'Java-driven code quality' was the topic of discussion during a recent SYS-CON.TV Power Panel discussion held at the Reuters studio overlooking Times Square in New York. Moderated by SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan, the panel featured industry analyst Judith Hurwitz of Hurwit

Cassatt Corp., an innovator in providing enterprise software for agile IT infrastructure, today announced that CEO Bill Coleman will deliver the opening keynote for SYS-CON's 10th International SOA Web Services Edge Conference on Mon., June 5 at 8 a.m. EDT at the Roosevelt Hotel in New

IBM will be upgrading its IBM WebSphere Portal, making it easier to work with composite applications, making it faster and easier for businesses to realize the benefits of integrated applications and reusable services, and integrating it with technology it acquired from its Bowstreet a

Database locking strategies is one of the most complex areas of application development -- and one of the most critical for reliable application performance and behavior. The basic issues, common strategies, and general recommendations on when and how to use different locking strategie

More and more companies are starting to adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure standardized components or services that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities.

By accessing the IBM WebSphere Application Server JNDI tree, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (IBM's free, lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo technology) can interact with and reuse virtually any of the J2EE resources that are housed there.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is never established in a vacuum. In any real life situation, an existing IT environment must be taken into consideration, offering functionality -- and data -- that cannot simply be replaced by a set of new services. Hence, a key aspect of building

This year's JavaOne attendance must be the best ever. I have my own little indicator: SYS-CON Media put 6,000 copies of the JDJ - Java Developer's Journal's May's issue, by the end of the first day all magazines were gone. They are shipping another 6,000 copies today!

Forum Systems announced that it has joined the IBM SOA Partner Program. Forum's XWall Web Services Firewall and Sentry Web Services Security Gateway bring security enforcement points to IBM's identity management and middleware. This announcement builds on Forum's integration into IBM S

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a J2EE-based product which provides a platform for developers to write an integrated extensible solution that adds value in customer-centric online business. WebSphere Commerce allows developers to customize its functionality according to current business dema

This four-part article series examines Java class loading to help application developers understand and debug problems they may encounter. In Part 2, authors Lakshmi Shankar and Simon Burns from the IBM Hursley Labs tackle some exceptions that, while fairly simple, often puzzle novice

IBM's announcement last month of the Open AJAX initiative brought to the fore a few key points. The two most obvious are that IBM remains an 800-pound gorilla that the other primates will follow through the business jungle, and that AJAX has emerged as an ironically disruptive technolo

This article series demonstrates how to use IBM WebSphere Business Integration V6.0 products to model, assemble, deploy, and manage a business process in an end-to-end solution using WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server, and WebSphere Bu

Modern advanced application servers, such as IBM WebSphere Application Server, are complex and mature products. Their state-of-the-art condition reflects the effort that has been put into the development and refinement of their capabilities.

At this point, you may notice an error in the PBA application project. This is because the properties file we specified above has not yet been created. A properties file contains parameters that will be shared and used by user programs at run time. The Budget.prop properties file used

Welcome back to WebSphere Journal. Good to see you, good to know that you're still engaging in web services, one of the more dynamic areas within all of technology today. Although there are a number of new acronyms emerging right now, the now-old standby SOA continues to drive a large

Compuware Corporation introduced the new version of its QACenter Enterprise Edition functional testing solution, Compuware TestPartner 5.4. This new release offers a tight functional testing integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System and support for the Microsoft .NET Fr

Most non-trivial applications involve high degrees of concurrency and many layers of abstraction. Concurrency is associated with resource contention and an increase in deadlock conditions. The multiple layers of abstraction make it more difficult to isolate and fix the deadlock conditi

Acsera Corporation announced the appointment of Jason Donahue as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Jason has more than 15 years of experience in the management of technology startups as well as public companies. He has served as CEO of publicly-listed TeleComputing and Apptix,

IBM announced a major upgrade to IBM WebSphere Portal designed to help customers make better decisions and execute transactions with greater speed and accuracy. The new version simplifies working with composite applications, making it faster and easier for businesses to realize the ben

The new release takes advantage of AJAX to create a more responsive user environment. Additionally, the latest version provides a workflow builder that utilizes the process engine from WebSphere Process Server, open standards-based software powered by WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (

'Working with composite applications no longer has to be time consuming and difficult,' said Ken Bisconti, vice president, IBM Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Products. 'In WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 we are introducing a new application framework which empowers customers to easil

Based on best practices and third-party research, IBM has identified five entry points to enable customers to more easily approach and initiate an SOA project. These entry points include people-, process- and information-centric approaches as well as connectivity and the ability to reu

AccuRev announced integration of AccuRev, its software configuration management solution, with two popular issue tracking and workflow tools, IBM Rational ClearQuest and MKS Integrity Manager. Utilizing its AccuBridge SDK as the platform for both of these integrations, AccuRev provides

I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t

IBM has announced new resources to help application providers develop and deploy business solutions to be delivered as services. IBM will provide companies with access to technical architects, free online educational courses and new sales incentives to help them transform their applica

The class loading component is fundamental to the Java virtual machine. Though developers generally have a good grasp of the basics of class loading, when a problem occurs, they may have a hard time diagnosing and determining a solution. In this four-part article series, we discuss the

Take a peek under the hood of IBM Workplace Collaboration Services and learn about the layers that make up Workplace Collaboration Services, including IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal.

IBM WebSphere Process Server is a runtime platform for business integration solutions developed using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer.

I just got back from the Real World AJAX seminar in NYC on Monday. Pretty good event with lots of good stories. One issue that caught my attention was the issue of how the back-end returned the data to AJAX applications. Most of the speakers preferred data, except for David Hansson fr

For independent software vendors (ISVs) and their customers, there is more to a solution than just the application. A complete solution includes an application, but it's an application that is integrated with the middleware components that enable the application to work in the customer

Imagine building a house starting with only a pile of timber and a lump of iron, or making a bowl of spaghetti from a sack of wheat and a bag of tomatoes. The importance of having the right materials makes the idea of building products from scratch seem absurd. Similarly, any software

IBM Rational's six principles of systems engineering are a set of high-level systems development guidelines derived from the careful analysis of successful, complex systems development engagements over the past ten years.

The new year is proceeding with what appears to be a renaissance or perhaps mini-bubble in the global IT industry. Use of the technically imprecise but no doubt seductive term 'Web 2.0' is stimulating companies to think through what they need to deploy for and through their websites in

The new EJB 3.0 specification supports some notion of dependency injection via annotations. As an avid Spring user, I'm used to configuring fine-grained beans with Spring bean factories and XML. How does EJB 3.0 compare? More importantly, can we use EJB 3.0 POJOs and Spring POJOs side-

The novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge is set in the distant future. The character Pham Nuwen is responsible for maintaining software whose components are thousands of years old. Today, however, it's difficult to imagine maintaining an Enterprise Java application for more than

Typical enterprise IT environments have as much as 90% of their hardware and software resources sitting idle at any given time, in anticipation of usage spikes. The Cassatt software, called Collage, creates a dynamic, virtual pool of resources that business applications can draw from,

JadeLiquid Software announced the release of WebRenderer Server Edition, the leading Java browser component. WebRenderer Server Edition has successfully completed its beta phase. Development of the WebRenderer Server Edition was driven by overwhelming demand for a standards compliant J

IBM has announced software to help people reduce the clutter and confusion caused by nonstop requests to enter or change their user IDs and passwords. The software -- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on -- broadens IBM's identity and password management capabilities

I've never fully embraced the name of this column, 'Final Thoughts.' I get it, this is the last page of the magazine, so is the final word in the literal sense. But the column name sounds like a last will and testament, or less ominously, as if this is all the columnist will ever have