BEA, Adobe forge rich Internet apps partnership
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InfoWorld - BEA Systems and Adobe Systems are partnering on rich Internet application development in an arrangement incorporating both SOA and Web 2.0 concepts.
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BEA Systems on Monday is releasing a version of its application infrastructure suite designed to enable ISVs to deliver products for SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
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InfoWorld - BEA Systems will fit its Weblogic Server Java application server with improvements geared to Web 2.0, SOA and interoperability with Microsoft&#39;s .Net platform, the company said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Wednesday.
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Curl, the Rich Internet Application (RIA) deployment platform for enterprises, has come to the Mac in the form of a public beta release of its Run Time Environment (RTE).
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Adobe Systems Inc.  and Yahoo Inc.  on Monday said they have signed a deal to combine Adobe services, like its widely used document-sharing program, with Yahoo's Web search functions.
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Adobe Systems Inc. ADBE.O and  Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O on Monday said they have signed a deal to  combine Adobe services, like its widely used document-sharing  program, with Yahoo's Web search functions.
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Blog: The online commerce giant releases new, faster APIs and shows off its desktop application written with Adobe's AIR.
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BURLINGAME, CALIF.-- BEA Systems is expanding the open source Beehive initiative but still has no plans to participate in the Eclipse open source tools organization, despite the embrace of Beehive by Eclipse.
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(InfoWorld) - Long a player in the geeky world of enterprise middleware, BEA will soon be diving into a frothy Web 2.0 space as it tries to tap into the genius of Web sites such as del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and YouTube, according to Mark Carges, executive vice president of business interaction at BEA. In an exclusive interview with InfoWorld, Carges said that he will use his keynote address at BEA World 2006 to trumpet the companyâs successes and to outline the companyâs vision for the future, including three projects â Graffiti, Runner, and Builder â that will add social bookmarking to BEAâs portals and will give non-IT staff the tools to create blogs, wikis, and other lightweight applications that tap into BEAâs service infrastructure. Calling 2006 a âyear of innovation,â Carges will tell BEA World attendees that BEA now has more than 1,000 customers using the companyâs products to create SOA solutions. âI thought it would take three to five years for most of the people weâre working with to build out their SOA,â Carges said. âI was wrong.â Business process tools such as those BEA acquired with Fuego in March, now AquaLogic Business Process Management, have spurred SOA adoption, Carges said. âBPM really is a business driver for SOA inside IT organizations,â he added. Looking ahead, Carges sees the convergence of SOAs, BPM, and the Web 2.0 development model that is fueling Web sites such as YouTube and MySpace. âThe information workers in your company have all this knowledge,â Carges said. âWhat if you could search for it and use it to drive applications and behavior and performance out to the users or to your customer base?â BEAâs answer comes in the form of three new internal projects that will marry Web 2.0 features and development tools to BEAâs portals so that ordinary users can create and manage what Carges calls âsituational applicationsâ without the help of IT staff. Graffiti will add social-bookmarking and tagging features to the AquaLogic and WebLogic portals so that users can place and search on tagged content, as with sites such as del.icio.us. âIt will do wonders for the enterprise and benefit corporations in ways we canât imagine,â Carges said. âSuddenly youâre taking traditional applications and situational applications and bridging them.â The two other projects, Runner and Builder, will help workers create those situational applications. Runner will create a lightweight portal infrastructure that Web application developers can use as a foundation to build on. âWhat weâve realized is that there are so many Web apps in an enterprise that arenât portal apps, we want to be able to help people manage those, too,â Carges said. Builder will work with SOA tools from AquaLogic and will give ordinary users the ability to tap into SOA data stores without extensive custom coding, he explained. BEA is targeting the new products for the first half of 2007. The tools could be wrapped into AquaLogic or be spun out as their own products, Carges said.
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(InfoWorld) - BEA Systems' planned next-generation application platform, called Project Genesis, will feature an open source component and accommodate scripting languages such as Ruby and Perl, BEA officials said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Tuesday. Open source has been great for proliferating knowledge in the marketplace, said Alfred Chuang, BEA chairman, CEO, and president. In addition, he mentioned that development technologies will be open-sourced as part of Genesis and that BEA already offers open source technologies to the Eclipse Foundation. "We also believe that we likely have to be grooming and starting up a new community," he said. Genesis is intended to enable quick development of applications without requiring new infrastructure. It will feature tools that take collaboration, social tagging, and business process management and integrate them with existing enterprise applications. New sets of applications can be built, including mashups and composite applications as well as business processes. Wikis, blogs, and RSS feeds also are to be part of Genesis, said Rob Levy, CTO at BEA. The company announced Project Genesis earlier on Tuesday. Chuang, however, cautioned against going open source for the sake of going open source. "I think open source for open source's sake has been useless," Chuang said. "Some companies have taken multimillion lines of operating system code and open-sourced it," he said, critically. Although sometime-BEA rival Sun Microsystems did this with its Solaris OS, Chuang said his comment was not specifically targeted at Sun. Others have done this as well, he said. Genesis will support Java code as well as scripting languages, Chuang said. He cited scripting languages as an area where BEA historically has not had much involvement. A specific product plan for Genesis is set to be unveiled at the BEAWorld Shanghai conference in December. BEA officials stressed some components of Genesis, such as BEA's enterprise service bus technology, already exist. New products are to include a rules engine technology, as well as offerings for data manipulation and structured mapping. "Genesis is sort of where ultimately we want to take AquaLogic for this new generation of applications," Chuang said. AquaLogic is a BEA middleware platform. Genesis will support SaaS (software as a service) methodologies in that ISVs could use Genesis to build applications, which they could then offer via a SaaS format, Levy said.
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Yahoo and Adobe have formed a partnership to attempt to keep pace with Google and Microsoft in the search arena. Under the deal, Adobe is adding a toolbar to its Acrobat software that will link to various
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Adobe Systems and Internet provider Yahoo! have announced a tie-up aimed at providing consumer services to Internet users. The two companies will introduce integrated products that feature Adobe services, increase the reach of Yahoo!
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Mike Potter shines a spotlight on a new web conferencing system created by Vyew that's being set up as a competitor to Adobe's Acrobat Connect.   Vyew allows you to share and collaborate on documents, including Microsoft Office files, photos and videos. However, unlike Connect, Vyew is based on Flash and PHP, and uses AMFPHP for messaging between the client and the server.   They (Vyew) compare themselves to Adobe's product in an included comparison chart. You can also check out video demos of the application in action or check out some screenshots to get a feel for how it works.
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Adobe Integrated Runtime paves the way for Web applications that perform like desktop-bound programs.Images: Building apps on AIR
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Adobe Systems plans to launch the beta of a new runtime that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline.
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BEA Systems today unveiled an architecture and toolset designed to help companies moving toward SOA by separating out business processes from packaged applications.
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. A public beta of ColdFusion 8, accessible here, is to be offered on Wednesday. The general release is set for mid-year. Version 8 is the first Adobe-branded release of the former Macromedia technology. ColdFusion is a server-side Java application; it is partnered with a markup language for writing ColdFusion applications. .Net support in the upcoming version 8 bridges the Java and Microsoft worlds. "Customers don't need to select one technology to the exclusion of the other," Tim Buntel, Adobe senior product marketing manager, said. Also featured in ColdFusion 8 is generation of PDF documents as well as capabilities for working with PDF forms and manipulating existing PDF documents. Support for the JBoss application server has been added, also. For developers, Adobe is adding interactive debugging based on the Eclipse IDE. A Server Monitor capability, meanwhile, identifies bottlenecks in the server. Adobe's Flex rich Internet application technology and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components are leveraged in the new product for integration of complex environments with intuitive interfaces, Adobe said. ColdFusion differs from Flex in that Flex is a client-side technology featuring a language and compiler to convert code to Flash content. With ColdFusion, the server-side technology can integrate with databases and Java and .Net objects while also offering text searching. However, ColdFusion also can generate an HTML interface for Web applications. The ColdFusion upgrade puts to rest questions about Adobe's commitment to the technology after acquiring Macromedia, said analyst Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and Web services at Gartner.Â  "People may have wondered if Adobe appreciated ColdFusion, and I think they do. I think it's part of their enterprise software strategy," Valdes said. While Adobe recently offered the Flex software development kit to the community at large via open source, there are no plans to open-source ColdFusion. This stance gives the company the ability to make certain ColdFusion integrates with other Adobe technologies, Buntel said.