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 With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,317 |
 Small and medium businesses (SMBs) that have previously considered virtualization in the cloud but decided that it is too expensive or simply not viable should think again. Virtualization and cloud computing enables SMBs to green their operations and build IT infrastructures that are a...Sep. 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,976 |
 ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ...Sep. 10, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,940 |
 Cloud computing is slowly gaining credibility and traction in the enterprise world. As giants such as Google and Amazon productize their massive cloud infrastructures, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud seems a more realistic possibility. The advantages of an enterprise...Jul. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,819 |
 The common methods for functional GUI testing are the "record and execute" script technique and writing test programs for different scenarios. In the "record and execute," the test designer interacts with the GUI and all the events are recorded in a script. The script can later be repl...Jul. 18, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 39,947 Replies: 7 |
 Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially ...Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,602 Replies: 2 |
 The 80/20 rule has negative implications for traditional IT reousrce allocation, with the 80 percent going to maintenance, and only 20 percent to innovation. How can you innovate with SOA to flip this ratio on its head?Mar. 7, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,566 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 2,286 |
 A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used so portlets can be decoupled from a portal. In part one (JDJ, Volume. 13, issue 3) of this article, we introduced the relevant standards and specifications and then demonstrated WSRP's capabilities by consumin...Jul. 17, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,741 Replies: 1 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 26,839 Replies: 6 |
 WebLogic Server 10 Technology Preview supports JEE 5. A feature of JEE 5 is the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) used to create Web Services and Web Service clients. WebLogic Server 10 provides the jwsc task to create the Web Service artifacts and the clientgen task to create the...Jun. 27, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 22,513 Replies: 1 |
WebLogic Workshop 8.1 included both an application framework and an IDE to support developing enterprise applications using Page Flows, Controls, and annotated web services. This article describes some of the differences between the 8.1 Workshop runtime and the Apache Beehive project. Jan. 30, 2006 01:00 PM EST Reads: 10,119 Replies: 2 |
 In the five years that I have worked in Web solutions practices, a typical business problem has changed from 'we need a new Web site' to 'we need to regain control over our existing sites.' It's not uncommon for large corporations to have hundreds or even thousands of different Web sit...Oct. 26, 2005 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 23,934 |
 The JBoss open source application server is commonly used in the development phase of a J2EE project. In the production phase the commercial BEA WebLogic server is preferred because of its enhanced set of features. Without modifications, an application developed in JBoss does not deplo...Aug. 8, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 49,153 |
 In Part 1 of this article series we discussed the fundamental aspects of clustering JMS resources in a WebLogic cluster. In Part 2 we will discuss JMS clustering in the context of design and configuration strategies that demonstrate how to create efficient JMS architectures.Jun. 21, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 20,018 |
BEA recently announced that it is broadening its SOA consulting practice, and that it has created a tool companies can use to learn about SOA and figure out how prepared they are to transition to the new architectural model. Apr. 6, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,172 Replies: 1 |
The rising business trend toward using open source software platforms has brought an increase in the number of critical applications deployed on Linux and BEA WebLogic. For many organizations, in fact, WebLogic deployments are their first major Linux installation. Feb. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,234 |
There are nearly 6 million business travelers using the Internet, responsible for more than $30 billion in travel expenses each year. For the Internet-based travel services industry, this is a tremendous revenue opportunity and the competition for this market is very intense. Jan. 30, 2004 07:47 AM EST Reads: 8,267 |
In the last couple of years Sun has introduced a number of APIs targeted toward enterprise application development. One of the most exciting of these is the Java Message Service, or JMS. The JMS API is designed to do for messaging in the enterprise what JNDI does for naming and directo... Jan. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,113 Replies: 1 |
The state machine is one of the most successful ideas in the history of computing. Alan Turing built a model of computability around the concept, and in doing so became the father of computer science. Mealy, Moore, Harel, and other theorists expanded the idea, influencing engineers of ... Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,325 |
EMALL is a procurement portal for the U.S. Department of Defense. Defense and federal personnel use it to shop for items ranging from office supplies and equipment to weapons systems. The personnel have various levels of privileges to access classified catalogs and place orders. Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,348 |
BEA WebLogic Workshop is the single point of entry for developers to develop J2EE applications on the BEA platform. The WebLogic Workshop Platform Edition includes support for portal development on top of the standard WebLogic Workshop Application Developer Edition. Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,865 Replies: 1 |
Very large organizations know the value of spending a little (or a lot of) extra money to be in total control of the information. The rest of us have probably run into situations where the server version in production may or may not be exactly the same as the one in the QA section and ... Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,466 |
 Java is hot. Just nine years old, it has become one of the leading development environments in the world.Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,842 Replies: 1 |
 Developers of workflow-based applications with the Business Process Modeler (BPM) component of BEA WebLogic Integration Version 7 use a powerful, feature-rich, graphical editor, called Studio, to design workflow templates and to monitor the progress and state of runtime instances of t...Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,293 |
It is late Monday afternoon and your application is finally going into production. After a year of development and months of QA, it will be live first thing Tuesday morning. Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,605 |
For those of us who are always looking to optimize our code and improve performance by squeezing out a few milliseconds here and there, marshalling is one of those areas that you expect to be so bloated that you would think you could improve performance many times if you could get your... Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,242 |
With today's increasing demand for businesses to communicate with each other, business-to-business (B2B) integration holds the key to successful e-commerce collaboration. Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,677 |
Enterprise software applications are complex, but almost certainly more complex is the underlying software that provides services and resources to these applications. There are different types of software that fall into the latter category, one of those being a Java application server,... Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,864 |
BEA WebLogic Server domains in largescale enterprises satisfy a broad range of requirements, including highly scalable application deployments, integration of various boundary systems, and high availability setups. As a natural consequence the level of the domain's complexity rises. Nov. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,557 Replies: 4 |
When independent business components must be executed simultaneously, the parallel processing of application business logic has a direct impact on the performance of the system; however, parallel processing at the application level historically has been challenging to implement. Nov. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,638 Replies: 2 |
 While security is a concern throughout an application, it is especially important for Web application components. An insecure Web application leaves a Web site vulnerable to many attacks, some that require nothing more than an Internet browser and a small amount of knowledge.Nov. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,129 |
So you've been told to diagnose a performance problem in a WebLogic J2EE application. Because Java systems are so complex, this can be a bit like diagnosing a rare illness. Nov. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,718 Replies: 2 |
Enterprise portals have become the most popular method of offering a common user interface to a suite of services across the enterprise. Offering business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge management, portals promise users the ability to monitor, search, and manage business activi... Oct. 3, 2003 09:12 AM EDT Reads: 11,559 |
BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, first announced in March 2003, is now generally available. This release provides substantial productivity benefits for developers wishing to build new applications, integrate existing applications, and extend these applications to different groups of end ... Oct. 3, 2003 09:04 AM EDT Reads: 11,768 |
Providing a first-class online user experience can require access to multiple sources of data. The required data often resides in multiple databases, packaged applications, and other information silos. Oct. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,287 |
BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic provides a unified view of data aggregated from multiple resources such as databases, XML files, Web services, EJBs, or Java 2 Connector Architecture (J2CA) adapters. Oct. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,543 |
This article discusses the best known methods for tuning the performance of the BEA WebLogic application server running the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark on Intel architecture platforms. We describe a top-down, data-driven, and closed-loop approach to performance tuning, and touch ... Sep. 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,956 |
The high interest in business visibility, flexibility, and knowledge management has made portal technology a popular choice for monitoring, searching, and managing business activity across the enterprise. BEA WebLogic Platform provides an attractive platform for building highly dyna... Sep. 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,642 |
Imagine. You're designing and developing a highly complex Web-based application. This app will serve thousands, or even millions, of customers. Sep. 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,821 |
