The potential and promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) can be realized by designing, developing, and deploying well-designed, flexible, extensible, and scalable Web services, Web applications, and portlets.

In the first article I gave an overview of BPM and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WLI. In the second article we saw how to create a process application, specifica...

In the first article in this series (Vol. 3, issue 6), I gave you an overview of business process management (BPM) and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic I...

In Part 1 (Vol. 3, issue 6) of this series I gave you an overview of business process management (BPM) and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration. ...

In my first article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6), I provided an overview of BPM specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration.

When processes are modeled well and don't change, existing IT systems work well. However, real business changes all the time and processes are becoming more complex especially as the Internet is able to easily link internal and external systems. Business process ...

Application versioning has always been a challenge for the developer community. With the introduction of Web services, this issue becomes even more difficult as developers are dealing with a more distributed set of components that aren't necessarily under their control.