Although Frictionless Enterprise is about much more than technology, it is fundamentally shaped by technology. Therefore the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure an organization adopts is ...

The IT industry loves seismic shifts in technology architectures. In the 1990s, there was object-oriented programming. Later, service-oriented architecture and enterprise service bus built on these ...

Application modernization continues to be a top priority for organizations. According to 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, “A majority (51%) of organizations say that spending on ...

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FirstSpirit is built on a open standards architecture of Java and XML. e-Spirit claims it can support thousands of editors simultaneously, more than 100,000 publications and over five million objects ...

Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

Often without even realizing it, many organizations operate with a major inefficiency: duplicate applications within their systems. To be clear, organizations don’t intentionally create these ...

With an eye toward both consumer and enterprise needs, Sun Microsystems is reworking the plug-in architecture of Java in an upcoming update to Java Platform Standard Edition (SE) 6, company officials ...