A demonstration of the integrated solution available with Forte for Java and the iPlanet Developer Pack Enterprise Edition will be a feature of the Gartner's AD Summit 2001, Technological Possibilities, Business Realities Conference in Palm Springs, California, on September 12-14, 2001. The conference will address the technological and cultural evolution of today's computing platforms. Topics include techniques to manage applications early in the planning and development stages to ensure a long and productive application life.

The European Space Agency (ESA) fosters collaborative projects in space science and technology with other space agencies. A key ESA strategy is to equip its spacecraft with ever-stronger computing capability. ESA chose the SPARC microprocessor family from Sun. ESA contracted with the aerospace division of Atmel Corporation to manufacture special radiation-hardened versions of SPARC microprocessor chips with added features to recover from single-event upsets caused by high-energy particles.

Sun and Pegasystems have expanded their relationship to bring powerful rules-driven process automation solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) on the UNIX platform to customers in banking and healthcare markets. The companies will participate in joint engineering, business development and co-marketing and sales efforts. Sun and Pegasystems are delivering tested, integratable iForce solutions to customers.

The Sun web site features customer success stories such as how Sun has partnered with Linuxcare to deliver Sun storage capabilities to the Linux and open-source community. Linuxcare provides comprehensive professional services and solutions for the Linux operating environment and open-source technologies. Linuxcare and Sun deliver a single storage platform capable of supporting a multi-platform open systems environment. The multi-platform Sun StorEdge T3 Array offering fulfills a growing need in the storage arena and represents a strategic solution for the Linux community.

This article outlines the advantages of a common infrastructure for managing authorizations and describes how authorization enforcement, hierarchy, delegation, and scope are supported. It provides programming examples in C and Java technology. It also discusses how authorizations can be associated with executables to restrict access to authorized users.

The Solaris Operating Environment (OE) XFree86 Video Drivers and Porting Kit enables use of XFree86 video drivers with the X Window System server for Solaris 8 OE (Intel Platform Edition) or for Solaris 9 OE (Intel Platform Edition). There is a Source and Binary Edition available.

Kammie Kayl's interview with Li Gong, director of peer-to-peer networking engineering for Project JXTA, covers what direction Project JXTA has taken since its launch, the reasons for choosing the Java technology language, licensing, standards and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Microsoft's response to Project JXTA, security, and the future of peer-to-peer networking.

XML-based web services are technologies that support creation, assembly, deployment, and discovery of dynamic distributed applications and are evolving rapidly. Java technologies, including the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and the Java APIs for XML, provide the ideal path to using the latest web service capabilities. The Java technology web site offers a roadmap of web services offerings. Technical articles and white papers are available on the web site.

A recent article on "Advanced Object Serialization" by John Zukowski, on the Java technology web site, covers a review of the basics of serialization, followed by explanations of validating serialized streams, manipulating serializable fields through ObjectStreamField, and encrypting object streams.

Sun brings three code-level, full-day (or more) courses of its Java technology certification Fast Track program to this year's JDJEdge Conference and Expo on September 23-27 in New York. Keynote speakers for the JDJEdge Conference include James Gosling of Sun, Alan E. Baratz of Zaplet, Greg Kiessling of Sistraka, and Kevin Lynch of Macromedia. Featured sessions include Combining Java 2D API, AWT, and Swing; Testing JavaBeans components; and Where Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) is headed.

DevX has launched the web's largest free code library through a deal that adds 27,000 code samples from Sourcebank, a developer-focused search engine, to DevX's existing library. Visitors to DevX's resource site now have access to more than 38,000 free code samples to speed the completion of development projects. The library also features more than 3,500 pieces of Java technology code and thousands of other source code files for C++ and web scripting languages, such as Perl and JavaScript programming language.

Javlin, developed by Object Design, provides middle-tier distributed caching for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) environments, such as Sakonnet Technology's energy trading and risk management system. The need for database-specific code is reduced, along with development time.

The iPlanet Application Server, Test Drive Edition, has been updated to SP3, the latest iPlanet Application Server Service Pack. The Test Drive Edition is a full-featured version of the Enterprise Edition software that lets users install and run applications on the iPlanet Application Server. An evaluation is now available for download.