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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 4 Iss: 6 |
 An anecdote that an engineer shared with me recently reminded me of a long-standing concept in manufacturing, design for production (DFP). The concept has to do with evaluating how a given operation - production line, supply chain, or an entire factory - is performing.Jan. 30, 2006 Reads: 10,526 Replies: 1 |
 Let me start by defining the current problem-detection process in most enterprises. An issue arises in the production environment for a J2EE application running on WebLogic, information is captured via logs, and WebLogic server is rebooted. From this point, application developers and a...Jan. 27, 2006 Reads: 15,537 Replies: 3 |
 I have been knocking around the computer industry for a while now, and I've noticed some changes in my contemporaries and myself... For one thing, the buttons around the stomach of those old shirts that have eluded capture by my wife are looking a bit more strained than they did in the...Jan. 26, 2006 Reads: 12,471 Replies: 1 |
 As the Internet crawls to even more remote corners of the globe, the internationalization of Web applications exposes a plethora of challenges. As a real-world example, if an airline starts reaching far more remote destinations across international frontiers, a Web application represen...Jan. 21, 2006 Reads: 31,926 Replies: 2 |
 A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application.Jan. 18, 2006 Reads: 69,829 Replies: 3 |
 The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, usually shortened to BPEL) is, as its name suggests, a language for the definition and execution of business processes. Though it is not the only standard process language, BPEL is the most popular, and it's beginning t...Jan. 15, 2006 Reads: 15,252 Replies: 3 |
 This article describes two techniques that may be used for assured delivery of important data, specifically, audit data, in distributed systems. We will review design that leads from assured to guaranteed delivery. This task gets more and more important in light of modern global operat...Jan. 13, 2006 Reads: 15,704 Replies: 1 |
 Once upon a time people spoke the same language - but that was long ago. Nowadays people speak hundreds of languages with unique characters, inflection indicators, and other punctuation marks that make each language different from all others.Jan. 9, 2006 Reads: 14,823 Replies: 1 |
