OASIS has formed a new technical committee to advance the Service Data Objects specification, which is designed to simplify the way in which service-oriented architecture applications handle data. Using SDO, application programmers can uniformly access and manipulate data from heteroge...

BEA's Deputy CTO Theo Beack, who joined the San Jose, CA-based company in May to do 'all the cool stuff,' according to an exclusive interview with SYS-CON at the time, shared with delegates at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco today his current thinking about Web 2.0, S...

Collaborative Software, the company start-up by ex-Open Source Development Labs CEO Stuart Cohen, has licensed the Shared Assessment Programs created by BITS, the consortium of US financial houses intending to use it to create an open source program that makes vendor data more readily ...

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...

Hans Reiser, the Linux file system creator on trial in California for the alleged murder of his missing wife, is proving to be a handful for his own lawyer William DuBois. Having reportedly memorized the 9,000 pages of discovery, Reiser has been second-guessing everything the lawyer sa...

Complex Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based SOA environments pose a whole new level of management challenges. This session will explore the nature of those challenges by illustrating the need for a Complex Even Processor (CEP) to proactively manage your ESB.

In this joint session, Synovus and Active Endpoints will explain how reusing proven code to build new applications, regardless of that code's origin, allowed the community bank to provide customers with Web self-service options and other technology benefits usually considered beyond th...

Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can and should be applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recouped and in some cases serv...

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...

My own personal install of Leopard seems to be having periodic trouble completing a shutdown on the 17' MBP. Annoying? Yes. Worthy of posting something inflammatory such as 'wrong with Leopard's spots'? Doubtful. So, in looking at eWeek's Microsoft Watch's latest article, I leave you w...

One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message via Facebook asking what I thought about the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply interested in RESTful pr...

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...

Leopard introduces a bunch of amazingly powerful new controls, but one of my favorite new controls is the NSCollectionView. This control works a lot like the FlowLayoutPanel if you're familiar with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It essentially is a layout container responsible ...

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...

It seems that ABC's 20/20 is going to do a piece on Linux file system programmer Hans Reiser and the murder case against him on Friday, November 2 and that that's one of the reasons the opening statements in his trial have been pushed back from Monday October 29 to Monday November 5. C...

Liquid XML Studio is a free graphical XSD Editor & XML Editor that can also be used to edit WSDL and other XML based standards. It has a simple intuitive interface that makes developing for the complex W3C XML Schema (XSD) standard quick and easy. A validator is provided that strictly ...

DigitalPersona, the biometrics authentication folk, has moved its One Touch SDK to Linux so developers can create fingerprint-enabled Linux applications. It figures it would be good for embedded Linux platforms and standalone systems in retail, finance, healthcare and time and attendan...

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...

While trying out the Yahoo Mail Beta (in combination with the new Yahoo Mash Beta), I imported my address book from GMail into Yahoo Mail today - and was HORRIFIED when Yahoo proclaimed that it was now going to spam all my contacts and tell them about my 'new' Yahoo e-mail address. Wha...

Microsoft and Novell have opened that interoperability lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts promised in their controversial November accord. The location is right under the nose of the disapproving Free Software Foundation. The idea is to build and support technologies that let Windows and ...

I've been a big proponent of smartphone technology for a long time, and have been chasing the 'perfect smartphone' for a while. Specifically, I've been hooked on using Windows Smartphone devices, because of the seamless integration with Outlook and the resulting automatic synchronizati...

Last week Microsoft failed to win ISO approval for the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard in the 2nd round of the ISO standardization process. While the Wall Street Journal published a critical article about this, this is by no means the end of the road, nor is it even a major setback - ...

Sony officially announced a new cross-breed between robot and MP3 player (so far in Japan only). The Rolly is a hand-sized device that not only plays your tracks but also dances to the music. In other words, it's a dancing iPod killer-wannabe...

Flex has gotten popular lately because of its rich GUI capabilities. It also comes in handy with HTTPService and Web Service components connecting to back-end servers to fetch and update data. But using this mechanism to talk to the back-end server requires formulating a unique service...

'As Web 2.0 technologies for the enterprise emerge, we see the increasing need for the entire application delivery infrastructure to be more XML-fluent,' said Klaus Oestermann, vice president and general manager for application networking at Citrix Systems, Inc, as Citrix announced thi...

Paul Lipton, a Senior Architect in the CA Intellectual Property and Standards Group, likes to remind audiences wherever he speaks that popular assumptions can often be dangerous: the many unique and highly-regarded architectural characteristics of SOA, for example (such as loose-coupli...

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://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

I wonder what W3C's response will be to AJAX? In my experience there is a whole lot more request/response pattern usage in AJAX apps that are now in production than SOAP. A W3C standard interface definition language for AJAX apps is very much needed!

Architects, developers and IT operations managers working with Web services in production need visibility into the operation and service quality of XML-based services. Managed Methods has developed a Web services monitoring capability that can plug into the network infrastructure witho...

Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote 'yes' on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, t...

Until Friday, August 31, 2007, you can buy a single-user license of Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, and Stylus Studio will e-mail you a complimentary second license for your friends or co-workers.

This AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West session is based on Erick Audet's real-life experience using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with a persistence layer handled by Sleepycat from Oracle. He will demonstrate how fast the response time can be when no middle tier persistence layer su...

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors included: Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponso...

Adobe's LifeCycle Data Services ES offers developers powerful capabilities. Some of this software's capabilities, specifically server push, can be developed with relative ease using a utility class that has been around in the Flash APIs for a great while, and without having to pay lic...

With an XML-capable service, developers don't have to make alterations to enterprise applications, nor do they need to create a completely separate application to map from one system to the other. The faxes are transmitted to and received from the Internet fax service as XML documents,...

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...

.NET lets us easily serialize an object into XML and deserialize XML into its corresponding object. This functionality has been available since .NET 1.0. The introduction of new data type called XML in SQL Server 2005 gives us even more advantages that come in handy with Stored Procedu...

Instantiations announced the release of GWT Designer 1.5. The definitive development tool for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), GWT Designer is a comprehensive product for creating AJAX Web applications using the Java programming language. AJAX is shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and ...