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Anyone who has recently been on the job hunting circuit, looking for a position as a developer, knows that employers are getting rather picky. With the oversupply of IT professionals, recruiters are not just looking for good people, they are looking for good people with an exact skill ...
This article discusses troubleshooting techniques for Java applications by analyzing Java thread dumps. We can use thread dumps to analyze situations like application hang, poor application response times, and application crash. Before getting into the details of analyzing the thread d...
Whatever your innermost feelings about the symbols, and however fondly you remember debugging network infrastructures with nothing more than a LAN sniffer and an uncanny ability to interpret 4k blocks of hex, it is fairly safe to say that Web services are here to stay. With the indust...
My previous article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 2) introduced a 'recipe' to modernize legacy systems with the BEA WebLogic Platform by using a step-by-step approach. In many ways, that article introduced a 'modernization process'; in this one I will delve into the details of cross-platform in...
EMALL is a procurement and collaborative commerce portal for the U.S. Department of Defense and based on J2EE and WebLogic Platform 8.1. One core component of EMALL is a rule engine based on WebLogic Platform 8.1.
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 ...
This article will provide some useful tips for debugging your BEA WebLogic Server applications when a system core file occurs. It describes debugging tips, problem troubleshooting, and tools available to assist you in this process.
BEA WebLogic Workshop is fabulous at hiding many of the complexities of a J2EE application. This can be a problem when things don't behave this way you might expect. Tools are great, but sometimes do things 'for us' that we really don't want.
The data exchanged in business-to-business (B2B) messages is often sensitive and requires protection. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) provides protection at the transport level through the confidentiality of data exchanged between two endpoints.
BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security 4.1 offers a new, integrated approach to addressing the distributed application security problem found with enterprise applications.
BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, has announced that Norvergence, a provider of telecommunications services for growing companies, has adopted BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 as its standard for enterprise application development, deployment,...