CodeShare Krugle Code Search; Platform 10.2 Evaluation Guide; Enterprise RIA
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April 23, 2008 2:26 PM
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I have two important bits of news to talk about right away in this post. First, CodeShare now offers the capability for submitted code to be indexed and made searchable by Krugle, the code search engine. For details, see the announcement article and Jim Wright's new blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. I'll talk more about CodeShare and Krugle in the CodeShare section below.
The second major news item is the publication of the new WebLogic Platform 10.2 Evaluation Guide, which is now available for your perusal and investigation. The evaluation guide provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the WebLogic Platform 10.2. The guide is divided into three chapters:
- Chapter 1: Application Development Solutions
- Chapter 2: Integration Solutions
- Chapter 3: Portal Solutions
and also includes a "Spotlight on Adobe Flex." The guide walks you through a realistic project involving the mythical company Avitek, Inc., "a major consumer electronics firm that requires an enhancement to their order management system." The existing system reflects the company's status as having been a major player in the industry for a very long time: it's a mishmash of proprietary, often home-grown systems that were developed at different times using different technologies, lacking clean interfaces to enable access to and coordination between the subsystems, etc. I think you know what I'm talking about!
I had an introduction to Avitek's technology when I attended the Boston Dev2Dev TechDay a few weeks ago. Indeed, it reminded me of things I've seen at many companies I worked for over a couple decades of software consulting.
Anyway, the Platform 10.2 Evaluation Guide provides a thorough introduction (596 pages long), chock-full of code snippets, screen shots, and step-by-step instructions on how the WebLogic Platform was applied by the development team to rescue poor Avitek from its unenviable situation.
Now, a summary of other recent Dev2Dev happenings.
 This week our Articles collection grew with the addition of Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server, which was published this past Monday. In this article, Sudhansu talks about and demonstrates how to build enterprise-grade rich internet applications (RIA) using WebLogic Server and Adobe's Flex. The tutorials are detailed, decribing the steps right down to the button clicks. An excellent study if you'd like to get started with WebLogic and Flex.
 We're also continuing to feature SPECjms2007: A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware, by Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs. In this article, Samuel and Kai talk about the details and merits of the SPECjms2007 message-oriented middleware (MOM) industry-standard benchmark.
Do take a look, if you haven't done so already. Or, browse our complete Dev2Dev articles archive.
In BEA Education Services News, note the new Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform course that is now available. The new course is offered in support of the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.
I mentioned the important CodeShare News above. The integration of capability for having code in CodeShare indexed and searchable within Krugle provides significant advantages for developers. Your code instantly gains visibility and prominence. If you choose to submit your CodeShare code to Krugle, your code will be joining code from major sources such as IBM's DeveloperWorks, Java.net, SourceForge.net, and the Yahoo! Developer Network -- code from all of these sites is included in Krugle's code database.
You can learn more about submitting your Dev2Dev code samples and projects for inclusion in Krugle at the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site.
In the Blogs, Jim Wright posted New Tools to Submit Code to Krugle Code Search. Here you get the inside view on the CodeShare and Krugle news.
Peter Laird completed his two-part series on exposing Google Gadgets from WebLogic Portal in his featured post WebLogic Portal: Exposing Portlets (JSR 168, WSRP, JSF, Struts, etc) as Enterprise Google Gadgets.
Praveen Coca posted General User Interface Design Guidelines for Usable HTML Mockups, which talks about the need to define UI guidelines that take account of all tiers when the presentation tier is designed.
Raymond Gao presents an analysis of performance for an ALUI portal application, complete with instructive graphs, in his How to Tune ALUI Portal Apps for Performance? post.
And, I'm happy to welcome Bangaly Traore into our Dev2Dev blogging community. On Monday, Bangaly published his first blog post, Techniques for Surfacing UI Components into WLP. Welcome, Bangaly!
The Dev2Dev Media Center archive is featuring these podcasts and demos this week:
In the Event Calendar take note of these upcoming events:
The current Poll asks "Have you used BEA Guardian?" Please participate by voting on the home page.
The previous poll asked "Have you heard about the Service Component Architecture (SCA)." 8% (12 votes) are actually using SCA, 32% (48) have heard about it, but the majority of folk 60% (89) have not. Find out about Service Component Architecture if you aren't yet aware of what it is.
If you've got an idea for a future poll, please send your idea to me by posting a comment below.
In the Security Advisories and Notifications, BEA08-201.00 is a high-threat, high-severity advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment. The advisory affects BEA JRockit R27.5.0 and prior.
That's it for today. Feel free to comment and send me any suggestions you may have.
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