Software AG outlines plans for webMethods products
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Software AG will adopt the webMethods name for its Crossvision range of SOA (services oriented architecture) products, executives said Friday, outlining how they will integrate staff and products following the company'sÂ acquisition of webMethods.
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BEA Systems is set to release a new all-in-one package on Monday to help software partners create and install Web applications more quickly.
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TechWeb - SAP AG unveils a search application capable of delivering results pulled from across corporate business systems to either a browser-based or desktop user interface.
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InfoWorld - Software AG has bought the application modernization activities of Jacada, adding to its portfolio of tools for prolonging the life of mainframe applications by giving them a Web interface.
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The software maker proposes open-source Java-based reporting tools for consideration by the Eclipse open-source foundation.
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New Web services technologies announced Monday will help developers build money-making applications and use existing mainframe technology to create and deploy new Web services.
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Executives at IBM's Rational Software unit outlined plans to add Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies to its line of development tools.
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The tools, part of an upcoming Visual Studio update, are focused on making it easier to create customized Web applications.
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InfoWorld - Software AG will adopt the webMethods name for its Crossvision range of SOA (services oriented architecture) products, executives said Friday, outlining how they will integrate staff and products following the company&#39;s&#160;acquisition of webMethods.
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Software giant says the final version will be available next year.
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IBM this month plans to release an upgrade to its Rational Software Architect design and development tool that integrates with the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler tool. The integration between the two offerings is intended to enable IT architects to take business models from the WebSphere tool and convert those to solutions via the UML-based Rational product, according to IBM officials. "They'll get a fairly good understanding of what the business process is that theyâre supposed to implement," said Alan Brown, IBM Distinguished Engineer.
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SAP AG announced two updates to the Master Data Management (MDM) component of its NetWeaver integration and application platform on Tuesday. The updates, which will appear by the end of the year, are designed to make it easier to synchronize data between different systems. Two other new NetWeaver enhancements, faster searching of corporate data and more robust handling of errors in Java applications, will only appear in the next release of NetWeaver, planned for 2005, the company said at the SAP TechEd conference in San Diego.
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BEA Systems said it will release a test version of its latest WebLogic Server software later this month, and the company also detailed product delivery plans for next year.
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IBM's Rational unit in June will unveil a Web site offering access to open source tools and standard specifications that can help improve collaboration among dispersed software development teams
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The tools, part of an upcoming Visual Studio update, is focused on making it easier to create customized Web applications.
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(InfoWorld) - Borland Software on Tuesday will refresh the Silk application testing product line it acquired last year. Available now, the R 2006 Release 2 versions of the Silk products include: SilkCentral Test Manager, which is a J2EE framework for managing processes; SilkPerformer for load testing, and SilkTest for test automation. "This release focuses a lot on improving the process of testing," with incremental enhancements, said Brad Johnson, Borland product marketing director for lifecycle quality management. The Silk line "provides a quality framework that looks at software quality in a very holistic view from the beginning of the development cycle to when the applications are delivered," Johnson said. Featured in Test Manager is an Eclipse-based client that allows for manual testing of applications. "It's a small Eclipse application that enables manual testers to be given the direction and steps theyâre supposed to execute, the pass-fail criteria," said Johnson.Â  With manual testing, the user validates each step rather than using automation. The new client in Test Manager allows for testing to be done offline and be reported back to the test management console. Previously, manual testing in Test Manager required a Web interface. Manual testing can account for nearly 85 percent of testing efforts, Borland said. But it often has required an inefficient process utilizing Word documents and e-mail. Borland is looking to streamline this form of testing. Test Manager also features code coverage capabilities that connect code to a specific test so that when code changes, testers know which tests to modify. Test Manager now ships with integrated support for the Borland Gauntlet product, providing visibility and control over the early stages of developer testing. By adding Eclipse support, Borland is taking a step toward moving the product to support industry standards, said Carey Schwaber, senior analyst at Forrester Research. "I think any support for Eclipse is a good thing," Schwaber said. However, the proprietary scripting environment in Test Manager does not yet go away, she said. SilkPerformer offers improved monitoring through use of Java Management Extensions technology. "It lets us deploy the common Java servers from [BEA Systems] WebLogic, [IBM] WebSphere, and so forth," Johnson said. "It gives us deeper visibility." A new Eclipse plugin in SilkPerformer allows performance test development to be done within the Eclipse IDE. SilkTest adds support for Windows Vista so users can test applications developed for Vista at the UI level. "Every single testing vendor really needs to have support for Vista because one of the things that Vista introduces is the need to retest your applications," when migrating from other platforms, Schwaber said. "Our data show that people will be doing these migrations for the next couple of years." Other environments supported by SilkTest include Windows XP 64-bit operating systems, Internet Explorer 7.0, and .Net. SilkCentral Test Manager starts in price at $1,700 per named user, while SilkTest pricing begins at $4,500 per named user. SilkPerformer prices begin at roughly $10,000 per user. Borland acquired the Silk product line when it bought Segue Software in 2006.
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Software maker considering online and perhaps ad-funded versions of the low-end productivity software.