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BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, has delivered on its innovative vision by expanding its product line with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, the next-generation solution for enterprise computing that both converges and simplifies applicat...
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.
The skills needed to build an enterprise application with WLS 8.1 vary somewhat depending on what's being built. However, certain key skills should be present on every development team.
This month I was again inspired by the weblogic.developer.interest.transaction newsgroup on newsgroups.bea.com - if you weren't listening last time I plugged this newsgroup, listen now; one day, it might save your life!
In the battle over application servers, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that the battle is over. The bad news is that everybody lost. And by that I mean something a little different from what you might think. Application servers are no longer a hot property. Yes, ...
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...
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 ...
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?
One of the most exciting aspects of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 is the ability for developers and ISVs to extend the Workshop development environment by developing custom Java Controls, IDE Extensions, application templates, or TagLibrary extensions. In this article we start with a b...
Imagine for a moment what it would be like to be a 21st-century software developer sitting in your cubicle at work. All right, I know that we are already a few years into the century, so let's push it up, say, 50 years.
Imagine. You're designing and developing a highly complex Web-based application. This app will serve thousands, or even millions, of customers.