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News & Developments: Round-up of WebLogic Announcements BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has announced the general availability of BEA WebLogic JRockit 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK). Compatible with the J2SE 5.0 specification, WebLogic JRockit 5.0 is ... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 11,761

Memory Leak Detection with the JRockit JVM What causes a memory leak in a Java program? Shouldn't the garbage collector of the Java virtual machine (JVM) take care of unused memory? Yes, it will, but only objects that are no longer referenced can be garbage collected. A ty... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 23,398

Are You Ready to Run with the IT Run Book? Any developer or IT organization can attest to the fact that flawless application development does not ensure flawless deployment when the time comes to roll the application out across a WebLogic application server. Successful dep... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 14,154

Distributing Tasks in a Clustered Application Using JMS Decoupling and delaying processing in a request-driven environment is one of the key strategies in creating a robust and scalable distributed application. Many services rely on clustering alone to ensure scalability, but they fr... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 21,636  Replies: 8

Strategies for WebLogic Domain Configuration In my previous article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 8), I gave you a detailed overview of the different strategies available for domain creation and configuration and evaluated manual and templating options. In this article, I employ tool... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 22,877

Perimeter Authentication via Identity Assertion In some of the typical corporate Web application security deployments, users accessing a protected application are authenticated via enterprise identity/access management products, such as Netegrity's SiteMinder, IBM's WebSEAL, ... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 20,520

Measuring the Value of Software Infrastructure As I write, the noise level that continues to be generated around open source application servers and their claims to be coming into the world of enterprise computing continues. In my view, the main reason why the noise travels so ... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 11,435

Create a Real-World Business Process Model, Part 4 In the first article in this series (Vol. 3, issue 6), I gave you an overview of business process management (BPM) and covered the specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create th... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 14,306

Simply SOA It's all quite simple you see. In a major move last year, BEA made a significant and very welcome contribution to the open source community by donating the Beehive framework to the Apache software foundation. Beehive, perceived by ... Feb. 11, 2005  Reads: 12,532