Jim Milbery

Application servers are the one category of software product that seems to be on everyone's mind these days. No longer is there any doubt in my mind that n-tier applications are the future. Certain applications will benefit from a heavy-client architecture, such as desktop publis... (more)

Bill Coleman, Edward Scott, and Alfred Chuang must be looking at their September 1998 acquisition of WebLogic as the best money they ever spent. WebLogic's Tengah product was a little-known, Java-based application server when BEA made the decision to buy their way into the growin... (more)

Way back in the November 2001 issue of JDJ (Vol. 6, issue 11), I took a look at Aligo's M-1 Mobile Application Server. Back then, the technology market was still in the heady "bubble" days and wireless was the next big frontier. Fast-forward to mid-2003 and here we are wallowing ... (more)

Welcome to the first installment of JDJ Labs. Our goal is to introduce you to commercial (and open-source) products and technologies that will help you, the Java developer, work more efficiently. We expect our testing to provide you with a starting point for your own testing and ... (more)

The adoption rate for XML continues to be astounding. XML is finding its way into every server, into SDK, and developer platform out there, and so there is great need for developers to design XML Schemas, write XSLT stylesheets, debug Web services, and create XML content. One par... (more)

Ipedo, Inc. 1001 Marshall Street Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650 306-4000 Web: www.ipedo.com Test Environment OS: Windows 2000 Processor: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 Memory: 256MB Specifications Platforms: Windows NT/2000, Linux, Solaris Pricing: $29,000 per CPU for all platforms T... (more)

Aligo, Inc. 444 De Haro Street, Suite 211 San Francisco, CA 94107 Web: www.aligo.com Phone: 415 593-8200 Fax: 415 553-8896 E-mail: info@aligo.com Test Environment Dell 1400 PowerEdge 1 CPU (795MHz), Windows 2000 Server SP1 256MB RAM Specifications Platforms: Windows NT/2000, various ... (more)

Sitraka Software 260 King Street East Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 4L5 Phone: 800 663-4723 Fax: 416 594-1919 Web:www.sitraka.com Test Platform Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, 866MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 20GB Disk, 256MB of memory, Windows 2000 w/ Service Pack 2 Specifications P... (more)

MKS Inc. 410 Albert St. Waterloo, ON Canada, N2L 3V3 Phone: 519 884-2251 Fax: 519 884-8861 Phone: 800 265-2797 e-mail: info@mks.com Web: www.mks.com Test Platform Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, 866MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 20GB Disk, 256MB of Memory, Windows 2000 w/ Service Pack... (more)

The advantage of Web services lies in the ability of the "client" application to access services and functions without having an understanding of how these services are implemented within the back-end system. Almost any business service can be implemented as a Web service. For ex... (more)

Sun Microsystems Inc. 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Web: http://forte.sun.com/eap Test Environment Dell 410 Precision CPU (450MHz), Windows NT Workstation Service Pack 5, 256MB RAM Specifications Platforms: Solaris 8 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Windows 98 NT/2000 Pricing: Community ... (more)

ParaSoft 2031 S. Myrtle Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016 888 305-0041 www.parasoft.com Test Environment: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, 866 MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 20GB disk, 256MB RAM, Windows 2000 w/Service Pack 2 Specifications: Platforms: Windows NT/2000/98/ME, Linux, Solaris Pricin... (more)

Wireless devices are proliferating throughout the marketplace faster than Tribbles. Corporate customers that I speak with identify wireless computing as a critical technology solution for their business needs. On the one hand, wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs are m... (more)

The unofficial consensus is that the United States is behind both Europe and Japan in the maturity and robustness of wireless Web applications. Sure, we're bombarded with commercials that encourage us to embrace the wireless Web, but so far the realities have fallen far short of ... (more)

I'm not sure that XML-J knew exactly what they were doing when they volunteered me for an online learning course from carriglearning. Clearly, they hadn't thought to check in with my high school Spanish teacher, who was only too happy to be done with me all those years ago. carr... (more)

Browser-based computing has made technology and information accessible to a whole new class of user. While client/server computing often required formal product training and painful desktop software installations, the simplified operating environments of Internet Explorer and Net... (more)

Jim Milbery: Tell me a little about Xtime's core product and why you made the jump to IVR. John Lee: Well, the core value proposition is to eliminate the pain and frustration that exist when service consumers are interacting with service providers. The scope of what we're talking... (more)

One of the most critical initiatives that faces modern business executives is the need to improve efficiency. Savvy companies continue to drive costs out of their business model in order to improve the bottom line. Is this a sound business practice? Absolutely. The trick is to ma... (more)

iPlanet recently announced some updates to their family of Web and application server products that help consolidate the overall product line. The new product positioning won't surprise iPlanet enthusiasts as it positions iPlanet as a superior solution for a broader range of the ... (more)

In a recent editorial meeting with the JDJ staff I broached the subject of open source software with editor-in-chief, Alan Williamson. I freely admit that I was baiting him - but Alan was favorable towards it. It's a touchy subject for any technical person, sort of a motherhood a... (more)