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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 2 Iss: 7 |
Have you ever visited one of those theme parks that depict life as it was in colonial times? I'm always fascinated by the blacksmith and other craftsmen who show you just how hard it actually was to produce items that we take for granted, and how many modern inventions, such as electri... Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 10,651 |
The upcoming release of BEA's WebLogic Platform 8.1 marks a breakthrough in application infrastructure technology. Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 6,338 |
Component-based development (CBD) has been around for years. Anyone who has been a developer for any length of time has no doubt leveraged some form of reuse in an application. Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 7,667 |
 Application performance horror stories exist everywhere. Tales of molasses-like response times, high-risk transactions that periodically and mysteriously slow to a crawl, and search engine combinations that paralyze the browser are common enough that interest in application performance...Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 13,513 |
BEA WebLogic Server is now available on HP AlphaServer systems running HP OpenVMS, HP ProLiant servers running Linux, and HP NonStop servers. Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 6,889 |
 Web application development is hard. Or rather, Web application development used to be hard. Web application development used to be an activity that required developers to learn and use complex programming models.Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 14,572 |
In Part 1 of this article (WLDJ, Vol. 2, issue 6), I claimed that manageability is a vital aspect for any application that will be deployed into production, where it will spend most of its life being managed by people who may not be the original designers. These systems and application... Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 11,504 |
When talking about enterprise application integration, we tend to think of using Web services technologies such as SOAP and UDDI to virtualize a data model across a large enterprise. The thinking is that with a consistent interface, the data stores of the company can be abstracted behi... Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 12,273 |
Just as service-based applications leverage a shared set of application resources, infrastructure-aware applications leverage a shared infrastructure that can adapt to meet the needs of the application. Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 7,459 |
Given the current global economic downturn, it is certainly no surprise that large organizations are putting cost-cutting measures at the top of their priority lists. This trend is particularly true in the information technology (IT) arena, as the overspending of the last few years and... Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 8,645 Replies: 1 |
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. Jul. 8, 2003 Reads: 10,244 |
