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.
WebLogic News Desk trawls the world of e-commerce technologies for news and innovations and presents i-Technology professionals with updates on WebLogic related technology trends, products, and services.
SYS-CON Media
(www.sys-con.com), the
world's leading
i-technology media
company, announced today
that SYS-CON.TV
(www.sys-con.tv), the
first streaming live
i-technology television
is scheduled to debut on
February 15, 2005 to
coincide with the first
day of the upcoming Web
Services Edg
SYS-CON Media
(www.sys-con.com), the
world's leading
i-technology media
company, announced today
that the first branded
blogging community,
www.blog-n-play.com (TM),
will go beta on February
15, 2005, to coincide
with the opening day of
the Web Services Edge
2005 East International
Web
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 framework
enhancements. Expresso's
powerful, scalable
architectural framework
creates an approach to
J2EE Java Web development
t
Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft
battle stressing people
out? Well, it's not
helping, says a Bay Area
stress management expert.
'People are having to
live with the uncertainty
of 'will I have a job
tomorrow,' or on a larger
scale, 'will the company
be here tomorrow?',' says
Lucy Yaldezian, who
Jonathan Schwartz in July
delivered what must be a
leading candidate or the
title of 'i-technology
quote of 2004' - but who
has even better
suggestions?
'As we enter the new
year, you should expect
2005 to be one in which
we place an ever
heightening focus on our
dialog with the
community, and the
developer community in
particular,' writes Sun's
president and COO,
Jonathan Schwartz, in his
first blog entry of the
new year. 'One communi
Four Moscow-based
security experts with
Kaspersky Labs have
reported that the number
of new entries to its
malware database jumped
by more than 30 in 2004 -
with the two record
holders for damage caused
being Mydoom.a (February)
and Sasser.a (May).
No sooner had we begun
our reader-driven quest
for the top twenty
software people in the
world than - by popular
acclaim, as they say -
we're going to extend the
field to choose
from...from forty to over
a hundred. Here we bring
you a sneak peek at the
sixty contenders that
we'll be ad
The Canada Revenue Agency
(CRA) has selected the
combination of BEA
WebLogic Server and
NEON's Shadow mainframe
integration solution to
support its forthcoming
eBusiness Computing
Infrastructure (eBCI)
project.
BEA announced that a beta
version of its
next-generation WebLogic
server, known as Diablo,
is available for
download, free. BEA is
calling this its most
significant WebLogic
server release ever.
SYS-CON Media today
announced further details
of the upcoming
cross-platform technology
event, Web Services Edge
2005 East - International
Web Services Conference &
Expo
(www.sys-con.com/edge),
to be held in Boston at
the Hynes Convention
Center, February 15-17,
2005. More than 3,000 i
In an all-cash deal worth
approximately $10.3
billion, Oracle is going
to acquire 100% of
PeopleSoft's shares, at a
newly increased price of
$26.50, a $2.50 increase
on its 'best and final'
offer which expired in
November. PeopleSoft's
board has approved the
deal. 'We believe this
revi
BEA has unveiled Diablo,
its next-generation
WebLogic Server 9.0, the
cornerstone of its
upcoming WebLogic
Platform 9.0 designed to
connect disparate systems
and run the applications
that large companies use
to run their business.
Despite receiving 61% of
PeopleSoft shares in its
tender last month, Oracle
hasn't yet overcome
PeopleSoft's 'poison
pill' provisions aimed at
making a takeover too
costly even for Larry
Ellison. Just in case
Oracle fails in its
attempt to have a court
remove the pill so it can
move fo
In part one (Vol.3, issue
7) of this two-part
article, we discussed the
'on demand' information
delivery architecture
based on portal
technologies and WSRP. In
this part, the concept of
on demand will be
extended beyond the
information delivery
layer to the information
aggregation and
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 provide the overall
functionality needed to
ensure adequate
validation, and make
updating data values
difficult. There are
An enterprise development
project deploying to the
WebLogic platform needs
to maintain several
different domain
configurations during the
project's development,
test, and deployment
phases. Version control
and continuous rollout of
ever-changing domain
configurations to the
different e
A domain contains
configuration information
for a BEA WebLogic Server
instance. It has
configuration information
about servers, clusters,
and machines. A domain
also contains
configuration information
about resources such as
Java DataBase
Connectivity (JDBC)
connection pools, JDBC
data
Enterprise portals are
fast becoming the
foundation of the
Web-based economy thanks
to their ability to give
enterprises, trading
partners, and customers
global access to
enterprise applications,
back-office systems, and
IT infrastructures. This
ability has made
enterprise portals appe
Earlier this year, BEA
donated several
proprietary technologies
to the open source
community primarily to
increase the adoption of
BEA WebLogic Workshop,
which is the basic entry
point into the WebLogic
Platform suite. Although
for typical J2EE
applications deployed on
the WebLogic Ser
In my travels I am often
asked whether I am a
WebLogic expert. I don't
blame people for asking,
since it is assumed that
anyone who is
editor-in-chief of a
magazine dedicated to
keeping its readers up to
date on the myriad of BEA
products must know
everything there is to
know about thi
The PeopleSoft board
today recommended to its
shareholders that they
give Oracle the cold
shoulder and reject its
$24 per share bid for the
company, seriously
undervaluing it - says
PeopleSoft - at just
$8.8BN. Larry Ellison
issued a statement saying
that the offer is good
till midnigh
One of the largest online
uses of ebXML is by the
Defense Department. DOD
EMALL is also one of the
most successful online
commerce and messaging
portals created by the US
government. Utilizing
WebLogic, the site's
sales have jumped from
$13.7 million in 2002 to
$188 million today.
What does the runaway
success of Firefox mean
for the Java developer
community? According to
Harshad Oak, it shows the
Java community that it's
possible to compete with
Microsoft. Firefox users
had to relate with the
product and promote it as
if it was their own
creation. 'Linux alread
It never ceases to amaze
me how something can move
from essential obscurity
to mainstream hype in
what seems to be only
overnight. Take the low
carbohydrate diets, which
are all the rage now. For
years, the Atkins diet
was considered by most
diet professionals to be
pure nonsense - how
Richard Monson-Haefel,
now Burton Group's senior
analyst but familiar
prior to joining Burton
for his well-regarded
books and articles about
Java and his open source
projects like Apache
Geronimo, has just
published a report -
J2EE: A Standard in
Jeopardy - which suggests
that LAMP tec
In a memorable
discussion, Microsoft
SOAP guru Don Box and
Anders Hejlsberg - the
'Father of C#' - both
paid tribute to Java last
week at a conference in
Canada.
Web services will
continue to play a vital
role within enterprises,
as companies strive to
create cost-effective
solutions that can be
integrated into existing
infrastructures. J2EE and
Microsoft's .NET are the
two primary platforms
used in Web services. And
while these two platforms
c
Oracle this morning
raised its price for
PeopleSoft from $21 a
share to $24, a total of
$8.8 billion, saying $24
represents a 60% premium
to where PeopleSoft was
trading when Oracle made
its first run at the
company a year ago June.
In a letter to
PeopleSoft's board
yesterday, Oracle
Larry Ellison has raised
Oracle's offer for
PeopleSoft to $24 a share
from $21 - a hike of 14%.
This is the fifth new
offer since the hostile
takeover saga began last
June.
'SAP is now delighted to
be able to participate in
the application server
shootout and demonstrate
the power of SAP Web
Application Server as a
development and runtime
platform for
enterprise-scale Java
applications,' said SAP's
Christopher Hearn as the
news was announced.
The release of WebLogic
8.1, says BEA, provides a
single platform from
which IT organizations
can build services. Using
existing IT resources,
edition 8.1 strongly
supports the creation,
deployment, and reuse of
composite applications
across infrastructures.
It is expected to do well
i
Which application server
will be found to most
resilient and flexible?
And which most secure? It
didn't take long for the
enterprise software
community to start
discussing the
'Application Server
Shootout' outlined this
week by SYS-CON Media as
it tapped Burton Group to
stage the shoot
There is no question that
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) is
quickly becoming one of
the hottest trends in
enterprise computing. IT
departments are inundated
weekly, if not daily,
with the claims and
marketing messages of
vendors announcing myriad
technology and service
offerings t
In an out-of-court
settlement reached this
morning, pending the
signing of a final
agreement, Sun has agreed
to pay Kodak $92 million
cash, bringing to an end
the patent infringement
proceedings instigated by
Kodak last week, in which
Java was declared by a
federal jury to breach
certa
During his somewhat brief
employment at BEA
Systems, ex-BEA exec
Cornelius Willis tried to
bring down the shutters
on WLDJ (formerly BEA
WebLogic Developer's
Journal). The curious
episode can be viewed as
an object lesson,
contends WLDJ's
publisher, on the
importance of treating
busine
These days Calvin Austin
is one of the busiest
people in the Java world:
J2SE 5.0, that was also
known as the 'Tiger'
project, is being
officially released
today! JDJ's Yakov Fain
was able to catch Austin,
spec lead for Java 5.0,
right before the plane
from San Francisco to New
York wh
Red Hat's vice president
for open source affairs,
Michael Tiemann, has said
Sun needs to prove its
devotion to the open
source community, by
releasing Java. According
to Tiemann, the move is
needed to stop
Microsoft's .NET from
advancing. Open sourced
Java, he believes, will
accelerate
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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Enterprise portals are
fast becoming the
foundation of the
Web-based economy thanks
to their ability to give
enterprises, trading
partners, and customers
global access to
enterprise applications,
back-office systems, and
IT infrastructures. This
ability has made
enterprise portals appe
Crystal Reports for BEA
WebLogic Workshop
integrates Crystal
Reports' Java report
processing and rendering
capabilities with BEA
WebLogic Workshop's
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