Apache Beehive, the cross-container, open-source application framework for building SOAs and enterprise Java applications that BEA is releasing to open source, is now available to the public. It can be obtained from the Apache Software Foundation Web site.

A portlet is a Web component that generates fragments - pieces of markup (e.g., HTML, XML) adhering to certain specifications. Fragments are aggregated to form a complete document. This article introduces the Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 on Java Portlets. It illustrates the cre

WebLogic Portal 8.1 Service Pack 2 has been out for several months. By the time this article is published, Service Pack 3 may also be out. Having worked on a couple of WebLogic Portal projects with this version, I have come across several small and large issues.

Current Web applications, especially portals, have become increasingly content driven. It led to development of a plethora of sophisticated and powerful Web Content Management Systems, or WCMS. They help to automate creation, management, reviewing, tagging, rendering, publication, main

In our earlier article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 5), we discussed the importance of designing for manageability. Using a case study of an on-line shopping application, DizzyWorld, we showed the developer's perspective around application manageability. This included both the development of a

You may not be aware of it yet, but Mac OS X - version 10.3, better known as Panther - is a great Java development environment. I am a fairly recent Mac convert from the Windows and sometimes Unix/Linux world that I lived in. Maybe you are like me. Maybe aliens have abducted your frien

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 this software program could do this or if only that could be better. Most of the tim

This week at JavaOne, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems announced the general availability of the BEA WebLogic Platform on the Solaris Operating System (OS) for x86 systems.

At JavaOne this week, the Eclipse Foundation, along with Instantiations, Inc., and BEA Systems announced the creation of 'Pollinate', a new open-source incubator project focused on creating an Eclipse-based development environment and toolset to be named Eclipse Pollinate.

PeopleSoft's newly available PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Tools 8.93 now supports the Linux operating system and BEA WebLogic infrastructure, to increase productivity, reduce installation times, and increase customer choice.

BEA today announced that company co-founder, William T. Coleman III, has stepped down from its board of directors.

The management team of Comdex, which they are 'postponing' this year, says not to worry, that the show will be back in 2005. 'Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?' muses Roger Strukhoff. Meantime, he mourns today's announcement and looks back at the ups and downs of 'the one event that d

Dr. Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, is scheduled to keynote at the ninth annual JavaOne Worldwide Developer Conference. During his keynote, Dietzen is scheduled to offer attendees demonstrations and tutorials on using innovative technologies including Project Beeh

BEA has designated ILOG as a preferred business rule technology vendor to provide key functionality for its business process management (BPM) application development framework, the BEA WebLogic Workshop.

'I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow,' says Keith Lea, 'so I took the benchmark code for C++ and Java from the now outdated Great Computer Language Shootout (Fall 2001) and ran the tests myself.' Lea's results three years on? Java, he finds, is significantly faster than opti

Kevin Faulkner, BEA vice president - investor relations, and John Kiger, BEA senior director - investor relations, are scheduled to present at the Bear Stearns 15th Annual Technology Conference on Tuesday, June 15, 2004.

This week, on June 17th and 18th, the 2nd BEA eWorld JAPAN Conference will take place at the Cerulean Tower Tokyo Hotel in Tokyo. At this year's eWorld JAPAN conference, with the theme Deploy SOA Now, attendees can gain an in-depth understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA),

CoreStreet Ltd. has made available one of the first products that can enable real-time validation for applications distributed on BEA Systems' WebLogic Application Servers. The Server Validation Extension for WebLogic is an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) compatible plug-in t

KDDI Corporation, Japan's leading broadband and 3G mobile service operator, selected BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 for KDDI's operations support systems (OSS) platform that will be designed to help automate operations by coordinating multiple systems.

WLDJ was a media sponsor at the recent BEA eWorld 2004 conference and expo in San Francisco, and SYS-CON Radio was there to get the latest on WebLogic directly from the industry's most influential IT professionals and executives.

Java has spread in enterprise computing, James Gosling pointed out recently to a conference audience in India, 'and people prefer Java in mobile devices - nobody likes it if a mobile device looks like a desktop with Windows-like features.' The father of Java remains as proud of his gro

Will they, won't they? Yesterday, Sun's own Java technology evangelist was being reported as having said they would; now Java co-creator James Gosling - and almost everyone else in Santa Clara who came in contact with the media - says Sun won't be open-sourcing Java. Not yet anyway - t

Hard on the heels of the announcement by Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz earlier this week that Solaris will be open-sourced comes confirmation from Sun's Java technology evangelist: 'We haven't worked out how to open-source Java - but at some point it will happen,' says popu

Compoze Software has announced the availability of the Compoze Portlets 2.5, BEA WebLogic Edition, for BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

New software from Interwoven enables collaborative document management (CDM) capabilities within the BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and on WebLogic Application Server 8.1

BackWeb Technologies Ltd. has announced a solution that's designed to help BEA customers more easily and cost-effectively mobilize, or offline enable, any BEA Web application for mobile laptop users with intermittent network connectivity.

Adam Bosworth, BEA's chief architect and senior vice president, advanced development, in his eWorld 2004 keynote today, demonstrated a future BEA technology concept code-named Alchemy, designed to enable mobile workers to be as productive offline as they are online.

BEA's founder, chairman, and CEO gave the opening keynote yesterday at eWorld, the annual BEA techfest for its partners and customers. He spoke of how IT is no longer about integration but about 'compatibility' - and confirmed that BEA is going to put Liquid Computing firmly on the i-t

BEA Systems' most recent accolade was bestowed by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), awarding BEA WebLogic Workshop the Codie award for 'Best Software Development Product.'

Wily Technology has announced Wily Portal Manager 5.0 for BEA WebLogic Portal, expanding the industry's first and only family of enterprise portal management solutions.

Despite having only a 'walk-on' role in CTO Scott Dietzen's Technical Keynote address at San Francisco's eWorld this morning, senior product manager Carl Sjogren had the honor of breaking the news: BEA's 'Project Beehive' today has become an official open source project in the Apache c

Just released is the Cape Clear Business Integration Suite for BEA WebLogic, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) built around Web services standards and fine-tuned to support the full range of BEA WebLogic features.

The Quest Application Performance Management (APM) Suite for the J2EE platform has completed the BEA Validation Program and is now verified to integrate with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

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. And only a few readers sent in e-mails regarding their reasons for choosing another I

By aligning itself with open source via its 'Beehive Project,' BEA yesterday shot Java - more specifically, OS Java - into the headlines. Here WLDJ News Desk offers a round-up from leading technology newspapers, journals, Web sites, and online communities.

BEA confirmed today our exclusive reports from this morning, by formally announcing that it was open-sourcing, under the Apache License 2.0, the runtime to the WebLogic Workshop application development framework.

Wily Technology founder and CTO Lewis Cirne will speak about the critical requirements for managing the performance of an SOA built on BEA WebLogic platform at the ninth annual BEA eWorld conference.

Wily Technology's Introscope 5.0 has completed the BEA Validation Program and is integrated with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Joint Wily and BEA customers can now easily integrate Introscope 5.0 with WebLogic.

In a move which in an instant extends by a mile the functionality that the OS Java platform enjoys, BEA Systems is expected today to announce the plans that until now it has codenamed 'Beehive' - whereby the proliferation of WebLogic Workshop apps can take off in an exponential way. It

'We congratulate BEA on their announcement and wish them much success and good luck with their new magazine,' said Jeremy Geelan, publisher of SYS-CON's WLDJ, the leading independent magazine for WebLogic professionals. JDJ News Desk talks to Geelan and to Miles Silverman, vice preside