ObjectWeb adds portal content management middleware
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The ObjectWeb Consortium added portal, content, and business process management elements to the stack of open source middleware projects it promotes, potentially providing businesses with access to cheaper technology, members of the group announced Tuesday.
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Company says e-mail, calendar and instant messaging will be offered, along with Web search services on future Web portal applications.
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Patrick Chanezon sayz :  "I got some pretty good feedback after my post Java Syndication Babel: let's paint the picture together!, mainly from the Rojo/Feedparser team."  ...  "Then the Rojo/Feedparser team, Brad Neuberg and Kevin Burton posted some good comments. I agree with Kevin that we don't necessarily need a JSR and should start collaborating now. From Kevin and Brad it seems like what we should work on first is defining a common set of Unit Tests, and a way to get a DOM-Rome-like API on top of their SAX-like API."  So check out the list  and the wiki .  Hopefully we'll be able to collaborate and make some forward progress.  I'm sure everyone will benefit.  The more I think about a ne ...
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New developer program invites closer integration with search AOL functions.
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Web services are becoming increasingly popular for linking software programs. Now, Microsoft and some other big companies are pitching the technology as a way to manage everything from big corporate servers to mobile phones.
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(InfoWorld) - Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its hosted customer relationship management service, which it said will add a new portal and workflow management capabilities and ease the process of writing and testing new custom applications. The new version of the service comes just days after Microsoft introduced its much anticipatedÂ entryÂ into the hosted CRM business. The 23rd version of the Salesforce.com service lets users access the company's proprietary Apex Code programming language to customize their CRM applications or write new ones to run on Salesforce.com servers, the company said. "Customers can write code that runs on our servers -- it's programming without software," said Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, in a statement. The company said that Apex Code is similar to the widely used Java language and that applications written using it can be accessed via Web standards such as XML or SOAP. The new version also adds what Salesforce.com calls Intelligent Workflow, which will allow users to add rules to business processes. A new on-demand Customer Portal can deliver Web 2.0 collaborative content to customers, the company said. The Intelligent Workflow capability will come in handy at Salesforce.com customerÂ Enviance, an on-demand environmental regulation compliance software provider based in Carlsbad, Calif., said Michele Hincks, vice president of marketing at the company. Enviance has been running Salesforce.com since 2004 for sales, marketing and customer service, but the workflow management capabilities have thus far been very rudimentary, she said. The workflow tool will allow the company to use custom fields help process new customers and perform other tasks, Hincks said. She also said she expects that marketing personnel at Enviance will be able to use Apex Code to custom-build applications, so they will no longer have to wait for IT programmers to get to such projects. "It seems it will be more usable," she said. "I can cut and paste code myself." Mike Epner, vice president of worldwide services and support at Borland Software, said that his firm will create several new applications to run on the Salesforce.com platform. In addition, Borland plans to use the new version's portal to deliver technical support content to Borland customers. "The new release continues the evolution from software as a service to platform as a service," said Denis Pombriant, analyst at Beagle Research Group LLC. "Platform as a service enables CIOs to concentrate less on keeping their infrastructures running while spending more time on deriving business benefits for their companies." The new version of Salesforce.com, called Summer '07, will be available in August.
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Laoping writes &quot;News.com has a story about a new Web services management specification designed to simplify network administration across a wide range of devices.
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TechWeb - The partnership builds a content aggregator for databases, business applications, spreadsheets and directories.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- From personal homepages to e-commerce driven sites, NetObjects Fusion 10 software enables users to easily develop affordable, full-feature websites.
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Evert Pot has posted about a library he's creating to integrate WebDAV support with PHP and make things simpler for those needing to access the shares.   I intend to make this library as easy as possible to use, without making it a black-box-like system. Focus will not be on everything WebDAV could possibly provide, but instead on the features that are actually supported by the operating systems.   His goal is to make it as simple as making a 'File' and 'Directory' class to interface with the remote system and has two things he's deliberating on as far as features to include in the library - support for the custom properties WebDAV allows and the ability to lock files and directories.   If you'd like to check out the current progress of the library, check out its page on the Google Code site (as well as this discussion group he's set up).
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This week we dig deeper and look at the Silverlight.createObjectEx function, understanding your hosting options, properties, the enableHtmlAccess property, and much more. By Adam Nathan. 1210
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InfoWorld - Plumtree Software further extended its portal-based, Web applications building and management platform Monday, announcing upgrades to its Content and Collaboration servers, APIs for search and collaboration, and support and services for J2EE and .Net platforms.
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Interwoven this week will roll out a new Web publishing tool designed to allow business users to create and publish dynamic Web sites easily. LiveSite Content Publishing Server gives IT managers the capability to create page-level templates and components that business users assemble and manage.
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InfoWorld - Interwoven this week will roll out a new Web publishing tool designed to allow business users to create and publish dynamic Web sites easily. LiveSite Content Publishing Server gives IT managers the capability to create page-level templates and components that business users assemble and manage.
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(InfoWorld) - Storage giant EMC plans another foray into Web content management with the upcoming launch of a tool to handle content layout as well as management. Due to become generally available in the fourth quarter of this year, EMC's Documentum Page Builder, unveiled Tuesday, is designed to make it easier for nontechnical users to create, manage and deploy Web sites for their companies. "More and more people want to do more than just create Web sites; they want to influence way the site is presented," Greg Dierickse, senior product marketing manager at EMC for Web content management products, said. More organizations are looking for their employees with business knowledge and less technical know-how to become actively involved in Web site development, Lubor Ptacek, director of product marketing for content management marketing at EMC, said. Traditionally, business users haven't had much or any input into how Web sites are laid out, the content they contain and how the sites operate, meaning that those sites can often fall short of what businesses had hoped to achieve with them. Page Builder takes a component-based approach to Web site creation and management so that users can reuse static or dynamic components such as headers, footers or navigation to quickly pull together Web pages, Dierickse said. Based on XML (extensible markup language), the EMC tool supports and complements Adobe Systems' Dreamweaver templates so EMC users can modify templates that have been created in the Dreamweaver Web development tool. EMC has been working on Page Builder for about a year. "It's step one in a longer term road map," Dierickse said, as EMC looks to strike a balance between advanced functionality and ease of use. The next likely direction will be for the company to develop a product to help nontechnical users develop Web applications as well as manage content and layout, he added. The cost of Page Builder will depend on a user's IT configuration, but Dierickse estimated that the starting price could be under $100,000. Page Builder will be a new member of EMC's Web content management suite, which includes a number of products such as Documentum Portlet Builder and Documentum Web Publisher. The new tool will also support EMC's Documentum enterprise content management platform and so will be able to draw upon capabilities including a unified repository and business process management, Dierickse said. In the Web content management arena, EMC competes with players like Interwoven and Vignette. The storage vendor is currently the No. 1 overall enterprise content management player in revenue terms, according to market research company IDC, although IBM, the No. 2 vendor, is set to overtake EMC, should its planned bid to acquire the No. 3 company FileNetÂ be successful. EMC has been steadily building up its expertise in content management over the past few years, making some acquisitions along the way including the purchases ofÂ enterprise content management player DocumentumÂ in December 2003 andÂ document capture software vendor CaptivaÂ late last year. Looking ahead, EMC is keen to continue strengthening the ties between its content management software and itsÂ archiving capabilities, Ptacek said. That move got a boost back in April when EMC released products based on Documentum technology to archive e-mail messages and reporting data from enterprise applications. The vendor is likely to provide archiving for other forms of content such as video and audio, he added, with the eventual intention in several years' time of developing a unified method for archiving all content types.
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Harry Fuecks mentions an interesting project today on the SitePoint Blog - CouchDb - a stand-alone document store, accessible via XML REST.    Firing up the CouchDb server on Windows is a breeze-follow the README. PHP-wise, you need the new http extension which is most easily done on Win32 by grabbing the most recent PHP 5 release (5.1.6) and the corresponding collection of PECL modules.   The interface between CouchDb and PHP is REST - XML + HTTP - you can also point your browser directly at the CouchDb server (default - localhost:8080) and get around with a little help from the CouchDb wiki.    So, if it's Just Another Database, why should we pay attention? Harry notes (with a code example) that it's more about how it stores the information and not just that it does. His example takes in a POST request from a form and pushes it (raw data) into the CouchDb functions. He also gives an example of where this would be handy - in a wiki (like Dokuwiki) where the files are currently stored on the filesystem instead of in a database.
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WebCenter Suite lets developers use Internet tools like wikis and search to improve applications' user interface.