IBM
Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 4 Iss: 5 |
 'High performance' is what everybody strives for when putting together a new system. Technical folk often spend hours hung up on the raw speed of their code, and a certain machismo can be derived from shaving milliseconds off that pesky transaction that is the latest pride and joy. Oft...Oct. 29, 2005 Reads: 13,889 Replies: 3 |
 Faster than you can say XML, a whole cottage industry has developed to standardize the mechanics of Web services to add to them protocols for things like security and routing and workflow, and even to develop standard XML schemas for business.Oct. 27, 2005 Reads: 12,381 Replies: 1 |
 Maintaining complicated legacy applications is a challenge, which is often made worse by lack of documentation, nonintuitive design, and coding practices. Unfortunately almost all software developers will find themselves with such an assignment at some point in their careers.Oct. 26, 2005 Reads: 20,414 Replies: 1 |
 Every aircraft can take off, fly straight, and land, but few are capable of the dazzling rolls and loops displayed at air shows. When judged on aerobatics, some airplanes are superior to others. Every BPM process language, analogously, can implement basic sequential control flow, but m...Oct. 23, 2005 Reads: 17,213 |
 When WLDJ wanted someone to take a First Look at Visual MainWin for J2EE, we turned to interoperability expert Laurence Moroney - coauthor of a forthcoming book on Web services security and a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York City. In the course of assess...Oct. 19, 2005 Reads: 28,857 Replies: 4 |
 Java development is at a crossroads. The open standards have done lot of good for the Java platform and language, but they have brought in some problems too. Developers are often drenched in the complexities that surround Java development. Worse yet, these complexities are so overwhelm...Oct. 17, 2005 Reads: 24,392 Replies: 3 |
 This article will demonstrate the value of a communication platform not just for telecoms, but also for any company developing enterprise-wide applications. BEA has entered the communication platform space in a very big way with its release of the BEA WebLogic Communication Platform (W...Oct. 15, 2005 Reads: 16,215 Replies: 3 |
 One of the nice features of the WebLogic Portal 8.1 release is a fairly extensive content management system. It does not, nor was it ever intended to, compete with the large content management vendors on the market today, but for many applications it works quite well. There are some pr...Oct. 12, 2005 Reads: 18,187 Replies: 1 |
 As Internet services have evolved and gradually become more and more distributed in nature, enterprise messaging has grown into one of the most important parts of Web application infrastructure. Applications can transfer an enormous amount of messages in a short amount of time, and the...Oct. 8, 2005 Reads: 15,093 Replies: 2 |
