Portals

Business Martial Arts Lesson – It Will Take You Twenty Times to Learn This Move

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:45:00 EDT

It will take you twenty times to learn this move – New students come into class and see all of the Hapkido techniques on sheets on the wall. The list is intimidating to say the least. Korean terminology, foundational moves, nuanced techniques and sometimes small notes written in pen on top of the typed sheets. White belts get very impatient because they want to be as fast as the higher belts. What they can't embrace is that we were all white belts once and if you want to be fast, you have to allow yourself to become masters of the foundation which is going to take more time than you thought.

Test-Driven Portal Application Development in BEA WebLogic

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:30:00 EST

With the advent of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1, a host of new technologies was introduced. These are, among others: Java Page Flow with annotations, Java Controls, and a new IDE to support it. Online tutorials were also thrown into the package to show how the new technologies were supposed to be put to work in the most effective way.

Managing BEA WebLogic Portal Content Management With Release 8.1

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:15:00 EDT

One of the nice features of the WebLogic Portal 8.1 release is a fairly extensive content management system. It does not, nor was it ever intended to, compete with the large content management vendors on the market today, but for many applications it works quite well. There are some problems however with using the content management system. This article will address several of them and provide details of a dev2dev tool that will help get around them.

CRM Update: BEA WebLogic Portal Adopted By Ricoh

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, a leading provider of office equipment, has implemented BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 for its customer relationship management (CRM) portal site in Japan called NetRICOH.

Enabling Next-Generation Portals

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Enterprise portals are fast becoming the foundation of the Web-based economy thanks to their ability to give enterprises, trading partners, and customers global access to enterprise applications, back-office systems, and IT infrastructures. This ability has made enterprise portals appealing as the infrastructure of choice for enterprise IT organizations and has helped organizations justify the considerable expense of migrating from legacy systems.

Enterprise Information Bus

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

In part one (Vol.3, issue 7) of this two-part article, we discussed the 'on demand' information delivery architecture based on portal technologies and WSRP. In this part, the concept of on demand will be extended beyond the information delivery layer to the information aggregation and integration layer. We'll introduce the Enterprise Information Bus (EIB) and discuss its role in building service-on-demand portals.

Service on Demand Portals

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises are moving towards a highly collaborative environment to achieve higher competitive advantage. Availability of the right information across the enterprise at the right time has become a key capability to provide such an advantage. Though this was a well-understood objective, various architectures that evolved to manifest such an enterprise information delivery infrastructure were not elegant, intuitive, or aligned to governance and organizational dynamics.

Publishing Business Objects In Portals

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Current Web applications, especially portals, have become increasingly content driven. It led to development of a plethora of sophisticated and powerful Web Content Management Systems, or WCMS. They help to automate creation, management, reviewing, tagging, rendering, publication, maintenance, and deprecation of Web content. Usually, these systems support a wide variety of content types and formats; however, most of them stop short of supporting one crucial type - application data.

Portal Tips and Tricks

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

WebLogic Portal 8.1 Service Pack 2 has been out for several months. By the time this article is published, Service Pack 3 may also be out. Having worked on a couple of WebLogic Portal projects with this version, I have come across several small and large issues.

Easy Java Portlets

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

A portlet is a Web component that generates fragments - pieces of markup (e.g., HTML, XML) adhering to certain specifications. Fragments are aggregated to form a complete document. This article introduces the Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 on Java Portlets. It illustrates the creation of Java Portlets using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 SP2 and the deployment of these portlets on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 SP2.