Articles by Anbarasu Krishnaswamy

Capturing the Aspects of SOA Service Ownership

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:00 EDT

As the field of service-oriented architecture (SOA) evolves, it brings interesting challenges that should be addressed in order to drive its adoption and realize the benefits it has been promising. It took a while for many to understand that SOA is not purely a technology issue.

SOA Testing Framework

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:00:00 EDT

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become today's technology buzz and it's rapidly becoming a mainstream approach to enterprise systems design. Beyond the buzz of SOA, organizations face several challenges as they attempt to truly effectuate the paradigm shift towards SOA. One critical challenge is: How can we assure the quality of the business services that we build? Can the services we build withstand the test of rapid organizational change? One way to address this challenge is through the use of effective testing methodologies and tools for the services deployed under an organization's SOA fabric.

Enterprise Service Bus

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:00:00 EDT

BEA Systems, Inc. recently announced the launch of new family of products for service infrastructure, named AquaLogic. AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is BEA's implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus combined with Web services management capabilities. This article is a high-level introduction to ESB and ALSB.

Building Business Processes Part 2

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This article is the second of two on best practices in building business processes on BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1. The first installment (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6) focused on team development and maintenance best practices. In this article, we will focus on best practices in building business processes with scalability, recovery, exception handling, guaranteed delivery, and high performance. This article is intended for the developers and architects of WLI applications.

Building Business Processes Part 1

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

A business process in the real world typically is never done end-to-end by a single employee. It usually involves multiple employees/back end systems handing over work, similar to a 4x100 track relay where batons are passed between the athletes. The employees/back end should be passively notified of their tasks rather than actively waiting. BEA WebLogic Workshop provides a great framework to build these business processes for deployment on the WebLogic Platform.

WebLogic Workshop 8.1 IDE Fundamentals

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

As a software architect and developer, I've used a number of IDEs for my J2EE development. I have my priority list of features that I look for in all the IDEs but I wasn't able to find one that gave me everything I wanted.

Web Services Interoperability

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 EDT

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.

WebLogic Web Services Security

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Security is a priority for most of our customers. As more and more customers adopt Web services, they find a need to understand how Web services can be secured and what authentication mechanism to use.