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MBaaS cements place in the Tech Revolution

Enterprise demand for Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) has been gaining traction, according to StackMob, a back-end technology stack for mobile applications. BaaS

Not everything can be a DIY hit, even when it comes to OSGi

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. That was a key takeaway from Zuhlke Engineering's Tim Ward's EclipseCon 2013 session March 28 in Boston on Enterprise OSGi. Do It...

Modularizing legacy Java apps: Don’t reinvent the wheel

For enterprise architects, taking an "out with the old, in with the new" mentality can be tempting when modularizing large legacy Java applications, but that could be a mistake. That's according to Vineet Sinha of Cambridge, Mass. –based

Another push for HTML5 mobile adoption

Maxine Giza Want a challenge? Add the avalanche of enterprise mobile applications to DevOps teams' already-daunting integration workload, Paul Kopacki says. He's Sencha's vice president of marketing, which just released a mobile app integration tool for developers. Last week,

Knoernschild’s “Java Application Architecture”: A brilliant breakdown on modularity

Jack Vaughan Running through the history of computing is a quest for modularity. We curse it when it doesn’t work; we take it for granted when it does. Long ago, software engineers began to seek the equivalent of Lego bits, software modules that could be swapped much like bus boards on a...

The value of API management

Web APIs are multiplying as more retailers, media groups, governments and financial services firms start exposing them. At the same time, many companies are still resistant to API management, according to Paolo Malinverno, research vice president at Gartner. The problem with that, he said, is that...

Axway goes after Vordel

B2B software company Axway said it will acquire Vordel, the SOA security gateway company that has recently come to include cloud, mobile and social networking support in its offerings. The move will expand Axway's data governance portfolio, combining Axway's current managed file, B2B and...

Fat Fractal enters the BaaS fray

What has sometimes been described as mobile middleware has taken a new tack. Now, the idea of Backend as a Service (BaaS) has begun to take off in the mobile application development space. Proponents of BaaS say it helps developers easily build mobile apps, or any other applications connected to a...

Red Hat unveils the JBoss Way, drives toward mobile, cloud and big data

Yesterday, JBoss and RedHat made a few preliminary product announcements before the upcoming combination JBoss World / Red Hat Summit 2012 event scheduled for June 26-29. Their primary push was for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6, but there was also...

Alaska freight tracking made easier by open source messaging software

Reliable messaging can be hard to achieve in difficult terrains. This was apparent as we met up recently with a lead developer of a major freight company that specializes in shipping to and from far flung facilities in Alaska.

Rob Terpilowski, lead...