Development

IBM Corp. is looking to modernize Cobol applications by bridging its mainframe-oriented Cobol and WebSphere products to EJB and service-oriented architectures. The company will unveil new versions of its Enterprise Cobol and WebSphere Studio Enterprise developer products on Monday.

Typical open source project development strategies work well for free software but don't flourish in commercial settings, according to one expert.

Enterprises shopping for a Java application server will soon have more reasons to look at open source software, with no less than three open source projects expected to be certified compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s enterprise Java standard by the end of the year.

Looking to help developers find code issues early, Shunra Software Ltd. on Wednesday introduced Shunra/Stratus 2.0, which provides performance unit testing for distributed application code.

Developers have a new option for extending Lotus Domino applications to mobile devices thanks to a new version of iAnywhere Solutions Inc.'s Pylon Application Server released on Monday.

The JBoss Group LLC is best-known as the provider of the JBoss open source application server, and it has also been known for having disagreements with Sun about licensing of Java test suites. But those disagreements were resolved in 2003. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with JBoss CEO and Founder Marc Fleury during the "J2EE 1.4 Kickoff Event" last week in San Francisco to discuss the company and open source issues.

NetBeans IDE 3.6, a major revision to the open source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing, debugging, and backing for J2EE 1.4.

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