SOA Integration: Service-Enable Your Business Logic for Greater Agility
by Dain Hansen
Your business strives to be agile to stay ahead of competitors and deliver increasing value to your customers. But agility is not enough; you must also provide a foundation for managing change and accelerating time-to-value, to avoid costly and chaotic responses that can capsize your business. 2008-05-16 | Discuss (0)

Kaizen, BPM, and Agile Methodologies
by Reza Shafii
This article explores the ways in which BPM can be used as an implementation of Kaizen principles and how this solution can be optimized through application of Agile development methodologies. 2008-05-07 | Discuss (0)

Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server
by Sudhansu Pati
Building enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Flex and WebLogic Server is readily accomplished using the wizards and WYSIWYG capabilities of BEA Workshop Studio. Sudhansu Pati shows how in this article. 2008-04-21 | Discuss (0)

Rethinking Connectivity
by Quinton Wall
Connectivity, a critical aspect to any IT solution has received little attention of late. This article presents a broader view of how organizations may approach connectivity through the definition of 4 dimensions; internal, external, industry and hosted connectivity. 2008-04-16 | Discuss (0)

SPECjms2007: A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware
by Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs
There is a strong interest in the end user and analyst communities for a standardized benchmark suite for evaluating the performance and scalability of Message-oriented middleware (MOM). This article describe SPECjms2007 - an industry-standard benchmark specialized for MOM. 2008-03-26 | Discuss (0)

Dev2Dev Podcast 3: EclipseCon 2008 - Facets Vs. Natures
Podcast
by Konstantin Komissarchik
Konstantin Komissarchik makes a claim that facets are natures 2.0. While natures are hidden from view facets were designed from the ground up to be viewable and manipulated by end users. Konstantin gives a brief introduction to facets and explains how they differ from natures and how they can work together. 2008-03-21 | Discuss (0)

Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance
by William Dettelback
AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) extends the concept of entitlement policies beyond what is possible with WebLogic Portal alone. Learn about the performance aspects of using ALES as the entitlement engine for WebLogic Portal. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

State of the Portal Market 2007: Portals and the Power of Participation
White Paper
CIOs are looking at portals for consolidating applications and introducing Web 2.0 capabilities. See for yourself: BEA Systems' annual report on the enterprise portal market includes survey data on deployment and adoption from more than 540 BEA portal customers, plus a synthesis of more than 100 analyst reports and industry articles. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (1)

Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software
White Paper
Two Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports are now available for download: "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007" and "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007". 2008-03-12 | Discuss (0)

Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration
by Dain Hansen
SOA Integration has emerged as the de facto standard for successful IT integration. Some architects mistake SOA Integration for the inclusion of an enterprise service bus or BPEL along with some adapters. There's more to it, and this article shows how it can be defined, what it solves, and some points to think about for your IT organization. 2008-03-12 | Discuss (4)

End-to-end IMS Application Development with Nokia Siemens Networks IDP Development Tools
by Dennis Luemkemann and Manfred Jakesch
Authors Dennis Luemkemann and Manfred Jakesch show how to develop and test an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) application with both a client and a server part, using the free standards-based development tools from the Nokia Siemens Networks IMS Developer Program and BEA WebLogic SIP Server (WLSS). 2008-03-05 | Discuss (13)

Ajax Programming with BEA Workshop
by Gary Horen
Gary Horen shows how to install and use a free JavaScript editor and debugger from Aptana, Inc., in BEA Workshop. He also demonstrates the use of a message inspector in the Firebug plug-in, an extension for Firefox. 2008-03-05 | Discuss (4)

Unlocking the Value of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration and Authoring Tools
by John Brunswick
John Brunswick looks at how natural participation can help an organization build applications in a more agile manner, using increased collaboration and communication between business analysts and developers. 2008-03-05 | Discuss (0)

BEA's SOA Reference Architecture - A Foundation for Business Agility
White Paper
BEA's SOA Reference Architecture offers an architectural framework for planning SOA-based projects that maximize interoperability and reuse, and a consistent vision throughout the enterprise. 2008-03-05 | Discuss (0)

Best Practices for Building Production Quality EAR Files
by Hussein Badakhchani
This article examines the options available for packaging and deploying Java EE applications. It also describes the purpose of packaging specifications for application archives, and provides examples for implementing them. 2008-02-13 | Discuss (12)

BEA WebLogic Operations Control: Application Virtualization for Enterprise Java
BEA WebLogic Operations Control is a management framework for virtualized and non-virtualized enterprise Java applications that addresses the key challenges involved in application virtualization. This white paper explores the framework and its use cases. 2008-02-13 | Discuss (0)

Introduction to Enterprise Portals - Why they Benefit IT and the Business
by Peter Laird
Peter Laird introduces the enterprise portal space and the problems that portals solve. In an article aimed at CIOs, IT architects, and IT management, Peter discusses application integration, security consolidation, content aggregation, and collaboration. 2008-01-30 | Discuss (3)

SOA and Virtualization: How do They Fit Together?
This white paper explores Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization, showing how aspects of virtualization can be seen as enablers for the flexibility promised by SOA. It also establishes the technical links between SOA and virtualization in enterprise computing. 2008-01-30 | Discuss (0)

Flex Messaging with BEA Workshop Studio
by Jon Rose
In this tutorial, Jon Rose shows how to use Flex's LiveCycle Data Services Express messaging features to implement data push in your Flex applications. The tutorial application is built with BEA Workshop Studio (Flex bundle). 2008-01-29 | Discuss (2)

An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side
by Daniel Rubio
Daniel Rubio introduces OSGi, an environment that facilitates modularizing an application into smaller and more manageable pieces, with packaging, JVM, and class loader graph support. 2008-01-23 | Discuss (1)

Innovate over SAP with Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing
White Paper
Learn how to apply Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing to innovate over legacy monolithic applications to transform the way they serve customers, partners and employees. 2008-01-16 | Discuss (0)

IMS Service Creation with Ericsson Service Development Studio and BEA WebLogic SIP Server
by Amin Daya and Marco Rodriguez
Learn how the Ericsson Service Development Studio 4.0 can be used with BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.1 to enable operators and ISV developers to design and test their own IMS applications. 2008-01-08 | Discuss (1)

Checklist/Tuning Guide for Optimizing the JRockit JVM
by Steven Pozarycki
In this article author Steven Pozarycki provides valuable information for tuning the BEA JRockit JVM using a checklist approach. He covers a lot of territory, from esoteric command-line options to iterative performance testing. 2007-12-13 | Discuss (1)

Dev2Dev Podcast 2: BEAWorld Shanghai 2007 - Workspace 360 Demo
Podcast
Blake Connell demos Workspace 360 during Rob Levy's keynote at BEAWorld Shanghai. Workspace 360 spans all BEA products and will enable you to build dynamic business applications. CEO Alfred Chuang describes dynamic business applications as adaptable, built for change, and designed for people and how people work. 2007-12-13 | Discuss (0)

Adaptive Memory Management for Virtualized Java Environment
White Paper
This white paper examines the Java Virtual Machine and hypervisor virtualization, the BEA LiquidVM, and adaptive memory management for virtualized Java. 2007-12-10 | Discuss (0)

Virtualization: Same Servers, More Capacity
White Paper
Learn about a comprehensive solution that combines three levels of virtualization-Intel® Virtualization Technology at the chip level, VMware® ESX Server at the server level, and BEA WebLogic® Liquid Operations Control™ (BEA WebLogic LOC) and BEA LiquidVM™ at the software level. 2007-12-10 | Discuss (0)

Using Asynchronous Servlets to Deal with Hung Threads
by Francesco Marchioni
This article introduces the asynchronous servlet features found in WebLogic Server that allow you to decouple the receiving of a servlet request from the sending of its response. 2007-12-04 | Discuss (4)

Principles of Natural Participation
by John Brunswick
John Brunswick introduces a Web 2.0 approach to optimal business analyst and developer collaboration in the enterprise. 2007-12-04 | Discuss (0)

Event Processing Market Pulse 2007
BEA and ebizQ conducted a vendor-anonymous survey to determine market readiness for event processing. The results were positively surprising. 90% of the ~450 respondents identified plans to put event driven applications in production within the next 2 years. Read on for more. 2007-11-28 | Discuss (0)

BEA WebLogic Event Server Performance: A Benchmark Study
White Paper
The benchmark study described in this report demonstrates WebLogic Event Server’s ability to provide low latency at very high data rates with a use case that is very typical of financial front office applications in Capital Markets. 2007-11-28 | Discuss (0)