This year's BEA eWorld 2003 show is the center of attention for BEA's product announcements and vision for the upcoming year, exciting stuff indeed. The theme for this year's conference is 'convergence.' You'll notice that this theme is likewise ingrained in the articles in this issue... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 10,480 |
Without exception, the Internet has dramatically changed the way business information is delivered and consumed. The proliferation of free information coupled with fee-based services that have migrated to the Web has proven overwhelming for the average knowledge worker. While every des... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 6,446 |
The typical enterprise relies on a mix of custom built and pre-packaged business applications using multiple technologies. Over the last decade, the Internet explosion drove the desire to make these applications available via the Web. Unfortunately, many companies exacerbated their exi... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 6,819 |
Many articles have claimed that Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET Web services are interoperable. What does this mean from a developer's perspective? What issues and problems arise as you actually do the work? Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 9,418 |
The explosion of Web services has spawned significant new challenges for IT and the technologies they use. With the infrastructure requirements for WebLogic applications growing more complex, the addition of Web services suddenly expands the management focus to systems and applications... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 6,335 |
One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is traveling around the world and talking to CIOs about the many pressing challenges of managing today's heterogeneous IT infrastructure. It's clear to me that in today's difficult economy, it is not that CIOs are 'not spending' money. They're ... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 6,857 |
BEA believes that both open-source projects and commercial Java platform products like WebLogic are crucial to the health of the Java ecosystem. That's why WebLogic runs on top of, incorporates, contributes to, and creates open-source technologies. Even open-source projects that provid... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 8,911 |
In today's competitive business environment, success depends on the quality of information available and the sophistication with which it is used. Many companies successfully differentiate themselves with the quality of their information-handling systems. As technologists, our job is t... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 29,171 Replies: 26 |
The initial focus of Weblogic Workshop was on Web services applications, but the core mission of the Workshop team has always been to deliver unprecedented productivity building enterprise-class applications. Many of the innovations introduced in the first version, such as visual desi... Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 9,351 |
Enterprise application integration, now the centerpiece of corporate IT strategy, remains unacceptably high in cost and effort for one reason. Today's typical IT organization has separate environments for application development and integration. Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 7,075 |
BEA has begun the rollout of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, a new release of BEA's application infrastructure platform product, with powerful new functionality for building and integrating enterprise applications. Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 6,681 |
The editors of WebLogic Developer's Journal recently sat down with Olivier Helleboid, BEA's President of Products, to talk about WebLogic's direction in 2003. Mar. 4, 2003 Reads: 8,997 |