For many corporations, today’s heterogeneous software environments require interoperability between platforms that extends beyond the loose coupling provided by Web services. As an alternative, CORBA ...

Fearful of Microsoft's desktop domination, Corba backers have jumped on the Java bandwagon as a way of infiltrating the desktop. The theory goes that as Java transcends the native operating system, ...

The crux of the NetBeans 5.5 update is compliance with Java EE 5, which was released in May. The integrated development environment (IDE) for Java application development now offers a host of tools ...