CodeFutures News and Industry Commentary

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Spring Versus EJB

JavaLobby has published an interesting article on job trends for Spring versus EJB. It appears that the job market for Spring jobs - and therefore commercial Spring development - is accelerating.

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

install4j 4.1 Launched

The new version of install4j, the installer used with FireStorm/DAO, is available. You can read about the new features here. ej-technologies has done an excellent job as usual.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Joe McKendrick on Selling SOA like Web 2.0

Joe McKendrick has written an interesting blog about how much easier it is to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies compared with rolling out SOA in organizations. JackBe figured this out a while back, offering a product that combines SOA and Ajax technologies to produce rich enterprise applications and mashups.

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Monday, March 03, 2008

Spring DAO Support

Spring DAO support and Spring MVC support are two of the main new features now available in FireStorm/DAO 4.0 BETA. This release is available for immediate download from:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestormdao/download/

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Monday, February 25, 2008

7 Mashups Every Company Needs

Check out this list of 7 Mashups Every Company Needs:

Customer Service: Mashup your call center application with package tracking

Client Prospecting: Mashup your sales prospects with external news, stock and company information.

Human Resources: Mashup your internal job postings with external resume services
Competitive: Mashup your competitive position in the marketplace.

Community: Mashup your product defect tracking with code management, time-tracking systems and blog commentary.

Research Information: Mashup relevant Medical, scientific and Law research with your own internal data.

Decision Dashboards: Mashup your product specifications, revenue planning, and product information with other products in the market.

You can read the details here.

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Survey on Web Templating Frameworks

The Spring Framework Web site has an interesting survey on Web Templating Frameworks (the survey is located on the left sidebar of the home page, here). The survey shows that JSPs are the clear leader.

The CodeFutures Team

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Cape Clear Acquired by Workday

After spending over $50 million, Cape Clear Software has been aquired by Workday - its main partner in the USA.

Worday has built its ERP-type SaaS on Cape Clear's platform - a decision no doubt helped by Aneel Bhusri, who provided the link between the two companies.

As usual, Dana Gardner is first off the mark with analysis.

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement

Rod Johnson uses job listing statistics to make the argument that Spring has overtaken EJB as a technology of choice for Java application development:

Job listings are a good indicator of the true adoption of technologies. They
indicate whether or not companies are spending money, making it possible to
distinguish substance from hype; they indicate the importance for developers of
gaining and growing the relevant skills (an important element of technology
perpetuation); and they provide a good guide to the safety for companies in
adopting a particular technology.

CodeFutures can confirm that we got so many requests for Spring support in FireStorm/DAO that we just had to do it.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

John Crupi on TV!

JackBe’s CTO, John Crupi was a guest analyst on Fox Business Network. You can watch the video clip here.

JackBe has also been in the news recently after winning the Best Enterprise Mashup Platform in InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Awards.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Sun Acquires MySQL

Sun has acquired MySQL for $800 million in cash and $200 million in stock. The move is consistent with Sun's recent open source strategy and should certainly shake up the market by making Sun a real player in the database space. It's said that only 1% of MySQL users actually pay for deployment support - but that does not change the fact that Sun will now have one of the key parts of the LAMP stack. I presume that Sun will try to leverage MySQL to sell more X86 Linux hardware into LAMP stack users.

It should be noted that MySQL is Sun's second open source database product (Java DB is the first).

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Oracle Buys BEA

Oracle Corporation has finally concluded the deal to acquire BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 billion.

Will products be cut? Probably. Will prices rise? Definitely!

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Monday, January 07, 2008

seeMore Wins Best Database Middleware Award

seeMore Technologies has won InfoWorld's Best Database Middleware award.

This is what InforWorld has to say about seeMore:

This brilliant tool from seeMore Technologies will enable a large enterprise to gather its far-flung databases -- regardless of their origins -- under a single, relational roof. The Virtual Database Server seeks to provide access to just about any data source, even flat text files and highly structured COBOL databases, through standard ODBC, JDBC, or OLEDB interfaces.

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

OASIS Now Promoting SDO

OASIS has finally started promoting its efforts with SDO by distributing a press release.

Anne Thomas Manes, as usual, is spot on with her analysis:

"Each type of data source (databases, documents, web services, and enterprise application systems) exposes a unique set of APIs, protocols, and formats, increasing the complexity of an application," explained Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director for Burton Group. "A unified data programming model allows developers to focus on business logic rather than technical details."

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Spring Framework support

Development work has now started on version 4.0 of FireStorm/DAO and the main new feature is a code generator for the Spring Framework. This new code generator will generate Spring JDBC DAO classes and a Spring MVC web application. The Early Access release for customers will be available in December 2007 and the a public BETA program in Q1 2008.

Labels: FireStorm/DAO, Spring DAO

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

FireStorm/DAO 3.2.1 GA

FireStorm/DAO 3.2.1 GA is now available to download from the following location:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestormdao/download/

The release notes for this release are available from the following location:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestormdao/download/installer/README.html

Labels: FireStorm/DAO

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Gartner's Top 10 Technologies for 2008

Dan Farber & Larry Dignan have published an interesting analysis of Gartner's top 10 technologies for 2008.

PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Enterprise Mashup Development Videos

JackBe has done an excellent job with its JackBe TV - everything you need to know about Enterprise Mashup development on videos.

PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software

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Friday, August 03, 2007

FireStrorm/DAO 3.2 GA

FireStrorm/DAO 3.2 GA is now available to download from the following location:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestormdao/download/

The release notes for this release are available from the following location:

http://www.codefutures.com/firestormdao/download/installer/README.html

Posted by Andy Grove at 10:33 AM | Permalink | 0 comments

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

SOA and Web 2.0 Merging?

eWeek has published an interesting article about how SOA and Web 2.0 technologies are merging together.

PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

CodeFutures Joins Software Pipelines Alliance

I'm pleased to announce that CodeFutures has joined the Software Pipelines Alliance.

Software Pipelines offer a new concurrent processing methodology that provides a simple way for business applications to implement concurrency while maintaining order of execution priorities and simplicity of application development.

The Software Pipelines Alliance is a group of software industry vendors and end users that have joined together to promote the use of Software Pipelines to solve performance and scalability problems, with a particular emphasis developing applications that take advantage of multi-core processors.

PJ Murray

CodeFutures Software

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