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Top 25 Blog Posts

This list only includes blog posts have been posted within the past 3 months.

1. Twitter Microfeed Covering the SaaS/PaaS/Cloud Markets for those without a Cognitive Surplus: Most of you have probably seen Clay Shirky's material on the great Cognitive Surplus - the free time that everyone wastes by watching TV. Awesome stuff, but if you are trying to keep up with all the activity in the SaaS, PaaS and Cloud industries by definition you have no Cognitive Surplus. We are in information overload. Subscribing to specific feeds or Google Alerts can help isolate the signal from the noise, but sometimes even that can be challenging. Let me propose a solution: I have created a microfeed for this space on Twitter. This blog discusses how you can subscribe to this feed and stay in touch with the news in a very lightweight way.
   Posted by Peter Laird (plaird) on May 08, 2008 at 00:10 PDT | Comments (0)  

2. Using X.509 Certificates for Identity Propagation with Web Service Security: One of my customers is considering a web services interface for exchanging information with their clients. Security is a very important consideration in their design, so they are considering using best practices for authentication, integrity and confidentiality. In this post I'll explain their situation and some detail around setting up a simple prototype.
   Posted by James Bayer (jbayer) on April 29, 2008 at 11:11 PDT | Comments (5)  

3. Confluence of BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Begins: 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...
   Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (kfarnham) on May 07, 2008 at 14:09 PDT | Comments (1)  

4. WebLogic Portal: Exposing Portlets (JSR 168, WSRP, JSF, Struts, etc) as Enterprise Google Gadgets: Wondering how to expose Google Gadgets from WebLogic Portal? As promised, this is the second entry in a two part series talking about Google Gadgets. The first entry explained how to build a simple gadget. Now we will explore how to surface a Java portlet as a gadget using WebLogic Portal. Exposing a Google Gadget from any WLP portlet type (JSR 168, WSRP, JSP, Pageflow, JSF, Web Clip, etc) requires no coding - just a simple XML configuration file. This blog entry will show you exactly how to do it.
   Posted by Peter Laird (plaird) on April 23, 2008 at 04:21 PDT | Comments (0)  

5. I want my Arch2Arch:
   Posted by Bob Rhubart (brhubart) on May 14, 2008 at 13:55 PDT | Comments (1)  

6. Goodbye!: My last day at work. Article on SpecJMS. Blogs on EJB 3 on WLS 10, Amazon S3/EC2. Source code for Workshop/Flex demo.
   Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (jonmountjoy) on April 11, 2008 at 03:48 PDT | Comments (8)  

7. SaaS Podcast Links and Notes - Key Insights into the World of SaaS, Platform as a Service (PAAS), On Demand: About two months ago I had 14 hours to spend alone in a car - I was meeting some friends out in Telluride and decided to drive it from my home near Boulder Colorado. Fortunately, I prepared myself. I stocked up on a collection of tech podcasts and made productive use of the time as I rolled through the beautiful mountains. Because I am the architect for BEA's SaaS Platform (code name Genesis), a fair number of the podcasts were focused on SaaS. This blog entry recaps the key insights from some of those SaaS podcasts. Links are also provided to the original audio.
   Posted by Peter Laird (plaird) on April 24, 2008 at 09:56 PDT | Comments (0)  

8. AquaLogic BPM 6.1 & WebLogic Portal 10.2:
   Posted by Alex Toussaint (atoussai) on April 28, 2008 at 17:23 PDT | Comments (0)  

9. SPECjvm2008 released!: A new battlefield for Java performance!
   Posted by Henrik Stahl (hstahl) on May 07, 2008 at 11:57 PDT | Comments (6)  

10. AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 - Getting started with Workspace Studio: One of the major changes in AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 was to enable you to create service bus artifacts in Workspace Studio as well as the web-based console. This post explains how to get started with Workspace Studio including - how to add a server, how to create an ALSB project, how to start creating ALSB resources and how to deploy and test them.
    Posted by Chris Tomkins (ctomkins) on April 11, 2008 at 07:41 PDT | Comments (5)  

11. Mining Twitter for the Enterprise: Survey your Customers' Candid Thoughts using a Social Web 2.0 Service: One BEA customer recently posted on Twitter: "hating weblogic". Another said: "F@#% you weblogic for not handling HTTP 500 errors properly." Whether you personally participate in one of the numerous internet social platforms or not, some of your customers are out there. WebLogic isn't the only brand being discussed - name the brand and there are customers voicing their opinions on these platforms. This blog entry focuses on Twitter, and shows how you can mine Twitter for feedback on your brand using a tool called TweetScan. Because of the very informal nature of Twitter, and it's low barrier to participate, it is a good channel of candid opinions on your brand. Companies like Comcast have already used TweetScan to identify and remedy customer relationship problems in a highly proactive manner. How is your brand perceived on Twitter?
    Posted by Peter Laird (plaird) on April 27, 2008 at 12:18 PDT | Comments (5)  

12. AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 & AquaLogic User Interaction 6.5:
    Posted by Alex Toussaint (atoussai) on April 30, 2008 at 20:44 PDT | Comments (0)  

13. BEA / Oracle Product Roadmap Webcast:
    Posted by Bob Rhubart (brhubart) on June 02, 2008 at 10:57 PDT | Comments (2)  

14. Load balancing in AquaLogic Service Bus v3.0 (Part 1): Do you have a service which is overloaded with requests? If so, then you might want to consider introducing a new instance of that service and load balancing across them. This post explains how this can be achieved using AquaLogic Service Bus.
    Posted by Chris Tomkins (ctomkins) on April 17, 2008 at 08:54 PDT | Comments (0)  

15. Another Chapter Begins: At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and undoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opportunity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lead Tooling at BEA these last 3 years.
    Posted by Bill Roth (wgroth2) on May 06, 2008 at 11:21 PDT | Comments (2)  

16. AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 & Outlook 2007:
    Posted by Alex Toussaint (atoussai) on May 05, 2008 at 09:01 PDT | Comments (2)  

17. Oracle Welcomes BEA: 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.
    Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (kfarnham) on May 29, 2008 at 19:12 PDT | Comments (0)  

18. AquaLogic BPM 6.1 - BPMN:
    Posted by Alex Toussaint (atoussai) on April 28, 2008 at 16:50 PDT | Comments (1)  

19. AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 and AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0:
    Posted by Alex Toussaint (atoussai) on May 09, 2008 at 20:41 PDT | Comments (2)  

20. General User Interface Design Guidelines for usable HTML mockups: General guidelines for usable HTML mockups typically created by graphic designers and User Experience design teams.
    Posted by Praveen Coca (pcoca) on April 22, 2008 at 15:44 PDT | Comments (2)  

21. BEA.Participate.08; Oracle and BEA Confluence Continued: 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...
    Posted by Dev2Dev Editor (kfarnham) on May 13, 2008 at 21:20 PDT | Comments (0)  

22. You can serialize BPMN into BPEL, but BPEL should not be the serialization standard:
    Posted by Jesper Joergensen (jesperfj) on April 14, 2008 at 20:16 PDT | Comments (0)  

23. Hotter than a Hedge Fund: SOA Integration: No there is actually no SOA-based ETF or hedge fund even. However, a recent report from Randy Heffner at Forrester seems to suggest that SOA may actually be a place that companies may want to invest; it extends the life of legacy and drives costs down through consolidation and risk avoidance. Gets you out of that rut that IT is in and helps you lower the costs while doing it.
    Posted by Dain Hansen (dainsworld) on April 07, 2008 at 14:08 PDT | Comments (0)  

24. Rethinking Connectivity - New Article: Connectivity? What is the point in rethinking that ol' fish? You might ask. Didn't we solve that with adapters and ESBs? If you ask me the answer is no...not exactly. Check out my new article and see why.
    Posted by Quinton Wall (quinton_wall) on April 10, 2008 at 10:55 PDT | Comments (1)  

25. SpringSource announces SpringSource Application Platform (S2AP): On April 30th SpringSource announced their application platform - a lightweight server framework based on OSGi, Spring and Spring-DM. Oh wait that sounds like BEA Event Server ...
    Posted by Andy Piper (andypiper) on May 08, 2008 at 11:24 PDT | Comments (1)