Scalability for the Masses
If you asked me what the theme for this month's WLDJ is, I'd have to say 'performance and scalability.' I was once asked, 'What is the most scalable way to build a J2EE application?''Let's just find...
View ArticleTop Five Challenges for J2EE Application Development and Deployment
According to Gartner, Java has penetrated as many enterprises as Visual Basic. The implications of this evolution in Java adoption highlight some cruel realities. Java, and by extension J2EE, are no...
View ArticleCMP 2.0, EJBGen, and Builder Make EJBs Easy!
EJBs have always been the best way to ensure that your applications were portable and would leverage all the optimizations of the J2EE server. Now they are also easy to build. With the release of...
View ArticleDiagnosing Tough Performance Problems
Although many of the symptoms of performance problems (e.g., poor response time) are similar throughout the application life cycle, the underlying causes and the techniques used to diagnose them become...
View ArticleGood News forWebLogic
I have two newsworthy items to talk about this month. One concerns the application server market; the other pertains to a newly announced partnership in the wireless space. Each tidbit dates from July,...
View ArticleCompleting the J2EE Enterprise Nervous System
Improving application integration has become an increasingly important component of today's IT strategy. In a recent Morgan Stanley survey of 225 CIOs, 80% indicated that they would begin new...
View ArticleManaging Complexity of J2EE
There's no question about it - J2EE applications are tough, burly pieces of software. Often they require numerous servers, communicate over various protocols, and run on software from various vendors....
View ArticleLooking 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...
View ArticleMonsters of the J2EE Gridiron
My friends arrived in town (Denver, CO - U.S.) last weekend and to their surprise, I told them I had four football (American football, that is...) tickets to the Broncos game on Sunday. That morning,...
View ArticleWeb Services & WebLogic
The Web services world is currently cluttered with code-intensive solutions that require intimate knowledge of lower-level protocols to successfully deploy applications as Web services. Much like the...
View ArticleBEA Web Services
It is the dawn of a new season as BEA WebLogic Developer's Journal moves into its second year. What better way to start the new year than with a focus issue on Web services? And it's not too early to...
View ArticleConvergence - BEA eWorld 2003
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...
View ArticlePortal to the World
One of the more interesting conversations I have with IT organizations is over what constitutes a portal. While issues vary, it is clear that there is a business definition of a portal that is...
View ArticleFlying South
My neighborhood is home to a host of birds, many of which fly south during the winter months. With spring in bloom, I always look forward to the return of the various avian travelers who dart and weave...
View ArticleManagement 101
From time to time I hear people say 'those who can, do; those who can't, manage.' Usually a developer mutters this as he begins another 80-hour week courtesy of a slip in the project plan. Of course,...
View ArticleColonial Workshop
Have you ever visited one of those theme parks that depict life as it was in colonial times? I'm always fascinated by the blacksmith and other craftsmen who show you just how hard it actually was to...
View ArticlePattern Matching
When I first graduated (well, actually, the second time) I had an offer from a company for a programming job. They were going to hire me, contingent upon my passing the IBM Programmer's Aptitude Test....
View ArticleThe 21st Century Developer
Imagine for a moment what it would be like to be a 21st-century software developer sitting in your cubicle at work. All right, I know that we are already a few years into the century, so let's push it...
View ArticleThe Whole Package
In the battle over application servers, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that the battle is over. The bad news is that everybody lost. And by that I mean something a little different...
View ArticleTrading Places
I have always been a firm believer in the value and importance of trade publications in the information technology industry. I remember back in my early days as a consultant being assigned to (more...
View ArticleTower of Babel
I currently find myself on a consulting engagement for a large, multimillion-dollar, enterprise- wide Web services project for a major Fortune 500 firm. It's a golden opportunity to see first-hand the...
View ArticleCan You Log In Now? Good!
A colleague of mine, who is a senior architectural specialist, recently finished a short, three-week consulting engagement with several other performance-test engineers to determine why it was taking...
View ArticlePredictions, Predictions...
The start of a new year is traditionally a time when we reflect on where we've been for the past year, and what we hope for the coming year. Magazine editors take this opportunity to take part in an...
View ArticleWhat Brings the Future?
The novel Dune, by Frank Herbert, a classic in science fiction, is littered with great references and quotes. One such quote is: 'Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it.' With this in...
View ArticleTwin Beaks
While recently reading through a leading national newspaper, I happened to notice a slick, full-page advertisement for a new enterprise-class server. Made by a leading hardware manufacturer, it was one...
View ArticleWatch Your Security Hole
Anyone who has recently been on the job hunting circuit, looking for a position as a developer, knows that employers are getting rather picky. With the oversupply of IT professionals, recruiters are...
View ArticleThe Second Battle for the Desktop
We often like to assume that most corporate IT organizations have kept somewhat up-to-date with all of the various technological innovations over the years, and have done so in an incremental manner....
View ArticleWorkshop on My Mind
Over the past several months, I've had the opportunity to interface with several BEA WebLogic project teams and ask how they do their development. One question I usually bring up, mainly out of...
View ArticleOh Beehive!
It wasn't all that long ago, the last issue of WLDJ if I am not mistaken, that I expressed my dismay over why so few projects in my travels were using WebLogic Workshop as the primary development IDE....
View ArticleIf Only...
Rarely does a software product meet the expectations of each and every user. First of all, if it did, I guess there wouldn't be any need for further releases. We all have a wish list of sorts - if only...
View ArticleThe SOA Diet
It never ceases to amaze me how something can move from essential obscurity to mainstream hype in what seems to be only overnight. Take the low carbohydrate diets, which are all the rage now. For...
View ArticleOpen Source Technologies
Earlier this year, BEA donated several proprietary technologies to the open source community primarily to increase the adoption of BEA WebLogic Workshop, which is the basic entry point into the...
View ArticleAre You a WebLogic Expert?
In my travels I am often asked whether I am a WebLogic expert. I don't blame people for asking, since it is assumed that anyone who is editor-in-chief of a magazine dedicated to keeping its readers up...
View ArticleSimply SOA
It's all quite simple you see. In a major move last year, BEA made a significant and very welcome contribution to the open source community by donating the Beehive framework to the Apache software...
View ArticleMidnight 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...
View ArticleFramework Tales
Once upon a time, on a project not too far away, a bright young software architect had a thought. 'Why, things are getting a bit complex here,' he said. 'Perhaps I can make things easier by developing...
View ArticleA Perfect Fit
The first house I ever bought was built in 1936. It had style, it had character, and it had really narrow hallways and tight corners. The sofa we had bought - the one that went perfectly with all the...
View ArticleService-Oriented Architecture SOA Doesn't Always Require Web Services
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...
View ArticleBEA WebLogic Journal Editorial: "Rebuilding the Tower of Babel"
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...
View ArticleApplication Integration:Forms, Degrees,and Mechanisms
In a March 2002 survey by Morgan Stanley, 225 CIOs listed extending their current IT investments through application integration as their number one priority. This is not surprising. Given the slow...
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