You've heard the buzz about Jazz... want to know more about it from a developer's perspective? Check out the Jazz space on developerWorks--an up-to-date resource for developers, including technical information about Jazz and products built on Jazz, such as Rational Team Concert Express. The Jazz space includes content from a wide variety of sources, including links, feeds, and comments from experts.

Rational luminaries Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand talk about the motivation for Jazz, how it fits into the overall Rational story, and what the big news is with the Rational Team Concert open beta. They touch on how open source has contributed to the development of Jazz, which is built on Eclipse, and they share views on the importance of the open commercial software development model.

Get the inside track from those in the know on the hottest technologies including Ajax, XForms and Virtualization

This Space covers the many topics involved in application security, highlights articles about the latest application security issues around Web and enterprise applications and services, and provides a place where administrators, developers and security professionals can come together and share ideas on how to make their applications and Web services safer.

This space provides articles and discussions related to enterprise application development with hot technologies such as Web2.0 and Java EE. IBM has provided many tools for enterprise application developing, such as RAD, RSA, WSAD, WID etc. This space will provide latest best practices to utilize these tools. (Owner : ThomasZhang)

Visit to get the latest information on Virtualization for AIX 5L and Linux on Power.

As the next generation of HTML/XHTML forms, XForms can be used to describe both the user interface and common data manipulation tasks with XML.With XForms you can solve modern day programming challenges such as increasing interactivity while computing. This developerWorks space provides the resources and tools to get you up to speed quickly on this powerful data-driven user interface.

This space is your one-stop shop for information on the Ajax programming model, including articles and tutorials, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, events, and news. If it's happening, it's covered here.

This space is a one-stop shop containing the best JSF related information on the Internet such as articles, tutorials, news, JSF components, events, and books.

The Linux security space gives a general overview of security issues related to Linux. Additionally it covers all aspects of securing a Linux distribution. It will also link to Linux security-related news and articles.

Take a closer look at Ruby, a dynamic programming language that is growing rapidly in popularity. Explore its intriguing features and learn what programmers are doing with it.

Check here for tips and techniques on putting SOA into practice and how Mashups will become the next big thing for enterprises and SOA

Project Zero is a powerful, but radically simple, development and execution environment. Create, assemble and execute Web 2.0 applications based on SOA, with Project Zero. Learn about this simplified development environment with informative articles and content from Zero developers and experts.

The IT Governance and Risk Management community is to facilitate communication between customers, business partners and IBM thought leaders on IT management issues and solution-based case studies related to IT Governance and Risk Management.

The SOA and Web services space gives developers, architects and decision-makers a variety of technical content--articles, tutorials, workshops and interactive community tools--that help with SOA development, implementation, and management.

This blog discusses how to use SOA, J2EE, and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer.

This wiki discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today.

This Mashup space consolidates information regarding mashup makers and utilities to create situational applications. A mashup maker is an assembly tool where a creator of a mashup leverages software components or services made available by content providers.

Practical information and advice on implementing these core technologies in your business.

Messaging has become the vital part for any IT business solution. This space is for those who need to know about the importance of IBM's messaging products, such as WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ Everyplace and IBM Lotus Expeditor micro broker, and how these products can make your life easy.

Learn about recent updates to Lotus Notes from Mary Beth Raven, the lead product designer for the "Hannover" project, a redesign of Lotus Notes.

This blog discusses how to use SOA, J2EE, and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer.

This wiki discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today.

The main goal of this space is to have a repository or Configurations, Workarounds and Technotes of the Lotus and WebSphere brands but from the user side. Documentation is the base, experience is the key.

Often overlooked, learn the latest best practices for developing the best usability and design into your applications

Rawn's work spans across the many social software and community activities across developerWorks and IBM in general. He tries to keep track of what he learns about social software, collaboration, online communities, and Web 2.0 in this space and the key focus is on helping users understand how to conceive, plan, and build communities.

The Usability and design space brings together the latest information, research, tools, podcasts, blogs, and conference information related to usability and design. Content is pulled from IBM and non-IBM sites.

Learn about recent updates to Lotus Notes from Mary Beth Raven, the lead product designer for the "Hannover" project, a redesign of Lotus Notes.

Music and games are big business so be sure to get the most out of your development efforts from these spaces

The Second Life community topic space provides it's audience with up to the minute information on developerWorks' involvement with building an island in Second Life. We surround the news on our activities with a host of supportive information, including links to articles and tutorials about Second Life development, Lindenscripting, and in-world current events.

This space discusses techniques, strategies, and advances within the realm of music programming, and the exploration of electronic music. We also address finding alternative open source solutions for developing tools for music programming, and the best tools (both closed source and open source) currently in use. This space also has a special focus on algorithmic music composition. We will also discuss and announce electronic music and musical works created algorithmically.

This space discusses the techniques, strategies, and advances within the realm of game development, and the exploration of virtual worlds. We also address finding alternative open source solutions for developing your next gaming project, and the best tools currently in use around the gaming industry. Cell technologies will also be addressed.

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