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Bypass software development bottlenecks with preflight builds

Daniel J. Mondello — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:08:20 EST

Ever wonder how much faster you could deliver iterations if you were able to test code additions to exisiting applications on the fly? That is exactly what Electric Cloud is aiming for with their ElectricCommander ALM offering.

Oracle to buy AmberPoint

Mike Pontacoloni — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:55:45 EST

Oracle announced Monday an agreement to buy AmberPoint, a vendor of SOA management and governance tools. An Oracle representative said the company's Fusion Middleware stack would benefit from AmberPoint's ability to diagnose issues in application performance and business transactions.

Oracle-Sun: The Java community speaks

Mike Pontacoloni — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:12:31 EST

A few of Sun Microsystems' projects will be halted in the wake of its takeover by Oracle, but the important Java tools will stick around. Java community members say tools like NetBeans and GlassFish will have room to run.

Where does BPEL fit in?

Mike Pontacoloni — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:44 EST

Business Process Execution Language is part of a long history of defining g Web services-based business processes. Discover the features of BPEL and how it fits with related standards such as REST, WSDL, and BPMN.

Tools emerging for integration and orchestration of BPM with SOA

Mike Pontacoloni — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:44 EST

Many enterprises used BPM to justfiy investment in SOA. Accordingly, the large SOA players have been building out BPM solutions as part of their middleware stacks.

David Chappell: Build scalable applications with data grid technology

Mike Pontacoloni — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:44 EST

Oracle's David Chappell says that data grid technology is useful for building highly scalable applications. Get Chappell's take on SOA and cloud computing in this Q&A.

Pegasytems says Agile BPM this way comes

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:43:55 EST

The notion of incremental advance is taking hold in SOA as well as BPM. A sign? Pegasystems has added Scrum to its BPM Project Manager.

Developing applications that work with message-oriented middleware requires mind shift

Mike Pontacoloni — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:42:15 EST

Message-oriented middleware helps developers create applications with asynchronous functionality increasingly vital to modern distributed applications. But programmers must be ready to cede control over orchestration to make the jump to messaging architecture.

Oracle's Ellison sees success in Java-based middleware

Mike Pontacoloni — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:41:51 EST

As Oracle took over the Sun-originated Java language, CEO Larry Ellison said the company's success in making money on Java will hinge on its overall success in middleware. The early take is that Oracle will now feature both enterprise-enabled and lightweight middleware product lines.

IBM REST engine taps into Microsoft-backed OData protocol

Mike Pontacoloni — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:14:20 EST

An update to IBM's WebSphere eXtreme Scale server links .NET to WebSphere. Using the Open Data protocol, IBM's WebSphere eXtreme Scale REST data service offers ready connections to AJAX and PHP clients as well. With these data services, any HTTP client can get meta data from the eXtreme Scale data grid via a REST (REpresentational State Transfer) service, according to IBM.