Microsoft opens beta of Popfly mashup builder
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The race for the best mashup builder picks up as Microsoft opens up Popfly at the Web 2.0 Summit.
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Playground SDK to help casual game makers create multiplatform games.
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Blog: New Google Maps feature lets people create customized maps with content from different mashup sites
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Higgins-project developers are creating a tool equivalent to Windows CardSpace but need Microsoft's go-ahead for certain features.
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InfoWorld - WSO2 is offering its open-source WSO2 Mashup Server product, which leverages JavaScript and Web services in assembling mashups, on Monday.
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Microsoft have let the public use a beta of their tool for some months while testing continues. The last few days have seen a new release of the beta which seems to be getting closer to bringing back consistently sensible results.
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Microsoft has unveiled a new Web site offering lessons to new programmers on building applications using the tools in Visual Studio 2005.
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InfoWorld - A startup working in Microsoft's backyard is taking aim at the software giant's entrenched project management software with a new hosted service.
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The creator of OpenLaszlo plans to create a line of collaboration applications.
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(InfoWorld) - OpenMake Software plans next week to offer process automation software free for software development teams. The company will provide process automation components from its OpenMake build-to-release management product as a free application called OpenMake Mojo, which is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Process automation serves as a way for developers to manage individual processes from coding to deployment. OpenMake's announcement is planned for the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Mojo will be available on March 5 in an early, Release Candidate form as a plug-in to the Eclipse development environment. It also can be used separately from Eclipse. The general release of Mojo is planned for April 2. With this move, the company seeks to offer an alternative to IBM BuildForge or Anthill Pro for process automation. "What we've done is taken a part of our OpenMake offering, specifically the process automation components, which allow you to do, basically, job scheduling," and offer that free, said Tracy Ragan, OpenMake COO. By using the process automation software, developers can build workflows for the software development process that could include steps such as checking out software from a source code management system and executing scripts. Although Mojo is free, it will be not be offered as an open source product, Ragan said. The company decided not to open-source the code after determining that OpenMake would be the main contributor to the product and not the community at large. Although Mojo will be free, the company looks to establish mindshare for its OpenMake product and also will sell support services at a cost of $50 per seat per year. The OpenMake product offers incremental builds of software and can discover dependencies between executables in a production environment and source code that created the executable; developers can manage software development parameters from a centralized knowledge base, said Ragan. With Mojo, OpenMake looks to counter IBM's BuildForge product with its free software, Ragan said.   Mojo integrates with other application lifecycle tools. Adapters are available to link to products such as Microsoft Visual and IBM's Rational Application Developer and ClearCase. Developer teams can centralize build-to-release activities such as software configuration management checkout, build script execution, and deployment scheduling. Centralized access is provided across multiple development projects.
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The beta of Microsoft's new online service reveals some good collaboration features for individuals and small businesses, but there are problems that still need to be ironed out.
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InfoWorld - Mainsoft on Wednesday released a technology preview of Grasshopper 2.0, which lets developers leverage Microsoft Windows development skills to run applications on Linux and Java platforms.
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IBM Corp is lifting the covers on an experimental enterprise mashup technology built around a Wiki engine, and offering it on a hosted basis on its alphaWorks developer site.
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New plug-ins enable the IDE to accommodate newly popular dynamic languages.  Features include visual tools, test support and refactoring.
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Beehive Code Now Available in Apache; XMLBeans Officially Approved as Apache Project
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(InfoWorld) - Mainsoft on Wednesday released a technology preview of Grasshopper 2.0, which lets developers leverage Microsoft Windows development skills to run applications on Linux and Java platforms. Grasshopper 2.0 enables deployment of applications on the Apache Tomcat Java servlet container; Mainsoft's Visual MainWin provides the same functionality for deploying applications with commercial application servers. New features in version 2.0 include support of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and the .Net Framework 2.0. Also, C# developers can use the new IDE as well as C# 2.0 features and ASP.Net controls to develop Web applications. The free Grasshopper 2.0 Technology Preview also can be used to port the Microsoft Personal Web Site Starter Kit to run on Tomcat. "[Developers] can keep programming in VB.Net, C# [and] ASP.Net from Visual Studio and create applications which will run cross-platform on Linux, and we do that by using the open source .Net Framework," which is Mono, said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft. With Grasshopper, the Microsoft intermediate language is compiled to Java byte code. Mono, meanwhile, features compiler tools and class libraries as well as a runtime engine for executing .Net applications. A user and reseller of Mainsoft's technology cited its use in an application that required integration between Java and .Net systems. The software enabled Segway Software to write code in C# and reference Java Archive files and byte code inside a .Net environment, said Jon Taylor, CEO at Segway. "It allowed us to basically write in one language that was familiar to us and then port the Web service to a J2EE Web server that we could then use to run it on," Taylor said. Although he has not yet used Grasshopper 2.0, Taylor said he looked forward to being able to leverage .Net Framework 2.0. The general release of Grasshopper 2.0 is planned for the end of the first quarter of 2007. The preview is available online. Visual Studio 2005 integration and .Net 2.0 functionality will be added to Visual MainWin early in 2007. In another integration-related announcement in the tools arena, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of an installation program bundling the NetBeans IDE and the JBoss application server. NetBeans is an open source tools project championed by Sun. âNetBeans and JBoss work well together out of the box for creating Java EE (Enterprise Edition) apps," said Judith Lilenfeld, a product engineering manager at NetBeans. "[The bundle] registers the app server with the IDE so the user can do their start, stop, deploy," functions from within the IDE to the application server, Lilenfeld said. "The integration of JBoss Application Server with NetBeans is about simplifying enterprise Java development and giving developers choice when it comes to their development environment. In addition, this partnership with Sun underscores JBossâ longstanding commitment to supporting multiple hardware, software, and tools platforms,â said Ram Venkataraman, JBoss director of product management, in a prepared statement released by JBoss. The package features the JBoss 4.0.4 application server, which is J2EE 1.4-compatible rather than Java EE 5-compataible. Future releases of the bundle will round out the features of the application server as JBoss moves closer to being Java EE 5 compatible. The NetBeans platform supported in the package is the NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 release. The final version of NetBeans 5.5 is due by October or November. Developers can download the bundle here. Also, JetBrains on Thursday is announcing JetBrains dotTrace 2.0 beta, which is a tool for profiling .Net applications. Memory profiling is featured, as is integration with the Visual Studio IDE. Windows services in the new release can be profiled in the same way as Web applications, the company said.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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InfoWorld - With an upgrade to its Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite being released Monday, Nexaweb will focus on visual capabilities for building mashups.