires an
overall methodology from
start to finish. This
session addresses how
software development
teams c
The single-day,
multi-track Real-World
Java Seminar will be held
at the Roosevelt Hotel in
New York on August 13.
Produced by SYS-CON
Events, this is the
largest Java developer
event on the East Coast,
and features a business
track as well as two
technical tracks. All
attendees will ha
Can afford to take just
one day off, get out of
your cubicle and see what
other people up to these
days? Is J2EE still in
favor? What's this ESB is
about? Have you even
heard of using Flex as a
Web front end of your
Java applications? Do not
miss an event in NYC this
Monday, that is cr
Terracotta, a provider of
infrastructure software
for enterprise Java high
availability and
scalability, has
announced support for
IBM's WebSphere
Application Server (WAS)
Community Edition. With
this addition, Terracotta
2.4 can now be used to
deliver scalability and
availability for
Terracotta, a provider of
infrastructure software
for enterprise Java high
availability and
scalability, has
announced support for
IBM's WebSphere and
WebSphere CE application
servers, and Hibernate, a
high-performance
object/relational mapper.
With these new
capabilities, Terracotta
c
SYS-CON Events announced
today that IBM joined SOA
World Conference & Expo
2007 East as 'platinum
sponsor.' IBM
(www.IBM.com/SOA) is the
world's leading
technology provider of
SOA and Web Services
solutions. IBM's 'SOA'
website answers the
question 'Why Service
Oriented Architecture an
If you've read my column
before, you've mostly
seen reviews of software
development tools for
WebSphere. This column is
a bit of a departure from
the usual. All of u
Quality-conscious
developers are familiar
with the idea of coding
checklists. The code you
write must measure up to
all the criteria on the
checklist, from 'no gramm
WebSphere MQ, formerly
known as MQSeries, is
industry-leading
middleware created by IBM
Corporation. Due to its
assured delivery of
messages, data integrity
and reso
Most developers would
agree that software
development is not as
daunting a task as is
efficient software
development. We have seen
teams that can design and
develop
In the September Java
Developer's Journal (Vol.
5, issue 9) we discussed
the tools available in
VisualAge for Java and
WebSphere Studio for
building and debugging We
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'Healthways offers a menu
of services, and we
needed a modular,
'plug-and-play'
architecture in which we
could easily turn
capabilities on and off
to meet each health plan
sponsors' criteria,' said
David Jarmoluk, director
of enterprise
architecture for
Healthways, a leading
provider o
Here are my thoughts on
this. I was expecting
Alfred - who is known to
be an arrogant and
incompetent CEO - to run
away from Larry as fast
as he could. But this
movie usually ends as
follows. First, history
repeats itself. By that I
mean that Alfred should
remember Larry's
PeopleSoft h
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) has
been discussed as an
important architectural
style for the last few
years. Organizations have
started to develop
service-oriented
solutions and many are
now leveraging services
in their production
environments. SOA
introduces new technical
comple 
Since its emergence, Web
Service technology has
gone a long way towards
perfecting itself and
finding its right
application in the real
world. With the maturity
of the specifications,
Web Service technology,
with its power of
interoperability, is now
the major enabling
technology of SO
Let's consider the pages
of a traditional
corporate Website. They
include an 'about me'
page, a contact page, a
careers section, and
probably a page with news
and press releases. The
words look good on paper,
and, more than likely, a
committee gave the final
sign-off on the site's
cont 
What I am going to do in
this regular column is
feed my habit by
highlighting some of the
books I am reading, and
(mostly) enjoying. (I
will only rarely write
negative reviews; it's a
rare book that I 'do not
put down gently but throw
across the room with
great force' after all.)
Geeks 
I will be attending the
Ajax World Conference
next week in Santa Clara.
I will also be at the
opening reception on
Monday and the conference
party on Tuesday. Over
the weekend Jesse Liberty
blogged about this as
well 'If you are going to
be at AJAXWorld, look for
me on Twitter, and let
SourceLabs announced the
availability of SASH 2
complete with a major new
milestone - integrated
support for Apache
Tomcat. Comprised of the
most widely deployed open
source Java technologies
used by the Global 2000,
new SASH 2 is a robust
platform that simplifies
the development of en
The inaugural iTVCon -
Internet Video Conference
& Expo (November 12-13,
2007) is building out its
program and the
Conference Advisory Board
is busy sorting through
the hundreds of proposals
for technical and
strategic sessions that
have been coming in.
Final deadline for
proposals is 
Web 2.0 is one of the
hottest things on the
consumer Web, but where
does it fit in the
enterprise? What's the
business value and how
can developers use new
Web 2.0 mashups to bring
value to the
line-of-business users?
You'll hear all of this
and more from Rod Smith,
IBM Fellow and Vice
Java developers are
coming from far and wide
today to attend the first
ever 'Real-World Java'
Seminar, a one-day event
being presented by
SYS-CON Events in New
York City.
A seasoned Java
professional has to know
more than just the syntax
of the Java language.
Java EE offers a set of
standardized technologies
for enterprise
development. A number of
open-source frameworks
such as Spring or
Hibernate are widely used
in a variety of Java
applications. Famil
The single-day,
multi-track Real-World
Java Seminar will be held
at the Roosevelt Hotel in
New York on August 13.
Produced by SYS-CON
Events, this is the
largest Java developer
event on the East Coast,
and features a business
track as well as two
technical tracks. All
attendees will ha
Can afford to take just
one day off, get out of
your cubicle and see what
other people up to these
days? Is J2EE still in
favor? What's this ESB is
about? Have you even
heard of using Flex as a
Web front end of your
Java applications? Do not
miss an event in NYC this
Monday, that is cr
