As I write this, the IBM developerWorks site is down for maintenance… perhaps someone should have a look at the web architecture behind the developerWorks site to avoid downtime when doing maintenance 😉
“The IBM developerWorks Web site is currently under maintenance.
Please try again later.”
Actually I was going to the developerWorks site to read an article on discussions of architecture issues called “developerWorks bloggers on Architecture, Part 2” (as pointed to by Bobby Woolf).
Peter Eeles (Senior IT Architect, IBM) has published his fourth and final article on developerWorks Architecture in a series on software architecture – this time on the benefits of software architecting. The article “covers the benefits that a business and an IT organization can derive from a sound software architecture“.
The article appears in the May 2006 edition of The Rational Edge.
Google Web Toolkit has been released. From the overview: “Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler to translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.”
This should make it easier to use AJAX functionality with Domino web applications.
Update: EclipseZone has an article called “Getting started with Google Web Toolkit (GWT)” that describes in detail how to use GWT.
June 27 update: An article on developerWorks has just been published: “Ajax for Java developers: Exploring the Google Web Toolkit“.
As blogged by Alan Lepofsky and Ed Brill, IBM has unveiled more information on the upcoming release of Lotus Notes (code name “Hannover”). Please notice that “Hannover” is to include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities!
A new tutorial called “Hello World, Part 1: Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is the first tutorial in the “Hello World! Series”, which will provide high-level overviews of various IBM software products. Part 2 of this series will introduce you to Rational Application Developer.
The tutorial “introduces you to IBM Rational Software Architect, and highlights some basic features of Rational Software Architect with a hands-on exercise. Learn how to design an application using UML diagrams, publish the model information into a Web page, and transform the design to Java code using Rational Software Architect.”
Update February 28, 2007: An updated tutorial for Rational Software Architect V7.0 has been published.
According to The New York Times IBM will later today be “introducing software tools, academic programs and support for outside developers that IBM says are intended to bring new business and new programmers to the mainframe. IBM is trying to position the mainframe for corporate customers as a ‘hub of Internet-based computing.’”
Also according to the article: “The software tools IBM is introducing will enable traditional mainframe programmers and programmers skilled in modern computer languages, like Java, to write software programs tailored for the mainframe but including Internet technology. This Web services technology makes programs more flexible as individual building blocks of code will be able to communicate with others automatically.”
Update: The Mercury News also has an article on the upcoming announcement.
Update 2: This has now been officially announced by IBM in a press release entitled “IBM Unveils Software and ISV Initiatives to Handle Surge in Mainframe Transactions“. Focus is on using the mainframe as a hub for SOA.
As pointed out by Bill Higgins developer-focused podcasts are now available over at IBM developerWorks.
New article on developerWorks: “Taking a tour of the new features and technology in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5“