Dev2Dev Editor's Blog tag:dev2dev.bea.com,2008:/blog/editors//16 2008-06-30T18:59:24Z The Dev2Dev Editor's Blog provides a weekly snapshot of life on Dev2Dev. This includes developer, architect, and system administrator news, including pointers to the latest articles and presentations published that week. It's the easiest way to stay in touch with what's important in our community. It is written by Jon Mountjoy, Dev2Dev's editor-in-chief, and occassionally Sarah Kim, Dev2Dev's community manager. Movable Type 3.31 Migration to Oracle Technology Network Approaches Landmark Day http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/06/migration_to_otn_landmark_day.html 2008-06-30T10:59:15Z 2008-06-30T18:59:24Z Tomorrow, July 1, is a significant day for the Dev2Dev community. As reported by Bob Rhubart, on July 1 bloggers will be able to set up new blogs on the blogs.oracle.com site. In addition, several other events are scheduled for July 1... kfarnham Tomorrow, July 1, is a significant day for the Dev2Dev community. As reported by Bob Rhubart, on July 1 bloggers will be able to set up new blogs on the blogs.oracle.com site. In addition, several other events are scheduled for July 1:

And finally:

This is an exciting moment in the transition of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch to the Oracle Technology Network. If you haven't already done so, visit the Welcome BEA FAQ, and join the BEA Developers and Architects group on Oracle Mix, to keep up with the latest news about the Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch migration to the OTN.

]]> Dev2Dev Weekly Poll Series http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/06/dev2dev_weekly.html 2008-06-25T07:48:58Z 2008-06-25T15:49:09Z You may have noticed that we have a new poll posted on the Dev2Dev home page (asking what types of developer events you attend). This is the first of what will be a weekly series of polls... kfarnham You may have noticed that we have a new poll posted on the Dev2Dev home page (asking what types of developer events you attend). This is the first of what will be a weekly series of polls, where we'll give people a chance to express their views and experiences, as the transition of Dev2Dev to the Oracle Technology Network continues.

We welcome your participation!

]]> "BEA Developers and Architects" Mix Group Membership Reaches 200 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/06/bea_developers200.html 2008-06-18T07:34:49Z 2008-06-18T15:34:58Z Membership in the BEA Developers and Architects group on Oracle Mix has reached 200. The group, which was started by Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Senior Director and Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, is "the official source of information about the bringing together... kfarnham Membership in the BEA Developers and Architects group on Oracle Mix has reached 200. The group, which was started by Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Senior Director and Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, is "the official source of information about the bringing together of the dev2dev/arch2arch and OTN communities."

In late May, I interviewed Justin and Bob Rhubart, asking them questions about the transition of the Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch sites over to the OTN. That interview, which is now available as a podcast, includes discussion of the BEA Developers and Architects Mix group, along with other information about the transition progress and plans.

Among the hot topics in the group is an ongoing discussion titled "Product roadmap after the BEA acquisition". The plan, says Justin Kestelyn, is to "have this roadmap earlier rather than later. Obviously it is the key requirement for successful migration."

Some of the uncertainty is sure to be resolved on July 1, when Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian present the BEA Welcome and Middleware Strategy Briefing Webcast. Sign up if you haven't done so already.

]]> Oracle Welcomes BEA http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/05/oracle_welcomes.html 2008-05-29T19:12:29Z 2008-05-30T03:12:41Z A new page on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) welcomes the BEA community to Oracle. Created by OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, with content also contributed by Arch2Arch's Bob Rhubart, the page includes links to relevant content on Oracle Mix, blog posts, a FAQ, and more. kfarnham A new page on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) welcomes the BEA community to Oracle. Created by OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, with content also contributed by Arch2Arch's Bob Rhubart, the page includes links to relevant content on Oracle Mix, blog posts, a FAQ, and more.

article graphicOur currently featured Dev2Dev Articles include Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server. 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.

Article GraphicWe're also featuring 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.

Browse the complete Dev2Dev articles archive for more developer-to-developer insight.

In BEA Education Services News, the Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform course is ongoing. The new course supports the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.

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 blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. Visit the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site to submit your code.

In the Dev2Dev Blogs, Tejas Joshi posted three blogs in the past week, including Common Design Patterns Used in ALSB. In this post, Tejas documents some of the common design patterns he has come across in his work with ALSB solutions.

We're also highlighting Erik Kayser's recent post, Is Free the Next Killer Business Model?, in which Erik talks about the seemingly contradictory proposition that giving things away can be an effective business model.

In the Dev2Dev Media Center this week, we're continuing to feature these items:

The just-ended Dev2Dev Poll asked "Have you used BEA Guardian?" More than 100 people participated; here are the results:

  • 15% (18 votes) - Yes
  • 14% (16 votes) - Not yet, but I will soon
  • 71% (83 votes) - No

While only 29% of participants have used BEA Guardian or plan to use it soon, the relatively high level of participation suggests interest that people are curious.

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]]> BEA.Participate BPM Labs; BEA Developers & Architects Group http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/05/beaparticipate_bpmlabs.html 2008-05-20T19:51:34Z 2008-05-21T03:51:43Z BEA.Participate.08 was held last week in Chicago, Illinois, ending on Thursday. More than 600 people attended the event, according to Jesper Joergensen. Jesper also reports that well over 125 of those people chose to participate in the BPM Labs hands-on exercises... kfarnham BEA.Participate.08 was held last week in Chicago, Illinois, ending on Thursday. More than 600 people attended the event, according to Jesper Joergensen. Jesper also reports that well over 125 of those people chose to participate in the BPM Labs hands-on exercises. See Jesper's new blog post for added information and to download PDFs for all the BPM Labs exercises.

As I mentioned last week, BEA developers and architects are encouraged to get an account on the Oracle Mix site, and join the BEA Developers & Architects group. This group was created by Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn. There are now more than 70 members.

You can see Justin's introduction to the BEA Developers & Architects group in his Oracle Technology Network blog post Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together.

Here's a summary of other Dev2Dev happenings.

article graphicOur currently featured Dev2Dev Articles include Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server. 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.

Article GraphicWe're also featuring 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 that the Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform course is ongoing. The new course supports the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.

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 blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. Visit the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site to submit your code.

In the Dev2Dev Blogs, Jesper Joergensen talks about what happened last week at BEA.Participate.08 in Chicago, Illinois, in his post Over 125 People in Our BPM Labs at Participate!. Jesper's post includes PDF files for all of the BPM Labs exercises.

This week, we welcome new blogger Leon Zhang. Leon's first post, WLS 10.x's JSP Container's Backward Compatibility is a detailed discussion of the issues that arise due to different JSP versions when working with WebLogic Server Version 10.x.

Other significant recent posts include Erik Kayser's Is SIP Dead? and Is Free the Next Killer Business Model?, and Reza Shafii's BPM and Agile.

In the Dev2Dev Media Center this week, we're continuing to feature Synapse and the Path to Information Nirvana, which took place on Tuesday, May 6.

Here are our currently featured Dev2Dev Media Center events:

The current Poll asks "Have you used BEA Guardian?" Please participate by voting on the Dev2Dev 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. Visit the Service Component Architecture page to find out more about SCA.

If you've got an idea for a future poll, please send your idea to me by posting a comment below.

That's today's post. Feel free to comment and send any suggestions you may have.

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]]> BEA.Participate.08; Oracle and BEA Confluence Continued http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/05/beaparticipate0d2d.html 2008-05-13T21:20:45Z 2008-05-14T05:21:08Z BEA.Participate.08 is in full swing. The user conference will finish on Thursday morning. Visit the BEA.Participate.08 Blog for posts from the conference, and check back to our own Dev2Dev Blogs for posts from individuals who are attending the conference... kfarnham BEA.Participate.08 is in full swing. The user conference will finish on Thursday morning. Visit the BEA.Participate.08 Blog for posts from the conference, and check back to our own Dev2Dev Blogs for posts from individuals who are attending the conference.

I'm really excited about what's happening on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Since OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn wrote his blog Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together and set up the BEA Developers & Architects group (login required) on Oracle Mix, a lot of BEA people have taken advantage of the opportunity to find out more about what's ahead, now that BEA is a part of Oracle.

From my own independent perspective (i.e., I'm just saying this on my own based on being in the industry for multiple decades), I see a lot of advantages in the confluence of the BEA and Oracle communities. I have worked on projects involving very large real-time data volumes for a long time. In the 2000 period, I recommended to my company that we utilize WebLogic as the basis for our proposed high-volume online business data archive and retrieval system.

On another project a couple years later, when database technology was needed as a back-end for a high-volume satellite data analysis center, my advice was to go with Oracle. That satellite has just launched, and despite the data load exceeding our original estimates by quite a lot, our Oracle database has handled everything without a glitch. We're now preparing to create a new Oracle-based data center for future environmental data measurement and analysis projects.

Where reliability and scalability are required, BEA and Oracle technologies have an incredibly enviable reputation. To me, the fusion of the two appears an ideal match.

Here's a summary of other Dev2Dev happenings.

article graphicOur currently featured Dev2Dev Articles include Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server. 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.

Article GraphicWe're also featuring 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 that the Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform course is still ongoing. The new course supports the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.

CodeShare now offers the capability for submitted code to be indexed and made searchable by Krugle, the code search engine. If you submit your CodeShare code to Krugle, it will be joining code from major sources such as IBM's DeveloperWorks, Java.net, SourceForge.net, and the Yahoo! Developer Network.

For details, see the announcement article and Jim Wright's blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. To learn about submitting your Dev2Dev code samples and projects for inclusion in Krugle, visit the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site.

In the Dev2Dev Blogs, Jesper Joergensen presented his plans for his BPM Hands-On Labs at BEA.Participate.08, which is ongoing through Thursday morning this week in Chicago, Illinois. See Jesper's post Want the real deal? Try BPM hands-on at BEA Participate BPM Labs for the description of the lab exercises. I imagine that these will be available in the future, for people who were not able to attend BEA.Participate.08.

Meanwhile, Bill Benac has provided a link to his presentation about ALUI upgrades in his post Upgrade Presentation: BEA Participate 08

In the Dev2Dev Media Center this week, we're continuing to feature Synapse and the Path to Information Nirvana, which took place on Tuesday, May 6.

Here are our currently featured Dev2Dev Media Center events:

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 Dev2Dev 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. Visit the Service Component Architecture page to find out more about SCA.

If you've got an idea for a future poll, please send your idea to me by posting a comment below.

The most recent Security Advisories and Notifications entry is BEA08-201.00, 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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]]> Confluence of BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Begins http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/05/confluence_of_b.html 2008-05-07T14:09:55Z 2008-05-07T22:10:04Z Over on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn expressed his excitement about the confluence of the BEA and Oracle developer communities in his post "Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together". Justin notes that Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch are actually quite similar to OTN in terms of philosophy/macro-approach, events, Website information architecture, and community tools... kfarnham Over on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn expressed his excitement about the confluence of the BEA and Oracle developer communities in his post Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together. Justin notes that Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch are actually quite similar to OTN in terms of philosophy/macro-approach, events, Website information architecture, and community tools.

Justin has set up a new group on Oracle Mix, titled BEA Developers & Architects, with the purpose of answering questions, getting feedback, etc., about the process of the bringing the communities together. All BEA users are encouraged to join. To do so, get yourself an Oracle Technology Network account, go to the BEA Developers & Architects site, and click "Join this group."

As I mentioned last week, the third annual Dev2Dev Reader Survey is coming up soon. The survey questions have been defined, and the survey web site is now being set up. I'll let you know as soon as the survey goes live.

Here's a summary of other Dev2Dev happenings.

article graphicOur currently featured Dev2Dev Articles include Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server. 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.

Article GraphicWe're also featuring 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 that the Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform course is still available. The new course supports the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.

As recently reported, CodeShare now offers the capability for submitted code to be indexed and made searchable by Krugle, the code search engine. If you submit your CodeShare code to Krugle, it will be joining code from major sources such as IBM's DeveloperWorks, Java.net, SourceForge.net, and the Yahoo! Developer Network.

For details, see the announcement article and Jim Wright's blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. To learn about submitting your Dev2Dev code samples and projects for inclusion in Krugle, visit the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site.

In the Dev2Dev Blogs, Alex Toussaint talked about developments related to AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 in his posts AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 & Outlook 2007 and AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 & AquaLogic User Interaction 6.5. Both posts include instructive screenshots, giving you an better view of what you'll see on the AquaLogic panel and in Outlook when you expose ALBPM Workspace 6.1 as an RSS feed. Alex also hopes to see you at BEA.Participate.08 next week in Chicago, Illinois.

Speaking of BEA.Participate.08, Chris Bucchere posted Announcing the Launch of the Social Applications for BEA Participate.08, in which he describes the "grand social experiment" that is being implemented for registered attendees. The technology behind this experiment is BEA ALI 6.5 backed by a host of Ruby on Rails applications.

David Garrison presented an example of the benefits of bringing together entitlements management tools, like AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES), with business process management tools, like AquaLogic Business Process Management (ALBPM), in his post Entitlements and Business Process Management: What's Possible?

In two other interesting recent posts, Erik Kayser asked What is the future of MobileTV?, and Bill Benac provided instruction on how to Validate Your Work During Upgrades.

We have a new webinar in the Dev2Dev Media Center this week: you can replay Synapse and the Path to Information Nirvana, which took place on Tuesday, May 6.

Here are our currently featured Dev2Dev Media Center events:

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 Dev2Dev 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. Visit the Service Component Architecture page to find out more about SCA.

If you've got an idea for a future poll, please send your idea to me by posting a comment below.

The most recent Security Advisories and Notifications entry is BEA08-201.00, 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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]]> Web Service Security; WS-Reliable Messaging; Dev2Dev Survey (Upcoming) http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/04/web_service_sec.html 2008-04-30T11:32:09Z 2008-04-30T19:32:18Z This week's Dev2Dev Blogs offer a particularly rich assortment of posts, including James Bayer's "Using X.509 Certificates for Identity Propagation with Web Service Security" and Gilbert Pilz's "Replay Reconsidered" (about WS-Reliable Messaging). ... Also of note: we are putting the finishing touches on the content for the third annual Dev2Dev Reader Survey... kfarnham This week's Dev2Dev Blogs offer a particularly rich assortment of posts, including James Bayer's Using X.509 Certificates for Identity Propagation with Web Service Security and Gilbert Pilz's Replay Reconsidered (about WS-Reliable Messaging). See the Blogs section below for descriptions of these posts and a few of my other favorites from the past week.

Also of note: we are putting the finishing touches on the content for the third annual Dev2Dev Reader Survey. The survey provides the Dev2Dev community with an opportunity to help improve the Dev2Dev site. The survey includes muliple choice questions, along with a few questions where you can enter text responses. Based on the results (which will be posted after the survey is complete), we'll try to address the areas where people believe the site could be improved, and further extend the areas that people find most informative and useful.

See the Results from the 2006 Dev2Dev Reader Survey for an idea of the kinds of question that will be in the survey. We won't be changing too much in the new survey, but it will be updated a bit to reflect today's technology environment.

The survey will run for about two months. After we collate and post the results, you'll be able to add your own further commentary about the survey and the results.

Now, a summary of recent Dev2Dev happenings.

article graphicOur currently featured Articles include Sudhansu Pati's Building Enterprise RIA Using Flex and WebLogic Server. 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.

Article GraphicWe'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.

Last week, we announced that CodeShare now offers the capability for submitted code to be indexed and made searchable by Krugle, the code search engine. 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.

For details, see the announcement article and Jim Wright's blog on submitting CodeShare code to Krugle. To learn about submitting your Dev2Dev code samples and projects for inclusion in Krugle, visit the CodeShare Code Submission Portal site.

In the Dev2Dev Blogs, James Bayer just posted Using X.509 Certificates for Identity Propagation with Web Service Security, in which he talks about his hands-on experience in setting up a prototype using Web Service Security. The subject came about from James's interaction with a customer that is seeking to apply best practices for authentication, integrity, and confidentiality in a new web services interface.

Gilbert Pilz talks about WS-ReliableMessaging in his Replay Reconsidered post. WS-ReliableMessaging is an OASIS specification that describes a protocol that allows SOAP messages to be delivered reliably between distributed applications in the presence of software component, system, or network failures.

If you'll be taking a very long automobile trip, Peter Laird has some advice on how to put all that driving time to good use: bring along those tech podcasts you've been wanting to find time to listen to. In his post SaaS Podcast Links and Notes - Key Insights into the World of SaaS, Platform as a Service (PAAS), On Demand, Peter provides descriptions of and links to his selection of recommended SaaS podcasts.

Ross Brodbeck tells how to address the problem of job logs eating up enormous amounts of space in your database in Keeping Track of Your Job Logs, and Raymond Gao talks about setting up ALUI G6.5 in ALUI G6.5 has a cool installer.

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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]]> CodeShare Krugle Code Search; Platform 10.2 Evaluation Guide; Enterprise RIA http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/04/codeshare_krugl.html 2008-04-23T14:26:49Z 2008-04-23T22:28:52Z 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... kfarnham 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.

article graphicThis 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.

Article GraphicWe'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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]]> Hello! (my First Dev2Dev Editor's post) http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/04/hello_my_first.html 2008-04-17T09:37:08Z 2008-04-17T17:37:17Z My first Dev2Dev Editor's post: brief introduction, Bi-annual Framework Survey, blogs on AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 and Event Server Tools 2.1, new AquaLogic education opportunity, new security advisory. kfarnham Hi. As I mentioned in my first personal post a couple days ago, I am taking over for your long-time Dev2Dev editor-in-chief Jon Mountjoy, who is moving on to new employment. The transition has been a little hectic, hence this first official Dev2Dev Editor's blog from me is a day late.

I'm excited to be able to participate in the Dev2Dev community, and look forward to a long and fruitful engagement. A bit about my background: I've been developing software for a very long time, starting in my high school in the early 1970s, where I had the opportunity to write programs using the language APL over a teletype terminal that was connected to an IBM 360 at a nearby university. My programs were stored on paper tape! I can still remember taking carefully rolled coils of yellow paper tape back and forth between home and school...

My interest in computer technology and software development remained and grew into a professional career that has included quite a few different platforms and technologies. In the 1998-2003 period I did a lot of work in Java (both software development and technical review of books), and I also worked on a partnership between my company and BEA, where we would have used WebLogic as the basis of an online document archive and bill payment system. Unfortunately, changing business conditions prevented that project from fully taking off... Take a look at my introductory post if you'd like further details on my background.

Now, a quick summary of recent Dev2Dev happenings.

First, an announcement: the Workshop Team's Bi-Annual Framework Survey is now underway. As Chris Nguyen reports, the purpose of this survey is to "gauge the most popular frameworks in the Java community." There are other benefits, too: all participants are entered into a free drawing for a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate and a free discount for purchasing Workshop Studio.

Article GraphicOur current featured Articles include 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.

article graphicMeanwhile, Gary Horen shows how to develop Ajax applications using Aptana's free JavaScript editor and debugger, in conjunction with BEA Workshop and the Firebug plugin for Firefox, in his article Ajax Programming with BEA Workshop.

Do take a look at these if you haven't done so already.

In BEA Education Services News, Yu-Ting has announced that Training on new BEA AquaLogic Platform is now available. New courses are being offered to support the AquaLogic 3.0 platform. For information about all BEA Education opportunities, visit the BEA Education Services site.

In the Blogs, Chris Tomkins has written a post titled AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 - Getting started with Workspace Studio that tells you how to add a server, create an ALSB project, create and deploy ALSB resources, and more.

Jesper Joergensen wrote about the upcoming BEA Participate event, and about the developing story of BPMN and BPEL.

And Chris Hogue announced the release of Event Server Developer Tools 2.1

The Dev2Dev Media Center archive features:

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.

A the Security Advisories and Notifications, advisory BEA08-201.00 has just been posted. This 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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]]> Goodbye! http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/04/goodbye.html 2008-04-11T03:48:09Z 2008-04-11T11:48:19Z My last day at work. Article on SpecJMS. Blogs on EJB 3 on WLS 10, Amazon S3/EC2. Source code for Workshop/Flex demo. jonmountjoy After working, eating, learning, laughing and talking with all you kind folk out there, the time has come for me to move on. This is my last day of work at O'Reilly, and hence here at Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch as well. It's been tremendous fun growing these communities, evangelizing, growing our blogs, acting as editor-in-chief, community manager, blogger and more. I'd like to thank all our readers, the great folk over at BEA who have been my colleagues over the years, and all my (present and past) colleagues at O'Reilly. A special thanks to Sarah Kim, Nancy Abila and Daniel Steinberg for their tremendous support.

Kevin Farnham is taking over the reins here at Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch, and I'm sure that the new energy Kevin brings will be a positive force in taking these communities even further.

Ciao!

In the Article GraphicArticles we have SPECjms2007: A Novel Benchmark and Performance Analysis Framework for Message-Oriented Middleware. 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.

In the Blogs, Ross Brodbeck showing how to integrate Amazon S3 and your portal. Check out Ross's previous on integrating Amazon S3 as well.

And while on the subject of Amazon, Jesper Joergensen has a great blog post (in Feb) on how to install AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server on Amazon EC2. Now all we need is someone to writeup a use for the simply queue service!

Gerald Nunn provides some best practice advice for creating links in WebLogic Portal, together with a few configuration file tips.

Maxence Button wrote a popular post on How to use EJB3 with Weblogic 10.

The Dev2Dev Media Center archive features:

The source code for the application demo has now been posted as well.

From our Event Calendar we have the following 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. Check this out if you haven't.

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]]> EclipseCon 2008: Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF) http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/03/eclipsecon_2008_3.html 2008-03-21T14:42:24Z 2008-03-21T22:42:32Z Thursday afternoon I attended an interesting EclipseCon session on the Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF). sarahk Thursday afternoon I attended an interesting EclipseCon session on the Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF).

Scott Lewis from BEA and Markus Kuppe from Versant led the session and Ted Kubaska participated remotely from Portland to help demo the framework.

Scott began the session by introducing the need for the Eclipse Communications Framework. He argued that teams, especially open source teams but even teams within many large organizations, are changing in a number of ways:

  • Team membership is distributed - there is often a need to work with others over long distances and multiple time zones.
  • Teams are often cross-organizational and multi-organizational
  • Team members have more diverse skills, backgrounds and cultures
  • Project organization is becoming flatter, there are more volunteers and members have more control (ECF itself is an example of this - it is a voluntary project not supported by any one company)

The expectations of your community or the users of your project are also changing:

  • Project planning is expected to be more open - again this is especially true in open source but is often true of proprietary software as well. Customers want to know the roadmap of the projects they use.
  • Customers have high expectations for responsiveness - to contributors, to bug reports, suggestions from end users. Customers expect a communications channel such as a newsgroup, mailing list or forum.

The result of all this change is that the technology teams require is also changing. According to Scott the technology needed for today's teams is:

  • Interoperability: multiple protocols, multiple clients, multiple services
  • Integration
  • Extensibility

      • Therefore the goal of the Eclipse Communication Framework is to lower barriers to team and community communication (for Eclipse) by providing an Interoperable, Integrated, Extensible Framework.

      Scott and Ted (remote from Portland) then went on to demo how the framework is integrated with Eclipse so team members can collaborate with each other as they develop. An IRC client was displayed within Eclipse so Scott and Ted could chat with each other. Scott showed how he could share bugs by copying and pasting the bug # into IRC. Shared Editor (over XMTP) automatically took the bug # and converted it to a URL that Ted could use to pull up the bug. Shared Editor also lets you share classes. You can see the other person typing and editing the code and they can navigate you to the particular method/section of their code that they want you to view.

      You can also share screen captures easily with others and talk to team members over Skype or chat via IM. You buddy lists from many clients can be displayed within Eclipse. File transfer capabilities are also available.

      They've done a lot of work to allow team members to collaborate more easily and be more productive when they are working in today's distributed team environment.

      If you're interested in finding out more about ECF and how it works I've uploaded the session slides which covers ECF in more detail.

      Download Session Slides (PDF, 252KB)

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      ]]> EclipseCon 2008 Day Two: Java Annotations http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/03/eclipsecon_2008_2.html 2008-03-19T15:09:12Z 2008-03-19T23:09:20Z After spending the morning laughing throughout Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) humorous morning keynote I attended Walter Harley's packed session on Java Annotations. sarahk After spending the morning laughing throughout Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) humorous morning keynote I attended Walter Harley's packed session on Java Annotations. Walter shared with an attentive audience common use cases for annotations and how to declare and use annotations.

      Here are a few rough notes from the session. You may download the complete slide presentation for more details.

      Download Session Slides (PDF, 1MB)

      Session Notes

      • Java annotations are human-readable and machine-readable metadata about methods, classes or variables.
      • Main goal for annotations was to auto-generate J2EE boilerplate code from metadata. They also improve communication between the developer and the compiler, for optimization and error-checking.
      • Programming in JavaDoc is unchecked and syntactically limited. Annotations provide a solution.
      • There are different use cases for annotations throughout the development process of EDIT, COMPILE, DEPLOY, CLASSLOAD AND RUNTIME:
        • EDIT: Annotations can be fancy, standardized comments. For example, @Deprecated, versus /* don't use this anymore */
          Annotations are harder to mis-spell, easier to search, less ambiguous, and the compiler enforces your consistency
        • COMPILE: Built-in support in the IDE allows you to express constraints that aren't possible with just the Java language. For example, semantic error checking such as only one method in an EntityBean should be a primary key.
        • DEPLOY and CLASSLOAD: Can modify existing class - which APT doesn't let you do. For example, @TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED) inserts transaction locking code around calls that need to be atomic
        • RUNTIME: Reflection at runtime

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      ]]>       EclipseCon 2008 Day One: Facets http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/03/eclipsecon_2008.html 2008-03-17T15:54:07Z 2008-03-17T23:58:06Z Notes and slides from Konstantin's Faceted Project Framework tutorial sarahk One of our Dev2Dev bloggers, Konstantin Komissarchik gave an excellent tutorial on the Faceted Project Framework this morning at EclipseCon in Santa Clara.

      Konstantin compared Facets to the configuration options you often have when installing software via a wizard. In the same way, the Faceted Project Framework provides a way for Eclipse plugin developers to split their project into separate units of functionality and give their users the option of installing the units that they want.

      The framework makes good use of versioning. When you setup a facet you are required to assign it a version and all actions (what the user can do) and constraints (dependencies and conflicts) are declared per version. Konstantin made a good point that often uninstall and version change actions are neglected by developers due to time constraints but these are very important for a positive user experience.

      I've uploaded the tutorial slides for you to view at your leisure. They are straighforward and thorough and include the tutorial exercises and solutions. Enjoy!

      Download Tutorial Slides (PDF, 205KB)

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      ]]>       Dev2Dev TechDays; Ajax + EARs + ALSB + Workshop too http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2008/03/dev2dev_techday.html 2008-03-13T07:23:25Z 2008-03-13T15:23:44Z Half-day seminars across Americas. Articles on Ajax, building EARs, Flex, OSGi. New releases of BEA Workshop and AquaLogic Service Bus. Arch2Arch changes. jonmountjoy For information on the product release, check out Chris on AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 (Eclipse based, throttling, large message processing, split/join and pooling) and Pieter on BEA Workshop 10.2 (fastest Workshop ever, tuxedo control, faster incremental build, deployment, server starts).

      Besides the great articles below, the big news is Dev2Dev TechDays. These are half day developer focused seminars that provide a guide for building SOA in Java, and we'll be running them all across the Americas from Mexico City to Toronto via San Diego and more :-) I'll have some dates for Asia at a later date. Some of the topics include: Developing POJO components, Extending POJO components into Java Web Services, Using Eclipse to Proxy enable Java Web Services, and Connecting a Flex UI to the back-end SOA. Registration is open!

      Finally, we've made a number of changes to Arch2Arch as I outlined on my blog there. As a result of all the architect-focussed material we've been publishing (virtualization, integration, governance, reference architect etc.), I hope to remove some of the architect articles that keep appearing on our Dev2Dev article feed. We are, after all, about developers here! In the future, if you want architect-related material, please go over to Arch2Arch and subscribe there. Thanks!

      In the Article GraphicArticles we have Ajax Programming with BEA Workshop. 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.

      Also check out Best Practices for Building Production Quality EAR Files, which 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.

      Also of note, check out Flex Messaging with BEA Workshop Studio , An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side and Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance.

      In the Blogs, check out Skip Sauls, who is just about to start a series of blogs looking at improving WebLogic Portal performance using Firebug and YSlow!.

      Gary Jones blogged twice on Tuxedo message compression, showing how to enable the transparent compression and test the result.

      New blogger Maxence Button shows how to build JAX-RPC or JAX-WS webservices with Weblogic 10. He shows how to create a simple webservice using standard annotations, and then to publish it under JAX-RPC or JAX-WS.

      JRockit Mission Control is now available as a set of Eclipse plugins. Marcus Hirt points to the site. He provided a preview a while back.

      The Dev2Dev Media Center archive features:

      From our Event Calendar we have the following upcoming events:

      The current Poll asks " Have you heard about the Service Component Architecture (SCA)?" Please participate by voting on the home page.

      The previous poll asked "Are you building front-ends with Adobe Flex?" 24% (45) respondents replied with "Yes", 32% with "I don't, but I will in the future", and 43% with "I prefer different front-end technologies."

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