Baruch Atta wrote: My
comment is that good
coding shouldn't be
cryptic, that is, hard to
understand and write.
Elegant code should be
readable, and in essence,
be easy to write.
Unfortunately, the Java ...
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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.
BEA Systems, Inc., the
world's leading
application
infrastructure software
company, has announced
that Norvergence, a
provider of
telecommunications
services for growing
companies, has adopted
BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1
as its standard for
enterprise application
development, deployment,
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 not just looking for
good people, they are
looking for good people
with an exact skill
VERITAS Software
Corporation has announced
the immediate
availability of VERITAS
Application Saver
software, a companion
product for VERITAS i3
application performance
management (APM) software
that helps ensure
business continuity by
improving server
utilization and
preventing common
Service Integrity, a
developer of XML/Web
Services monitoring,
analysis and visibility
software, has announced a
new version of its SIFT
software for BEA WebLogic
Platform 8.1.
Web applications are an
important part of the
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) platform because
the Web components are
responsible for key
client-facing
presentation and business
logic. A poorly designed
Web application will ruin
the best business-tier
com-ponents and services.
In this
A 'StackOverFlow' message
is usually indicative of
an error in the
application code of the
user, an error in the
Java Virtual Machine, or
in BEA WebLogic Server
itself. This message is
usually seen right before
a Java Virtual Machine
core dump or the WebLogic
Server process just 'goes
Mercury Interactive's
LoadRunner is a leader in
the performance-testing
market. Its ability to
create large volumes of
data is legendary, and
its ability to monitor
the systems being tested
provides great value. The
J2EE Transaction
Breakdown Diagnostics
Module, LoadRunner,
brings deta
You can create a Java
Page Flow application in
BEA WebLogic Workshop
that utilizes a Service
control generated from a
Web service. This article
uses the example of an
external Web service
listed on the
XMethods.net site. We
will import the WSDL for
the Web service into BEA
WebLogic Wor
This article is the
fourth in a series of
articles on BEA WebLogic
Server administration and
management for developers
(WLDJ, Vol. 2, issues
1012). The first
installment focused on
administration concepts
and terminology, and the
graphical tools for
packaging an application
and settin
The rising business trend
toward using open source
software platforms has
brought an increase in
the number of critical
applications deployed on
Linux and BEA WebLogic.
For many organizations,
in fact, WebLogic
deployments are their
first major Linux
installation.
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
mind I can't help but
think of the future for
BEA WebLogic. The trap I
refer to is the
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 of those N-way
Intel Xeon rack-mount
systems that are in a
whole league by themselve
(September 10, 2002) -
BEA Systems, Inc. is now
shipping BEA WebLogic
JRockit 7.0, the next
generation of its Java
Virtual Machine (JVM).
Optimized for all
Intel-based servers,
including both the Intel
Xeon and Itanium
architectures, BEA
WebLogic JRockit 7.0 is
the keystone in BEA's st
(August 28, 2002) - Palm
Solutions Group and BEA
Systems, Inc., have
formed a long-term
strategic relationship to
bring Web services to
PalmTM branded handhelds,
using WebLogic
technology.
(August 28, 2002) - BEA
Systems, Inc.; Deloitte
Consulting, one of the
world's leading
consulting firms; and
Roundarch, the Customer
Relationship Architects,
have introduced CRM
Connect?, a multichannel
CRM solution that
provides a single view of
the customer, allowing
them to connect
More than 210 customers
in the Americas,
Asia/Pacific, and Europe
selected BEA over IBM in
head-to-head sales
situations during the
past quarter, says BEA.
In 125 of these cases,
BEA was selected despite
the fact that IBM
WebSphere was the
incumbent platform. This
includes 94 instances
(August 15, 2002) - BEA
Systems, Inc. and Borland
Software Corporation have
announced plans to offer
Borland® JBuilder,
BEA WebLogic Edition,
creating a tightly
integrated product
development solution for
building enterprise
applications on the BEA
WebLogic Platform 7.0
with the JB
(August 12, 2002) - U.S.
Cellular, a wireless
telecommunications
provider with 3.5 million
customers nationwide, has
selected the BEA WebLogic
Enterprise PlatformTM for
their application and
portal development and
deployment strategy as
the company prepares its
infrastructure for signi
Edmunds.com, the Web's
leading consumer resource
for unbiased automotive
information, has selected
the BEA WebLogic
Enterprise PlatformTM as
the foundation for its
new architecture after
conducting a thorough
review of Java-based
application server
platforms.
(August 8, 2002) -
Intrinsyc Software, Inc.
has announced its second
annual maintenance and
support contract with BEA
Systems, the world's
leading application
infrastructure software
company.
(August 7, 2002) -Every
publication evaluating
BEA WebLogic WorkshopTM
to date has given it
glowing reviews
confirming its place as
the first Java
development framework
expressly designed to
make it easy for
mainstream application
developers to build
enterprise-class Web
services.
(August 6, 2002) - Dirig
Software has announced
support for BEA
WebLogic® Server 7.0.
Prospective BEA WebLogic
Server 7.0TM customers
can benefit from Fenway's
breadth of e-business
management capabilities
including Web servers,
application servers, and
backend databases.
(August 1, 2002) - Free
Webinars, technical
presentations, and
discounts on WLDJ are
just a few of the perks
for developers who take
advantage of BEA's free
dev2dev Online Membership
Program. Exclusively for
members of the growing
BEA dev2dev community,
the program builds on the
core B
(July 23, 2002) -
AdventNet, Inc., the
leading provider of
standards-based J2EE
management solutions
announced the immediate
availability of AdventNet
Middleware Manager 4.0
WebLogic Edition,
optimized for advanced
JMX based management of
entire Web application
ecosystems.
(July 23, 2002) - BEA
Systems, Inc., has
announced support for a
certified implementation
of the Java API for
XML-based Remote
Procedure Call (JAX-RPC)
- making BEA the first
major application server
provider to adopt the new
standard for Web services
interoperability.
(July 17, 2002) - Does
your organization require
J2EE and .NET-based
applications to talk to
each other? Are you
building Web services to
connect legacy systems?
Do you want your
developers to quickly
become experts in Java?
(July 16, 2002) - BEA
Systems, Inc., has
launched the BEA Portal
Solution Center http://po
rtalsolutions.bea.com),
an online resource center
for businesses to design
and develop enterprise
portal solutions. The BEA
Portal Solution Center
helps to simplify portal
design and development b
(July 11, 2002) - Dirig
Software, a leading
developer of
award-winning enterprise
application performance
management solutions for
e-business, has received
$15 million in financing,
led by Battery Ventures
with additional
investment from original
investors JMI Equity,
Longworth Venture
(February 12, 2003) - BEA
Systems, Inc. has
unveiled its Enterprise
Architect Resource Center
- a new strategic
initiative in which BEA
will offer programs and
technical resources aimed
at architects in the
enterprise. Available now
at http://dev2dev.bea.com
/community/architects.jsp
, B
(June 27, 2002) - eXcelon
Corporation has announced
that its XML products
integrate with BEA
WebLogic Platform 7.0TM
to provide customers with
a comprehensive solution
for implementing Web
services applications
based on XML business
documents.
(March 3, 2003) - BEA
System Inc.'s founder,
chairman and CEO Alfred
Chuang, launched BEA
WebLogic Platform
8.1 at the company's
eighth annual technology
conference, BEA eWorld
2003 in Orlando, FL
today. Mr. Chuang
predicted that BEA
WebLogic Platform 8.1
would usher in a new era
(February 26, 2003) - The
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
(NASA) is building the
Collaborative Information
Portal on the BEA
WebLogic Enterprise
Platform that will serve
as a key research and
scientific tool during
the upcoming Mars
Exploration Rover
mission.
(February 25, 2003) -
Confluent Software Inc.
has announced the first
Web services management
solution in the industry
to be tightly integrated
with BEA WebLogic
Workshop. The product,
Confluent CORE for BEA,
helps enterprises deploy
a service-oriented
architecture where shared
operat
’ t(July 2, 2003) -
Businesses are looking
for real-time information
visibility into their
business operations in
order to stay
competitive. Achieving
this level of insight is
difficult because data is
scattered across business
operations - in different
data formats, different
appl
(July 1, 2003) - BEA
Systems, Inc. has been
placed as the joint
leader of the $2.2
billion application
server software platform
market with a $100,000
lead on its nearest
competitor, as measured
by worldwide license and
license-related services
revenue, according to
analysis recently r
(August 28, 2002) - To
lower the cost of
connecting enterprise
applications, systems and
its users, BEA Systems,
Inc. will make available
30 new BEA-branded
integration adapters for
BEA WebLogic Integration?
at the end of August,
complementing more than
20 new portlets for BEA
WebLogic
(June 4, 2002) - The BEA
WebLogic Enterprise
Platform has been
selected by Cingular
Wireless, the nation's
second largest wireless
carrier, as its standard
application platform.
Among Cingular's first
BEA-powered applications
are a retail-sales
system, a Web-based
activation service, a
The open source Expresso
5.6 release builds on a
solid feature set with
several new open source
products integrated and
representing over 1000
cvs commits of framewo
Testing Web services
creates an entirely new
set of problems for
development and testing
teams. JUnits can be
created to test parts of
the Web service, but do
not pr
Mercury Interactive's
LoadRunner is a leader in
the performance-testing
market. Its ability to
create large volumes of
data is legendary, and
its ability to monitor
Bill Coleman, Edward
Scott, and Alfred Chuang
must be looking at their
September 1998
acquisition of WebLogic
as the best money they
ever spent. WebLogic's
Tengah pr