JNels wrote: Hey -
Jeffrey Nelson here at
Verizon Wireless. Not a
bit of snubbing going on
here. Encourage folks to
review the materials from
our announcement about
joining LiMo Foundation
earlier this ...
Joachim Van der Auwera
wrote: I agree that code
generation can be very
important for relieving a
couple of the challenges
of building reliable,
consistent applications
in a minimum amount of
time.
There ...
Brian wrote: I think
we're heading in the
right direction, but
we've still got some work
to do. Search engine
support, for example, is
something that is still a
big problem for RIAs.
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The first 'Real-World
AJAX' event, held in New
York City, featured 15
speakers in 11 sessions,
including many of the the
world's most renowned
AJAX experts, and more
than 400 delegates
attended while more than
15,000 SYS-CON.TV viewers
tuned into the simulcast
on March 13, 2006. Backba
The advent of AJAX as a
Web application model is
significantly changing
the traffic profile seen
on the server side. The
typical Web pattern usage
of a user sitting idle on
a Web page filling out
fields and hitting the
submit button to the next
link is now transforming
into sophisticat
BEA has announced the
availability of
BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic
Edition. BlueDragon is
designed to help enable
customers to modernize
and extend legacy
ColdFusion Markup
Language (CFML)
applications to run on
BEA WebLogic Server,
thereby allowing
companies to reuse
existing technology t
Compuware Corporation
introduced the new
version of its QACenter
Enterprise Edition
functional testing
solution, Compuware
TestPartner 5.4. This new
release offers a tight
functional testing
integration with
Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 Team System and
support for the Microsoft
.NET Fr
Most non-trivial
applications involve high
degrees of concurrency
and many layers of
abstraction. Concurrency
is associated with
resource contention and
an increase in deadlock
conditions. The multiple
layers of abstraction
make it more difficult to
isolate and fix the
deadlock conditi
BEA has released the beta
version of its WebLogic
Platform 9.2, which
includes WebLogic Server,
WebLogic Portal, and BEA
Workshop for WebLogic
platform.
I'm the 'tech chair' of
SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA
and WebServices
conference that will take
place on June 5-6 in New
York City. Last week I've
invited Joel Spolsky to
make a keynote speech at
this event. Guess what,
Joel has accepted my
invitation! If you have a
chance to attend this t
Typical enterprise IT
environments have as much
as 90% of their hardware
and software resources
sitting idle at any given
time, in anticipation of
usage spikes. The
Cassatt software, called
Collage, creates a
dynamic, virtual pool of
resources that business
applications can draw
from,
With the advent of BEA
WebLogic Portal 8.1, a
host of new technologies
was introduced. These
are, among others: Java
Page Flow with
annotations, Java
Controls, and a new IDE
to support it. Online
tutorials were also
thrown into the package
to show how the new
technologies were
supposed
WebLogic Server 9.0 is
the most significant BEA
Java application server
release to date. Fully
compliant with J2EE 1.4,
this release tackles
head-on the biggest
challenge facing
enterprise networks
today: reducing overall
cost of management and
operations while
delivering high reliabil
This article describes a
workaround design that
allows a Portal to
survive if its resource
starts hanging request
threads. How frequently
does your Portal
experience user requests
hanging in the resource?
Not frequently, I hope.
However, if this happens
and the resource
continues hangi
Sun Microsystems, Inc. ,
the creator and leading
advocate of Java(TM)
technology, today
announced a series of
accolades from both the
Java Developer's Journal
(JDJ) and SOA Web
Services Journal Reader's
Choice Awards. Sun
products and technologies
were recognized as
winners for three c
'Today's marketplace
requires that companies
improve customer
retention and
profitability, which
means focusing on
strategies to increase
service effectiveness and
lower service costs in
their contact centers,'
said Marty Robins Vice
President, Partner
Marketing, BEA Systems.
'Jacada o
JadeLiquid Software
announced the release of
WebRenderer Server
Edition, the leading Java
browser component.
WebRenderer Server
Edition has successfully
completed its beta phase.
Development of the
WebRenderer Server
Edition was driven by
overwhelming demand for a
standards compliant J
The Apache Jakarta POI
project provides
components for the access
and generation of Excel
documents. The POI HSSF
API is used to generate
Excel Workbooks and to
add Excel spreadsheets to
a workbook. An Excel
spreadsheet consists of
rows and cells. The
layout and fonts of a
spreadsheet
In this column over the
years, I have spent a
considerable amount of
time talking about
contention and locking in
the database tier. At the
end of the day, the
endless conversations
about scaling the
application tier boil
down to less than a bag
of beans if a scaled
application can't g
It is rumored on a couple
of news sites that Oracle
is buying JBoss. If this
is true, it is an
exciting opportunity for
BEA. Oracle would, IMHO,
kill JBoss, whether
through malice or benign
neglect. Not many people
realize that with the
acquisition of M7, BEA
now has a development
tool
An anecdote that an
engineer shared with me
recently reminded me of a
long-standing concept in
manufacturing, design for
production (DFP). The
concept has to do with
evaluating how a given
operation - production
line, supply chain, or an
entire factory - is
performing.
WebLogic Workshop 8.1
included both an
application framework and
an IDE to support
developing enterprise
applications using Page
Flows, Controls, and
annotated web services.
This article describes
some of the differences
between the 8.1 Workshop
runtime and the Apache
Beehive project.
Let me start by defining
the current
problem-detection process
in most enterprises. An
issue arises in the
production environment
for a J2EE application
running on WebLogic,
information is captured
via logs, and WebLogic
server is rebooted. From
this point, application
developers and a
'JBoss closed out 2005 in
a stronger position than
ever. We exceeded our
sales goals, expanded our
operations and delivered
many industry firsts in
the technology arena,'
said Marc Fleury,
chairman and CEO, JBoss,
Inc. 'These new
appointments in the JBoss
management team reflect
our tr
BEA Systems, Inc. , a
world leader in
enterprise infrastructure
software, today announced
that BEA WebLogic SIP
Server(TM) has received a
'Product of the Year'
award from INTERNET
TELEPHONY(R) magazine, a
leading publication in
the rapidly growing
VoIP/IP telephony
industry.
Yakov Fain, in Lesson 9
of his immensely popular
online 'Java Basics'
series for JDJ Industry
Newsletter, talks about
using threads for
creating more advanced
programs than those
already discussed in
Lesson 8. He analyzes the
role they play in major
Internet portals like
Yahoo, CNN, or
A J2EE application
deployed in the WebLogic
server may be debugged in
the Eclipse IDE with the
remote debugger provided
by Eclipse. Without a
debugger the error
message has to be
obtained from the
application server error
log to debug the
application.
BEA Systems today
announced the general
availability of AquaLogic
High-Performance (HiPer)
Workspace for Retail, a
closed-loop notification
and task management
product for improving
store operations, built
with technology from the
AquaLogic User
Interaction product
family. AquaLogic H
Covalent
Technologies(TM), the
mosttrusted source for
complete enterprise open
source solutions,
todayannounced it
finished 2005 on a strong
note, citing a record
number of newand repeat
customers, strategic
reseller and channel
relationships, as wellas
increased revenues and
bookings
Once upon a time people
spoke the same language -
but that was long ago.
Nowadays people speak
hundreds of languages
with unique characters,
inflection indicators,
and other punctuation
marks that make each
language different from
all others.
BEA Systems, Inc. a
world leader in
enterprise
infrastructure, today
announced that Forrester
Research has identified
BEA and its AquaLogic
Service Bus as a leader
in both segments of the
Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) market. In its
'Forrester Wave(TM):
Enterprise Service Bus,
Q4 2005'
Oracle Corporation today
announced that it intends
to offer, subject to
market and other
conditions, three series
of investment grade notes
for an aggregate
principal amount of $5
billion. One series will
mature in 2009, one
series will mature in
2011 and one series will
mature in 20
In a statement today,
Oracle spokesperson, Bob
Wynne said, 'Given
Siebel's announcement
today, we look forward to
a favorable Siebel
stockholder meeting on
January 31st and
completion of the merger
on the same day or very
soon after.'
'We've used the Internet
to find jobs since 1994,
but the rules for
conducting a safe and
successful job search
have changed,' said Susan
Joyce, Webmaster of
Job-Hunt.org. 'Now,
identity theft over the
Internet is a significant
problem, and there is
tough competition for
every job pos
The HP/BEA banking
solution is designed to
simplify application
infrastructure throughout
the enterprise, while
extending the lifetime of
IT investments. One
customer, Norway's
Sparebank, reported a
12-percent increase in
customer satisfaction
through deployment of
technology from the
SandCherry has designed
its software so that IT
organizations can use a
single SOA implementation
for self-service
applications for both Web
and voice, and voice
self-service includes
Interactive Voice
Response (IVR), the
company says. SandCherry
recently leveraged its
technology to be
Ness Technologies Inc. ,
a global provider of
information technology
solutions and services,
today announced that it
has extended its
distribution agreement
with SAP AG for the
Israeli market until
2010.
Tenrox, the Integrated
Operational Control and
Compliance Software
Company, today announced
that the Company's
modular, project
governance and compliance
software has been
certified by SAP for its
seamless integration with
SAP(R) Business One.
Tenrox's solution
provides robust import
BEA Systems, Inc. a
world leader in
enterprise
infrastructure, today
announced that T-Systems
has standardized on BEA
WebLogic(R) to underpin
Deutsche Telekom's
multi-national billing
and revenue collection
system. Through the
implementation of BEA
WebLogic Server(TM) 8.1,
this leadin
BEA Systems, Inc. , a
world leader in
enterprise infrastructure
software, today announced
that its JRockit(R) JVM
(Java Virtual Machine)
has set another record,
by netting a SPECjbb2000
benchmark result of
861,647 operations per
second.
Wind River Systems, Inc.
will host its Southern
California 2006 Regional
Developer Conference on
January 11, 2006. The
one-day event will
highlight aerospace and
defense (A&D) industry
trends, demonstrate the
latest Wind River
technology innovations in
A&D and also demonstrate
how to d
As part of its continued
commitment to provide
customers with simple,
flexible and transparent
licensing models, Oracle
today announced an update
to its multi-core
processor pricing and
licensing policy. The
new policies improve
parity among hardware
vendors and help ensure
that cust
Along with Auto Tuning
WebLogic, Arcturus is
taking enterprise
application monitoring to
the next level. Arcturus
AutoPilot using its
IntelliCheck technology,
not only provides great
visibility into J2EE
applications running on
WebLogic but also
proactively detects and
warns of conditi
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
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The first 'Real-World
AJAX' event, held in New
York City, featured 15
speakers in 11 sessions,
including many of the the
world's most renowned
AJAX experts, and more
than 400 delegates
attended while more than
15,000 SYS-CON.TV viewers
tuned into the simulcast
on March 13, 2006. Backba
The advent of AJAX as a
Web application model is
significantly changing
the traffic profile seen
on the server side. The
typical Web pattern usage
of a user sitting idle on
a Web page filling out
fields and hitting the
submit button to the next
link is now transforming
into sophisticat
Most non-trivial
applications involve high
degrees of concurrency
and many layers of
abstraction. Concurrency
is associated with
resource contention and
an increase in deadlock
conditions. The multiple
layers of abstraction
make it more difficult to
isolate and fix the
deadlock conditi
I'm the 'tech chair' of
SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA
and WebServices
conference that will take
place on June 5-6 in New
York City. Last week I've
invited Joel Spolsky to
make a keynote speech at
this event. Guess what,
Joel has accepted my
invitation! If you have a
chance to attend this t
Typical enterprise IT
environments have as much
as 90% of their hardware
and software resources
sitting idle at any given
time, in anticipation of
usage spikes. The
Cassatt software, called
Collage, creates a
dynamic, virtual pool of
resources that business
applications can draw
from, 
With the advent of BEA
WebLogic Portal 8.1, a
host of new technologies
was introduced. These
are, among others: Java
Page Flow with
annotations, Java
Controls, and a new IDE
to support it. Online
tutorials were also
thrown into the package
to show how the new
technologies were
supposed 
WebLogic Server 9.0 is
the most significant BEA
Java application server
release to date. Fully
compliant with J2EE 1.4,
this release tackles
head-on the biggest
challenge facing
enterprise networks
today: reducing overall
cost of management and
operations while
delivering high reliabil
This article describes a
workaround design that
allows a Portal to
survive if its resource
starts hanging request
threads. How frequently
does your Portal
experience user requests
hanging in the resource?
Not frequently, I hope.
However, if this happens
and the resource
continues hangi
JadeLiquid Software
announced the release of
WebRenderer Server
Edition, the leading Java
browser component.
WebRenderer Server
Edition has successfully
completed its beta phase.
Development of the
WebRenderer Server
Edition was driven by
overwhelming demand for a
standards compliant J
The Apache Jakarta POI
project provides
components for the access
and generation of Excel
documents. The POI HSSF
API is used to generate
Excel Workbooks and to
add Excel spreadsheets to
a workbook. An Excel
spreadsheet consists of
rows and cells. The
layout and fonts of a
spreadsheet 
In this column over the
years, I have spent a
considerable amount of
time talking about
contention and locking in
the database tier. At the
end of the day, the
endless conversations
about scaling the
application tier boil
down to less than a bag
of beans if a scaled
application can't g
An anecdote that an
engineer shared with me
recently reminded me of a
long-standing concept in
manufacturing, design for
production (DFP). The
concept has to do with
evaluating how a given
operation - production
line, supply chain, or an
entire factory - is
performing. 
Let me start by defining
the current
problem-detection process
in most enterprises. An
issue arises in the
production environment
for a J2EE application
running on WebLogic,
information is captured
via logs, and WebLogic
server is rebooted. From
this point, application
developers and a
A J2EE application
deployed in the WebLogic
server may be debugged in
the Eclipse IDE with the
remote debugger provided
by Eclipse. Without a
debugger the error
message has to be
obtained from the
application server error
log to debug the
application. 
Once upon a time people
spoke the same language -
but that was long ago.
Nowadays people speak
hundreds of languages
with unique characters,
inflection indicators,
and other punctuation
marks that make each
language different from
all others.
Crystal Reports for BEA
WebLogic Workshop
integrates Crystal
Reports' Java report
processing and rendering
capabilities with BEA
WebLogic Workshop's
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