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March 2001
Issue Theme: Language Comparisons

Practices

COVER FEATURE
Picking a Winner: .Net vs. J2EE
by Jim Farley
Although both frameworks stand on a foundation of programming languages, object models and virtual machines, they are strikingly different when you consider the design goals of their runtime environment

SD ROUNDTABLE
Pick a Language, Any Language
Some peoples' favorite language is whatever their customers will pay them the most to program in. And others beg to differ as our readers, writers and contributing editors debate a gamut of past and present development choices.

MODELING TUTORIAL
Successful Robustness Analysis
by Doug Rosenberg and Kendall Scott
This simple and useful technique links the what of analysis to the how of design by ensuring your use case text is correct. It addresses necessary courses of action and allows you to continue to discover objects.

Products

HELLO, WORLD!
Walking in CodeRover Boots
by Rick Wayne
The combination of CodeRover Browser and Integrity can be a real confidence-enhancer—but there are some caveats.

PRODUCT REVIEW
Extreme Rapid Development
by Peter Norvig
Today's IDEs take dynamic programming to the max. Here is what ActiveState, Franz, Digitool and Functional Objects have to offer.

People

MANAGEMENT FORUM
Small Teams, Big Problems
by Ulla Merz
Edited by Larry Constantine

Project Web sites help development teams succeed.

Focus On:
Project & Project Management

PROCESS TUTORIAL
Practical CMM
by Neil Potter and Mary Sakry
Scoping your improvement program based on the problems and goals of your organization allows you to make significant headway.

Focus On:
E-Development and Security

INTERNET HOW-TO
Safe Session Tracking
by Stan Kim
Choosing the right method is crucial for e-commerce success.

Departments

EDITOR'S NOTES
Roger Smith
The Screw Analogy
Is the breakthough of components in the software world analogous to the evolution of screws in the hardware world?

FEEDBACK
Letters to the Editor
Our readers discuss the Turing Test, 2001 trivia, Time Warp, encryption concerns and IDEs.

TIME WARP
Compiled by Lorah McArdle
15 Years ago in Software Development.

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY
Roger Smith
No Trolls Under This Bridge
Embedded Linux on Palm, Palms up, Express Yourself in Real-Time, High Caliber Requirements and TK Takes it to the Web.

BEYOND OBJECTS
Jeff Scanlon
Invoking COM Components from C#
The runtime callable wrapper makes it easy to develop C# that uses COM.

THINKING OBJECTIVELY
Scott Ambler
Designing Web-Based User Interfaces
Tips to prevent UI disasters of butterfly-ballot proportions.

INTERFACE
Warren Keuffel
A Software Superpower?
Expect even more productivity as India's state-controlled economy transforms.

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Issue Theme:
Project Horrors
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CMP DevNet Spotlight

10 Outsourcing Antipatterns
It's deceptively easy to farm out IT work. Here are some worst practices that guarantee your time and money won't be well spent. But if you cared about that, you wouldn't be reading this, right?

In the News

Consumer Groups Propose Copyright Fee Reforms
Industry groups from the Europe, Japan and the U.S. are proposing reforms to the global system for paying copyright fees.

Europe Is Very Slow To Adopt VoIP
Forrester says less than half of European enterprises have adopted VoIP and 40 percent have no immediate plans to adopt the technology.

University, Los Alamos Team Up For Nano-Scale Studies
Los Alamos National Lab is teaming up with the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara to create an Institute for Multiscale Materials Studies. The new institute will include a graduate emphasis on linking recent molecular and nano-scale advances with soft matter, like polymers and biological systems observed at a relatively large scale.

U.S. Spending On IT Expected To Rise Modestly Next Year
U.S. businesses next year are expected to increase spending by 5.5 percent, with some of the additional money going to a renewed focus on application development and integration, a research firm said Wednesday.

DevNet Podcasts

Stanford Team Wins DARPA Grand Challenge
Mike Montemerlo, software lead for the Stanford University Racing Team, describes some of the challenges the team faced in winning the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles. (MP3 audio, 3:03 mins.)

IBM/Rational Software Testing Tools
Brian Bryson of IBM/Rational discusses its software testing tools. Brian also explains IBM’s plans for the self-healing autonomic systems of the future and how this vision will alter the software testing process.

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