Commentary

Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware LiveBlogging and News Analysis

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:30:00 EDT

So what does this say about Oracle's strategy for forming SNORKEL, the Sun acquisition? Well, at the risk of reductio ad absurdum, having bought BEA and Sun, Larry Ellison sees Java as the new SQL

WebSphere vs WebLogic: IBM and BEA Spar Over SPEC Results

Tue, 16 May 2006 13:30:00 EDT

Benchmarks can mean whatever you want them to mean, it has always seemed. Although useful as a rough guide to performance, and sometimes price/performance, technology companies are famous for interpreting complex benchmark results as victories over their competition and them employing visual aids such as planes, snails, and automobiles to demonstrate their point.

What's Wrong with Web Applications

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

Criticizing something as wildly successful as the World Wide Web seems a bit radical and potentially unpopular. There is no doubt that Tim Berners-Lee's elegantly simple invention enabled an unprecedented revolution in the way computers are used and by whom.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Brian Murphy, PANACYA

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio spoke to Brian Murphy, vice president of sales and marketing at PANACYA, about next-generation systems management.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Greg Dierickse, Documentum

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio talked to Greg Dierickse, senior product marketing manager at Documentum, about enterprise content management.

SYS-CON Radio talks to John Baisch, senior product manager, H&W

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio talks to John Baisch, senior product manager at H&W, about their enterprise software solutions.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Bob Lee, Cyanea

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio spoke to Bob Lee, Cyanea's vice president of product management, about Cyanea/One and application performance management.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Al Campa, Panscopic

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviewed Al Campa, founder and executive vice president of Panscopic, about their embedded reporting engine and how it works with WebLogic.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Jim McQuaid, NetIQ

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio chatted with Jim McQuaid, product manager for NetIQ, about their AppManager platform suite, which includes a WebLogic module.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Cameron Purdy, Tangosol

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Cameron Purdy, president of Tangosol, about Coherence, which handles clustered caching and distributed computing.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Eric Newcomer, CTO of IONA

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Eric Newcomer, CTO of IONA, about IONA's middleware solutions.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Mark Potts, HP

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviewed Mark Potts, HP's CTO of adaptive management, about their adaptive enterprise strategy and how HP is integrating its products with BEA's WebLogic Platform.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Brad Micklea, Quest

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio spoke to Brad Micklea, product manager of Quest's APM Suite for J2EE, about the new release.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Jeff Sposetti, Compoze Software

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviewed Jeff Sposetti, CEO of Compoze Software, about groupware and portal environments.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Lewis Cirne, Wily Technology

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio talked to Lewis Cirne, founder and CTO of Wily Technology, about application performance management and Wily's release of their new Wily Portal Manager.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Chris Cummings, Interwoven

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio chatted with Chris Cummings, Interwoven's vice president of marketing, about enterprise content management software, WorkSite MP.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Matt Link, H&W Computer Systems

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio talked to Matt link, an account executive with H&W, about their enterprise software solutions.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Andrew Herrgott, Attachmate

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviewed Andrew Herrgott, product manager at Attachmate, about SOA and data centers.

Web Services Security Progress Report

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

For the past several years there has been widespread agreement that the adoption of Web services for production applications will be limited, particularly for B2B transactions, until standardized security mechanisms, designed specifically for Web services, become available. While some applications can be adequately protected using the familiar SSL and TLS security protocols, their limitations make them unsatisfactory for many others.

Data Center Automation

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

Automation is coming to a data center near you. It promises to cut costs, speed up deployment, ease problem diagnostics, and protect your applications against man-made and natural disasters.

What's WS-I Up To?

Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:06:40 EDT

Eighteen months ago, BEA, IBM, Microsoft, and a number of other companies who have invested in the future of Web services got together and formed WS-I, the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization.

Getting a Handle on Rogue Transactions and Execute Threads

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:59:56 EDT

Many production J2EE applications suffer from rogue transactions. A rogue transaction is a particular use case or click-through in the application that results in enormous resource consumption or unusually high response times when compared with its peers.

Transactional Web Services

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

What are ACID transactions? How do they change to work with Web services? And how do the ACID guarantees work when you must use compensating actions?

Improving Performance, Avoiding Hung Threads, and Keeping It Simple

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:17:16 EDT

If your application is experiencing serious performance problems, I recommend that you perform a thorough analysis to determine the root cause.

The Language, the Server, and the JVM

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:06:37 EDT

If you were to trace the origins of the excitement about Java, you might go back to May of 1995 when Sun first announced Java at SunWorld '95. The sexiest part of the show was HotJava, a browser written entirely in Java and capable of downloading smart content to the desktop.

Application Performance Best Practices

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Q. With respect to logging, how much of a good thing is too much of a good thing? A. Logging is a powerful application tool that, in my opinion, has been under-utilized.

The Race to Create Standards

Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

The number of Web service business process (BP) specifications trying to make their way to standards status makes it difficult to tell who is doing what, especially given that many efforts are redundant.

Keeping Memory Leaks and Stalled Threads in Check

Tue, 27 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

There are several different categories of memory-related problems that I've seen in the field. The most common of these is the memory leak. A Java memory leak is the result of objects remaining referenced after an application has completely finished using them. This tends to happen when an object that has a long lifespan within your application holds references to other objects with short lifespans.

Benchmarking, Tuning, and Manageability

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:00 EDT

This month, I'll look at benchmarking and tuning your applications, and how to make your Java runtime more manageable. And, I offer some advice on how your developers can keep their focus on development work.

Stay Up and Running

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

Everywhere I go developers, operations people, and IT executives ask me how best to keep their mission-critical applications up and running at peak performance. To address these concerns, WebLogic Developer's Journal is introducing a new column to answer questions from real WebLogic users like you on a range of Java application management topics.

Simplifying Infrastructure Software

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

Adaptive computing, self-healing systems, Grid and on-demand computing, autonomic computing.... Vendors from all sides are throwing buzzwords around, a new one every day or so it seems. This month we'll try to make sense of it all by looking at what is here today, what will be here tomorrow, and what is mere science fiction. More important, we'll examine how these new ideas impact your ability to develop and deploy applications.

Open Source, Java, and WebLogic

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

BEA believes that both open-source projects and commercial Java platform products like WebLogic are crucial to the health of the Java ecosystem. That's why WebLogic runs on top of, incorporates, contributes to, and creates open-source technologies. Even open-source projects that provide functionality similar to WebLogic tend to be best used in a different part of the Java ecosystem than the one WebLogic occupies.

Confronting Complexity in a Cost-Sensitive World

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is traveling around the world and talking to CIOs about the many pressing challenges of managing today's heterogeneous IT infrastructure. It's clear to me that in today's difficult economy, it is not that CIOs are 'not spending' money. They're just spending the money that they have more wisely.

IT's Challenges for Performance Management

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

The explosion of Web services has spawned significant new challenges for IT and the technologies they use. With the infrastructure requirements for WebLogic applications growing more complex, the addition of Web services suddenly expands the management focus to systems and applications residing outside of IT's control.

Importance of Application Architecture

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:00:00 EST

This is the first in a series of articles from the Office of the CTO at BEA Systems. As my main area of expertise and interest is application architecture, my role within the CTO's office allows me to explore how BEA's customers and products interact around applications - architecture, development, and integration..

High-Performance CMP Features

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 EDT

This month I've decided to explore some of the more advanced performance enhancements that you can use if you are using EJB 2.0 on WebLogic. Our container-managed persistence (CMP) engine exposes several strategies for you to configure to get the most efficient - meaning least - use of your database. Field-groups allow you to specify which fields are loaded from the database together.

The Evolution Continues

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

As developers rapidly embraced the use of component-based architectures, the role of application servers in production has expanded from hosting somewhat simple, servlet-based applications to exploiting Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and Java messaging services (JMS) to build robust eBusiness applications.

Using JMX

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

The Java Management API (JMX) has been integral to managing the WebLogic Server since WebLogic 6.0. Through this API you can search for management beans (mbeans) within the application server and query them for both configuration information and runtime monitoring information.

Integration via Web Services

Mon, 20 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

WebLogic Server 7.0 contains the most advanced, performant, and standards-compliant Web service stack of any application server. With an additional download (until the JAX-RPC specification goes final - it may by the time you see this article - see http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/101.jsp) you get a Java standards-compliant Web service stack that also passes the SOAP interoperability tests. So you might ask how easy is it to use this system to call existing Web services and to build new Web services? The answer is: almost trivial.

Migrate Early, and Often:Maintain your flexibility to upgrade when the time comes

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Working at a software company and watching products evolve over the years, 'Migrate Early, and Often'is the best advice I can give someone who is trying to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Obviously, if you have an application that's in production with no problems and you aren't planning on adding any new features, then of course keep the same version of the underlying platform. However, if you're developing a new application and are currently in the process of architecting and designing, you should definitely talk with your vendor about what you can expect in upcoming releases. Although you might not target the initial phase of your project to the new release, you can ensure that you have the flexibility to upgrade when that time comes. Keeping your options open will, in the long run, give you a more stable and maintainable product. As one of my friends, Peter Seibel (now at Kenamea), said, 'Software gets better.'And I think that you can say that almost universally. Some might argue that it should be phrased, 'Software gets bigger,'but I take exception to that. This might be true in the world of desktop applications, where new releases inevitably exist only to encourage people to buy the next upgrade; in the enterprise people have support contracts that ensure the next version is available. All the critical aspects of enterprise software increase with each new release: reliability, administration, scalability, and performance. Those are the normal ones, but I'm going to add one more aspect that also gets better with age - one that WebLogic has concentrated on in our newest release: usability. That may not be part of the big four, but it's fast becoming one of the more important measures in the enterprise software world.