In an out-of-court settlement reached this morning, pending the signing of a final agreement, Sun has agreed to pay Kodak $92 million cash, bringing to an end the patent infringement proceedings instigated by Kodak last week, in which Java was declared by a federal jury to breach certa

During his somewhat brief employment at BEA Systems, ex-BEA exec Cornelius Willis tried to bring down the shutters on WLDJ (formerly BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal). The curious episode can be viewed as an object lesson, contends WLDJ's publisher, on the importance of treating busine

These days Calvin Austin is one of the busiest people in the Java world: J2SE 5.0, that was also known as the 'Tiger' project, is being officially released today! JDJ's Yakov Fain was able to catch Austin, spec lead for Java 5.0, right before the plane from San Francisco to New York wh

Red Hat's vice president for open source affairs, Michael Tiemann, has said Sun needs to prove its devotion to the open source community, by releasing Java. According to Tiemann, the move is needed to stop Microsoft's .NET from advancing. Open sourced Java, he believes, will accelerate

H&W's Web application testing tool, DiagnoSys, has passed BEA's webLogic Validation Program. This shows to customers that BEA itself has, after reviewing and testing the application, decided that the application can be integrated with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

NEON Systems and Cape Clear Software announced they are working together to provide enterprise customers with integration solutions. The integration expertise offered by each company, will enable IT environments to maximize mainframe operability between applications and data throughout

Neon Systems, a leader in enterprise-class mainframe integration, today announced the availability of Shadow z/Services, a SOAP-based mainframe integration solution that allows organizations to rapidly transform CICS, IMS, and Advantage CA-IDMS applications into Web services.

Versata has announced the general availability of the its Versata Logic Suite on the BEA WebLogic 8.1 application server. The combination of both process and transaction logic allows developers to better utilize service-oriented architectures by linking workflow with services and data,

Belgian travel agency Thomas Cook has fully integrated BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 into the company's e-commerce environment. They announced a new infrastructure, called 'eCommerce Next Generation,' which Thomas Cook has created to streamline existing e-commerce initiatives.

BackWeb Technologies' Offline Access Server, that extends the offline capabilities of BEA WebLogic Platform, has been validated by BEA. Validation is a means of providing reassurance - to customers who use WebLogic - of an application's verified integrability with WebLogic.

BEA Systems, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., have submitted the latest version of a key Web services specification, WS-Addressing, to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as input into the standardization process.

Much has been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the many technology and business benefits of adopting this approach. Poised to change the computing landscape once again, progressive IT departments, software vendors, and service providers have all been eager to embr

WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) is a command-line scripting tool that BEA intends to support as part of the WebLogic Server 9.0 release. This tool is available today on BEA Systems' dev2dev Web site and works with BEA WebLogic Server versions 7.0 and 8.1, including all service pa

Enterprises are moving towards a highly collaborative environment to achieve higher competitive advantage. Availability of the right information across the enterprise at the right time has become a key capability to provide such an advantage. Though this was a well-understood objective

As the scope of enterprise integration grows, IT organizations are demanding greater efficiency and agility from their architectures and are moving away from point-to-point integration,which is proving to be increasingly cumbersome to build and maintain.

Today's IT environments are increasingly characterized by heterogeneous and complex applications, tight schedules, budgetary constraints, and an ever-changing landscape of business requirements. Few businesses have been agile enough to enhance their existing infrastructures to meet an

IBM's director of WebSphere Foundation Software is aghast at rumors that Sun may be planning to merge its JavaOne and Sun Network conferences: 'JavaOne was supposed to be an industry event where any Java vendor or user who wishes to attend can do so and be part of the Java community...

Not having kept, or being able to access, the right information at the right time is now a serious offence that puts the CEO and/or the CFO in jail for perjury, regardless of who in the organization may or may not have been to blame. Capgemini Group's Global CTO Andy Millholland report

As US events such as COMDEX and CeBIT America get canceled, the equivalent IT mega-shows in Europe seem to be going from strength to strength, reports Fuat Kircaali directly from Istanbul, where CeBIT Eurasia opened earlier this week to more exhibitors, more attendees, and more foreign

Panacya's new Service Center for Enterprise Messaging System was designed to support the messaging requirements of large and mid-sized companies. With the messaging system handling e-mail, IT departments can gain some breathing room.

The current target release date for J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) is September 30th, says Sun's Graham Hamilton, chief technologist of Java Software. 'That is the target,' Hamilton adds. 'As I am sure people understand, we are watching quality and customer feedback closely and will adjust if neede

In an ongoing effort to get developers to embrace its WebLogic Platform 8.1, BEA said it will once again sponsor day-long seminars across the US called dev2dev Days. The free seminars are offered to give developers insight into how WebLogic can be used to create applications.

'The new portal services and solutions can help us meet today's ever-increasing business challenges,' said Jukka Tiainen, the director of Finland Post, as he announced that BEA platform and portal products would help Finland's national mail carrier with the utilization of Internet serv

It's being called 'SOA-in-a-Box' by commentators: WebLogic Platform ISV Edition, a slimmed-down version of its WebLogic platform especially for independent software vendors. This way, BEA hopes, ISVs will be able to build 'SOA-ready' apps; value-added resellers (VARs) and system integr

Motive's latest software offering uses intelligent application models to enable automated configurations of key IT components. By providing greater visibility over application environments, Motive believes this will close the gap between application development teams and IT operations.

BEA Systems' chief marketing officer, Tod Nielsen, is quitting the corporate software company effective Thursday this week, according to a regulatory filing.

Though he isn't sure if this is a feature or a bug in WebLogic's deployment infrastructure, self-proclaimed J2EE geek Vinny Carpenter ran into an issue a while back and completely forgot about it, till he ran into it again last weekend.

SYS-CON Media is inviting BEA, Borland, IBM, JBoss, JOnAS, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Orion, Sun, and Sybase to an 'Application Server Shoot-Out' at the upcoming Web Services Edge Conference & Expo, in Boston next February. The shootout will be a live competition aimed at finding o

Every now and again, a customer exchange reveals hidden insights into the popularity of SYS-CON's LinuxWorld Magazine. We can't resist sharing this one, if only because of the curious running reference to a certain other technology magazine.

At the LinuxWorld Expo & Convention, Sun previewed Project Janus, which it plans to ship when its Solaris 10 x86 operating system is released later this year.

What do a CNET technology columnist, 95.5 million telephone handsets, and Sun's president and COO all have in common? Answer: they all strongly favor Java. Is it a sign of better times ahead for the language once known as 'Oak'?

The so-called 'Beehive' and 'Pollinate' projects will be riding the next wave of Open Source innovation, if things go according to plan for BEA's scheme to release the source code for a large portion of its application development framework for WebLogic Workshop.

While the big market share gainers in 2003 were not IBM and BEA, but Oracle and JBoss, both of which bucked the deflationary trend in the enterprise software market, BEA has been pointing out in the run-up to LinuxWorld Conference & Expo today that it was named the leader in applicat

Apache Beehive, the cross-container, open-source application framework for building SOAs and enterprise Java applications that BEA is releasing to open source, is now available to the public. It can be obtained from the Apache Software Foundation Web site.

A portlet is a Web component that generates fragments - pieces of markup (e.g., HTML, XML) adhering to certain specifications. Fragments are aggregated to form a complete document. This article introduces the Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 on Java Portlets. It illustrates the cre

WebLogic Portal 8.1 Service Pack 2 has been out for several months. By the time this article is published, Service Pack 3 may also be out. Having worked on a couple of WebLogic Portal projects with this version, I have come across several small and large issues.

Current Web applications, especially portals, have become increasingly content driven. It led to development of a plethora of sophisticated and powerful Web Content Management Systems, or WCMS. They help to automate creation, management, reviewing, tagging, rendering, publication, main

In our earlier article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 5), we discussed the importance of designing for manageability. Using a case study of an on-line shopping application, DizzyWorld, we showed the developer's perspective around application manageability. This included both the development of a

You may not be aware of it yet, but Mac OS X - version 10.3, better known as Panther - is a great Java development environment. I am a fairly recent Mac convert from the Windows and sometimes Unix/Linux world that I lived in. Maybe you are like me. Maybe aliens have abducted your frien

Rarely does a software product meet the expectations of each and every user. First of all, if it did, I guess there wouldn't be any need for further releases. We all have a wish list of sorts - if only this software program could do this or if only that could be better. Most of the tim