Vague, undocumented and double or triple meaning definitions are not uncommon to the IT world but I must say that SOA beats them all. If there is a commonly accepted definition I haven't found it yet, the ones I have encountered so far not only differ on what SOA is but they do i...

A round-up of the overall themes and topics being presented at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, October 20-22, 2008 - including AIR & Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET, Business Case for RIAs, Cloud Computing, Comet, Google Web Toolki...

From Amazon EC2 and App Engine from Google to Utility Computing, Virtualization, and Walled Gardens - there's no aspect of Cloud Computing that hasn't already been addressed at some level of detail in SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Journal (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com). He...

From CEP and Composable Services to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing, this is a round-up of the many themes and topic of interest to architects, developers and managers featuring at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo being held November 19-21, ...

An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet ...

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the t...