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Database controls extend the BEA WebLogic controls architecture to enable developers to easily interact with relational databases with maximum productivity. Utilizing a database control, a developer can quickly create methods to issue commands and retrieve data as required. Database co...
In my travels I am often asked whether I am a WebLogic expert. I don't blame people for asking, since it is assumed that anyone who is editor-in-chief of a magazine dedicated to keeping its readers up to date on the myriad of BEA products must know everything there is to know about thi...
In part one (Vol.3, issue 7) of this two-part article, we discussed the 'on demand' information delivery architecture based on portal technologies and WSRP. In this part, the concept of on demand will be extended beyond the information delivery layer to the information aggregation and ...
Testing Web services creates an entirely new set of problems for development and testing teams. JUnits can be created to test parts of the Web service, but do not provide the overall functionality needed to ensure adequate validation, and make updating data values difficult. There are ...
In Part 1 (Vol. 3, issue 6) of this series I gave you an overview of business process management (BPM) and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration. In Part 2 (Vol. 3, issue...
This issue, in an uncharacteristic attempt to fit in with the Zeitgeist, I propose to depart slightly from my well-trodden path to the transaction manager and take a look at frameworks. I expect you can guess which particular framework I am going to take a pass at, too. For nearly as l...
An enterprise development project deploying to the WebLogic platform needs to maintain several different domain configurations during the project's development, test, and deployment phases. Version control and continuous rollout of ever-changing domain configurations to the different e...
A domain contains configuration information for a BEA WebLogic Server instance. It has configuration information about servers, clusters, and machines. A domain also contains configuration information about resources such as Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) connection pools, JDBC data...
The demands of security have gone far beyond simply managing user accounts and restricting access between internal and external networks. Emerging business practices challenge the enterprise to create flexible and robust security architectures that meet rapidly changing business demand...
Enterprise portals are fast becoming the foundation of the Web-based economy thanks to their ability to give enterprises, trading partners, and customers global access to enterprise applications, back-office systems, and IT infrastructures. This ability has made enterprise portals appe...
Earlier this year, BEA donated several proprietary technologies to the open source community primarily to increase the adoption of BEA WebLogic Workshop, which is the basic entry point into the WebLogic Platform suite. Although for typical J2EE applications deployed on the WebLogic Ser...
BEA has released the MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition, an integrated, mobile platform designed to help customers mobilize online data and business processes. Targeting enterprises in both the telecommunications industry and other business markets, this innovation ca...