By Jim Milbery Application servers are the one category of software product that seems to be on everyone's mind these days. No longer is there any doubt in my mind that n-tier applications are the future. Certain applications will benefit from a heavy-client architecture, such as desktop publishing, ... Jan. 30, 2004 07:52 AM Reads: 12,655 |
By Jim Milbery Bill Coleman, Edward Scott, and Alfred Chuang must be looking at their September 1998 acquisition of WebLogic as the best money they ever spent. WebLogic's Tengah product was a little-known, Java-based application server when BEA made the decision to buy their way into the growing mark... Jan. 30, 2004 07:48 AM Reads: 11,855 |
By Jim Milbery Way back in the November 2001 issue of JDJ (Vol. 6, issue 11), I took a look at Aligo's M-1 Mobile Application Server. Back then, the technology market was still in the heady 'bubble' days and wireless was the next big frontier. Fast-forward to mid-2003 and here we are wallowing in... Sep. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 13,572 |
By Jim Milbery Welcome to the first installment of JDJ Labs. Our goal is to introduce you to commercial (and open-source) products and technologies that will help you, the Java developer, work more efficiently. We expect our testing to provide you with a starting point for your own testing and analys... Mar. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 13,760 Replies: 5 |
By Jim Milbery The adoption rate for XML continues to be astounding. XML is finding its way into every server, into SDK, and developer platform out there, and so there is great need for developers to design XML Schemas, write XSLT stylesheets, debug Web services, and create XML content. One particula... Jan. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 11,749 Replies: 1 |
By Jim Milbery The advantages of XML as a data storage and transfer mechanism are well known and almost universally understood. However, much of the data that will be manipulated with XML is currently stored inside back-end systems. XML tends to be more verbose than some other traditional data storag... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 11,100 Replies: 3 |
By Jim Milbery It's often said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words' - and I've generally found this to be true. In fact, it's often easier for users to digest numeric data when it's displayed in picture form, such as with a chart or graph. Business analysts have long understood this concept and... Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,734 |
By Jim Milbery As an industry we used to consider mobile/wireless computing to be the next frontier. Now it has become part and parcel of critical, enterprise applications ranging from Customer Resource Management to Enterprise Resource Planning. Many of the early mobile computing efforts that I've r... Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,230 |
By Jim Milbery Despite the 'slowdown' in technology, the developers and project managers who I speak with continue to be under enormous pressure to deliver new applications and technology at a frenetic pace. It can be incredibly difficult to juggle all the various development tasks when team memb... Oct. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,116 |
By Jim Milbery The advantage of Web services lies in the ability of the 'client' application to access services and functions without having an understanding of how these services are implemented within the back-end system. Almost any business service can be implemented as a Web service. For example,... Sep. 20, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 9,391 |
By Jim Milbery In my opinion there have always been two types of Java application developers. The first type prefers to use a text editor, compiler, and debugger to get the job done. Once upon a time, this was the only way to write code, from COBOL and Fortran all the way through C. The age of the fo... Sep. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,168 |
By Jim Milbery New-car buyers often fear that they're getting a 'Friday afternoon' vehicle - a car built by the last shift at the end of a tough week. Manufacturers have spent an untold number of man-years trying to prevent such defects. Sep. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,947 |
By Jim Milbery Wireless devices are proliferating throughout the marketplace faster than Tribbles. Corporate customers that I speak with identify wireless computing as a critical technology solution for their business needs. On the one hand, wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs are much si... Aug. 22, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,950 |
By Jim Milbery The unofficial consensus is that the United States is behind both Europe and Japan in the maturity and robustness of wireless Web applications. Sure, we're bombarded with commercials that encourage us to embrace the wireless Web, but so far the realities have fallen far short of the pr... Aug. 22, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 10,647 |
By Jim Milbery I'm not sure that XML-J knew exactly what they were doing when they volunteered me for an online learning course from carriglearning. Clearly, they hadn't thought to check in with my high school Spanish teacher, who was only too happy to be done with me all those years ago. Aug. 17, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 10,363 |
By Jim Milbery Browser-based computing has made technology and information accessible to a whole new class of user. While client/server computing often required formal product training and painful desktop software installations, the simplified operating environments of Internet Explorer and Netscape ... Jul. 16, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,766 |
By Jim Milbery Jim Milbery: Tell me a little about Xtime's core product and why you made the jump to IVR. John Lee: Well, the core value proposition is to eliminate the pain and frustration that exist when service consumers are interacting with service providers. The scope of what we're talking about... Jun. 8, 2001 09:38 AM Reads: 12,294 |
By Jim Milbery One of the most critical initiatives that faces modern business executives is the need to improve efficiency. Savvy companies continue to drive costs out of their business model in order to improve the bottom line. Is this a sound business practice? Absolutely. Jun. 7, 2001 04:16 PM Reads: 10,651 |
By Jim Milbery Bill Coleman, Edward Scott, and Alfred Chuang must be looking at their September 1998 acquisition of WebLogic as the best money they ever spent. WebLogic's Tengah product was a little-known, Java-based application server when BEA made the decision to buy their way into the growing mark... Jun. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 11,793 |
By Jim Milbery In a recent editorial meeting with the JDJ staff I broached the subject of open source software with editor-in-chief, Alan Williamson. I freely admit that I was baiting him - but Alan was favorable towards it. It's a touchy subject for any technical person, sort of a motherhood and app... Jun. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,379 |
By Jim Milbery iPlanet recently announced some updates to their family of Web and application server products that help consolidate the overall product line. The new product positioning won't surprise iPlanet enthusiasts as it positions iPlanet as a superior solution for a broader range of the applic... Jun. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,872 |
By Jim Milbery Last month in JDJ (Vol. 6, issue 4) I introduced the topic of object/relational mapping. Databases such as Oracle8i or DB2 store data in tables and columns. Thus, customer data is stored in a 'customer' table and information relevant to the customer such as ID, name, and address are st... May. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,283 |
By Jim Milbery Application servers are the one category of software product that seems to be on everyone's mind these days. No longer is there any doubt in my mind that n-tier applications are the future. Certain applications will benefit from a heavy-client architecture, such as desktop publishing, ... Apr. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,152 |
By Jim Milbery One of the more complicated issues that J2EE application developers face is the process of mapping relational data to EJBs. The J2EE specification provides EJBs as the mechanism to persist objects into a database. They certainly solve lots of problems for developers, especially in the ... Apr. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 11,890 |
By Jim Milbery The wireless void is quickly being filled by new products and technologies from a host of new vendors. Many of these offerings are targeted toward developers under the 'if you build it they will come' mentality. One of the hot vendors in this space is Air2Web, established in 1999 with ... Mar. 7, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 9,981 |
By Jim Milbery XML continues to grow more pervasive as both a content and data management solution. It's simply astounding how quickly vendors and corporations are adopting XML as part and parcel of their technology stack. While many technology standards tend to fall into either the developer or ... Feb. 4, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 10,451 |
By Jim Milbery I spend most of my time working with application development tools or application servers, which means that most of the products I review fall into one of these categories. In rare instances I get the chance to take a look at other productivity tools, and sometimes I even get to have f... Dec. 21, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,313 |
By Jim Milbery Sun's iPlanet division has become the umbrella organization for all the application development software that Sun has collected over the past several years. Sun's initial foray into this business was their acquisition of application-server vendor NetDynamics - but the core technology f... Nov. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 12,923 |
By Jim Milbery Over the past year all the major database vendors and many of the classic client/server tools vendors have turned their attention to the application server market. The venerable database and tools vendor, Unify, is no exception. Unify has released a new version of its eWave Studio and ... Oct. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 12,041 |
By Jim Milbery FileMaker Inc. is a venerable provider of database solutions for the workgroup environment. Once known as Claris, they've successfully shipped over 5 million units of their flagship FileMaker product around the world. On the eve of their annual user conference (in Palm Desert, Californ... Sep. 14, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,441 |
By Jim Milbery Moore's Law essentially states that the processor speed for chips doubles every 18 months, and it's proved to be a fundamental tenet of the high-tech industry. Milbery's Law, on the other hand, has been less rigorously proved. It states that developers have to double their output with ... Sep. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 8,932 |
By Jim Milbery I've spent the majority of my career working for software vendors in one capacity or another; this has resulted in a natural aversion to trade shows. Most technical consultants who work for vendors will tell you that trade shows are one of the most difficult aspects of the job. Sales r... Aug. 18, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,333 |
By Jim Milbery I'll be the first to admit I was a little reluctant when JDJ approached me about reviewing the newest release of Sun's Java 2 Standard Edition platform. It's a little like asking a Jim Morrison fanatic to review the Doors Greatest Hits CD. Since I spend most of my days working and thin... Aug. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,353 |
By Jim Milbery In last month's issue of JDJ (Vol. 5 issue 6) I talked about the concept of using frameworks to automate the development of J2EE applications. Armed with this concept I took a look at Codagen Technologies' Gen-it for Java 1.1. Jul. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 11,559 |
By Jim Milbery Many Internet sites and applications began life as simple static Web pages. Once developers gained some initial experience working with the Web, these same applications went from being static pages to dynamic applications. In response, a host of dynamic application servers emerged in t... Jul. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,855 |
By Jim Milbery The fifth anniversary of the inaugural JavaOne conference is upon us, and there can be little doubt that Java has had a profound impact on the way that applications are developed and deployed. Jun. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 12,185 |
By Jim Milbery Desktop applications, handheld devices, telephones - Internet applications can be delivered from a variety of sources and appliances. They can originate in one country and be delivered to another in the blink of an eye. As a result, no matter whether you're constructing an informationa... Apr. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,536 |
By Jim Milbery E-mail has become such an absolute necessity for conducting business that it's almost impossible for the modern road warrior to work without it. In fact, the problem with e-mail is that you need access to your inbox throughout the day - not just when you have a convenient network conne... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 11,215 Replies: 2 |
By Jim Milbery Businesspeople and technologists generally consider their handheld devices to be primarily communications devices. They are used as schedule keepers or electronic diaries, and many users have multiple devices in hand such as a mobile phone and a PDA. The advent of Internet-enabled wire... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 14,155 |
By Jim Milbery PointBase, formerly known as DataBahn and DataBean, is legendary Oracle founder Bruce Scott's latest venture. PointBase, an embedded database that's written entirely in Java, is available for a wide variety of platforms. The main advantages of embedded databases are their ultra-small s... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 10,118 |
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