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

This article is the last in a series on BEA WebLogic Server administration and management for developers. The first installment focused on the WebLogic Server administration concepts and terminology, and the graphical tools for packaging an application and setting up and configuring a

What is a messaging bridge? And why and where would you use it? A messaging system is one in which applications are loosely coupled through the exchange of messages. In crude terms it is like an e-mail system for applications.

BEA WebLogic 8.1 implements the Java Management Extensions (JMX) 1.0. Most WebLogic subsystems (JMS Providers, the JDBC Container, ExecuteQueues, etc.) and their constituents are instrumented as MBeans and contain attributes by which they can be configured, monitored, and managed. An

This article explores using MySQL as the database engine where the application is developed using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and deployed to BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. Using an archetypical J2EE architecture, I evaluate the impact of using MySQL from various aspects such as choosing the c

Let's dive into the murky waters of modeling, describe some of its challenges, and provide, an overview of the state of business process modeling. In my first article in this series (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 4), I discussed the importance of architectural blueprints and best practices in or

With Web services usage on the rise, organizations are seeing a growing complexity in the enterprise systems being built. The need for a robust management solution is critical, as organizations look for better ways to monitor and control their IT environment.

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 curiosity, is whether or not they decided to use BEA WebLogic Workshop as part of their ove

Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly Media, is set to deliver a keynote at BEA eWorld 2004, the company's ninth annual technology conference.

Euronext.liffe, a leading exchange for short-term interest rate derivatives and equity options, has chosen BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 and BEA Services to help provide the foundation for a new service oriented architecture for its trading support systems.

Linux is making huge gains as the platform of choice for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications. Sun has seen more than 1 million downloads of the Linux version of its latest application server release, and all application server vendors uniformly agree that Linux is a f

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. However, the reality of the situation is quite different. You may (or may not) be surp

'GMail created a surprising storm for a product that hasn't yet been released,' writes the chairman of the EFF, Internet pioneer Brad Templeton. 'I come to this problem from two sides,' he continues. 'One, I'm a fan of Google, and have been friends with Google's management since they s

Cedric Beust has a day job with BEA, but blogs at night instead of sleeping ('which is such a waste of time anyway,' he says). It gave him the time and opportunity to declare what above all he wants out of Java right now: he wants to be able to write Java code for the .NET platform.

Tim Berners-Lee, who when last we looked was being knighted by the Queen, has been given the very first Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation for creating the World Wide Web and not making any money off of it or patenting it. To kinda make it up to him

H & W has announced the release of DiagnoSys Performance Scouts, comprehensive mainframe data collection agents for its DiagnoSys intelligent performance management solution. Together, DiagnoSys and Performance Scouts ensure that crucial Web applications perform optimally, keeping user

This article is the fifth in a series of articles on BEA WebLogic Server administration and management for developers (see WLDJ, Vol 2, issues 10 -12; Vol. 3, issue 2). We have focused on WebLogic Server administration concepts and terminology, the graphical tools for packaging an appl

Sometimes, HTTP session states are not replicated from the primary server to the secondary server. The application using HTTP session does not function as designed and you see a loss of session data. You might be asked to re-log into the application even when the session has still not

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) are application components that implement the EJB architecture specification and are part of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. EJBs are ideally suited for the development and deployment of distributed, scalable, transactional, secure, portable,

MySQL is a small, fast, and efficient database. This article discusses leveraging MySQL as the database with BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. We will look at using MySQL as the database engine where the application is developed using BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and deployed to BEA WebLogic Serve

'Will Sun be using a significant portion of the settlement proceeds to benefit Java developers and strengthen independent, standards-based efforts to advance Java?' That's the question asked by Rick Ross. 'Will Sun prove it has the vision to strengthen Java by recognizing and assisting

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology magazine publisher, announced today that its WLDJ has applied for BPA membership. BPA International will track circulation for WLDJ based on demographic and geographic coverage. The upcoming May 2004 issue of WLDJ has a print circulation

Exclusive: JDJ interviews...Alfred Chuang - Founder, President, and CEO of BEA Systems: 'It's not Java on the desktop that is going to keep Microsoft from owning all computing,' he says, 'it's Java on the server. The better enterprise Java gets, the more powerful applications can be, a

Covad Communications Group, Inc. a national broadband service provider, has signed an enterprise license agreement with BEA and plans to migrate its IT infrastructure to BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Whizlabs Software has launched WebLogic 7.0 Certification Exam Simulator for 'BEA Certified Specialist: Server' track.

BEA Systems is hosting its 9th annual technology conference, BEA eWorld 2004, May 24-27, 2004, at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco.

Karl Best, Vice President of OASIS, confirmed today that WS-Security is now an OASIS standard.

So was it or wasn't it? No one seems 100% sure one way or another whether Google's 'Gmail' announcement on April 1 was an April Fool or not. We review the various interpretations from around the i-Technology world.

Microsoft is going to pay $1.95 billion to get Sun Microsystems, the company with the sharpest spurs, off its back. The pair said this morning that they had settled all their legal differences. Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve antitrust issues, $900 million to resolve pat

Organizations that have accomplished application rationalization successfully have saved significantly on time, money, and resources. Measures of success include decreasing hundreds of business applications, increasing the availability of application data, and creating savings of $1M w

In a move aimed at helping portability of applications between rival Java application servers, Sun and IBM are going to collaborate with BEA to bring BEA's Controls to the JCP for ratification as a standard.

The enterprise software and services company iRise has expanded its partnership with BEA Systems to provide an integrated definition and development solution.

New from ReportingEngines is the Formula One e.Report Engine for WebLogic Workshop, a completely integrated Java reporting toolset that can be used to design, preview, compile, and deploy reports for a broad range of projects.

BEA and the American Electronics Association are hosting a one-day conference entitled, 'Large Scale e-Government: One Enterprise.'

As part of its ongoing efforts to increase industry adoption of Java and improve developers' value within an organization, BEA Systems announced its new BEA WebLogic Workshop Professional Edition.

Faced with a tough, if not losing, battle for PeopleSoft, Oracle executives said Thursday that they were considering other acquisitions.