A BZ Media Publication BEHIND THE CODING: THE MAKING OF A ‘ROCK STAR’ APPLICATION page 5 OCTOBER 15, 2006 • ISSUE NO. 160 www.sdtimes.com • $7.95 Borland Dumps Core SDP U.S. Names Four-way product offerings replace single ALM platform First Czar Of BY ALEX HANDY newest products. These pieces Cybersecurity Borland Software is abandoning can be combined into a single Core SDP, formerly the center- ALM solution, and Johnson IT trade association piece of its application life-cycle pointed out that the products executive Garcia fills management approach to soft- that made up Core SDP are long-vacant position ware development, according to being portioned out into the officials at the company. appropriate new package. BY JENNIFER DEJONG The role-based Core SDP, Marc Brown, senior director Filling a post that has been which had been released to much of product marketing, said that vacant for more than a year, the fanfare in March 2005, has been Core SDP’s roles-based tooling U.S. Department of Homeland pushed aside by a new four-way did not reflect the roles that exist- Security has named Gregory solution, led by Borland’s new ed within clients’ companies. Garcia to be the nation’s first Lifecycle Quality Management “Everyone defines those roles dif- assistant secretary for cybersecu- (LQM) suite. ferently,” said Brown. When asked rity and telecommunications. Brad Johnson, Borland’s if the Core SDP would be DHS Secretary Michael director of product marketing, chopped up and rebranded under Chertoff last month plucked Source: Borland Software said that Core SDP would soon the four new ALM solution lines, Garcia from the Information be phased out in favor of the four Brown said, “Yes.” Borland’s LQM suite encompasses the testing and requirements tools needed Technology Association of Amer- different life-cycle management The decision to dump Core to integrate testing and development teams under one communication and ica, a trade group where he has solutions based on the company’s continued on page 21 > planning framework. served as vice president for infor- mation security policy and pro- grams since 2003. “Greg brings SPECIAL REPORT: the right mix of experience in ECLIPSE PROJECTS W3C Giving Sites to the Blind government and the private sec- tor to continue to strengthen our Before the next Working on accessibility standards for rich Internet apps robust partnerships that are release train is ready essential to this field,” Chertoff BY ALEX HANDY the W3C, said that the new Accessibility Initiative’s Accessi- said in a statement. for consumption, a few The blind may soon be able to guidelines and road map, which ble Rich Internet Application Paul Kurtz, executive director tasty morsels will be better access AJAX widgets in were released in late September, suite. That suite, said Brewer, will for the advocacy group Cyber ready to serve Web sites. The World Wide Web will expand significantly over comprise best practices docu- Security Industry Alliance and a Consortium has published the time. “We’re calling them the ments that will give developers critic of the way DHS has han- beginnings of new acces- start of the WAI-ARIA guidelines for making their RIAs dled cybersecurity issues, praised sibility standards aimed at A HUB OF Suite. That includes one amenable to use by the blind and the appointment. “Greg is an AJAX rich Internet applica- document that’s essen- physically handicapped. excellent choice for the position, ACTIVITY tions. The guidelines are PAGE 6 tially a road map, and Brewer said that the initial bringing both his solid knowl- a first step toward the two documents that set of three documents—the edge of information security establishment of best practices include work in specific areas,” road map, states and properties, issues and strong relationships in for making RIAs accessible to said Brewer. The latter of these and roles documents—are now the private sector to [DHS],” he screen readers and alternate two documents seeks to lay out open for review and comment. said in a statement. forms of computer interface how roles, states and properties Later, the Web Accessibility Ini- Earlier this year, Kurtz, navigation. should be defined in accessible tiative will expand and refine among others, criticized DHS page 25 Judy Brewer, director of the rich Internet applications. these and other accessible RIA- for its failure to fill the assistant Web accessibility initiative for WAI-ARIA stands for the Web continued on page 17 > continued on page 21 > IN THIS ISSUE STPCon BEA Comes Full Circle With SOA . .3 Makes Tracks A Global View of Development . .7 On Testing page 16 Analyst Says Red Hat Stack Comes Up Short . .8 Microsoft Refreshes Office Beta . .12 O’BRIEN: Test-First Tactic Trounces Thread Threat . .29 Toad Hops Onto Mainframes . .15 BINSTOCK: The Language of Lua . .29 CountDown to Universal Device Testing . .22 RUBINSTEIN: Mercury and Points Offshore . .30 www.sdtimes.com Software Development Times October 15, 2006 NEWS 3 BEA Pulls a 360 With Consolidated SOA Offering BY ALEX HANDY and incorporate some new a real-world scenario.” In addition, the company BEA Systems used its annual bits of code that tie every- But Mike Wienick, consul- announced the formation of a conference to announce the thing together under this tant and analyst for European partnership with Web services circling of its product lines. Eclipse control panel. firm Pierre Audion, said that reseller StrikeIron. The part- The mid-September event Bill Roth, vice president he was still waiting to see just nership will bring new data was highlighted by the of BEA’s Workshop Group, how much of SOA 360 is mar- integration services for harvest- announcement of SOA 360 said the WebLogic Work- keting hype, and how much is ing information from Excel (as in 360 degrees), the shop development environ- actual innovation. “Obviously spreadsheets and making it company’s new name for ment will become a part the idea’s very interesting, but available to an AquaLogic its integrated SOA platform. of the WorkSpace 360 to me it’s not very different than deployment through the data Comprising WebLogic, platform. Additional tool- what they’ve talked about services platform. AquaLogic and Tuxedo, SOA ing will arrive in 2007, and before. It makes sense for cus- BEA also used the confer- 360 will offer a single man- will include a relationship tomers who are using all three, ence to introduce its Guardian agement and development Source: BEA layout tool, PHP develop- but how much is it going to support service. This new tool environment for service-ori- ment facilities and possible cost to upgrade?” wondered offers real-time suggestions to ented architectures. SOA 360 brings together the SOA, transaction expanded support for Wienick. He went on to say that administrators working with Alfred Chuang, chair- and development solutions of BEA. REST. Roth demonstrated BEA has been saying all along WebLogic or AquaLogic instal- man and CEO of BEA, took one of these tools, Web- its products would be integrat- lations. Guardian, said Chuang, the keynote stage of BEAWorld state that SOA allows difficult Space Architect, which dia- ed and cohesive. will keep users up to date with to discuss the potential of SOA business processes to be better grams the XML associated with current patches and inform in the enterprise. During his managed and executed upon. code held in the repository for- MORE WORLD NEWS them when they are moving into speech, he said that BEA now The newly titled platform merly known as Flashline. Also announced during BEA- areas that could cause problems earns 20 percent of its revenue will materialize in 2007 with the Noel Yuhanna, senior ana- World was the release of the down the line. The system can from AquaLogic sales, despite first release of WorkSpace 360, lyst at Forrester Research, said AquaLogic Data Services Plat- download and install updates the product being just over a an Eclipse-based collaborative that BEA’s SOA 360 offers a form 2.5. The software is specific to situations encoun- year old. “SOA puts business development environment. broader perspective of SOA. “I designed to access and present tered during daily administra- back in charge of business,” SOA 360 will also include the think they are taking the right any form of data available with- tion. No date for the delivery of said Chuang. He went on to existing BEA SOA products, steps toward…getting this into in an enterprise. Guardian was given. T i d r a n o e L a r a M : Sumero-Akkadian n o i t a r t s u l l I o t o Recognized Here h P s e m Unicode 5.0 adds scripts from ancient languages i T D S BY P.J. CONNOLLY an encoding standard, which incorpo- Sumerian is virtually Fifteen years after its first publication, rated characters from Akkadian, nil, the Unicode stan- the Unicode standard has reached a Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian and dard includes archaic milestone with Unicode 5.0.0, the latest Sumerian. scripts in support of version of the character encoding Unicode is important in the interna- academic and anti- scheme. The new version includes tionalization and localization of applica- quarian research. 1,369 new character assignments, with tions; ideally, translatable strings such The bulk of the three new contemporary script families as dialog boxes and menu items are sep- new characters are and two ancient: Balinese, N’Ko and arated off into resource files, while vari- from the added Phags-Pa; Phoenician and Sumero- able formatting and searching, sorting scripts; the cuneiform entries Akkadian Cuneiform, respectively.