Over the past year significant momentum has grown behind the unique
intersection of two core Web platform technologies, Java and XML. Clearly,
with Java emerging as the predominant Internet-system programming language
and XML emerging as the dominant model for Internet data, these two
technologies are bound to intersect in interesting ways. Indeed, almost
without exception Java has been the primary reference implementation
environment for emerging XML technologies such as XML and XSL parsers, as
well as XML-centric object database systems.
The meshing of these two key technologies is also at the intersection of a
revolution in how the Internet economy functions. Over the last few months
we've begun to see an emerging concept that is quickly spreading across
leading Internet companies and technology platforms. The concept is Web
syndication, which refers to building ... (more)
ON THE PAST...
"Back in 1997 I created a simple application in CF that presented a UI via
the very first Web phone (the AT&T PocketNet Phone), and allowed me to turn
on and off the lights and coffee maker in my house"
ON THE PRESENT...
"For the past few years I've spent a great deal of timing working on and
thinking about the application of rich media, video, and media distribution
technologies"
"It's hard to think of a kind of Internet or Web application that ColdFusion
couldn't be used for building"
"most...institutions - learning institutions, government institutions,
religio... (more)
By most people's estimate, it's the fifth anniversary of Java. Five years
ago, with Netscape in tow, Sun unveiled Java, declaring that the Java
programming language would be the next Web revolution. At the time HotJava
was the "killer app" for Java; more a proof of concept than a competitive
browser platform, it demonstrated that there could be more to the Web than
plain old HTML.
Within a year all the major browser platforms included a 1.0 version of the
Java Runtime and applets were considered the next big thing after plug-ins.
Both, it turned out, were pretty much useless for... (more)
Over the past couple of years, an idea has emerged (some might argue it's an
old idea) that software will be transformed into being used as services,
rather than as monolithic applications tied to a specific machine or
platform. Rather than install software onto computers every time we need some
functionality, an end user or corporation can reuse other application assets
over the network. The idea expands into the notion of just-in-time delivery
of applications. "Software as services" is a big idea. It holds the promise
of introducing radical new economies of scale into the manuf... (more)
On June 15 Allaire announced that it intended to acquire Live Software,
makers of JRun, the leading server-side Java development and deployment
server. With this acquisition Allaire also announced a broader strategy for
embracing Java on the server, extending its leading Web application platform
with a huge customer base and technology platform, and setting the stage for
an integrated application server platform that combines the dominant
tag-based rapid development model (CFML) with the dominant server-side
object-oriented system programming language, Java. These perfect cousins... (more)
Jeremy Allaire is one of the key people behind ColdFusion. He was one of the co-founders of Allaire Corp, which was later sold to Macromedia, where he joined as the CTO and turned his attention to helping evolve Macromedia Flash into a next-generation rich client platform. He is a regular author and analyst of Internet technologies.
Stefano Bellasio
Ben Johnson
Ben McCormack
Colin Ritchie
Vaibhaw Pandey
Slavik Markovich
Dean Madison
Ambuj Kumar
