Vol: 1 Iss: 11 Read Back Issues

Looking Back to See the Future I recently upgraded a small WebLogic 6.1 application to WebLogic 7.0. The process was really quite simple. I attribute this smooth transition to the application's standard use of J2EE components and to WLS 7.0's backwards compatibility! I really only had to do a few configuration chang... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 9,015

Programmatic Clients, Symmetry, and the Humble Ant Picnicking during my summer holidays with my family, I was a little peeved to find that we had set up camp near an ant hill and some of them had decided to help themselves to elements of our lunch. Just as well, really, that I prefer sausage rolls and pork pies to chocolate buns, I gue... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 7,016

Administrative Tasks Using the weblogic.Admin Command-Line Utility WebLogic Server (WLS) provides several ways to configure servers, clusters, machines, JDBC connection pools, JMS servers, and so on, using the following: Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 14,356

High-Performance CMP Features This month I've decided to explore some of the more advanced performance enhancements that you can use if you are using EJB 2.0 on WebLogic. Our container-managed persistence (CMP) engine exposes several strategies for you to configure to get the most efficient - meaning least - use of... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 7,010

Web Services Interoperability Web services has been promising to solve several business problems, including those of integration and interoperability. While Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI help to facilitate it, they don't really ensure it. Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 9,444

Building Better Bridges The most challenging integration efforts frequently involve integrating enterprise resource planning (ERP) or customer relationship management (CRM) systems with new and existing custom applications. These enterprise software applications often have proprietary architectures a... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 7,901

Security and JMS Coverage Are Highlights of "Bible" As good as product documentation gets, there is always room for more code samples, deployment descriptor samples, and tips on how to take advantage of undocumented tools. While integrating WebLogic Server 6.1 as a product offering for my company's hosting platform, I needed examples fo... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 10,436

Taking the Migraine Out of Migration When J2EE was still in its nascent stage, ATG took a bold step, becoming one of the first vendors to provide a similar framework for enterprises to build their applications on. Though largely based on Java, their technology did not adhere to any of the earlier J2EE specifications. Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 7,947

Rich-Client Deployment in a ZAC-less World Organizations deploying rich client/server WebLogic applications need to fill the void created by the deprecation of BEA Zero Administration Client (ZAC). The affiliated Delta Dental Plans of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, a leading dental plan administrator, chose Sitraka DeployDirector ... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 5,556

In Search of Operational Excellence Companies that aspire to lead their industries continue to find ways to optimize themselves in an endless pursuit of excellence. The race is on for many leading companies to leverage technology and provide enriched online services to their customers in order to maintain their positions... Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 7,210

Understanding the Event Framework In last month's article, I provided an in-depth description of the Advisor Framework that is embedded in WebLogic Portal. This month, I'll focus on describing the components, capabilities, and extensions of the Event Framework. Next month I'll look at the Portal Framework Oct. 15, 2002  Reads: 8,784