Jeff Chapman

Every day more organizations are embracing CBD (component-based development) for its promise of code reusability and, as a result, reduced development effort and faster time-to-market. In addition, Java is quickly being adopted as a standard for Web development. Application server vendors are now selling components for e-commerce and vertical applications. For example, BEA Systems identified this trend early on, and understood how it could become a competitive advantage. To that end, BEA recently acquired The Theory Center, a software development firm focused on creating EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) component solutions for e-commerce. Now BEA offers The Theory Center's e-commerce objects bundled with their own application server and is marketing the solution as its Commerce Server. According to the GartnerGroup, by 2003 at least 80% of all new applications will be bui... (more)