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A LOOK BACK
MICROSOFT:Microsoft pushed forward
on platforms in 2009...................6
ALM: Borland acquisition the big news
inALM for 2009 ......................8
TEST & QA:Test/QA market saw
continued demand in 2009 .........9
OPEN SOURCE:First big business,
now big data ................14
JAVA:The language moves
tothe platform .........18
JANUARY 1, 2010 • ISSUE NO. 237 www.sdtimes.com • $9.95
Sun puts Java EE 6
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by BY ALEX HANDY port for new features. GlassFish, down for specific Web purposes.
on Almost 10 years to the day since for example, is also available in a Both the Java EE 6 environment
ustrati the 1999 release of Java EE 1.2, Web Profile form, and NetBeans and the GlassFish application
ill Sun announced that Java EE 6 is 6.8 adds handlers for REST. server can then be upgraded to
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A year in 140 In the three years since the EE 6 is a slimmed-down instal- the need to change or update
last major update to the Java EE lation of the Java EE ecosystem. applications, said Tom Kincaid,
platform, a great deal has Built in response to developer executive director of Sun’s
characters or less changed in Java, and EE 6 complaints over the years, Java Application Platform organiza-
reflects these changes. Chief EE 6 adds Profiles, which will tion. “We expect this to be very
among the new features are a be targeted installations for spe- popular with Web application
slimmed down Web Profile cific purposes. Initially,only the development and deployment,”
BY ALAN ZEICHICK That said, here’s an unpack- installation of the EE platform, Web Profile is available, but he said.
Big yr #2009 Twtr Oracle got ing of the above Twitter line, support for RESTful Web ser- Sun has said it is looking into
NO FRAGILE FISH
@Sun MySQL slo Java .NET representing what, IMHO, are vices, and the last-minute inclu- more configurations. The Web
fast Hadoop Spring #Win7 the most significant events sion of dependency injections. Profile version of Java EE 6 GlassFish Enterprise Applica-
#iPhone Netbk #Silverlight affecting development man- Sun also released NetBeans installs only the pieces of the tion Server version 3 is a com-
Cloud Amazon Google agers over the past year. 6.8 and GlassFish Enterprise language and ecosystem needed mercially licensed form of the
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SForce @Google A C Maybe you’ll ROFL, Application Server version 3. to run Web applications, such as open-source GlassFish server
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can pack a lot of informa- Initially starting as a way
tion into 140 ASCII characters for people to tell their friends
without any type of obvious what they’re doing, Twitter has Company avoids punishment by offering choice with Windows
binary compression or data become a mainstream market-
encoding. Of course, there’s an ing platform and a news BY DAVID WORTHINGTON choose from, with a total of 12 plaint with the EC in December
entire subculture filled with broadcast medium. Follow The European Commission’s choices. The five most popular 2007, and the EC was prepared
Twitter-friendly abbreviations, your favorite pundits on Twit- ongoing antitrust case against browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, to rule against Microsoft as
many of which have been ter,or subscribe to news feeds Microsoft reached an anticlimac- Opera and Safari) will receive recently as June.
derived from text messaging or (like our own @sdtimes or my tic end in December when the the most prominent placement. “We are pleased with today’s
online forums—everything personal @zeichick). Program- trade body agreed to accept the Microsoft initially resisted the decision by the European Com-
from classics ROFL (rolling on matic uses for Twitter mes- company’s concessions to resolve ballot, instead opting to strip IE mission, which approves a final
the floor laughing) to IMHO sages, which could be alawsuit that was filed against it out of Windows entirely. The resolution of several longstand-
(in my humble opinion) to described as broadcast data- for bundling its Internet Explor- ballot will be made available for ing competition law issues in
YMMV (your mileage may grams that can also be direct- er browser with Windows. Windows XP, Windows Vista and Europe,” said Microsoft senior
vary) to terms that only n00bs ed as multicast or unicast data- The settlement requires Windows 7. vice president and general coun-
wouldn’t get, like w00t. continued on page 14 > Microsoft to offer Windows Browser maker Opera Soft- sel Brad Smith. “We look for-
users a ballot of browsers to ware filed an antitrust com- continued on page 19 >
IN THIS ISSUE
Google updates Web Toolkit to 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Gaiaware provides AJAX controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Electric Cloud tool narrows builds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
ObjectBuilders
BINSTOCK: Development with functional tests . . .24
makes sure apps follow
O’BRIEN: Fun with WPF applications . . . . . . . . . . .25 their specifications
ZEICHICK: Artificial Nostalgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 page 12

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Google updates Web Toolkit to 2.0
Java-to-JavaScript suite brings new debugging, code snipping capabilities
BY ALEX HANDY months,” said Bowers. “We’re Of all the changes in version
‘We’reseeingfunctionality
Google has long seen Java as a seeing functionality moving 2.0, Bowers said that the
better JavaScript. The compa- intoHTMLitselfwithHTML5 movingintoHTMLitself new code-splitting capabilities
ny’s Google Web Toolkit has and CSS 3; bottlenecks are withHTML5andCSS3.’ requiredthemostrawcomputer
been translating Java into occurringnotjustinJavaScript, science know-how. Code split-
JavaScript for developers for butelsewhere.” —AndrewBowers,Google ting began as a part of the
overtwoyearsnow.InDecem- To remedy this, Bowers and GoogleWaveproject,wherethe
ber, the company updated the the GWT team built Speed client-sideGoogleWaveapplica-
toolkit to version 2.0. This new Tracer,anoptimizationtoolthat tionwasgrowingataslowrate.
version brings the Google runs in Chrome and can be “Weneededawaytogetthe
Chrome browser into the mix used to determine where in an timefromstartuptoapplication
for debugging purposes, and application slowdowns are nedy faster,” said Bowers. “What
n
introduces the ability to chop occurring. Ke code splitting does is it just
codeupintobite-sizedsnippets “It’s a Chrome extension Niall downloadsthepartsofanappli-
foruseontheclientend. that’s a little different than by cation when you need them.
o
Andrew Bowers, product some of the existing tools that hot Does your application have a
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managerforGWT,saidthatthis focused on a page as it loads,” nessgraphsoyoucancorrelate can see exactly what’s being settings page? There’s no rea-
release was all about speed. he said. “Speed Tracer is thatwithnetworkspeeds.” processed in the browser and sontodownloaditwiththeini-
GWT 2.0 improvements, he designed to watch an applica- Thatinformationcanalsobe causingtheslowness. tialJavaScriptdownloadforthe
said,canbedividedupintotwo tion over time. It’s also coordinated with the steady GWT 2.0 also includes a restoftheapplication.”
categories: those that make designedtobringsimplicity. streamofnarrationSpeedTrac- new modular declarative UI Codesplittingcanbeguided
development faster, and those “Other profilers would give er provides. Bowers said that builder called UiBinder. This, by developers, but it is auto-
that make applications run youreamsofdata,butnotshow each action performed by the said Bowers, came from an maticallyexecutedbytheGWT
faster. youwheretolook.Wegiveyou server, from rendering style internal desire at Google to be compiler. Bowers said those
“We’ve seen that JavaScript two graphs: sluggishness and sheetstopullingdownXML,is able to build websites graphi- algorithmsweredifficulttocre-
performancehasincreaseddra- network. The network graph is listed as it happens, so when cally without changing the ate and represented the most
matically over the last 12 overlaidontopofthesluggish- things slow down, developers underlyingapplicationcode. challengingpartofGWT2.0.(cid:1)
Coordinated effort at IBM results in new Linux servers
Services, products, hardware beginning to work together on higher-level stacks
BY ALEX HANDY “Ihavetogivecredittothe vided them to clients and el, it’ll be less services, but we
IBM has introduced a host of chairman.Heformedtheinte- expect them to work with the need to capture some of the
new Linux servers in an effort gration values team, where he services team to get what they value for the engineering work
to entice enterprises into tookthe300topexecutives[at needed,” he said. “We decided that’s been done,” he said. “At
upgradingtheirsystems’under- IBM]andhemeasuresusona to engineer it at a higher level theendofthedaythecostwill
lyinglegacyapplications. yearlybasisonhowwe’reinte- to give clients a higher level of be less for the client, but we
The new Series z Linux grating across the enterprise,” consumability and allow them expecttosellmoreofthem.”
servers were announced in said Hunt. “For the last three to acquire this pre-engineered For Series z users, IBM is
Decemberalongsideanarrayof or four years, you’ve seen this packaging.” offeringeightdifferentconfigu-
systems consolidation services pressureattheverytopsofthe Another reason for IBM to rations, each targeted at a spe-
and software products. This business to demonstrate what offer higher-level stacks is the cific use case: data warehous-
coordinatedeffortbyIBM’stra- we’ve done to work together increasing popularity of similar ing, application development,
ditionally separate products, to deliver higher values to application frameworks from disasterrecovery,security,elec-
services and hardware arms is clients.” Oracle. Oracle’s Application tronic payments, SAP applica-
exemplary of IBM’s three-year IBM’sDouglasHuntsaysthe That internal collaboration Framework packs now number tions,service-orientedarchitec-
effort to bring its disparate companypushedforcollaboration. has already yielded fruit, even in the dozens, each targeting a ture applications and services,
partsclosertogether. before the Linux server specificindustry,suchashealth andcloudcomputing.TheSys-
Douglas Hunt, vice presi- laboration within IBM. The announcement. Hunt pointed care,insuranceandfinance. tem z Solution Editions are
dentoftechnologyatIBM,said company’sthreemajorbusiness toIBM’sreleasethisSeptember “At the Oracle level, they eachcomprisedofvariouscom-
that for the past three years, units, hardware, business ser- of Integrated Information may have some skills around ponents,suchasDB2andWeb-
IBM’schairmanandCEOSam vices and business technology Framework 1.3, an application industry levels. We have deep Sphere,thatmakeupextended
Palmisano has pushed down services,allworkedtogetheron frameworkstackspecificallytar- industry knowledge to tap into integratedstacks.
hard on upper management to thisrelease. getedatpetroleumrefineries. very detailed levels of knowl- “IBMisseeinganewmarket
encourage more collaboration. A similar collaboration cul- While targeting a vertical edge on the upstream and trendforlarge-scaleservercon-
The result is less of a focus on minated in July when IBM marketisnothingnew,forIBM downstream side of the oil and solidation and bringing more
piecemeal software solutions, announced a new WebSphere itisadecidedlydifferentwayof gasspace,”saidHunt. capabilities to the mainframe,”
and more focus on addressing appliance that came from col- doing business. Hunt said that ThoughHuntcouldn’tdetail said Tom Rosamilia, general
vertical markets through more laboration between hardware collaboration across the vast any specific application frame- manager of System z at IBM.
robuststacks. andsoftwareteamsatIBM.For corporate power structure of worksthatwereontheway,he “Only the Enterprise Linux
The new Series z Linux any other corporation, such IBM showed that customers did say that this new focus on Servercanprovidetheenviron-
servers, and related software internal collaboration wouldn’t werehavingtroublewithIBM’s higher-level stacks should be ment necessary to handle
and products, were all be news. But for IBM, it’s a softwareservices. cheaper. countless workloads securely
announced at the same time, major change in the company’s “Historically, we’ve had all “Werealizeattheendofthe and with high availability on
theresultofthenewfoundcol- gameplan. these capabilities, and we pro- daythatwhenweusethismod- suchamassivescale.”(cid:1)
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Microsoft pushed forward
UPDATES
on platforms in 2009
Progress Software has released a new version of its Progress
OpenEdge software-as-a-service business application develop-
ment platform. New features in this version of OpenEdge
Overtures to open source were also made last year
include compliance with data privacy regulations and easier
deployment of applications via the Web, Progress executives
BY DAVID WORTHINGTON Windows 7, which launched ationofhigher-qualitysoftware
said . . . ALM company ThoughtWorks Studios has shipped
2009wasamomentousandtur- on Oct. 22, introduced new through greater componentiza-
its Mingle 3.0 agile project manager, adding a new team
bulentyearinMicrosoft’shisto- interface paradigms, including tionandtestability.
communicationsplatformcalledMurmurs.Murmursstorescon-
ry. It made its entrance into a redesigned task bar and The .NET framework
versations between team members and instantly associates
cloud computing, and broke touch-screentechnology. assumed a broader position
those dialogs with Mingle project artifacts. Mingle 3.0 is now
convention by donating source Windows 2008 Server R2 when the company launched
fully integrated with Tasktop Pro, the enterprise version of
codetoLinux.Long-termplat- extends hardware support, Silverlight 3, a streamlined
the Mylyn ALM integration platform for the Eclipse IDE
form efforts came to fruition, improves power management, implementation of the frame-
. . . Q-Mentum has made available UquoniTest 2.0, its unit and it aggressively accelerated includes live migration of workfortheWeb,inJuly.
testinglibraryforC++.Thenewversionfeaturesthecreationof Silverlightdevelopment. Hyper-V virtual Silverlight 3 intro-
test directories, a mock framework, and the ability to assign Looking beyond the tradi- machines, and has ALO OKBAC duced a component
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operating system, as well as a .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft shipped its Expres-
ware development suite. The OpenSocial dashboards let users
range of services, including a SQLServer2008,VisualStudio sion3.0toolingsuitetosupport
createdashboardscontaininginformationfromanyoftheappli-
relational database called SQL 2008 SP1 and Windows Server Silverlight; Expression Blend
cations included in JIRA Studio. A new JIRA Query Language
Azure, and AppFabric, which 2008. It incorporates failover 3.0 can create a workflow
enablesteammemberstoruncomplexqueriesusinganSQL-like
connects on-premise applica- clustering features from Win- between developers and
syntax,Atlassianexecutivessaid.
tionstothecloud. dows Server and also supports designers.
Community Technology Hyper-V. After the release of Sil-
PEOPLE Previews (CTPs) of the Win- Similarly, Microsoft’s devel- verlight 3, Microsoft quickly
dows Azure Platform were opment platform made signifi- movedtowardSilverlight4.Sil-
Non-profit information management organization AIIM (Associa- released regularly throughout cant strides with previews of verlight 4 gives developers
tion for Information and Image Management) has added six theyear,andMicrosoft’sServer SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual access to local resources,
newboardmemberstoits2010boardofdirectors.Tricia Bush, &ToolsBusinesstookchargeof Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. including hardware, as well as
product development market- Microsoft shipped a Go Live Windows 7 APIs and legacy
Brent Bussell, Timothy Elmore, John Newton, Jeetu Patel
ingefforts. beta version of Visual Studio applications through Compo-
and Johannes Scholtes will all help manage AIIM. Bush is
Virtualization also played a 2010 in October that included nentObjectModelsupport.
a SharePoint product management director at Microsoft and is
key role in Microsoft’s decision .NET4.0. Lastly, Microsoft R2 deliv-
responsible for overseeing SharePoint’s enterprise content
to contribute its Hyper-V ker- Visual Studio 2010 incorpo- eredabetaofSQLServer2008
management(ECM)andbusinessintelligencecapabilities.Bussell
nel drivers to the Linux com- rates new ALM, architecture R2. SQL Server 2008 R2 (for-
hasbeenwithIBMformorethan10yearsandcurrentlyservesas
munity. The drivers improve and testing tools that are merly codenamed “Kiliman-
a marketing executive for the company. Elmore is CIO of Bank-
the performance of the Linux designed to help developers jaro”) enables managed busi-
Fund Staff Federal Credit Union, and Newton is CTO at open- operatingsystemwhenitisvir- automate testing, reproduce nessintelligencesolutionstobe
source ECM firm Alfresco Software. Patel is the executive vice tualized on Windows Server bugs, model software, collabo- created from transactional and
president of content management company Doculabs, while 2008 Hyper-V, but it was also rate, and better adhere to storeddata.
Scholtesisthefounder,presidentandCEOofinformationaccess foundtohavebeeninviolation requirements. A future edition of SQL
technology company ZyLAB Technologies . . . MKS has made oftheGeneralPublicLicense. Microsoft’s Security Devel- Server will incorporate Micro-
changesattheexecutivemanagementlevel,withMichaelHarris, The company embarked on opment Lifecycle team deliv- soft’s “Oslo” technology for
currently the company’s president and COO, being made numerous interoperability ini- ered several free tools for model driven development.
its CEO. Philip Deck, the company’s previous CEO, has been tiatives throughout the year, secure development within ThecompanyshippedaCTPof
including opening Windows VisualStudio,andadvisedWin- those technologies, which are
appointedexecutivechairmanandwillcontinuehisroleaschair-
Azure to PHP and Java devel- dows developers on how to now known as “SQL Server
man of the board of directors. One of the main reasons behind
opers,workingwiththeEclipse writesecurecode. Modeling,” in early November.
the move is to allow Deck, who is MKS’ largest shareholder, to
Foundation and partners to They include its Quadrant
increase his focus on the strategic aspects of MKS’ growth, ADVANCINGTHEBIGTHREE
support Eclipse, participating modeling tool, “M” modeling
according to the company . . . John Bates has been named
in the Open Web Foundations’ In addition, Visual Studio 2010 language, and a modeling lan-
CTO and head of corporate development for Progress Software.
work to incubate Web stan- includes .NET 4.0, which inte- guagerepository.
Previously, Bates had been serving as general manager of Pro-
dards, and establishing the grates aspects of Windows Those technologies will be
gress’ Apama complex event processing platform. He arrived at CodePlexFoundationforopen- Communication Foundation incorporated throughout the
ProgresswiththecompanyApamawhenProgressacquireditin sourcedevelopmentonitsplat- withWindowsWorkflowFoun- Microsoft development stack,
2005, and he held the role of president and CTO for Apama forms. dation,andalsodeliversamajor including Visual Studio, after
. . .John NugenthasbeennamedpresidentandCEOofSerena newreleaseofASP.NET. theyship.
AMATURINGSTACK
Software.Nugent,whohascloseto30yearsofexperienceinthe ASP.NET 4.0 addresses Allinall,Microsoftlaidthe
technology industry, according to Serena, previously served as Ultimately,Microsoftisinbusi- longstanding pain points in groundwork for its platforms
executivevicepresidentofworldwideoperationsatSAPBusiness ness to ship software, and it Web Forms development and for years to come. That work
reached major milestones in introduces significant client- will change how Windows and
Objects,andhealsoheldexecutiveandseniorsalesmanagement
2009.Windows7andWindows side functionality to ASP.NET .NET developers create soft-
positionsatOraclefor17yearspriortothat.JeremyBurton,who
2008ServerR2arrivedinlock- AJAX. Further, a Model-View- ware, and the company’s bur-
preceded Nugent as Serena’s president and CEO, resigned from
step, and BizTalk Server 2009 Controller pattern was intro- geoning openness toward
thecompany.(cid:1)
alsoshipped. duced to encourage the cre- interoperability and open-
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Borland acquisition the big news in ALM for 2009
BY JEFF FEINMAN years had a string of question- inMay.Industryexpertssaidthat thesummerof2008. LO OKBA could in an uncertain
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Oneofthebiggeststoriesinthe able executive decisions and a while Micro Focus would serve Aside from the K economy. CollabNet
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larger portions of software
being created by distributed
teams.Thecompanyalsointro-
duced dynamic planning into
TeamForge, which lets devel-
opment teams manage agile
projectsinoneuserinterface.
Electric Cloud integrated its
ElectricCommanderbuildtester
and ElectricAccelerator parallel
buildingsoftwarewithAmazon’s
ElasticComputeCloudenviron-
ment, opening the cloud to
development and test teams.
Electric Cloud also added lan-
guagelocalization,multipletime
zone scheduling options, and
continuous integration in a new
versionofElectricCommander.
One of Kovair Software’s big
moveswasredesigningtheUIof
its flagship, Kovair Global Life-
cycle. The company also
released software-as-a-service
versionsofitsALMproducts.
MKS, meanwhile, upgraded
itsIntegrity2009platformwith
new reporting capabilities and
dashboardsthatcanbetailored
tospecificroles.
Rally Software acquired 6th
Sense Analytics, a provider of
on-demand metrics products.
Rallyexecutivessaidtheacqui-
sition provides Rally customers
with more access to project
data, and it improves agile
developmentreporting.
Adding an open API to its
Surround SCM 2010 software
configuration manager was a
mainobjectiveforSeapineSoft-
ware, as the company added an
APIforwritingapplicationsthat
accessbranchesandrepositories
on the Surround SCM Server.
Seapine’s TestTrack application
testing product line brought in
thenewTestTrackRMrequire-
mentsmanager.
Serena Software continued
to push into business process
management, adding LDAP
integrationandnewadministra-
tion capabilities to its Business
Mashups software. The compa-
nyalsoreleasedasoftware-as-a-
serviceagiledevelopmentprod-
uctwithAgileOnDemand.
Urbancodeaddednewcom-
mand-linefeaturesandintegra-
tions with source code analyz-
erstoitsAnthillProcontinuous
integrationsoftware.(cid:1)
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Test/QA market saw continued demand in 2009
BY JEFF FEINMAN ment’s behavior. iTKO released Actional 8.0, the first Actional’s existing production- ticularmemoryallocation,intoa
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“Unlikepreviousdownturns,
where testing was cut heavily
relative to other IT activities,
we saw a lot less of that in
2009,” said Black, president of
RexBlackConsulting,asecuri-
tygroup.
Early in the year, CAST
Softwareaddednewdashboard
viewsintoitsApplicationIntel-
ligence platform, bringing a
code view that shows object
source code and information
aboutthecode.
Compuware’s testing busi-
nessunitsawamajoroverhaulin
2009 as the company sold its
existing testing and QA product
line to Micro Focus for US$80
million.Itthensnatchedupper-
formancemanagementcompany
Gomez for $295 million. Com-
puware executives said Gomez’s
offerings give Compuware a
larger focus on on-demand
application performance moni-
toringthanitsprevioustoolsdid.
dynaTrace,meanwhile,creat-
ed a free AJAX performance
analyzer to diagnose AJAX per-
formance problems. It also
launched the dynaTrace Com-
munity Portal. The portal offers
best practices, training and
forumstohelptestersstrengthen
theirapplicationperformance.
Hex-Rays added stronger
integration with 64-bit arith-
meticinversion1.1ofitsname-
sakedecompiler,alongwiththe
ability to handle floating-point
instructions such as conver-
sions.Thecompanyupdatedits
IDA Pro debugger with a
moveable windows-based user
interfacethatoffersstackviews
andtheabilitytodisplaydatain
multipleformats.
Hewlett-Packard focused on
better testing of Web 2.0 appli-
cationsinversion9.5ofitsLoad-
Runner load testing software.
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HPexecutivessaidLoadRunner
also features Protocol Advisor,
whichreducestestsetuptimeby
automaticallypickingwhichpro-
tocolsareusedinanapplication.
iTKO revamped its LISA
product suite with automated
modeling and simulation of
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