The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. We know what blockchain is by now. Blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger system for ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, as organizations went from having one computer to two computers to many computers, they faced the challenge of connecting the different hardware and software components.

Although most IT organizations today are probably only vaguely aware of the Hadoop distributed file system and database based on Java, you can tell something is gaining momentum when middleware ...

ASP.NET Core is an open source, cross-platform, lean, and modular framework for building high-performance web applications. It is also extensible. When building an ASP.NET Core application, you can ...

Yet increasingly, open source middleware is standing up to the pros. The muscle behind it includes Linux, the Apache Web Server, the JBoss and Apache Geronimo application servers, and the Apache Axis2 ...

Expertise and opinions of authors published by ForbesBooks. Imprint operated under license. So you’ve got a problem. There’s this piece of software your company has been using for a long time now, and ...

Oracle has ambitions -- best illustrated by its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems -- to become a one-stop shop of information technology products from hardware and operating system platforms, to ...

JavaScript is widely used and well understood on servers and in web browsers to enable advanced functionality, but it hasn’t generally had middleware, until now. Well-funded web development startup ...

The (proposed) settlement between the DOJ and Microsoft makes a big deal of "middleware" and its role in Windows. Back in the early 90's I remember the term middleware coming into use mostly to ...