Vol: 4 Iss: 2 Read Back Issues

Midnight Madness As the father of an avid teenage video game enthusiast, I was a bit amused late last year by all of the excitement and anticipation surrounding the upcoming release of Halo 2. For months leading up to the November 9 release date, I heard all the buzz from my oldest son about how great ... May. 22, 2005  Reads: 11,996

A Look Ahead to the Service-Oriented World BEA recently announced that it is broadening its SOA consulting practice, and that it has created a tool companies can use to learn about SOA and figure out how prepared they are to transition to the new architectural model. Apr. 6, 2005  Reads: 16,220  Replies: 1

A Migration Strategy for WebLogic Server 5.1 to 8.1 BEA retired its WebLogic Server 5.1 on February 1, 2004. It had been supported for four years prior to retirement. One of the options for migrating applications that are running on 5.1 is to use WebLogic Server 8.1, which provides a range of new features for J2EE 1.3-based applications... Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 15,746

Scheduling Jobs in WebLogic Server The need to run scheduled jobs is increasing and becoming common across all J2EE applications. The current J2EE specification doesn't provide an easy way to schedule jobs inside an enterprise application. Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 20,255

What's Wrong with Web Applications Criticizing something as wildly successful as the World Wide Web seems a bit radical and potentially unpopular. There is no doubt that Tim Berners-Lee's elegantly simple invention enabled an unprecedented revolution in the way computers are used and by whom. Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 15,448  Replies: 4

JMS Clustering Part I This article is the first of a two-part series on JMS clustering. Part 1 will discuss the fundamental aspects of clustering JMS resources such as queues, topics, and connection factories, and illustrate the steps to go through to configure a clustered destination in a WebLogic cluster.... Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 18,480  Replies: 1

Monitoring and Controlling WebLogic Servers with WLST Scripting languages have recently garnered a bit of attention. With the arrival of Groovy and Jython, writing scripts merged with Java is more natural than Ant. Using XML to call Java methods has always been forced, mostly because it's hard to express flow, conditional expressions, and... Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 22,107  Replies: 1

Migrating from WebLogic 6.1 to 8.1 BEA's name is synonymous with the application server. Most applications running on Unix in North America run on BEA's WebLogic server, particularly financial apps. The current stable WebLogic 8.1 version does a lot more than earlier versions. Migrating to new versions is always challen... Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 21,159

Integrating an ASP.NET Application with J2EE PART 1 We all know that the .NET platform offers a great set of tools for building robust Web applications. There are times, however, when as .NET developers we need to understand how we can integrate the great features of .NET with other platforms and technologies. We often find our clients ... Mar. 29, 2005  Reads: 14,006  Replies: 2