========================================================= ----- PETER COFFEE'S ENTERPRISE IT ADVANTAGE ----- ========================================================= A weekly newsletter from eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee focused on application development and technologies at the cutting edge of enterprise-class computing.
========================================================= Sponsored by IBM A Flash demo on raising productivity. Time well spent. You can keep working across multiple systems, or have total integration. IBM Business Process Integration helps you increase productivity. Even the demo that shows you how just takes three minutes. View it now at ibm.com. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152793-1 ========================================================= November 15, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= PETER COFFEE: 'Black box' Column Brings Forth Products and Protocols EWEEK NEWS: 1. News: Avanade Stocks Code for .Net 2. News: Eclipse Director Takes on Challenges of Growth 3. News: Eclipse Glows in New Image 4. News: HP Joins with JBoss on Server Support 5. Review: Axure Hones Web App Prototypes ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= 'Black box' Column Brings Forth Products and Protocols Identify Software, EPR and ebXML efforts offer developers a crash course. by Peter Coffee When an IT vendor wants to get my attention, the most effective technique is to rub my nose in one of my own recent columns and say, "You wanted someone to do this? Look at us." I invited this kind of response when I wrote at the end of September about the crying need for much-improved analysis of software failures. I observed that airliners and now even automobiles have standards for "black box" capture and replay of the circumstances of failure: I soon heard about Israel's Identify Software, formerly known as Mutek Solutions, whose AppSight Black Box monitors and records an application's environment and behavior. In an on-line discussion late last year, one industry user called it "an awesome piece of software" and added, "I can't stop thinking of reasons to use it." Read the rest of Peter's column here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152796-1 ========================================================= EWEEK NEWS ========================================================= 1. News: Avanade Stocks Code for .Net Microsoft and Avanade, a specialist in Microsoft integration solutions, have teamed up to deliver a library of reusable components to help developers build .Net applications more efficiently. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152799-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Eclipse Director Takes on Challenges of Growth Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, talks about the growth of the group's open-source projects. Read the interview here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152802-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Eclipse Glows in New Image As the Java-based framework approaches its third anniversary and the organization nears its first year of independence, the platform has momentum that it might not have realized as the IBM-dominated entity it once was. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152805-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: HP Joins with JBoss on Server Support Hewlett-Packard will now provide first-line support for middleware vendor JBoss' open-source Java application server. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1391-6-7-214274-152808-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. Review: Axure Hones Web App Prototypes Making it easier for Web application developers to prototype and specify applications is the goal of Axure Software Solutions' Axure RP 3. 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