Middleware news

Korean Developers MAIET, WeMade License Autodesk Kynapse

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:08:00 GMT

Korean online game developers MAIET Entertainment and WeMade Entertainment have both licensed Autodesk's Kynapse artificial intelligence middleware for their respective upcoming titles. Used in more than 100 titles, Kynapse's AI technology for nonplayer characters helps simulate spatial reasoning, dynamic 3D pathfinding, environment perception, and large-crowd movement in complex terrains. Autodesk claims its software can improve team coordination while reducing development time and overall project costs. MAIET will use the middleware with GunZ2: The Second Duel, ...

BlitzTech Engine, Middleware Adds Kinect & Move Support

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:10:00 GMT

Blitz Game Studios has announced that its BlitzTech game development tools will now feature full motion control functionality for use with the Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation's Move. BlitzTech,which is used internally by the UK firm and also licensed to third parties, is a comprehensive solution, including a game engine and in-built asset management that supports remote working and in-built version control. The engine has been used previously for titles such as House of the ...

Communications Center: New Oracle Netra Hardware-Software Bundles

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:00 GMT

New rack and blade servers come equipped with Oracle Database 11g, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, OracleVM and Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Outperform Your Competitors with Foundational Middleware Sponsored by Oracle

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:45:05 GMT

Oracle Virtualization Assembly Builder or OVAB can help package appliances and deploy them into a virtualized environment.

Cloud Computing: Fujitsu Hot for M&A

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto said the company is “very actively” seeking software acquisitions, particularly the cloud and middleware kind, to ratchet up its global growth, according to BusinessWeek. It could take another six months or more for Fujitsu to light on anything. It’s also interested in alliances presumably like its recent Azure appliance hardware deal with Microsoft.

Is XMPP Still A Relevant Messaging Platform For Middleware?

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT

The recent news on Google stopping further development on their offering Google Wave did create mixed responses. Thousands of fans even registering support for it and critics liked it. However my interest was on the messaging platform that it used. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has finally come of age and given its high profile usage such as Google Wave and Talk, there is a thought process if XMPP can be used within organizations for middleware or EAI.

Building an EJB 3.0 Persistence Model with Oracle JDeveloper

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:29:08 GMT

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family name for a set of Java EE products that are integrated for SOA and web application deployment.

Google game developer advocate leaves after four months

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Mark Deloura was hired by Google in April to work with game developers on content for Google's browser-based app store . In a blog post, Deloura has announced that he left the company this week. "There are a lot of very interesting things going on at Google right now," Deloura said, "and I enjoyed working with many of the people there, but it was not the perfect fit for me."

Deloura went on to talk at length about the importance of easy access to middleware and cross-platform development. The increasing use of web services can abstract away a lot of the need for platform-specific SDK features," he said, "but there's still a lot of work to do all around. Games aren't getting cheaper to make, that's for sure, and it's important that technically complex features are still easily available to independent developers working alone."

During Deloura's tenure, Google announced its Chrome Web Store, purchased Slide , and -- in what may be Google's most successful browser gaming initiative yet -- made that neat Pac-Man logo game .

Google game developer advocate leaves after four months originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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2010's Best Open Source Software

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:32:09 GMT

The InfoWorld Test Center rounds up of the past year in open source, highlighting the best open source offerings in several software categories: "The word 'best' here can mean many things. It is sometimes equivalent to 'most promising', 'most surprising', 'most subversive', 'most unnerving', 'most opportune', 'most happening', or some weird, inchoate mixture of them all. The one thing it always means is 'most useful' - to developers, IT administrators, and users on a business network." From enterprise apps, to app dev tools, to platforms and middleware, to networking software, the list is expansive, including 39 hybrid license and community offerings.

The Server Side: Java on the Ubuntu Linux solution stack

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:06:03 GMT

Learn how build Java Object-oriented programs on Ubuntu and IBM Middleware

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IBM: Innovation is the key driver for CIOs, not Cost

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:38:23 GMT

Last week at LinuxCon, we presented a lot of great content for business leaders in the world of Linux and open source. (Al Gillen of IDC, Jeffrey Hammond of Forester, among others.). One of my favorite sessions was from Jean Staten Healy, Director of IBM Worldwide Linux Strategy who looked at Linux in the minds of CIOs and how it’s changed. Remember ten years ago, Linux made a $1 billion bet on Linux, and in so doing, helped create the momentum for Linux in the enterprise data center that we all enjoy today. Back then, IBM concentrated on three areas: - Making Linux better – providing contributions to help improve Linux with respect to reliability, availability and serviceability - Enabling IBM products – both across major server lines and throughout the IBM middleware portfolio - Extending...

Australian Developer To Use Xaitment Products For Upcoming RTS

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:18:00 GMT

German AI toolmaker Xaitment has announced Sydney, Australia-based Epiphany Games will use the company's suite of middleware tools in its upcoming RTS, tentatively titled Frozen Hearth. Epiphany plans to use Xaitment's XaitMap and XaitMove tools to generate navigation meshes for AI pathfinding and control movement and crowd simulations, XaitControl to model character behaviors, and XaitKnow and XaitThink to control NPC behavior, the company says. Xaitment's tools support platforms including Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, ...

GDC Europe: Microsoft/Rare Director Enjoys Making Kinect Games

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:14:00 GMT

In a talk at GDC Europe, Rare's Kinect development director Nick Burton discussed his "Kinect Moment," when he fell in love with his company's hardware, and Blitz Games' Andrew Oliver talked about how much he enjoyed integrating Kinect tools into the middleware the company licenses out. Rare Thrills For Burton, his "Kinect Moment" happened when he was able to make a skeleton move in 3D in the early version of the tech, some 2 years ...

European Studios License Xaitment Products

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:27:00 GMT

German AI toolmaker Xaitment says European studios Coreplay and Kylotonn have signed two new licensing agreement for its pathfinding middleware. Munich-based Coreplay has licensed XaitMap and XaitMove on an upcoming title, while French studio Kylotonn's said to be using them in pre-development. XaitMap is an AI middleware tool that generates navigation meshes for AI pathfollowing. Xaitment says the middleware is specifically suited for large spaces, and that the nav meshes can be updated alongside changes ...

Solarflare Appoints Dave Parry as Vice President of Engineering

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:16:28 GMT

Solarflare Communications, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapters, silicon and middleware, today announced the appointment of Dave Parry as vice president of engineering.

id Tech 5 exclusive to Bethesda-published titles

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:00 GMT

What's the common thread between American McGee's Alice , Call of Duty and Quake 3 ? They were all powered by id Tech 3. Like Unreal Engine, id Tech was heavily licensed amongst third parties, used in a wide variety of console and PC games; however, it seems that id (and new parent company Bethesda) is no longer interested in pursuing the middleware market.

In an interview with Eurogamer , id's Todd Hollenshead said that Rage 's id Tech 5 is a "competitive advantage and we want to keep within games we publish." Certainly, the awards the game picked up at E3 -- including "Special Commendation for Graphics" -- provide testament to that claim. From Bethesda's perspective, the engine is simply too good for anyone else to use. "We're not going to license it to external parties," Hollenshead explained. "If you're going to make a game with id Tech 5 then it needs to be published by Bethesda, which I think is a fair thing."

By restricting id Tech 5 to Bethesda games, id has essentially exited the middleware market, which is largely dominated by Epic's Unreal Engine. "Epic's made a good business out of that so kudos to them," Hollenshead said. "But I wouldn't change the way we've done things."

id Tech 5 exclusive to Bethesda-published titles originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bigpoint Selects EKI One For Poisonville NPC AI

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:14:00 GMT

Developer and publisher Bigpoint has chosen Artificial Technology's EKI One middleware for managing the NPCs and AI vehicles in its upcoming browser-based 3D MMORPG Poisonville. In the online action game, players are dropped into a virtual city filled with thousands of NPCs, ambulances, and cop chases. The city is ruled by four different gangs, which gamers can join and commit various crimes for, such as raids and assassinations. Poisonville takes advantage of EKI One Configurator ...

Updated Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Aimed at Java Jocks

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:24:48 GMT

Oracle has released an update of its Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, extending its support to more Fusion Middleware components, for the latest Eclipse 3.6 "Helios" release and for Java Platform Enterprise Edition tools.

WSO2 offerings add zest to Carbon 3.0 platform for BPM, cloud construction

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:37:27 GMT

WSO2 kicked its Carbon 3.0 Apache -based middleware platform up a notch today with the announcement of five new releases that take advantage of Carbon 3.0's process-oriented components and building blocks for cloud computing .

Planet Eclipse: Rafael Chaves: Model interpretation vs. code generation? Both.

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:09:25 GMT

Model interpretation vs. code generation? There were recently two great posts by Johan den Haan and Jordi Cabot on this topic, both generating interesting discussions. I am not going to try to define or do an analysis of pros and cons of each approach as those two articles already do a good job at that (make sure to read them). What I have to add is that if you use model-driven development, even if you have decided for code generation to take an application to production, it still makes a lot of sense to adopt model interpretation during development time.

For one, model interpretation allows you to execute a model with the fastest turnaround. If the model is valid, it is ready to run. Model interpretation allows you to:

play with your model as you go (for instance, using a dynamically generated UI, like AlphaSimple does)
run automated tests against it
debug it

All without having to generate code to some target platform, which often involves multiple steps of transformation (generating source code, compiling source code to object code, linking with static libraries, regenerating the database schema, redeploying to the application server/emulator, etc).

But it is not just a matter of turnaround. It really makes a lot more sense:

you and other stakeholders can play with the model on day 1. No need to commit to a specific target platform, or develop or buy code generators, when all you want to validate is the model itself and whether it satisfies the requirements from the point of view of the domain. Heck, you might not even know yet your target platform!
failures during automated model testing expose problems that are clearly in the model, not in the code generation. And there is no need to try to trace back from the generated artifact where the failure occurred back to model element that originated it, which is often hard (and is a common drawback raised against model-driven development);
debugging the model itself prevents the debugging context from being littered with runtime information related to implementation concerns. Anyone debugging Java code in enterprise applications will relate to that, where most of the frames on the execution stack belong to 3rd-party middleware code for things such as remoting, security, concurrency etc, making it really hard to find a stack frame with your own code.

Model-driven development is really all about separation of concerns, obviously with a strong focus on models. Forcing one to generate code all the way to the target platform before models can be tried, tested or debugged misses that important point. Not only it is inefficient in terms of turnaround, it also adds a lot of clutter that gets in the way of how one understands the models.

In summary, regardless what strategy you choose for building and deploying your application, I strongly believe model interpretation provides a much more natural and efficient way for developing the models themselves.

What are your thoughts?

Scaleform Sees Korea Sales Surge 70 Percent

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:36:00 GMT

UI middleware provider Scaleform says revenue from licensees in Korea has grown 70 percent year-over-year, pointing to rapid adoption from the region's major companies including NCsoft and Nexon. This makes Korea, also home to licensees Webzen, Gamehi and Neowiz, among others, Scaleform's second-largest market. Browser-based MMOs and free-to-play games are widely played and developed in Korea, and Scaleform says the Flash base of its GFx middleware helps explain the rapid uptick. It also credits its ...

Secure middleware for IP-based in-vehicle communication

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:29:36 GMT

A middleware handling security issues could drastically simplify the software requirements.

BlackBerry Service to be Suspended in UAE from October 11

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:00 GMT

Imran Ahmed Shah writes: Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced on Sunday to ban Blackberry Services, this ban will take effect on October 11. This ban will affect hundreds of thousands of BlackBerry users who access Internet, e-mail and messaging services on their mobile handsets. The ban may be extended to foreign visitors (BlackBerry Roaming services), whereas about 100,000 passengers pass through the UAE airport daily.

BlackBerry messaging is secure but encrypted mode service which is based on BlackBerry Internet (GPRS/EDGE) to deliver text messages wirelessly using push technology of Research in Motion (RIM). Encrypted mode text messaging means that text messaging is beyond the readability of any middleware text base searching tools, if that is configured by any ISP or regulatory authorities.

Etisalat and DU both have to follow the regulations of TRA and to minimize their service.

Kuwait may also block BlackBerry services, following Saudi Arabia and UAE decision.

Comments of BlackBerry Service Users are being invited by by Gulf News on how they are affected by the decision.

Alternate Solution – Alternatively the resident users will have to select one of following two options:

1. Either they have to use alternate (compatible) mobile phone and use BlackBerry Connect Services.

2. Or they have to leave BlackBerry Push Email Services and have to migrate (completely) on the other mobile phone devices which provide Email Synchronization Push or without Push Services. In this case, new mobile phone will be configured to access email and/or global contact database from email servers but there is no option available for data security or remote wipeout. Similarly, without Push Email Service, users will only be able to pick email message whenever they will click to synchronize.

However, adopting either case, they would not be able to use BlackBerry Messenger. They have to shift either on text SMS service or onto Yahoo/Google or Live Messaging services on their mobile phones.

Investment of millions of dollar is on the risk which is related to the provisioning of BlackBerry Services and includes BlackBerry Enterprise Server Licenses, Hardware Machines, BlackBerry Phone Devices and Internet Services. However, this business will be migrated onto other email service compatible mobile phones such as Nokia, iPhone and Windows Mobile Phones.

IBM Offers VARs Bounties For Displacing Competing Software Products

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:56:00 GMT

IBM's new channel program provides incentives for partners that displace middleware, development and business intelligence software from Oracle, HP and SAP.

Darkworks, TriOviz Partner On PlayStation 3 3D Middleware

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:43:00 GMT

Game developer Darkworks and stereoscopic 3D technology developer TriOviz have partnered on a 3D graphics SDK that will allow game makers to implement one 3D solution that works on both standard HDTVs as well as 3D-capable TVs, and today the companies announced that the SDK has been accepted into the official PlayStation 3 Tools & Middleware Licensee Program. The TriOviz for Games SDK, first demonstrated earlier this year, supports both types of TVs by making ...

IBM Reorg Points to Integrated Systems

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:49:11 GMT

With the consolidation of its software and hardware divisions, IBM is positioning itself to better compete with rivals like Oracle with integrated servers, software and middleware.

Oracle Integrates Security In Fusion 11g Middleware

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:31:09 GMT

Java security suite provides administration of user identity, password management, strong authentication and authorization, workflow, and auditing.

SpeedTree 5.2 Boosts Species Count, Adds Arbitrary Mesh Support

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:10:00 GMT

The popular foliage middleware SpeedTree's latest version, 5.2, has just launched, bringing the total species count of broadleaves, shrubs and other plants in its library to over 125. The new edition contains a number of new features: First, it lets developers add rolling wind effects and individual leaf motion, like the random twitch of single leaves, that can be exported via point caching for cinematics and animations. It has added a world-building toolset to its ...

Autodesk Acquires Lighting Tech Maker Illuminate Labs

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:27:00 GMT

Continuing its ongoing accrual of companies and technology related to video game development, Autodesk has acquired Illuminate Labs, a developer of middleware and plugins that facilitate video game lighting. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California; Illuminate Labs is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where it will apparently remain. Illuminate develops two main products: Beast, content pipeline middleware for global and character lighting, and Turtle, a global lighting plugin for Autodesk's own Maya 3D graphics suite. ...

Oracle Announces Update to Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle announced Oracle Service Bus 11g. Part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, and a component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g transforms complex and brittle application architectures into flexible application networks that are easily and rapidly modified. It does so by mediating and managing services and applications in a consistent, standards-based methodology. Oracle Service Bus 11g delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for SOA environments where extreme performance and scalability are key requirements.

help

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:00:42 GMT

SAP Java Connector is a middleware component that enables the development of SAP-compatible components and applications in Java.

RFID Middleware: To Embed or Not to Embed

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:17:03 GMT

Although deploying RFID readers with embedded middleware may seem like an affordable simple-to-implement choice, server-based RFID middleware may be the better option.

Magic Enterprises Edition 8.3 for Linux

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:01:06 GMT

Magic Software Enterprises, or Magic, for short, has been developing multi-platform data access middleware and on-line application development tools for UNIX, AS/400, OpenVMS and Windows users for years.

Oracle Fixes 59 Flaws in Sun, Database Tech

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:42:55 GMT

The 59 security patches Oracle issued today with its third Critical Patch Update of the year address vulnerabilities in Sun, middleware and database technology.

Motorola is Hiring!

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:39:17 GMT

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Nexuiz To Run on CryENGINE 3

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:19:54 GMT

I'm not normally into "this game announced to use this engine and this middleware" news, but this announcement caught my eye.

CVE-2010-2381

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Server Control component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.1.2.3 and 10.1.4.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors.

CVE-2010-0835

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Unspecified vulnerability in the Wireless component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.1.2.3 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors.

CVE-2010-0081

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Server Control component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.1.2.3 and 10.1.4.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors.