Vol: 3 Iss: 7 Read Back Issues

The SOA Diet 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... Nov. 7, 2004  Reads: 14,280

So You Want An SOA with Web Services 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... Oct. 13, 2004  Reads: 16,891

Building Business Processes Part 2 This article is the second of two on best practices in building business processes on BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1. The first installment (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6) focused on team development and maintenance best practices. In this article, we will focus on best practices in building bus... Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 13,322

A Real-World Business Process Model Part 2 In my first article (WLDJ, Vol. 3, issue 6), I provided an overview of BPM specifications in this area. I described the order change example and the steps needed to create the business process in WebLogic Integration. Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 13,166

A Service-Oriented Management Approach for Service-Oriented Architecture Much has been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the many technology and business benefits of adopting this approach. Poised to change the computing landscape once again, progressive IT departments, software vendors, and service providers have all been eager to embr... Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 12,829

Transactions for the Next Generation A realization has dawned across the industry that 'service-oriented architecture' is a good thing. In fact, this is less of a dawning and more of a reawakening. Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 10,231

Server Configuration WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) is a command-line scripting tool that BEA intends to support as part of the WebLogic Server 9.0 release. This tool is available today on BEA Systems' dev2dev Web site and works with BEA WebLogic Server versions 7.0 and 8.1, including all service pa... Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 14,464

Service on Demand Portals Enterprises are moving towards a highly collaborative environment to achieve higher competitive advantage. Availability of the right information across the enterprise at the right time has become a key capability to provide such an advantage. Though this was a well-understood objective... Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 13,147

Canonical Message Formats As the scope of enterprise integration grows, IT organizations are demanding greater efficiency and agility from their architectures and are moving away from point-to-point integration,which is proving to be increasingly cumbersome to build and maintain. Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 15,358

A Dynamic Implementation Framework for SOA-Based Applications Today's IT environments are increasingly characterized by heterogeneous and complex applications, tight schedules, budgetary constraints, and an ever-changing landscape of business requirements. Few businesses have been agile enough to enhance their existing infrastructures to meet an... Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 16,668

News & Developments BEA Systems, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., have submitted the latest version of a key Web services specification, WS-Addressing, to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as input into the standardization process. Sep. 10, 2004  Reads: 9,223